7 Non-traditional Professors Who Are Changing the World

November 12th, 2009 | admin | Uncategorized

Teaching is a very pious profession and is preferred by people as topic for teaching due to a good number of reasons and being a noblest profession. There are many types of professors who vary in their method of teaching and here we would discuss some of the strangest professors of time which have adopted the very rare method of teaching and are very unconventional in their style.

1. Zadie Smith: She is an award winning British writer teaching at Columbia University as adjunct professor. In her recent teachings she taught Sense and Sensibility curriculum that combined very good selection of 20th century novels. And in her next achievement she is about to join NYU’s Creative Writing Program as a full professor.
2. Bobby Flay: The notes chef and Food Network star will display his culinary skills to new group of students though again to students at French Culinary Institute in New York.
3. Eliot Spitzer: He is a former New York governor who has joined as an adjunct professor of political science at City College of New York in his class Law and Public Policy where he is about to deliver learning on topics like distributive justice and international integration. And he has decided to donate back money as earned as fee to school for scholarships.
4. E.L. Doctorow: He is a noted fiction writer known for acclaimed writings like Ragtime and City of God. He was a teacher at UC-Irvine, Sarah Lawrence, Yale and Princeton. And presently he joined a senior faculty position with NYU’s English department. His upcoming lectures are about “Craft of Fiction,” a graduate-level creative writing session.
5. David Plouffe: He is named by Barack Obama as the “unsung hero” and is ready to answer some of the strangest questions on policy issues by Harvard students beginning this fall. He is at the same time is also working upon his book, The Audacity to Win  of his new students manage to pump as-yet-untold campaign dirt out of him.
6. Michael Pollan: Author of the bestselling work of writing In Defense of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma was taught at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. His topics interesting were upon issues like Following the Food Chain includes topics like factory farming, animal rights, antibiotic resistance, agricultural pollution and the obesity epidemic. His topic of interest where he feels and love teaching is Narrative Science Journalism.
7. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: He was a known personality at Harvard’s campus before getting into truce with Sgt. James Crowley that made him center of attraction at national level. He is not a library bound professor, more; he is seemed surrounded with people like Oprah and is loved by his students for his sense of dry humor.