“Don’t sweat the small stuff… and it’s all small stuff.” That is the name of the game and the title of a book by Dr. Richard Carlson.  When invited to write about this topic and to[...]

Finally! Your assessment project is almost done. You had a goal, designed a project, collected and analyzed your data from (let’s say) five focus student groups. And now you [...]

I was taking a break in between projects a few days ago (a mix of recruitment and assessment – oy!) and fell down a nostalgic rabbit hole – reading quotes by Mister Rog[...]

The U.S. education market is estimated to be about $1.3 trillion dollars, which explains why the topic shows up several times in every State of the Union address. Barack Obama’s si[...]

I spent the majority of my first year as a #SAgrad developing a formula, a carefully calculated sequence of experiences, skills, and personality traits that would make me the best [...]

I fell into Student Affairs by mistake. That should be my first confession in this #SAFailsForward series. My emergence into the world of higher education was the result of two pre[...]

“I know from my own education that if I hadn’t encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I’m sure I would have been in jail.” R[...]

Over the weekend, a dear friend provided me with feedback I knew in my heart, but needed to hear from someone else. I joked at the time that she was staging an intervention, but th[...]