Tag Archives: community college

Changing the Definition of Success

Changing the Definition of Success I’m closing in on retirement and so I’ve been sitting back a bit and looking at my career and my life overall and thinking about the idea of success.  Personally, I feel like I’ve had a pretty successful career.  By the most important metric to an educator, which is haveContinue reading “Changing the Definition of Success”

Some Semester End Thoughts on Professionalism

Recently I wrote a note to my division about the importance of professionalism and some ways they could do a more professional job.  Perhaps these things will be of benefit to you or people you work with in your job. Some Semester End Thoughts on Professionalism This has been a really complicated semester in aContinue reading “Some Semester End Thoughts on Professionalism”

So, you don’t have any children?

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam So tonight a cross-list between two of my blogs, The Ministry of Happiness and Higher EdContinue reading “So, you don’t have any children?”

The Power of Purposeful Meetings: A Guide to Running Effective Sessions

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost The Power of Purposeful Meetings: A Guide to Running Effective Sessions If you’ve worked in higher education for any amount of time, and particularly if you’ve been a manager for any amount of time, you goContinue reading “The Power of Purposeful Meetings: A Guide to Running Effective Sessions”

The Higher Ed Mental Health Crisis

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business. ~ Vikram Patel Let’s set the background, first in America, according to a piece in Time Magazine: Suicide rates have risen by about 30% since 2000. Almost a third ofContinue reading “The Higher Ed Mental Health Crisis”

We have all the answers to student success

Focus on progress not perfection. ~ Bill Phillip Every year we talk about improving student success on our campuses. We have the research office bring up our trend data, disaggregate it into ever smaller bundles of students and make bold assertions about how we’ll make it all better. Then we call up the folks fromContinue reading “We have all the answers to student success”

An Introduction to ChatGPT in Education

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones. ~ Daniel Kahneman Introduction to ChatGPT in Education ChatGPT is an advanced conversational AI powered by the GPT-3.5 architecture developed by OpenAI. It has beenContinue reading “An Introduction to ChatGPT in Education”

A Happy Student Loan Monday

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin Today I also wrote a post on my other blog, the Ministry of Happiness with the same title, A Happy Student Loan Monday. That post is a discussion of my own personal journey with student loans. Today, 41 years after I took my firstContinue reading “A Happy Student Loan Monday”

The Importance of Impact

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. ~ Jackie Robinson I’ve worked in higher education for over 30 years, I’ve been a dean for nearly 20. I think the single most important way to measure the success of a faculty, staff member or administrators is the positive impactContinue reading “The Importance of Impact”