International Cooperative Education - A job that Exceeds Expectations
 
I got this e-mail below in the fall from Ruth Wyshogrod (NU ’10) and with some deletions of names and a little light editing on which we have agreed, I thought it had to be posted on the blog as it represents the kind of serious position [...]

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To Tweet or not to Tweet – a Provost’s quandary
 
Ashley Stempel NU’10 and Jim Stellar
 
This is a bit weird.  Ashley, who is a repeat blogger with me on this site about social media, is going to ask me questions about my comfort level using social media as a serious administrator at a large institution of [...]

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Other Lobe Thinking as It Applies to Rules:  To Follow or Not to Follow
 
Cynthia Bainton and Jim Stellar
 
As administrators we complete tasks, manage projects, and lead people with the goal of fulfilling the missions of our institutions.  Doing these things requires organization and to organize we depend upon rules.  Rules are intended to keep order.  [...]

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Thought Control
Caroline Crocker ‘03 (Williams College), Ph.D. program at John Jay College at CUNY and Jim Stellar
Through a friend-of-a-friend connection, I met Caroline and found her to have an interesting point deriving from her studies of the Social Psychology of Criminal Justice that nicely illustrates the operation of what we have been calling in this [...]

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A Black Woman runs in Haifa
 
Moyagaye Bedward QC ’10 and James Stellar
 
Moya is an honors student and track athlete at Queens College who has several majors and a few minors in the social sciences.  She is looking to go to graduate school and more importantly she is looking at how to define herself in terms [...]

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Industry-Academic Co-creation
 
Thami Msubo and Jim Stellar
 
Thami is Chief, HR, Corporate Affairs & Empowerment of Tata Steel KZN (South Africa), and Jim is known to this blog as the Provost and Academic Vice President of CUNY Queens College.  Jim and Thami met a number of times at the World Association of Cooperative Education Conferences.  Thami [...]

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Note: This is the first post with someone from Queens College and I hope a nice new dimension of this blog as Northeastern and Queens experiences merge. - Jim

The Development of a Passion for Learning
 
Voula Galanopoulos QC ’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Considering how involved I have become at Queens College it is has hard to imagine that [...]

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A brief note about a timely article
by Jim Stellar
I just had to break the co-author format and write this note calling your attention to the 10/4/09 New York Times Sunday Magazine article about the anxious mind that largely features the work of Professor Jerry Kagan from Harvard.  Here is the link. I urge you to [...]

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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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