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”
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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”
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”
The Fallacy of Legacy
We enter a career in higher education to help students. Most of us start as instructors and we have that wonderful opportunity to be in a classroom helping people understand something they previously didn’t. I’ve always called them the lightbulb moments, those moments when you see that look of confusion transition into the light ofContinue reading “The Fallacy of Legacy”
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