At MTC, we look into the college and our teaching and we look outward into the community to align our classes with who our students are and what they need. Janie Kronk, who teaches Architectural Engineering, lives in this doubleness, often moving back and forth across the college’s threshold. Janie is an architect who only recently joined our teaching community. That freshness of perspective is an important part of our community. In my conversation with her, I see her very much at the threshold between the teaching community and the external community. She looks inward at the skills she’s teaching her students and then outward at the community projects she connects students with.

This flow with our larger community is something that's happening in many ways all over the college. It can

be more subtle in some departments, but I see Janie constantly stitching teaching with non-teaching praxis. In our conversation, here is yet another unique and important perspective on our flow with the larger community.

Come spend some time with Architectural Engineering.