Fairmont State College Occasional Papers publishes the texts of lectures and other writings of professional interest by faculty and staff members of Fairmont State. It is distributed free of charge to friends of the college.

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The Occasional Papers Series

Chance Encounters: Scholar Meets Subject - 1990
Wayne R. Kime, Professor of English

Ethical Behavior is Strategic Behavior - 1991
Ronald D. Pearse, Associate Professor of Psychology

"One of the Nation of Many Nations": Walt Whitman and Multiculturalism - 1992
John M. Teahan, Associate Professor of English

Teaching the Art of Living: The Education Philosophy of Ruth Mary Weeks - 1993
Judy Prozzillo Byers, Professor of English

A Legacy: Cause and Effect - 1994
Jo Ann Lough, Associate Professor of Speech Communication & Theatre

The American Community: Decline and Restoration - 1994
Craig C. White, Professor of Psychology

Education for the New Economy - 1996
Leneord A. Colleli, Professor of Technology
Wiliam E. Griscom, Professor of Technology

Wellness: Expanding Horizons - 1996
David R. Bohnke, Professor of Physical Education

Jewels in Fairmont's Architectural Crown - 1997
Deborah B. McMillan, Associate Professor of Architecture

Representative Man: Emersonian Perspectives on Seamus Heaney's Spirit Level - 1998
John M. Teahan, Associate Professor of English

War of the Words: The Battle over the "New" Realism - 1999
Sandra Woods, Associate Professor of Learning Skills

J.M. Coetzee: Is There a Morality Here? - 2002
Susan M. Kelley, Professor of English

Making the Most Out of Small Things:
Twenty-five Years of Studying a Little-known Group of Organisms - 2003
Steven L. Stephenson, Professor of Biology

Lost In The Woods: Walden 150 Years Young - 2004
John P. Hussey, Professor of English

Teaching the Twenty-First Century Learner - 2005
Roxann Humbert, Associate Professor of Education

So Help Me God: American Presidents, Christianity, and the American Nation - 2006
Kenneth Millen-Penn, Professor of History