{"id":9249,"date":"2018-03-19T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2018-03-20T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:39:07","slug":"professor-kinnamans-next-chapter-after-morningside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9249","title":{"rendered":"Professor Kinnaman&#8217;s Next Chapter After Morningside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9250\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/03\/1-400x290.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/03\/1-400x290.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/03\/1-200x145.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/03\/1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>by Maggie Ganley\u2013<\/strong>As the academic programs offered at Morningside continue to change and adapt, some faculty have been left searching for new jobs. Here\u2019s how one professor is dealing with this change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Laura Kinnaman came to Morningside College five years ago to teach physics because of her passion for the subject and her love for liberal arts colleges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">However, as enrollment in the physics and engineering programs remained low and as the talk of reprioritization came around, Kinnaman knew the physics program was going to be one of the first on the chopping block.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">At the end of last summer, The Provost of the college delivered the news of the physics program being phased out and her job being cut. After hearing the news, Kinnaman started looking to the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cIt is hard to invest five years into a place only to have to leave. I\u2019ve really liked teaching here! On the other hand, there are other places to teach at, so I\u2019m trying to stay positive about the next chapter of my life,\u201d Kinnaman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">She is now looking to teach in Los Angeles, where she has family and where teaching opportunities abound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">She sees physics as an integral part of a liberal arts education and is sad to see to see the program leave Morningside. \u201cIt lets you think about the world in a very organized way, at the very fundamental levels of why things behave like they do. It\u2019s also generally seen as an important part of liberal arts, as it promotes critical thinking,\u201d Kinnaman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">She wishes Morningside the best and commends the college on how well it treated her through the process. She hopes the college overcomes the challenges that might arise from dropping physics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Maggie Ganley\u2013As the academic programs offered at Morningside continue to change and adapt, some faculty have been left searching for new jobs. Here\u2019s how one professor is dealing with this change. Laura Kinnaman came to Morningside College five years ago to teach physics because of her passion for the subject and her love for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4287,56109],"tags":[46880,6119],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-morningside-people","tag-msidelife","tag-morningside-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}