Higher education faculty, counselors and advisers all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, advising sessions, orientation workshops, or internship opportunities. More...
Sagas and Plots
Late last year I wrote about Burton Clark and the notion of “organizational sagas” ; that is, the stories people in organizations (in this case, universities and colleges) tell themselves about the organization they belong to and the way these stories turn into a kind of shared history. Knowing these stories is a way of understanding not just how members of a community understand their shared history, it’s also a guide to the way they understand success. More...