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Friends of PrattleNog – I know you all want to get your nogs prattling – here’s a good opportunity for a great cause! My Marylhurst colleague Jesse Stommel is seeking feedback on his ideas for our new online English degree program. As he writes in Hybrid Pedagogy, I’ve been thinking about my audience for this [...]

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The other night we hosted a grown-up dinner party (ok, ok, it was a potluck) for the parents of my kid’s classmates. I thought it would be nice to get to know these folks given that our kids might be together for the next several years and that between the hustle and bustle of pick-up [...]

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Ha! You thought I was going to say “assessment,” right? Well, not this time! You know why? Because assessment for the sake of assessment is lame. For one thing, it’s not a good use of our time or resources. For another thing … well, there is no other thing. We need to be able to [...]

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Bobbi Stedman, a Business and Leadership major, recently completed her Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio, earning 35 credits for knowledge that she gained through her professional and personal experiences. She wrote for the following courses: Team Building: Managing Work Groups Great Meetings! Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion Leadership Communication Managing Transitions Conflict Management Negotiation Legal [...]

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Greg Carradine, a Human Communication major, recently completed his 32-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio — CONGRATULATIONS, GREG!  Greg used his personal experiences as well as those from his professional life as a high school teacher and athletic coach to demonstrate his college-level competency for these courses: Effective Listening Small Group Communication Conflict Management Nonverbal Communication [...]

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Velda Metelmann recently completed her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, with concentrations in English Literature & Writing and Human Studies, and is now in a graduate program to earn her Masters!  Congratulations, Velda! As part of her undergraduate program, Velda earned 25 credits for the following courses through Prior Learning Assessment: Effective Listening Public Presentations [...]

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Carleen Walsh, an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Early Childhood Education, Psychology, and Literature, recently completed her Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio, earning 45 credits for knowledge she gained through her professional and personal experiences – that’s the maximum number of PLA credits a Marylhurst student can earn!  Here is a list of the courses [...]

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Spirituality is the eternal human yearning to be connected with something larger that one’s own ego. BUT This “yearning” can connect us with great evil, as well as great good. SO Clearly, higher education ought to be inviting students to give thoughtful consideration to the energy fields of both sorts on their way to a [...]

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I recently wrote about the great benefits I am getting from learning visits — as visitor and visitee (is that a word? Well, you know what I mean). A few colleagues who read that piece have since had some questions for me, mostly about logistics. So I thought I would jot down some tips for [...]

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The good folks over at the University of Venus began a networking challenge this fall. I never got around to actually signing up for it, but I thought it was a great idea and I intended to participate. Their challenge consisted of doing one of the following: Go interdisciplinary Go international Go outside your institution [...]

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