丹妮尔·卡明斯基（Danielle Kaminski）博士在新泽西州德鲁大学（Drew University）学习经济学和数学时，她就知道自己想更深入地研究经济学。 后来，作为密歇根州立大学的研究生，她在获得农业、食品和资源经济学博士学位之前，进行了农业人力资源管理实践和消费者食品和农业政策偏好的研究。 Upon graduation, she knew she wanted to work in a smaller community where the emphasis was on “the teaching component of the job.” She shares that she “was always really interested in teaching” thanks to the teachers who had impacted her life. She also “felt like that’s where the exchange was going to happen between ideas.” 

卡明斯基博士在密歇根州立大学和海斯堡州立大学任教七年，是一位经验丰富的讲师，她对太阳城娱乐官网的新家感到兴奋。 她用一个词概括了商业与技术学院的吸引力：社区。 She states that “the community is so much stronger here” because “everyone is cordial to each other.” Her path to Kearney began when she worked with Jody Herchenbach博士 at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). 正是在那里，她学到了很多关于太阳城娱乐官网和方式博士赫亨巴赫重视教学，所以当卡明斯基博士被告知在太阳城娱乐官网开放访问的位置，她知道她需要给它一个机会。

在做了一年的客座教授之后，她得到了一个全职的职位，这个职位将于今年夏天开始。 这是多么美好的一年啊！ Between teaching classes and taking a leadership role with the 农业商业俱乐部, she has already become a bona fide Loper. 她描述了她是如何在课堂上给学生机会，让他们把自己所处领域的新闻与自己的个人信仰联系起来。 其中一个例子是，她要求学生两人一组，在课堂上做一个讲座，并在第二天进行后续的讨论。 She shares how she believes this type of teaching “simulates the process of learning about a policy,” where students are responsible for finding reliable sources of information and learn about both sides of the issue. 她的愿望是，她的学生一旦形成自己的观点，就能够进行对话，以便理解，作为专业人士，会有其他人持不同意见。 她的教学风格允许她的学生就移民和劳工政策等问题进行文明的对话。 她还紧跟行业的发展趋势，因为她明白，作为未来的专业人士，她的学生需要具备批判性思考和解决问题的能力。 这就是为什么她选择体验式学习，而不是在课堂上使用教科书。

Dr. Kaminski understands that students need to have chances to network, opportunities to hear the vocabulary from their courses spoken by professionals in their field, and experiences that “add some validation” to what is being taught in the classroom. As a co-advisor of 太阳城娱乐官网’s 农业商业俱乐部, she assists in inviting speakers to the club and plans field trips to make sure her students have exposure to industry professionals. She makes sure her students hear from a wide range of speakers to include small businesses such as the pet food company Gizmo’s Goodies, to a representative from the Kearney Chamber of Commerce about “the importance of leadership and the importance of involvement” in the community. 今年，她还带学生们参观了安德森的谷物升降机、胡斯牲畜市场和胡斯克收获日，以帮助学生们更多地了解他们选择的领域。 Not only does this help her students, but Dr. Kaminski is giving back to the community by showcasing “potential interns or future hires” for local businesses. 

She believes “one of the benefits of the club” is how students get to “learn through people's experience” and how “it's not all like books and graphs and calculations” that students learn in their classes. 这就是为什么她让她的学生在课堂上做模拟，让他们解释他们的信仰是如何形成的。 She explains how this “communication piece” is important because it helps students understand the various ways they will need to use critical thinking as part of their future careers.

认知行为治疗中心的每个人都很感激丹妮尔·卡明斯基医生找到了科尔尼社区的路。 正如她解释的那样，从一开始，当她的面试过程包括来自当地专业人士的意见，到她受到同龄人的热烈欢迎时，她就觉得太阳城娱乐官网非常适合她。 We look forward to many more years of Dr. Kaminski shaping the lives of her students by helping them understand agriculture “from multiple perspectives” as they “relate it to their prior knowledge.” 她理解学生在农业商业部门工作时将面临的挑战，并感谢自己能帮助他们找到思考这个话题的新方法。 她说她很幸运能在商业和技术学院学习。 这种感觉绝对是相互的。