{"id":8745,"date":"2012-04-10T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2012-04-10T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:16:29","slug":"seniors-honor-baylor-alum-as-collins-outstanding-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/04\/seniors-honor-baylor-alum-as-collins-outstanding-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors honor Baylor alum as Collins Outstanding Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"browning-mar12\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/browning-mar12.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Blair Browning\" width=\"225\" height=\"301\" \/>Each year, Baylor seniors vote to decide the winner of the Collins Outstanding Professor award. It wasn&#8217;t all that long ago that this year&#8217;s winner was voting on the award himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/comm_studies\/index.php?id=68155\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Blair Browning<\/a>, BA &#8217;95, MA &#8217;99, had several <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.baylor.edu\/collins_award\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous Collins award winners<\/a> when he was a student at Baylor. As an assistant professor of communication studies today, Browning says he&#8217;s put to use some of the teaching skills he learned watching his professors as a student at Baylor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fell in love with the job because it&#8217;s connecting with students, as well as giving info in a practical way,&#8221; Browning told the <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorlariat.com\/2012\/03\/22\/browning-selected-as-outstanding-professor\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lariat<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m modeling what I had professors do well for me. I don&#8217;t want to just teach a class; I want to teach a class I would want to engage in. &#8230; [And] I don\u2019t want to just teach. I want to teach here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After earning his master&#8217;s from Baylor in 1999, Browning was hired as a lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences&#8217; Department of Communication Studies; he was promoted to assistant professor in 2008. He might look familiar to you even if you&#8217;ve never taken a communications class; since fall 2008, he has been emcee\/host for All University Sing and Pigskin Revue.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dr. Browning!<\/p>\n<p><em>[4\/12 update: Browning will give his Collins lecture on Tuesday, April 24 at 4 p.m. in Castellaw 101; the title of his lecture is &#8220;Authentic Leadership: How critical life events act as catalysts for change.&#8221;]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, Baylor seniors vote to decide the winner of the Collins Outstanding Professor award. It wasn&#8217;t all that long ago that this year&#8217;s winner was voting on the award himself. Dr. Blair Browning, BA &#8217;95, MA &#8217;99, had several previous Collins award winners when he was a student at Baylor. As an assistant professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}