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Office Hours: Q&A with Hollis Duncan

Joel Devyldere
The Commuter

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Instructor Hollis Duncan

This week for Office Hours, we spoke with math instructor Hollis Duncan, known by his students for his great sense of humor and his belief in “the awesomeness of math.”

Commuter: What classes do you teach here?
Hollis Duncan: Math 60, math for teachers, math 111, and trigonometry… I’m teaching 18 credits this term. I teach most of those a lot, except that I haven’t taught trig in a while.

C: Where did you work before?
HD: I taught high school at Woodburn, and I’ve taught at a lot of schools back east including Western Carolina University. I’ve been a teacher at OSU too.

C: How long have you been a teacher?
HD: I started subbing in 1992, but I’ve been a full-time teacher for nine years now.

C: What do you like about math?
HD: I like solving problems. Math can be like a puzzle. Solving different ways – that’s kind of fun. I like the creative part of math.

C: What do you think of the increase in students at LB this term?
HD: That’s a product of the times. I kind of like the enrollment increase. That’s cool. I don’t like the reasons that people are coming back to school – losing their jobs and such.

C: If you could be anything other than a math instructor, what would it be?
HD: A biology instructor. I kind of like biology. Math is cool, and biology is almost as cool as math.

C: What are your plans for the future?
HD: I plan to teach for a while. I like my job.

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