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News: Roane State’s Finn enjoys teaching role

Roger Finn

By Bob Fowler
Roane State staff writer

This Roane State job opportunity came “out of the blue,” Roger Finn says, and he’s glad he took it.

Finn is an adjunct English professor who has taught mainly at the Morgan County campus of the community college for three years. He says he’s “very content” in the job.

Finn obtained his associate’s degree from Roane State and his bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Tech. He went on to receive his master’s degree in English literature from the Cookeville-based university.

He said he then started looking for a teaching job, but it wasn’t to be – at first.

So to make ends meet, the Memphis native took on menial jobs at a discount store and then a pizza parlor before he received a welcomed call “out of the blue.” A teaching job had opened up unexpectedly, Roane State Humanities Dean Myra Peavyhouse told Finn. “She asked me if I wanted to teach.”

The answer was an immediate, emphatic “yes,” Finn said, and he started his new job two weeks into the fall semester. “It was ‘throwing me into the deep end,’” he recalled, “but I loved it.”

Students seem to like his classes in English composition and English learning support, he said, and some students have specifically requested his course. He also teaches an online class in American literature.

Finn says the college gives him some leeway in how he teaches his lessons to about 90 students each semester. “They (college officials) are very accommodating about my teaching style,” he said.

He’s said he’s impressed by the academic caliber of his students. “Morgan County students perform admirably…admirably,” he said. “I think they have a really good school system.”

Finn said he’d grown tired of Memphis after living there for 30 years and relocated to Cumberland County in 2000 after his parents moved there in 1995.

He now resides in the Homestead area of Cumberland County with his 88-year-old mother.

To learn more about Roane State’s Morgan County campus, visit roanestate.edu/morgan or call (423) 346-8700. Remember, eligible adults can now attend Roane State tuition-free with the new Reconnect grant. Learn more at roanestate.edu/reconnect.

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