Know Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll get on it.
This time around we caught up with marketing and business instructor Anne Borrowman and talked about pressures, wine, and losing USB sticks.
1: What do you teach and how long have you been a teacher at Camosun?
I teach marketing and business communication courses in the School of Business Marketing Department and started at Camosun in January 2009 as a term instructor.
2: What do you personally get out of teaching?
Lifelong learning through professional development, colleagues, and students.
3: What’s one thing you wish your students knew about you?
That I understand pressures of balancing school with work, family, and hobbies. Guess what? The balancing act never ends.
4: What’s one thing you wish they didn’t know about you?
This might be a better question for the students…
5: What’s the best thing that’s happened to you as a teacher here?
When students ask me to be a job reference, I get the call, and they get the job!
6: What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you as a teacher here?
Leaving my USB stick in the class computer; where did that thing go?
7: What do you see in the future of postsecondary education?
More courses offered online or in a blended format.
8: What do you do to relax on the weekends?
I really like to be outside: bike riding. In bad weather, I’ll go to the gym. Give me the newspaper on Saturday and Sunday mornings and I’ll see you in a couple of hours.
9: What’s yourĘfavorite meal?
BBQ steak, grilled mushrooms and peppers, and a fresh spinach salad. Did I mention a nice bottle of wine?
10: What’s your biggest pet peeve?
Technology, when it doesn’t work.