We all get the cold calls, the email spam, the phone call in the middle of the day, or the urgent requests to set up a meeting for our advice on a current Student Affairs issues. I[...]

To some people, my desk is a chaotic mess. Old papers that belong in the recycling bin surround my monitor next to magazines that sit stacked up on top of each other in a pile. As [...]

Hi all, I’m back with a very simple tutorial on how to calculate your Facebook page growth. This could be your business page, division’s page, your student org’s [...]

The is the second video [see the first here] in the #LearnExcel series and introduces the concept of = VLOOKUP that is one of the most important concepts in working with large data[...]

Alright, I’m launching a series on how to be awesome with Microsoft Excel. Data is all the rage in the assessment world and creating a structure of organization can help lead[...]

I began my journey in the field of Higher Education at Carson-Newman University through my AmeriCorps placement with their Bonner Scholars Center.  I was coordinating an after-scho[...]

I have to admit that I have a love/hate relationship with the Likert Scale. I almost jumped with joy when our institutional research director sent me our old National Survey of Stu[...]

My interest in spirituality in higher education began as I set my topic  for my graduate thesis that investigated spiritual motivations for civic engagement among students. College[...]

I vividly remember in the year 2000 the hysteria of Y2K, the slow decline of grunge music, and the fact that I was turning 16 and getting my driver’s license. One night at my[...]

At the start of August, our office was tasked with filling three brand new positions due to growth in programming and responsibilities.  After close to 100+ emails to HR, interview[...]