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Rick Diguette

Rick Diguette is recently retired from Georgia State University where he was a member of the English faculty. He is also a frequent op-ed contributor to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Articles by Rick Diguette

Sep 15, 2017 · Rick Diguette

Grade Inflation Just Got Respectable: The New Eligibility Rule Governing Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship

Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship is now in its twenty-fourth year of existence. Originally the brainchild of then Governor Zell Miller, since 1993 this merit-based scholarship program has distributed in excess of…

Jul 28, 2017 · Rick Diguette

Teaching Freshman English: It’s a Battlefield

So you think you might like teaching college English. You love the language and its great works. Lots of people are like that, including me. Good, but beware. Teaching college…