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[...]