This is a personal website originally created in 1994 with the help of my students that wanted me better connected with the growing “world-wide-web”. The site has always interwoven my personal and professional life. Why? My students wanted to know more about their professors.
The Secret Lives of Faculty
To further explain this connection, I presented at the 2015 Salute to Faculty Excellence Week, on the theme “The Secret Lives of Faculty.” Pecha Kucha is Japanese for “chit-chat” and describes a presentation format using 20 slides which advance automatically in 20-second intervals.
This may help explain why, as a professor, I mix my personal and professional life. This site has been used over the years to provide support for my current students, alumni, and the larger collegium. I cannot segment out my life and my work as a professor.
Social Media and Communication
We are often “caught-up” in internet conversations with a limited toolset to use for communication. Limited characters, limited time, limited to text, and limited to modes of communication that each create a set of barriers to communication that to keep us from fully flesh out the post that we make on social media. [click here to read more]
I do not make any pretense of representing my employer
(program, department, college, university, or the State of Texas).I have linked to official websites, where appropriate, to guide visitors to “official” answers.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me directly.
Jeff Allen
