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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WIL around the world on a smile - communicating, learning, growing
Michelle Hansford and Jim Stellar
Michelle is the Director at the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) and someone with whom I have worked in the past as part of a team to put on workshops in the field of co-op and experiential education.  But she [...]

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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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View from a special experiential scholarship program
Valerie De Jianne NU ’05 and Jim Stellar
Valerie was in the first group of students at Northeastern University when I was Dean to win a 21st Century Scholarship.  She and her peers were selected from the best students in the Freshman class and were given a alumni donor-based tuition [...]

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Albanian to American in higher education
 
Enkelejda Demika NU ‘09 and Jim Stellar
 
I first met Enkelejda at a high school science fair and immediately noticed a combination of the classic education hunger of an immigrant to US with that kind of intelligence that is at once academic and instinctive (e.g. otherlobe).  We met repeatedly over the [...]

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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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Riding high on horse-human communication
 
Susan Salk and Jim Stellar
 
Susan is a professional writer and we became friends at our previous jobs.  Recently, we began talking about the blog and how interesting it is that animals and humans seem to be able to communicate well. People think you are talking about dogs when you say that, [...]

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Inspiration is key to students from underrepresented groups
 
Tamara Buchanan NU’07 and Jim Stellar
 
When I was Dean at Northeastern, Tamara worked a little in my research laboratory but came to me with a proposition.  She noted that one of the Universities goals was to encourage diversity and accomplishment, particularly in pursuit by undergraduates of premedical and [...]

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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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