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Faculty Profile: Sandra Doe

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BACKGROUND: English Professor Sandra Doe began her career when Metro opened in 1965. Almost 42 years and more than 440 classes later, Doe continues to challenge, intrigue and inspire Metro students in what many describe as an unconventional and demanding, yet highly provocative style of teaching. Doe headed west to Colorado from Oklahoma with her family when she was five.

EDUCATION: B.A. from Doame College in Nebraska, M.A. from the University of Denver and doctorate of education from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

INTERESTS: Doe has a passion for pioneer history, especially of those who forged their way westward along the Santa Fe Trail. At Metro, Doe has taught everything from freshman composition to poetry, biography, travel and nature writing.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Doe’s dossier of students who have continued writing after graduation include Denver Post journalist Tabitha Dial and published travel writer Ruth Kear, whose story originally written as an assignment in Doe’s class went on to win Kear an award as one of the best travel writers of 2005. Another recent graduate, Sarah Wall, had a parallel narrative, also written in one of Doe’s classes, published in 2006.

QUOTE: ”I feel writers should think in two different directions: the wild, which represents the first draft, and the civilized, which represents the revision.”