GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGE
A PROFESSOR, A DEAN, AND A STUDENT TELL YOU HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE
  

Peter FeaverPeter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. He has over 20 years of teaching experience, both as a teaching fellow at Harvard and as a professor at Duke. He won the Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (1985-86 and 1986-87), the Trinity College (Duke) Distinguished Teaching Award (1994-95), and the Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching  Award (2001). 

Peter has published numerous scholarly books and articles on national security issues, and he has served on the National Security Council at the White House, first as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control under President Clinton and most recently as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform under President Bush.

Dean SueSue Wasiolek (more commonly known as Dean Sue) was pre-med at Duke (she never got into medical school), completed a Masters of Health Administration at Duke (only worked in health care for 18 months), completed her J.D. at NCCU and her L.L.M. at Duke (only practiced law for nine months), and has been working at Duke for the past 28 years. 

Sue loves the classroom both as a teacher (she teaches education law) and as a student (she plans to complete her Ed.D. in 2008). Sue encourages students to study what they love and base their careers around what they love, even if those two are totally different things. Her time with students is not a job but a way of life. In her free time, Sue can be found jogging around Durham or working out at the gym with students

Anne CrossmanAnne Crossman studied at both Stanford and Duke Universities, earning a BA in English and a Certificate of Education.   After teaching for public high schools, colleges, and the military for five years, she gave up her day job to pursue writing and motherhood.  

A poet by trade, her work has been published in journals such as Nimrod and Margie, and she is currently finalizing a book of poems about Alzheimer's disease entitled Trying to Remember, due to be published in Summer 2008.   Her third book, a humorous educational series addressing life as a high school student, is on deck and if all goes well will be hitting the shelves by the end of the decade.   Anne currently lives with her husband and sons in Seattle, Washington.