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The Best Thing About Predicting the Future of Student Affairs
When I agreed to speak about the "Future of Student Affairs" at Higher Ed Open Mic, I knew that I wanted to talk about three distinct topics: student affairs graduate programs, online-only students, and digital identity development. Those three areas are constantly pinging around my head. Attending multiple student affairs conferences and voraciously reading everything and anything that is related to higher education gives me ample cerebral material to digest and ponder.
Reaching the Finish Line
Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation. (Yay!) It’s a huge milestone, and I am exhausted and happy and proud. But my degree isn’t quite finished yet. As much as I would like to just bask in good feelings and watch some cartoons, there are a number of tiny details to finish, from submitting the final dissertation to signing the right forms.
Surprises
People who know me will have a hard time picturing this, but it’s true.
Time Flies
I've been blogging and Tweeting for three years. I think I should say, *only* three years.
An Argument to Spend 24 Hours with "Private Empire"
24 hours and 16 minutes is how long it took me to listen to the audio version of Steve Coll's Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. That translates into 704 pages for all of you eyeball-centric reading people.
Winging it
Every once in a while I have the chance to put together a new lecture on a topic I find...
Immigrating into a New World
Being first at anything is hard, but being first at college is a bewildering and sometimes terrifying experience.
A Community Based Approach to Alcohol and Drug Education
The African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” is often used in education circles to stress the importance of community in the learning process. It is a concept that we in private higher education can apply to an area where colleges and universities continue to face new problems every year: the issue of drug and alcohol use and abuse on our campuses.
Pagination
Pagination
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