Semester Sneak Peek - Jerry Goodwin - TCC Connection

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Semester Sneak Peak is a new series that provides a preview of courses available at Tulsa Community College (TCC) this coming fall semester. As a series about upcoming classes, these episodes will feature interviews with many of the instructors tasked with teaching them. Today's episode features Jerry Goodwin, TCC Connection Advisor. Edited by Sam Levrault Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona" Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/ The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Transcript by: Bethany Solomon Bethany: Welcome to semester Sneak Peek, a new series that provides a preview of courses that are provided this coming semester. I am your host, Bethany Solomon, associate editor of the Northeast Campus at the TCC connection. Since this series is about upcoming courses, we thought it would be best to the interview instructors tasked with teaching them. Today we have a special guest, our very own faculty advisor, Jerry Goodwin. How are you Jerry Goodwin? Jerry Goodwin: I’m doing great Ms. Solomon, how are you? I’m good. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you for the invitation. We’re going to be learning a bit about your background, your history in one of Tulsa’s most historic communities, how you came to be involved in your field, TCC, and the classes and programs you are involved in this coming fall. Let’s start with your background and earlier years in education that lead up to your professional pursuits and accomplishments. I started in 2000, teaching as an adjunct at TCC. I had a partner teaching at TCC as an adjunct and recommended I consider applying or at least working at TCC and I did. I served as an adjunct for seven years and then an opportunity presented itself for me to apply for a full-time position. Others reached out to me and let me know that this full-time position was available to teach in the journalism field. In 2007, I applied to serve as an assistant professor in journalism and mass communications. If you take into consideration my adjunct years, next year, that would have been two decades. Prior to that I was working for my family’s business, the OK eagle newspaper, and I was with them for 15 years professionally. That was the foundation that lead me to pursuing what turned out to be a career in journalism and communications. Okay. Good, so without that foundation do you believe you would have studied mass communications or journalism at all? Perhaps not, I had aspired to go into law and have been involved with politics, and so it was blessing and what better opportunity to work in a field, and from those experience in the field, then go and teach the next generation of young people what you have learned. It was natural and it’s a blessing and I could not be any more pleased and excited with this trajectory and course I am on. So you enjoy politics and just ran for city council. Can you tell us a little about your experience? Yes I was not new to politics, fortunately in my early years, worked for a congress man so I truly appreciate the value of public service. That experience was eye opening in more ways than one. What I enjoyed the most about that experience is meeting and becoming acquainted with the individuals of the community. I did a lot of door to door knocking and ended up falling short of a three-person race and came in second. When we combined my results and the results of the person that came in third the outcome was 55% of the winner and 45% to the remaining two candidates. It had been determined the candidate, or at least the city counsel is vulnerable, so I am looking at here in the near future rerunning and just trying to put together the recipe of victory, what I can learn from this previous experience, and how I can use that to my benefit so that I will be more successful this next go around. What can you tell us about The Connection and you leading as the facu