Nate Brown

Professor

“Speaking is a super-important skill. If people come out of my classes as better communicators, they’re going to be more successful in every arena they enter.”

“Speaking is a super-important skill. If people come out of my classes as better communicators, they’re going to be more successful in every arena they enter.”

Nate Brown is truly feeling good about his new ‘permanent’ life at SMC. “It really feels great to have arrived at a ‘home’ after teaching at colleges all over the place for the past eight years,” he says. “I discovered quite early in my college career [a note to all future teachers!] that the life of a college instructor was a pretty desirable one: personal development, vacations, interaction with students. There seemed to be no downsides.” And that’s why Nate settled on teaching Speech at SMC.

“Being the best teacher I can be and presenting the best and most interesting classes—that’s my focus,” says Nate. “And I’m a very optimistic guy who likes to challenge people’s thoughts and ideas. As a teacher,” he continues, “you have to get up in front of that class every day and speak. It’s not a skill that’s innately born in all of us. But with sincere effort all of us can break through the fears that we have about presenting ourselves before a large audience.”

Nate says that “in 10 years you’ll find me teaching at SMC and being glad for it. And I strongly recommend for foreign students—once they’ve become facile with the English language—that they come to us for a Speech class. Our faculty and computer services will do them nothing but good,” he adds. “And advancing their skills in the use of spoken English will move them forward in their careers…wherever in the world they live.”

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