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Susan Grover

Learning Philosophy:

"There are many gifts, and to every man is given a gift by the Spirit of God. To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby." D & C 46:11-12

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Life-long learners

  • integrate learning

  • explore questions & critique assumptions

  • connect self & world

  • find their own voices

  • seek meaning & relevance

Kusnic & Finley (1993)

Susan Hendricks Grover has taught at Brigham Young University-Idaho (formerly Ricks College) since 1983. In 2009, she earned a PhD in Adult Learning from the University of Idaho, College of Education. Her dissertation is entitled At the Crossroads: The Heuristics of Undergraduate Composition Professors Transformed by Computer Technology. She earned a M.Ed. in Adult Reading from Brigham Young University-Provo. Her thesis is entitled Reading on the Utah Frontier, 1850-1877: The History of the Deseret Alphabet. She has been awarded the BYUI Adjunct Faculty of the Year award, as well as the TYCA West Part-time Teaching award. Grover served as the adjunct faculty representative for the BYU-Idaho Faculty Association and the English Council. She serves on the Bonneville County Community Literacy Council as the president. Trained by under Literacy Volunteers of America, she trains volunteers to tutor reading in grades K-6. She has written two college course manuals, a literacy tutor training manual, a children's book, and many articles. She is active in her church serving in various service and leadership capacities. Residing in Idaho Falls, Susan and her husband love their four children, their spouses, and their four grandchildren. Their family enjoys outdoors activities: snow and water skiing, hunting (archery and rifle), fishing, and camping. She also enjoys reading and writing.

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The Spirit of Ricks 

    The memories of my youth are memories of Ricks College:

  • art, music, and dance classes through Continuing Ed

  • beautiful and inspiring messages from Ricks College presidents

  • beautiful and inspiring female students, until I was 14

  • beautiful and inspiring male students, after I was 14

  • running around the halls of first the Old Spori and the Old Gym, then the Hart and the Manwaring, finally the Smith and the Clark.

    As a young girl, I’d especially loved dawdling down a Manwaring Center hallway with dozens of pictures of co-eds honored yearly as the Ricks College "Woman of the Year." They looked so beautiful. I dreamed of being them.

     As a Ricks co-ed, I studied the same pictures. Admittedly, I was somewhat less awestruck. Nonetheless, the pictures from 1978 and 1979 were friends I admired. I had become one of the Ricks co-eds I admired as a child.

   A decade later, as an adjunct faculty member, I again walked that hall. A name and face jumped out. I knew that face, and I knew that name. "Who is that beautiful young woman? My heavens, could it be?  Yes, it is.  That is the grandmother of the new family in our ward." This grandmother as a starry-eyed 19 year-old with dreams of her life ahead. And I'd seen those dreams realized.

     I love that hall. My young parents walked that hall.  My new husband and I walked it. My kids and their spouses now walk it.

 

    I have to ask myself, "Who are these granddaughters, daughters, mothers, and future grandmothers I teach every day? What are their futures and their  pasts? Can I presume to be their teacher?"

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    And I have to thank Ricks College/ BYU-Idaho for teaching me--past, present and future.