Oct 24, 2017
I get stressed, sometimes, by all of the grading and emailing that’s required of me in the middle of the semester, and by the unending to-do list I keep running in my brain. For work, I have a three column to-do list that, when not woefully neglected, works really...
Oct 23, 2017
Perhaps some of you have seen the video circulating on Facebook lately that features a collection of college students supposedly lining up for a race. But before the race begins, students answer questions that allow some of them to move ahead of their peers. The point...
Oct 23, 2017
I got a teaching ego check recently. I agreed to teach a section of ENG220 Technical Writing this term, my first online teaching experience. No problem, I thought, I got this. I was confident going in, but teaching online has been a lot more challenging than I...
Oct 23, 2017
Violent communication in our society is a result of training. We yell at each other, and we blame, judge, dominate and evaluate. According to Marshall Rosenberg, this form of communication is not our natural state. Rosenberg, founder of The Center for Nonviolent...
Oct 23, 2017
I recently returned from a conference where the biggest takeaway had to do with the thoughts from several Fortune 500 CEO’s. The topic had to do with engaging senior leadership in organizational design and idea flow but became more about establishing enthusiasm for...
