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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We notice more and more articles appearing that talk about education and social media, like this one last week in the Washington Post about twittering professors.  So, we continue this theme with a post by Ashley and Jim.  Take a look.
-Jim and Shwen
 
 
Engagement as an Invaluable Education Tool: A Lesson from Social Media
 
Ashley Stempel’10 and [...]

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World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) conference.
 
-Jim Stellar
 
I just came from the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) and as I post this brief note from the Vancouver airport, they are wrapping up the meeting.  Some 400+ people from dozens of countries all over the world attended to discuss this powerful form of education that, [...]

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We had such a nice reaction to our last piece on leadership that we did it again below with Cynthia Bainton.  We think it is important to see the connections between “other lobe” thinking in various domains and hope you agree.
-Jim and Shwen
 
 

 
Relational Practice in Leadership – Lessons Learned from Gender Differences
 
By Cynthia Bainton and [...]

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In this blog, we have thought of the “other lobe of the brain” as the limbic system, the emotional system that made logical decisions about meaning and value to accompany the facts-and-theories type of logic that some have called academic intelligence.  But here we wonder if that concept of the “other lobe” should be broadened [...]

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This post is the third in a series co-authored by Jim and students.  We wanted to give a flavor of what it is like to think with students as well as just have them take and give feedback on programs.  Not only do we feel it is necessary in a Web 2.0 world of social [...]

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