{"id":14172,"date":"2016-10-24T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2017-06-26T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T17:02:42","slug":"tartan-spotlight-david-bodary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2016\/10\/24\/tartan-spotlight-david-bodary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tartan Spotlight: David Bodary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

David Bodary is a Communication professor here at Sinclair. He was born in Detroit, Mich. and was an undergraduate at Eastern Michigan University and a graduate at Wayne State. He has worked at Sinclair Community College for 22 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why he is interesting:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Bodary has a passion both for his job and his students. He cares about their lives and their success.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really like what I do,\u201d Bodary said. \u201cI really like the opportunity to work at an institution of higher learning. To work especially with young people but really anyone who is interested in learning. And that\u2019s who shows up, right? I mean, for the most part. So that\u2019s just a dream,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t always know that he wanted to be in communication. He was once a business major, but in his junior year decided that path wasn\u2019t for him.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI sat through classes my junior year the first day and they were, to me, just not interesting.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI just wasn\u2019t looking forward to the term. And I said to myself \u2018I gotta do something different.\u2019\u00a0 <\/span>So I went to a colleague at the college and said \u2018I think I\u2019m in the wrong major\u2019 and she suggested communication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching was always in his blood which was foreshadowed by a moment that happened in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI showed up on a career night and I went into a room expecting to hear a speaker talk about whatever it was, something in a career field, and the speaker didn\u2019t show,\u201d Bodary said, \u201cAnd I\u2019m the kind of person of \u2018Well I\u2019m just not gonna waste my time,\u2019 so I went to the front of the room and I started talking to people. I tried to get an understanding of what other people were thinking and maybe that would help me decide what I could do and of course I didn\u2019t realize I had become the teacher, right? And so I was doing what I would come to do,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although this may not have been the career he imagined in high school, it is a job that he loves with a passion. He lives each day to make a difference in his students.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you not be invested in student\u2019s lives? It\u2019s why we come to work and why I get out of bed. Right? Because I\u2019m hopeful that something I can do this day is going to be useful to that student who then eventually put that to practice on others,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He likes to see his students walking at graduation and knowing that he has helped students achieve their goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt graduation when we get to see our students marching at graduation, walking across accepting their diploma, receiving their diploma, those are the moments. That\u2019s exciting,\u201d Bodary said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bodary does not focus on the difficult parts of his job, but rather on the rewards that are part of being a teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s lots of tough parts about my job, but I\u2019m not a person who dwells on those things,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean I see them as challenges, but not as terrible things.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

He loves to see the impact he makes in a student\u2019s life and, according to Bodary, it makes all the hard parts of his job worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of what I get from this is the intrinsic motivation,\u201d Bodary said. \u201cRealizing that a student I\u2019ve worked with is moving on to a four year school and they\u2019ve got a scholarship. Or that they\u2019re graduating and now they\u2019re taking a job.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

In his spare time, Bodary likes to spend time with his wife, children and his granddaughter. He plays hockey with a group of guys known as the \u201cHuff and Puff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Laina Yost<\/strong>
\nManaging Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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