Unexpected career change and what it might mean for reform in higher education.
 
Mercedes Carota NU’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Mercedes Carota is a Business Student at Northeastern.  She should have graduated, but stayed on to complete premedical requirements after a career change in her junior year.  Mercedes was also a member of a team of students that [...]

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The Experience of Co-op as seen several Years after Graduation.
 
Amanda Marsden NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
 
Amanda Marsden is a co-author with Rick Porter and me of the “Engaging the Whole Student” paper, the second post (2/17/09) and one that helped launch this blog.  Amanda and I often talk about experiential education a habit from our [...]

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Co-op vs. Permanent Employment
 
 Natania Crane NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
Natania graduated a year ago with a BA in Psychology and worked in a Behavioral Neuroscience laboratory down the hall from ours at Northeastern University.  We kept in touch after she graduated and moved to an fMRI lab in California, and after I moved to me [...]

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Another personal note – I moved.
-Jim Stellar
As College students and faculty make their ways back to campus in and around this Labor Day weekend, I do the same, but to a different place.  As I mentioned earlier in this blog, I am now Provost at CUNY Queens College.  I have been on the job a [...]

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