Ownership starts with engagement which can be developed with experiential education
 
Cynthia Bainton and Jim Stellar
 
We have noticed that when it comes to taking responsibility for a task or project, whether at school or at work, people fall into two groups – those that demonstrate ownership, openly embracing the responsibility for that task, and those “Teflon” [...]

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Crazy for Internships and for Academic Excellence
 
Joanna Lund-Pops QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Joanna is an undeclared upper sophomore intending to double major in Political Science and Anthropology, a transfer student from U. Maryland, and a holder of a 4.0 GPA.  However, what is perhaps most remarkable about her is the number and types of experiences she [...]

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Homeschooled for the big school
 
Alex Hilbert QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Early on in my first year (last year) at Queens College, I met an honors student who was also an accounting major.  We worked together with another student and a professor in the Provost’s Office doing some analysis of publicly available data to help Departments [...]

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Facial emotion and the brain – insights from the clinic to Ex. Ed.
 
Vanessa Castro UMD ‘11 and Jim Stellar
 
Vanessa was a student at Northeastern and an advisee of mine outside my field (I was on her undergraduate thesis committee).  We wrote a blog post together out of that thesis, and now we are back with [...]

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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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Undergraduate research: A lab as a family enhances the experience
 
Lauren Donohoe QC’11, Ana Sofia Lucero QC’12, Sarina Katanov QC’10, Jennifer Weintraub QC’11, Rosemarie Ott QC’11, Anthony del Rio QC’11, Paulina Kulesza QC’12, Stacey Rimikis QC’12 and Jim Stellar 
 
This is a most unusual post in that I am writing with a group, not an individual (first [...]

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I just have to refer you to this conversation at the University of Venus blog about experiential education.  The whole blog itself is terrific and is listed on our blog role.

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A poem is a dance with the other lobe
Bronwyn Lommel and Jim Stellar
Bronwyn and I knew each other some time ago as lab student and professor in molecular-behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern. We both had an interest in larger questions and recently began to talk about how my emerging blog and her writing might be connected. [...]

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An Ethnic Salad and a Mathematical Identity
 
Dina Margelovich QC’11 and Jim Stellar
 
Dina is a Math major at Queens College and has a wide variety of interests in application.  This has led us to conversations about how one chooses such an interest as well as how internships, and real world experiences in general can be brought [...]

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Does Leadership come from ­Experiential Learning?
                                                    
Allyson Savin NU’07 and Jim Stellar
 
Allyson was one of the most impressive of the student leaders with whom I had the privilege of working when I was Dean at Northeastern University.  A graduate of the Business College, she is now working in the very timely field of bank regulating [...]

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