Adrian van den Hoven

Professor emeritus Adrian van den Hoven displays It Is Right To Rebel by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi and Pierre Victor. Van den Hoven and professor emeritus Basil Kingstone translated the book from its original French to English.

Professors emeritus translate Sartre's It Is Right to Rebel

Nov 22nd, 2017

The notions and ideas that poured out of conversations with a renowned French philosopher are just as poignant today as they were in 1972. And for the first time, those words transcribed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, and Pierre Victor in It Is Right to Rebel have been translated into English, thanks to two retired University of Windsor professors.

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Adrian van den Hoven

Basil Kingstone

Faculty retirees recruited to provide student writing support

Oct 21st, 2013

The Writing Advisor program recruits retired members of the University’s faculty to provide assistance to students.

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Adrian van den Hoven

Beth Oakley

Retired faculty members keep hand in instruction as writing advisors

Feb 8th, 2013

Although the students who use their services come from all different academic disciplines, varying countries and cultures, and range from first-year undergraduates to doctoral candidates, they generally share one challenge, say the volunteers of the Writing Advisor program: grammar.

“Sometimes the first draft of their papers won’t contain any articles at all,” says Kai Hildebrandt, one of the professors emeriti who have been helping students with their essays. “In fairness, some of their native languages don’t have articles like English does.”

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Susan Wendt-Hildebrandt