Academic History
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Feel free to check out my "away from academia" world:
Owl's Nest Ocean House
Check out some of the view related to my sabbatical and writing of the text VISION AND VOICE.
Welcome Students !
A Few Words of Introduction –
Dr. Wesley Joseph Mills
Professor, York County Community College
I am now in my twenty-sixth academic year at York County Community College, and I remain enthusiastic about being in the classrooms teaching courses in English, the humanities, and the social sciences, and at this point, especially Ethics and Civil Rights History. With each new academic year, I look forward to our classroom journeys as together we explore life and learning through various reading, writing, discussion, and reflection endeavors.
Courses I typically teach at YCCC include:
In addition to my teaching vocations, I’ve worked at a Maine restaurant, retail store, and paper mill, served as an ordained minister, had published an instructional book on children’s sermons, also a collection of poetry, and more recently a narrative history of U.S. civil rights. I have also coached Little League for two decades, played a bit of basketball, softball, and ping pong here and there, and contributed to the establishment of a few social service endeavors—such as the Wayside Soup Kitchen and Root Cellar Ministries in Portland.
In addition to my various teaching stints at YCCC over the past twenty-five years, I have also taught a variety of courses for the ABCOM Institute for religious continuing education, Andover Newton graduate school (Boston), the Saco Island College Center, Southern Maine Technical College, and the University of New England. I also developed and implemented adult and alternative programming at the
During the fall 2022, I was on sabbatical working on a ethics text for one of our core courses, PHI 102. Check out my course descriptions on this website for more details on the courses I teach, at least some of which I will be teaching again come the next semester. Feel free to drop by my office and chat—whether about class or other similarly interesting quests in life. I welcome the opportunity for conversation as part of the ongoing journey of life long learning.