{"id":14482,"date":"2016-12-05T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=14482"},"modified":"2017-06-26T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:30:57","slug":"tartan-spotlight-heidi-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2016\/12\/05\/tartan-spotlight-heidi-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"Tartan Spotlight: Heidi Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet\u2026<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Heidi Arnold, a professor in the Communication Department at Sinclair Community College.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why She\u2019s Interesting\u2026 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Arnold grew up in Zanesville, Ohio and earned a Master\u2019s degree in Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University, as well as a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRight out of college, I saw ads for a community college English professor, and I got that job and loved it,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cI left there to go work at a magazine. I worked there for two years, but I missed teaching, so I went to a college in N.C.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She taught there for a while, but wanted to come back to Ohio to be closer to her family. She had heard about Sinclair and decided to teach there.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re living in Dayton you may not realize this, but people from the outside view Sinclair as one of the best community colleges out there,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cIt is cutting edge and I\u2019m glad to be a part of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many things Arnold loves about Sinclair, one of which is the challenges faculty members face in a changing world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always something new for us to learn,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cWe get new technology and teaching strategies that keep me on my toes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another aspect she enjoys about Sinclair are the students themselves, who are more devoted to their studies than some from the other universities Arnold taught at.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI love to see students who are excited to be here. My favorite students are the ones that soak everything up like a sponge,\u201d Arnold said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet teaching at Sinclair isn\u2019t all she does, as she also enjoys photography, creative writing and reading.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also loves traveling to different places and engaging different cultures and customs, whether it is five miles away or 5000.<\/span><\/p>\n

She\u2019s been on many trips to different locations including Middle America, West Africa and Europe. One of her favorite parts of traveling is seeing the diversity the world has to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoy meeting diverse people, and by that I mean anyone not like me, be that the way we think, our race, culture, or where we\u2019re from,\u201d Arnold said. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of Arnold\u2019s favorite experiences as a professor is teaching interpersonal communication at a women\u2019s correctional facility in Dayton once a week.<\/span><\/p>\n

She notes that it is not a pretty place and people don\u2019t want to deal with or help inmates learn and get reacquainted with the world, but to her it\u2019s necessary and fascinating. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome of these women have done some horrible things, but the majority of them made a mistake and aren\u2019t too different from me. In fact, who knows, that could\u2019ve been me,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cIt\u2019s so interesting for me to talk to them and learn from them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She is always looking for new experiences and challenges in teaching, and will keep on learning from the people she meets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Wolski<\/strong>
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