Professor Emeritus Bill McKeachie
Area: General Psychology
Research Interests: My research interests include motivation and information processing in university classes; anxiety, learning strategies; college teaching; faculty evaluation/faculty development; life span development of faculty; and religious attitudes and stereotypes.
What has been your proudest moment?
In 1976 I pitched 3 no-hitters. (I was also APA President that year).
What has been your most humbling experience?
Regularly finding on the student ratings comments, “The best part of the
course was the discussion section” (led by teaching assistants).
What do you wish you had known at the start of your career?
Nothing different. I was just lucky all along the way.
What is one thing that most people don’t know about you?
I worked my way through college playing piano in a barn, in a Grange Hall, in
a beer garden, and in a bar.
If you had to choose another career, what would it be?
It couldn’t have been better! But if I had been a better ball player, my aspiration
was to play professional baseball. More realistically, if World War II hadn’t intervened
I would have been a high school math teacher. I did teach in a four-teacher
10-grade school in Trout
Lake, Michigan when I graduated from college,
but that lasted only two
months before I had to
join the Navy.
"Five Minutes With..." Features
Rob Sellers | Cathy Lord | Patti Reuter-Lorenz | Monique Ward
Chris Peterson | Bill McKeachie | Margaret Shih | Cindy Lustig
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