Mental Health

Is it just me, or are students suffering more from stress this semester? In the first five weeks of school this year, I have sent four students to the counseling center. One student is sick on every test day, one student can’t talk himself into getting up and coming...
Student Success: My days as a Road Reporter

Student Success: My days as a Road Reporter

The couple weeks prior to Professional Development Day I had the privilege  to go out as a reporter for CIE and PDI to capture stories about how faculty and staff support student success. I would walk into each department on campus unannounced and seek out those...
Reimagining Three Amigos

Reimagining Three Amigos

Three Amigos? I always like it when things work out.  You know, you discover those students who “get it?”   Subject matter clicks with personal soul condition.  Mystery is entered into.  Lives are in the process of being changed.  Education, with all its beauty,...

Are Models That Useful?

In a word – YES! Who doesn’t like to have a moment of investigation and play? Where you can sit and observe, examine and play? Models are show-and-tell in the classroom. They provide us a quick hands-on tool to put theories to the test. Models allow us to...
Learning Together

Learning Together

We think of colleges as places where students do all the learning, but, in fact, faculty and staff are constantly learning as well. We learn from our students, we learn from our mistakes, we learn from conferences and professional journals, and we learn from each...