03 Jan
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, Student Views, experiential education
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 [...]
28 Dec
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, social media
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 [...]
22 Dec
Posted by Jim as Blog, Uncategorized, experiential education
Impact is the Point in Study Abroad
Dawn Anderson and Jim Stellar
Dawn Anderson started out in my former Office when I was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University where we were developing study abroad options for our students interested in experiential education. She ended up directing that study abroad office and [...]
15 Dec
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, experiential education
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. [...]
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 [...]
18 Oct
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, Industry related, experiential education
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 [...]
09 Oct
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, Student Views, experiential education
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 [...]
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 [...]
12 Jul
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, experiential education
As you can see, we continue to connect experiential learning notions to learning opportunities that might not to appear at first glance to be experiential, such as the entrepreneurship teaching techniques in Jamie’s classroom about which she and Jim write below. Of course we believe they may well be connected because they drive the limbic circuits [...]
12 Jun
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, Student Views, brain, experiential education, social media
Here is another post that comes out of Jim’s conversations with Northeastern students. It is touching on social media, something Shwen writes about in his blog, Med 2.0.
-Jim and Shwen
Social Media, Warmth, and “Other Lobe: activity
Jim Stellar and Ashley Stempel‘10
When we are not talking about how cooperative education experiences in industry have affected the [...]