Professor Elise Green, teaches an English 150 course, Writing and Research, as well as an English 400 course, Active Citizenship and Advanced Writing Seminar. This year is Green’s third year as a professor but her fifth year teaching at the collegiate level. She attended school at Old Dominion University for undergraduate and received her masters from Liberty University.
Green realized she wanted to teach at a very young age. Being the oldest of three children, she took advantage of the opportunity to start teaching her little sister when it was time for her to start kindergarten. She set up a little classroom in the family living room and taught her the alphabet, numbers and even made quizzes for her sister to complete.
Neither of Green’s parents graduated from high school. Therefore, she takes pride in the fact that she is a first generation college student but explained that she had to work hard to get where she is.
“Me teaching college students is a way to set an example to the younger generation and that your circumstances do not have to dictate where you end up in life but rather you will be a product of the choices you make,” said Green.
“There’s something really special about the age range that college students represent mostly between eighteen and twenty-two; there’s this incredible growth that they go through, and I love being involved in that growth, and I love being a witness of that growth,” said Green.
