As a society, we love dualism.  We enjoy reducing our options to two, and framing it so that the only options we have are the two that we often can’t stop obsessing over.  Yes, our[...]

For two Fridays during November, I witnessed second year students in the College Student Personnel program at Western Illinois University (WIU) present their Internship Learning Ex[...]

I recently reread a short essay by Maureen Watson (2015) titled: Treasures in Darkness: Loving the Questions.  In the essay, Watson speaks about what it feels like to live in the d[...]

Earlier this summer, I read the book: We Are Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream by William Perez and Daniel G. Solorzano. My intention was to broaden my w[...]

This summer, I am teaching an online course on campus climate and changing student demographics. The main text for the course is the book Whistling Vilvaldi by Claude Steele. When [...]

Since the beginning of 2016, I have challenged myself to have new experiences which have led me to increasingly realize how hard it is to function in a world that isn’t desig[...]

A few weeks back, I was listening to a radio show about the upcoming presidential election that will occur this November. Please know that I typically limit my intake of political [...]

2016 brings a new semester, which is exciting, and has my mind thinking about quite a few topics.  One of them involves how we need to speak to all students in order to meet studen[...]

Given all that is going on in the world, what I’ve experienced in 2015, as well as the winter holiday season, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering what it means[...]

Recently, I’ve had experiences in which I’ve overheard the “Golden Rule” shared:  “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Once it w[...]