By Gwendolyn Beetham. Many academics start practicing yoga for the stress relief - myself included. The dance lessons and gymnastics I took growing up meant I cultivated flexibility that made it (relatively) easy for me to contort myself into all those uncomfortable-looking poses you see in yoga classes. More...
By Oronte. How was your summer? In Louisiana we survived the apocalypse on the table. Governor Jindal blinked, in a manner, and higher education got most of last year’s level of funding, still leaving us down seven years of cuts before that to deal with. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Would you have believed me in 2005 if I had told you that the same things would still be going wrong in web meetings in 2015. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Our community is having a good discussion about the challenges faced by administrators. See Kellie Bean’s, Administrators Are People, Too, and Dean Dad’s excellent response, After Crossing Over. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. To say that you have a bias for “going fast” is like claiming that your biggest weakness is “caring too much and working too hard.” Read more...
By Joshua Kim. As I’ve been reading Scott Jaschik’s coverage of the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) 110th Annual Meeting, I’ve been thinking about my own identity as a lapsed sociologist. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. It's official. Student Affairs via NASPA/ACPA now has an official technology competency. They say that good things come to those who wait. Thankfully, the wait for this inevitable outcome is finally over. I have been advocating for this initiative for quite a while. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I told my Calculus class recently that when I was in High School, there were (obviously) no graphing calculators. We therefore had to learn to look at an equation and picture it in our minds, a skill that I hope will be reinforced in the course of my class. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I have a confession to make. For many years, I’ve done odd jobs for Bedford Books, which specializes in writing handbooks as well as other textbooks. One of the projects I worked on had a nifty free website, Research and Documentation Online. Chances are, a lot of you have links to this site on your library or course page. If you click on it now, though, you’ll find out that it’s not there anymore. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Between the Hillary Clinton email debacle when she was at the Department of State and the Saliata case at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there is a lot of buzz about how manage email in a manner that accords with the law and institutional policy. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
