Global Institute on Experiential Education – an intense week
 
Jim Stellar
 
I rarely write by myself in this blog, but this last week I had a great intense experiential experience. From Monday evening to Friday afternoon last week I was a 5 day / 4 night WACE Global Institute on Experiential Education on Martha’s Vineyard.  We had 32 [...]

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From working class to classy work and beyond
 
Juliana Schatz NU ‘08 and Jim Stellar
 
Juliana and I have been talking for some time about doing a blog post together.  She sent me the following e-mail which is really an essay in itself.  I thought that this essay was something that should be seen in its entirety [...]

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Salience, reward, and the brain
 
Kelly Dumais NU’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Kelly worked in my behavioral neuroscience laboratory in my last year at Northeastern and then she did a coop experience at McLean Hospital with my former graduate student Heather Brenhouse (see the next blog) in a neuroscience research drug addiction research laboratory. Like most students, [...]

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From both sides, now
 
Heather Brenhouse and Jim Stellar
 
Heather was a graduate student of mine when I was Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (something that required her to be patient with my absences from the lab).  She had a great group of undergraduates work with her in the lab [...]

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Jim Stellar is tweeting
 
I decided to try the experiment about which Ashley Stempel and I wrote about in a post in late December.  Follow me on Twitter at ProvostStellar. The idea is to talk about Experiential Education and particularly about ideas for implementing it at a great public university, CUNY Queens College (where else?).
 
After a [...]

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Re-entry from Abroad Programs – Culture Shock and What it Means
 
Ruth Wyshogrod (NU ’10) and Jim Stellar
 
On January 3, I posted an e-mail that Ruth wrote from Israel about her coop abroad program experience and how deep it impacted her.  Well now she is back and the culture shock she is [...]

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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 [...]

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Two adjustments at once
 
Nawal Ali NU‘11 and Jim Stellar
 
In the continuing effort to capture what happens in the real-world of cooperative education experience, I got an e-mail over the summer from one of my mentees at Northeastern who had just started her 6 month cooperative education experience.  We decided to present it here, because it [...]

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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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The Book “Blink” and Experiential Education: Tapping the same Other Lobe of the Brain Circuits?
Once one begins to think about how emotional logic circuits operate in experiential education (other lobe of the brain thinking), one sees them in other domains.  Here is a good example.
-Jim and Shwen
 

 
 
 
Hillary W. Steinbrook and Jim Stellar
 
Hillary is a law [...]

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