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Jim Swindling

	Telephone:	972-860-7058
	Location:	C231
	E-Mail:	JimSwindling@dcccd.edu

Academic Background: AA Daytona Beach Junior College, BA and MS Florida State University, EdS Kellogg Institute, PhD Universal Life. Further studies: University of Nevada, Reno, Texas A&M, Commerce, and Appalachian State University.

Teaching Awards: Phi Theta Kappa Scholastic Honors, DCCCD Outstanding Service Award, Who’s Who Among American Teachers, Innovator of the Year, DCCCD Excellence in Teaching Award, Miles Production Company Award, Minnie Stevens Piper Professor, League for Innovation Award, Community College Consortium Faculty Recognition Honor Certificate, National Institute of Health Master Teacher Medal.

Biographical Sketch: Part of my greeting to classes each semester is to point out that when they look at me, they will probably see themselves. I am one of six sons born to working class parents. I am first generation to be offered an opportunity to go to college. My high school counselor told me I was not college material and my grades and SAT scores reinforced the forecast of failure. Thank God I did not believe it. I saw the light after a four-year stint in the Marine Corps that included a thirteen-month jungle vacation. My mission in life became giving help to those individuals like me a chance, an opportunity to achieve their dreams without suffering the scars that I collected along the way. As an ex-jock, former Marine and self proclaimed “educated red neck” with seven published textbooks and several dozen articles, I will continue the good fight of showing more students that they too can succeed at playing the game of college.

Philosophy of Education: I want to provide to each student a quality education on the one hand and a personal, positive can do self-image on the other hand. I will demand, goad, prod, coerce, question, inspire and spoon feed students weaning them only when each can produce affective and effective learning independently…

Teaching Style: It has been described as a “cross between the hard-line directness of a Marine Drill Instructor and the melodic inspiration of a Pentecostal Preacher.”

Turn-offs: Intellectual laziness, pretentious people, users, whiners, underestimating oneself, ignorance, slackers, self pity, racism, elitism, complainers, snitches, excuses, and negative thinking.

Favorite Saying: Ex-heavyweight champion “Smokin” Joe Frazier – “You got to bring some to get some.”