{"id":1485,"date":"2015-04-06T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:38:13","slug":"professor-profile-steve-lytle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/professor-profile-steve-lytle\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profile: Steve Lytle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1503\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/photo-c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1503\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/photo-c1.jpg\" alt=\"lytle photo\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lytle with the big trees on a field trip.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Josiah Birkbeck<\/p>\n<p>Professor Lytle is originally from Indiana and \u00a0can now be\u00a0found working with students in the STEM building teaching zoology; he also teaches environmental science and biology. Professor Lytle does have a Ph.d., but he prefers the title \u201cProfessor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lytle started off his career in life sciences cleaning up poop in a veterinary hospital, eventually becoming a veterinary assistant. When he was young, he would receive magazine subscriptions labeled \u201cDr. Steve Lytle,\u201d and there was expectancy on his part that he would continue in this field. Early on he was not the best student, flunking a biology class in high school. \u201cIt was the girl\u2019s fault that I had to partner with; she was too pretty.\u201d Despite this early failure and discouragement, Lytle buckled down and disciplined himself to study properly. \u201cI just knew that\u00a0\u2018I want to do this.\u2019 There was a point where I was going to give up because I was not doing\u00a0good enough.\u201d Thankfully though he did not give up and is able to teach at Taft College today.<\/p>\n<p>Lytle currently holds a\u00a0bachelor&#8217;s in biology, a master&#8217;s in entomology, and a\u00a0doctorate \u00a0in botany. Because of that attitude of commitment to his\u00a0studies, Lytle enjoys teaching at community college as opposed to larger universities. For Lytle, community college offers a chance to make a meaningful impact with students that just does not exist at a university level \u201cbecause teaching is about relationships with your students, so it\u2019s a different kind of discussion rather than, you know, talking about \u00a0genetics.\u201d To students, Lytle has this advice to offer: \u201cI think it comes down to getting experience in the field . . .\u00a0somehow getting a job that connects you to what you want to do . . .\u00a0you have to take whatever you can get; I cleaned poop.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1507\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1507\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1507\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lytle photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lytle in class<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Lytle with the big trees on a field trip.  &nbsp;  By Josiah Birkbeck  Professor Lytle is originally from Indiana and \u00a0can now be\u00a0found working with students in the STEM building teaching zoology; he also teaches environmental science and biology. Professor Lytle does have a Ph.d., but he prefers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}