Why I Teach
Faculty and staff with a passion for their profession
WHY I TEACH is a series about the dedicated professionals at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, including professors, coaches, advisors and other staff members, who make every day a teachable moment — and every place a learning place — by their expertise and example.
Recent stories
Rashiqa Kamal
Rashiqa Kamal, an associate professor of finance and business law, has a friendly style and probing questions for her students. As her students graduate into finance and business fields, most of her students will work with the concepts she teaches every day of their professional lives.
Pilar Melero
In WHY I TEACH, Pilar Melero, professor of languages and literatures, sees her gift to the world as helping students access the incredible power of thought.
Kristen Prock
In WHY I TEACH, Kristen Prock, an assistant professor of social work and affiliated faculty in women’s and gender studies, talks about creating a course that has become a labor of love — “Social Work Practice With LGBTQ+ Populations.” She describes it, quite simply, as the course she would have wanted to take as an aspiring social worker.
Can we brag a little?
100% of classes taught by faculty and instructional staff
National “Great Teaching” recognition by the Colleges of Distinction
Average class size: 28
