She has helped preserve the great accomplishments of the past — and thus has helped those around her understand the world they live in and given them tools to imagine the future.”Harper earned bachelor’s degrees in English and Spanish from Illinois Wesleyan University, and she holds master’s and doctoral degrees in American literature from the University of Missouri.
Ava Drayton Scholars & Fellows Coordinator. What faculty can best teach them?”In addition to serving as a teacher and mentor to more than 100 students, Harper is a member of the Honors College’s curriculum committee and the Honors Humanities Advisory Board.“Rachel has done as much as anyone on campus to get students to appreciate the value of the humanities at a time when it couldn’t be more under siege,” says Nancy West, director of the MU Honors College.
Megan Boyer Assistant Director. “She also shows incredible generosity with her time and effort in helping us become better writers, and, perhaps most importantly, she has inspired us to continue learning on our own, making the humanities part of our daily lives and even our future careers.”Harper says her obligation to feed her students’ acute hunger for learning has been a guiding force throughout her education career. What works can they gain the most from studying? email BoyerM @missouri.edu. email kellers @missouri.edu.
A winner of the William T. Kemper Award, a Purple Chalk Award, and a WI Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Dr. Rachel Harper is the Associate Director of the Honors College and the Coordinator of the Honors Humanities Series.
across 3 classes . She has taught at MU since 1996 and in the Humanities Sequence since 1998. University of Missouri. Azeem Khan, senior in the MU Honors College Her efforts are always aimed at what is best for the students.
email SMurdock @missouri.edu. 3.69. Before becoming the Associate Director of the Honors College, she was the Director of When she’s not doing all of the above or serving on a million committees, she’s chasing her three small children, going to MU football games with her husband Jeff, and drinking coffee. It is her passion for teaching that led Harper to her position as director of the MU Writing Center in 2007. email HarperRP @missouri.edu. Shanay Murdock Academic Advisor. Harper also has worked to enhance the training of student tutors in the Writing Center, improving teaching techniques among student tutors from diverse departments.“Rachel’s focus on students carries over to her work as the Honor Series coordinator,” says philosophy professor Peter Markie.
Rachel Harper Associate Director.
in English and Spanish from Illinois Wesleyan University. Rated by 2 students. Rachel Palencia Harper is on Facebook. She deftly guides us through our strongly held, but often conflicting, views on which works to teach, lecturers to invite and exams to give. “Through her work, students and faculty have learned about the values of different cultures, about what goes into making works of art, about how history is made. In her 20 years of teaching at MU, Harper has been instrumental in the revitalization of the Honors Humanities Sequence, bringing together respected and distinguished faculty from across the campus to lecture in the Humanities Series.
“Rachel leads our planning for each semester’s offerings and recruits the faculty who teach in the series.
A winner of the William T. Kemper Award, a Purple Chalk Award, and a WI Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Dr. Rachel Harper is the Associate Director of the Honors College and the Coordinator of the Honors Humanities Series.
Overall rating. email HarperRP @missouri.edu.
Steve Keller Director. A winner of the William T. Kemper Award, a Purple Chalk Award, and a WI Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Originally from Champaign, Illinois, Dr. Harper holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Missouri and a B.A. She graded papers on a whim--praising you for something in one paper and marking you off for the exact same thing in another-- and provided little help during office hours.
Search Site: search. Rachel Harper Associate Director.
Missouri Scholars Academy. ENGLSH 2015. In four years at Mizzou, Rachel Harper was far and away the worst professor I had. Neima Shahdadi Academic Advisor. Professor Ratings & Grade Distribution Data for Rachel Harper. She was confusing, condescending and narrow in her approach to the subject.
Fall 2014 Schedule.
phone 573-882-6770.
phone 573-882-3893. Lots and lots of coffee.