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Colleen Tarantino-Utter Reflection

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Returning back to college as a nontraditional student has been a rewarding experience at Appalachian State University Distance Education. The vast knowledge and expertise of the online professors are only multiplied by their demonstration of care for the education of their students. However, that winning streak was recently broken by Colleen Tarantino-Utter. Based on the experiences from my current academic pursuits and even after earning an “A” in the class, I was left with the perception that Ms. Utter portrayed the characteristics of an unequivocally incompetent and incredibly arrogant instructor. First, exemplified by her failure to correctly word exam questions demonstrated her fundamental miscarriages for the comprehension of the correct

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