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Teaching Online From 'Mortaritaville' in Iraq
Cheryl Wachenheim
Cheryl Wachenheim, an associate professor at North Dakota State U., was deployed to Iraq but decided to keep teaching her economics classes online.
When Cheryl J. Wachenheim, an associate professor of agribusiness and applied economics at North Dakota State University, says she taught her courses last year from a remote location, she means a desert nearly 7,000 miles away from her Fargo campus. A captain in the Minnesota Army National Guard, Ms. Wachenheim deployed to Balad, Iraq, just north of Baghdad, in August 2008, for a...
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