Tell Them Why I Develop coherent and persuasive description of why we have a GE program and what it is supposed to achieve. Address it
Category: aa sociology of information
Advising Parents of Soon-to-be-College-Students
One way to pop oneself out of one’s institutional bubble is to listen in on conversations among the folks whose attention (and dollars) we are
What the Survey Did Not Ask
I recently spent a half an hour filling out yet another higher education survey instrument. Lots to say about methodological issues, but also about content.
The Socially Competent Node
Consider the following deviant characters: loose cannons, blabbermouths, gossipers, and yentas, stool pigeons and canaries, tattlers and squealers, garblers, the nosy, the deaf to hints,
Religion and Learning to be a Node
A short excerpt from zeroth draft of chapter “Learning to be a node” The chapter is about how social networks depend on competent nodes and
Turning Around an Institution in Challenging Times
Alas, it’s a pleasant surprise when a journalist who understands enough about higher education to “get a story” is given enough space to tell it.
Innoeduvation 