Teaching from Afghanistan

When you feel like your commute to work is too long and your job is too demanding, think of this Mount Olive College professor. While deployed in the military he rises early to teach computer science to his North Carolina students at a distance of 7,100 miles. He is serving in Afghanistan...

News and Observer
March 12, 2007
Jane Stancill, Staff Writer

Deployed professor teaches from Afghanistan
Stays on duty at Mount Olive

In recent months, Ted Janicki has done most of his teaching late at night or during the dark, still hour around 4 a.m.

That's when the Mount Olive College professor rose early to beat his three roommates to the computer in the cement building where he lives. Janicki, a captain in the Air Force Reserves, has taught computer science to his North Carolina students at a distance of 7,100 miles. He is serving in Afghanistan.

He never met his American students, and some of them weren't even sure how to pronounce his name. While they slept, Janicki graded their tests or tapped out e-mails about their assignments. Read more...