The higher education value proposition - co-creation with industry of an educated citizen

by Jim Stellar

As higher education continues to work on the basic vale proposition in terms of what the student gets vs. the investment of family funds and student time, the topics considered in this blog become more relevant. One of [...]

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Love of Words

Chloe’ Skye Weiser QC’13 and Jim Stellar

“To read means to satisfy the philological drive, to make a literary impression upon oneself. To read out of an impulse for pure philosophy or poetry, unaided by philology, is probably impossible.” -Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments, #391

Chloe’, an English and Anthropology major, who wrote [...]

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Mentoring and Being Mentored

Catherine Nunez NU’08 and Jim Stellar

Katie was a student with whom I connected at Northeastern. Recently, she wrote me this great e-mail which included the following key observations about mentoring:

Personally, I credit collegiate peer to peer mentoring and counseling to opening my eyes to a passion that I never [...]

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Internship vs. undergraduate research – what is the difference?

Paulina Smietanka ‘14 and Jim Stellar

This is our third blog. We already wrote on her first public school and second private clinic internship experience. Now our goal is to compare those internship experiences to the experience of working in a lab of a college [...]

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Making Emotional Choices; It May Be the Only Way We Know How
by Raphael Spiro QC ‘12 & Golshan Aghanori QC ’13

Note from Jim Stellar: I have been working on this blog since February of 2009. This is the first time that two of my students (OK, RS graduated) have written a post together. Also, [...]

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Social Capital and the Queens College Experience

Lara Porter QC’14 and Jim Stellar

Lara and I wrote a previous blog post linking in-group/out-group effects of oxytocin (the “cuddle drug”) and a behavioral study of inducing a mental flexibility to promote negotiation in an Arab-Israeli situation. We saw this post as relating to experiential education directly [...]

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Peer Mentoring and growth from the experience
 
Jessica Singh QC ’13 and Jim Stellar
 
Jessica was a student in my course last Spring. We have had a few very illuminating conversations about a peer mentoring program that we have at Queens College to help by using students to counsel and speak to students.  It is really a mix of [...]

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What happens in Greece does not stay in Greece
 
Adrienne Dooley NU’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Adrienne and I met when she was a high school student applying to Northeastern University and I was the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.  She wrote one of the first blog posts with me in February 2009 on her [...]

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Internship number two – a growing experience
 
Paulina Smietanka  ‘14 and Jim Stellar
 
Paulina already wrote a blog on her first internship.  She wrote it in three parts and we saw a progression within that one month period.  Now we are back after her second internship experience and trying to emphasize the growth that can occur when one [...]

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Creating a nonprofit organization as an undergraduate – high level Ex Ed.
 

Stephanie Ortiz QC ’13 and Jim Stellar
 
Stephanie was a student a general education course I co-taught this past spring term and she is a reader of the blog.  In the course, I asked her to gather student feedback about the operation of the course [...]

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