Congratulations to Rachel Harper ’94 who\u00a0was recently awarded a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at the University of Missouri (MU). Harper serves as the Director of the MU Writing Center, Coordinator of the Honors Humanities Sequence, and a faculty member in the MU Honors College.<\/p>\n
Kemper Fellowships are awarded to five outstanding teachers at the University of Missouri each year. Nancy West, director of the MU Honors College, shared, \u201cThrough\u00a0(Harper’s) 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. She has helped preserve the great accomplishments of the past \u2014 and thus has helped those around her understand the world they live in and given them tools to imagine the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harper earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in English and Spanish from Illinois Wesleyan University, and she holds master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in American literature from the University of Missouri. A full press release <\/a>is available through MU’s News Bureau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to Rachel Harper ’94 who\u00a0was recently awarded a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at the University of Missouri (MU). Harper serves as the Director of the MU Writing Center, Coordinator of the Honors Humanities Sequence, and a … Continue reading