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Big Demands, High Expectations
That line in the sand… you know the one. That fine line between serving students and the need to separate work from personal time. The ability to decline that after-hours cell phone call or cut off the...
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Bloom’s Where You Are Planted
Spent a morning with student affairs colleagues developing new program and learning outcomes to define our work in connection to university and division strategic plans. Beginning at the bottom of...
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Cold nose, warm heart
As the January wind howls and daily highs hover in the single digits, it’s nice to know our lovely city is among those with a coldest average low temperature during the winter months. Cold nose, warm...
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Magic.
Photo: Iowa State Athletics The pride they have in Iowa State is really cool. I think that came through. ~Jay Bilas, The Ames Tribune.
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Make Shift Happen
When I first began a career in student affairs, my director was a good and fair person, always supporting a life in balance. Work late for a program? Take a few hours of personal time the next day....
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Flipside
Photo: Alex Cornell Designer and filmmaker Alex Cornell took amazing photographs of this flipped Antarctic iceberg last month and forever changed the way I look at ice. The beautiful clear gel of this...
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DO U FYE? Analysis of First-Year Experience Programs
Much of my professional career has been working with students in the first-year experience and transition to college. The word freshman first appeared in the English language in 1550 to describe a...
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Inspire More.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~John Quincy Adams Reviewing perspectives on leadership provides an opportunity to identify...
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Pattern Recognition
And then there was that day I was absorbed in readings from venture writers and entrepreneurs. I was reminded of comments by colleagues returning from the spring conferences that seem to cater to...
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New piece of the pie
A while back I hinted at a new opportunity that would be headed my way. After months of discussions and negotiations I am very pleased to announce that I am the new vice president of National Student...
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My 2016.
It’s the end of 2016 and by most accounts, many are ready to see it in the rearview mirror. As conflicting as this year has been, I had wonderful opportunities for travel and forging a new professional...
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Bringing domestic student exchange to the conversation
Thank you to David J. Smith for bringing domestic student exchange to the conversation on global initiatives in Getting to “E Pluribus Unum”. As president of the nonprofit National Student Exchange...
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Dear College Girl
Tomorrow, you, my first born, my daughter, begin college. Coincidentally, the date coincides with the anniversary of my first day of employment at the same campus—22 years ago. Kids were not even in my...
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