Vivian Folkenflik, UC Irvine lecturer who taught thousands of students, dies at 83
by Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times
Nov 06, 2023
2 minutes
When Vivian Folkenflik was a professor and lecturer at UC Irvine, she walked into classrooms with pieces of multicolored chalk. She believed that the various hues on the chalkboard would help engage her undergraduate students in complicated ideas.
"If you have multicolored chalk, you could teach students anything," John H. Smith, emeritus professor at UC Irvine, recalled her often saying, half in jest.
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