Hedge Learning Services

How does one successfully communicate? 

By example.
By clarity. 

By subtlety. 

By intellectual adventure. 

Ask, and we can learn together.

How do we communicate at Hedge Learning Services?

We write, research, teach, and tutor in the following areas:
Humanities, Composition, Creative Writing, and College Survival Skills.

By what routes does Director Jackie Fulmer communicate?

Dr. Fulmer's research addresses how people express themselves indirectly through multiple modes: Literature, Folklore, Material Culture, and Film.

Her published works encompass all these areas--Because the answers to the question,
"How do we communicate our ideas when formal or social barriers exist to bar their expression?", necessitate the use of "'all means of expression'" (Aristotle, on Rhetoric).

As a fiction writer, Dr. Fulmer treats the same question, only with more humor.

How does this research and writing benefit students?

The approach taken by instructors and tutors at Hedge Learning Services has given many students, from all walks of life, expanded routes to express their own previously unheard ideas. 

Former students have succeeded with their audiences, too:

They have won fellowships, scholarships, and prestigious internships after advanced training by the faculty at Hedge Learning Services. Many former students have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, social workers, journalists, lobbyists, entrepreneurs, and other well-employed professionals.

What evidence exists that the Instructors at Hedge Learning Services can help you succeed?

Director Jackie Fulmer comes to you with 
A Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley,
A Master of Fine Arts (in Fiction and Publishing) from Emerson College, Boston, MA,
with additional certification from other highly regarded institutions such as:
The Pacific Film Archive, Brown University, and The Bennington Summer Writing Workshop.

Awards for teaching include:

The “Unsung Hero” Award, awarded by UCB Chancellor Birgeneau for contributions to student life (a student nominated award), and being elected as an
Honorary Member to the Golden Key International Honour Society (also a student-nominated award).

She has spent most of her career in humanities instruction, including positions at the following: 

Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), 
Bristol Community College (Seekonk, MA), 
Emerson College (Boston, MA), 
Lasell College (Newton, MA), The Boston Center for Adult Education, 
San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA), 
and, most recently, the University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 1996-2013).

Her published works include:
Short stories in The Amherst Review, Aldebaran, and Issues Monthly;

An award-winning non-fiction book, Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin. (London: Ashgate. Dec. 2007);

Critical essays published in The Journal of American Folklore,  
Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture, and  
The Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife; as well as

Chapters in an American Film Institute anthology and the first collection of essays on writer Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.

She is currently at work on her second novel and completing a manuscript on material culture studies (Doll Culture in America) for University Press of Mississippi. 

ALL INSTRUCTORS or CONSULTANTS employed by Hedge Learning Services possess outstanding experience and knowledge in their fields of study.

Hedge Learning Services places the needs of students first. 
To do so, we hire only those scholars most motivated to help YOU!

Would you like to further develop your strengths in the humanities, writing, or practical college or career skills?

If Yes (or Maybe), please e-mail us at: hedgescholars@gmail.com.

We have designed our rates for the greatest level of accessibility and flexibility. 
We provide instruction at either:

REGULARLY-SCHEDULED meetings. (Best option for highest learning results for the lowest fee.)
(OR)
BY the HOUR. (Best for those who have already completed drafts, or who already possess basic knowledge on a subject, and who need help in achieving a "professional finish". 

Need-based scholarships available.