Collaboration
By: Donna Heiland, Vice President and Special Assistant to the President, Emerson College Collaboration: hard to pull off, but great when it succeeds, whether across internal campus units or across...
View ArticlePublic or Personal Good—the Value of Higher Education
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University Expectations and outcomes, networks and connections, stories and narratives, evidence and information, individual...
View ArticleHeads Up! I Feel a Change Coming On
By: Jim Salvucci, Dean, The School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Stevenson University We got so much in common We strive for the same old ends And I just can’t wait Wait for us to become friends...
View ArticleIntentional Networking and Mentoring
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University Networking, networking, networking. AAC&U’s Annual Meeting is itself a wonderful opportunity for...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean by Engagement?
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University During the conference, engaged or engagement were used in many forms. The words by themselves become...
View ArticleCollaboration, Part 2
By: Donna Heiland, Vice President and Special Assistant to the President, Emerson College In my last post, I wrote that collaboration was a watchword of AAC&U’s 2014 Annual Meeting, and it was. I...
View ArticleTackling the Big Questions
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University The conference plenaries and luncheon speakers at AAC&U’s Annual Meeting addressed important topics of broad...
View ArticleSome Notes on Diversity and Opportunity
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University I will close my comments on the AAC&U Annual Meeting with a brief note on diversity. A thread through the...
View ArticleSelf-Reflection and E-Portfolios: Practices to Improve the Quality of Teaching
By Elena K. Abbott, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Georgetown University What kinds of practices are institutions of higher education using to improve faculty teaching? This is the question tackled in the...
View ArticleCost, Quality, and Well-Being: A Closer Look at the Gallup-Purdue Index
By: Wilson Peden, Staff Writer/Associate Editor, AAC&U Early this month, Gallup released another summary of data gathered in the Gallup-Purdue Index, a national study of the lives of college...
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