Industry-Academic Co-creation
 
Thami Msubo and Jim Stellar
 
Thami is Chief, HR, Corporate Affairs & Empowerment of Tata Steel KZN (South Africa), and Jim is known to this blog as the Provost and Academic Vice President of CUNY Queens College.  Jim and Thami met a number of times at the World Association of Cooperative Education Conferences.  Thami [...]

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Note: This is the first post with someone from Queens College and I hope a nice new dimension of this blog as Northeastern and Queens experiences merge. - Jim

The Development of a Passion for Learning
 
Voula Galanopoulos QC ’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Considering how involved I have become at Queens College it is has hard to imagine that [...]

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A brief note about a timely article
by Jim Stellar
I just had to break the co-author format and write this note calling your attention to the 10/4/09 New York Times Sunday Magazine article about the anxious mind that largely features the work of Professor Jerry Kagan from Harvard.  Here is the link. I urge you to [...]

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Unexpected career change and what it might mean for reform in higher education.
 
Mercedes Carota NU’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Mercedes Carota is a Business Student at Northeastern.  She should have graduated, but stayed on to complete premedical requirements after a career change in her junior year.  Mercedes was also a member of a team of students that [...]

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The Experience of Co-op as seen several Years after Graduation.
 
Amanda Marsden NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
 
Amanda Marsden is a co-author with Rick Porter and me of the “Engaging the Whole Student” paper, the second post (2/17/09) and one that helped launch this blog.  Amanda and I often talk about experiential education a habit from our [...]

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Co-op vs. Permanent Employment
 
 Natania Crane NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
Natania graduated a year ago with a BA in Psychology and worked in a Behavioral Neuroscience laboratory down the hall from ours at Northeastern University.  We kept in touch after she graduated and moved to an fMRI lab in California, and after I moved to me [...]

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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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Mentor-Mentee: Self Discovery, Emotional Connections, Learning and Memory.
 
Shiela Kern ’09 and Jim Stellar
 
Shiela and I have known each other for a few years.  We started talking seriously this last year or so about how she could have experiences (working in hospitals or in labs) that would help clarify her career choices.  Out of that [...]

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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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As you can see, we continue to connect experiential learning notions to learning opportunities that might not to appear at first glance to be experiential, such as the entrepreneurship teaching techniques in Jamie’s classroom about which she and Jim write below.  Of course we believe they may well be connected because they drive the limbic circuits [...]

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