Dec 3, 2013
The largest minority at NMC is Native Americans, and yet we have many misconceptions based on movies, television, and other portrayals. Most of us can easily separate fictional qualities of famous females such June Cleaver, Roseanne Barr, Ellen DeGeneres, and Sofia...
Nov 26, 2013
I’m embarrassed to say I never did, not that I recall. Yet, I believe he taught me as much about general education outcomes as many traditional academic classes. Terry O’Banion’s keynote speech this summer at a League of Innovation conference I...
Nov 7, 2013
At the November Faculty Friday Forum sponsored by NMC’s Center for Instructional Excellence, four questions about competency-based learning were posted. As I struggled to organize responses to this hot topic into a meaningful context, Mark DeLonge suggested Jimmy...
Nov 6, 2013
Ever look at your workload and think, where to start? Then, as you pull out materials related to the task at hand, you discover stuff that you forgot you had, or you forgot to do, or… and the list goes on, and the project still isn’t done to your...
Oct 2, 2013
Written with Scott Herzberg Most of us have seen action movies where the main character leaves a loving family behind, embarking on an action filled mission to right a wrong and save the world. The movie ends dramatically with total destruction averted, the credits...
