Classroom cheating has taken a new digital turn. An article about a free cellphone service called ChaCha caught my eye last week. Text any question to 242242 and ChaCha promises to[...]
Earlier this summer Del Suggs challenged us to create contemporary mission statements that address why we do things. Sure enough, upon examining the missions of my scholarship and [...]
"The Five Whys" is a method of distilling the true cause/effect of an issue. Simply put, it involves asking the question "why?," and then asking "why[...]
More than any other human attribute, I think I value creativity the most. Wisdom is good, if you’ve got it. Leadership is pretty high on my list. Heck, I think “kind he[...]
I had to post this New York Times article on helicopter parenting at summer camp. Reading about the cell phone hiding, demands made of camp staff, and encouragement of rule breakin[...]
We recently had an incident on a student trip (our first!!) and now I have to provide training/workshop on dating/sexual assault. Has anyone done a really successful program [...]
Every organization on campus needs a Mission Statement. As a matter of fact, every department and office on campus should have a Mission Statement. While it sounds like[...]
Student learning outcomes are truly the first step in intentional programming. Yogi Berra said it best: "If you don’t know where you’re going, you̵[...]
Educator Karl Fisch, creator of the “Shift Happens” video, first reported on a Fortune magazine article about how King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is investing $22.5 billi[...]
We are in the midst of NEDAW and for both men and women, college is a vital time to educate them. Eating disorders are a silent epidemic on our campuses because no one wants to tal[...]