Teacher Feature: Christy Yeager
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Caitlin O'Dell
Issue date: 4/15/08 Section: Campus Life
Room 120 in Academic III at Gainesville State College may not seem to hold much significance. But it is here, in this secluded office off a covert hallway in the math and computer sciences buildings, that a very remarkable woman can be found.
Christy Yeager has been an associate professor of mathematics at GSC for 34 years and will be retiring from full time teaching after the summer semester of 2008. She also advises undecided students.
The office is cozy and pictures of Yeager's two cats, Tallulah and Cody, who she rescued from the Human Society, grace the desk behind her chair. These two felines will occupy a bit more of her time after retirement.
Yeager also plans to garden more, spend time with family, friends and volunteering, clean her basement and work on some family history. She is looking forward to being able to visit places where the history is.
But, alas, there are many facets of teaching Yeager does not want to lose. She loves the interaction with people. It's the interaction, she said, that drives you to teach. Whether it is the students who visit her for math questions or need advisement for decisions or the other professors she teaches with, she said she loves being around them. "You come to work and get to socialize," she said with a huge smile.
The love of teaching is so strong for Yeager that she will not stop teaching full time. After retirement, she plans to continue teaching part time.
Yeager always knew she would be a teacher. Perhaps it is that she has always loved people, that she has a big heard or that she has a lot of wisdom to impart on growing minds. She said she never knew what she would teach, and that may have been an accident. But, she said, it all turned out wonderfully.
There are things Yeager won't miss about teaching, and those are grading and testing.
Being a woman in math can be a treacherous road to walk since math is traditionally considered rather masculine. Yet Yeager has excelled in this field. She is a notable woman to remember and honor during women's history month. When asked about how it is to be the minority in a field primarily ruled by men, she seemed slightly surprised.
Christy Yeager has been an associate professor of mathematics at GSC for 34 years and will be retiring from full time teaching after the summer semester of 2008. She also advises undecided students.
The office is cozy and pictures of Yeager's two cats, Tallulah and Cody, who she rescued from the Human Society, grace the desk behind her chair. These two felines will occupy a bit more of her time after retirement.
Yeager also plans to garden more, spend time with family, friends and volunteering, clean her basement and work on some family history. She is looking forward to being able to visit places where the history is.
But, alas, there are many facets of teaching Yeager does not want to lose. She loves the interaction with people. It's the interaction, she said, that drives you to teach. Whether it is the students who visit her for math questions or need advisement for decisions or the other professors she teaches with, she said she loves being around them. "You come to work and get to socialize," she said with a huge smile.
The love of teaching is so strong for Yeager that she will not stop teaching full time. After retirement, she plans to continue teaching part time.
Yeager always knew she would be a teacher. Perhaps it is that she has always loved people, that she has a big heard or that she has a lot of wisdom to impart on growing minds. She said she never knew what she would teach, and that may have been an accident. But, she said, it all turned out wonderfully.
There are things Yeager won't miss about teaching, and those are grading and testing.
Being a woman in math can be a treacherous road to walk since math is traditionally considered rather masculine. Yet Yeager has excelled in this field. She is a notable woman to remember and honor during women's history month. When asked about how it is to be the minority in a field primarily ruled by men, she seemed slightly surprised.
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Tom Walker
posted 7/08/08 @ 11:01 PM EST
This teacher is excellent. I am taking algebra 097 with her this summer. This is my first algebra class and it has been a little difficult for me, but even though I am far from being a mathmatical genious, I now know more about algebra than I have ever known in my life. (Continued…)
Bridgett Bowser
posted 8/19/08 @ 4:46 PM EST
Mrs.Yeager is by far the best teacher I have ever had at Gainesville State. I went into the class skeptical considering math is definately NOT my strong point. (Continued…)
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