What's Your Cheese?

• Date: 01 March 2012
• Author: Andrea Giampetro‐Meyer
• Published date: 01 March 2012
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1722.2011.01102.x

Journal of Legal Studies Education

Volume 29, Issue 1, 145–153, Winter/Spring 2012

Perspectives on Teaching

What’s Your Cheese?

Andrea Giampetro-Meyer*

Cartoon reprinted with permission of http://www.CartoonStock.com.

COriginal artist.

*Professor of Law & Social Responsibility, Sellinger School of Business, Loyola University Mary-

land.

I started my career with the leadership and support of an excellent mentor, one of my under-

graduate professors, Dr. M. Neil Browne of Bowling Green State University. My interactions with

him laid the foundation for a solid career as a teacher-scholar.

I am thinking about my undergraduate experience as I write this essay. I majored in business

as an undergraduate student. If you had asked my “why” at that time, I am certain I would have

linked a college education/business degree to getting a good job. Accidentally, though, my

college experience inspired me to grow intellectually, too. For those of you who scoff at the idea

that students are in college because they want jobs, please read Casey Wiley’s thoughtful essay,

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/08/26/wiley_essay_whether_college_students_

are_motivated_by_intellectual_development_or_job (August 26, 2011). I agree with Wiley that,

in today’s economy, we must acknowledge, and respect, students’ rationales for why they want a

college degree.

C2012 The Author

Journal of Legal Studies Education C2011 Academy of Legal Studies in Business

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