Congrats to Debra Giannini! Debra just completed her 15-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio. Debra is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Psychology and Expressive Therapies. The topics she wrote for are: BIO 165 – Alternatives in Health and Healing BIO 167 – Nutritional Science CHS 354 – Environment, Culture, and Food CCM 342 – [...]
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She’s Ready For What’s Next
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, education, knowledge, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Articulating Your Transferable Skills
Posted in Career Services, Employment, Higher Education, Professional Development, tagged education, Employment, Language, Marylhurst, resume on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I will be facilitating an online workshop called Articulating Your Transferable Skills later this month. Here is the description: In this interactive online workshop, participants will reflect on and learn how to articulate the transferable skills and knowledge they have to offer an employer. This workshop idea came out of a face-to-face workshop that I [...]
Want To Change The World?
Posted in Higher Education, Learning, Liberal Arts, Mission, Strategic Planning, tagged education, highereducation, integration, Learning, liberalarts, Marylhurst, strategicplanning on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Liberal Arts Education day here on PrattleNog. My head is spinning with thoughts about the tremendous personal and social benefits of such because three items have crossed my path related to this question: Why is a liberal arts education important? These three items have raised for me four BIG CONCERNS. Here goes: First, [...]
To Know Your Path, Or To Find Your Path?
Posted in Employment, Higher Education, Preparing for Grad School, Professional Development, tagged education, financialaid, gradschool, highereducation on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Recently, the New York Times’ blog Room for Debate published opinions on this question: “What is a Master’s Degree Worth?” Four experts weighed in on this topic, each with his or her own spin on the return on investment of a graduate degree. A few days later, the editors posted a summary of even more [...]
Sometimes I Am Coyote
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Preparing for Grad School, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, Learning, problemsolving, reflection on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Stephen Brookfield is one of my academic heroes. I’ve read most of his books in my own study of adult learning and teaching, and his insights about learning, thinking, teaching –well, about being – never fail to impress me. One of Brookfield’s publications* is, I suspect, not widely know about. It’s a study of 311 [...]
Remember To Breathe
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, tagged adultlearners, commencement, education, highereducation, Marylhurst on June 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It is my favorite week of the academic year — Commencement 2009 is this weekend. It’s time to celebrate our grads, and I get the privilege of being a marshal in the ceremony on Saturday morning. What does a marshal do, you ask? It’s not all that glamorous, actually: We are responsible for getting the [...]
A Visit To The Candy Shop
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Learning on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yet another goodie from Larry Daloz’s book Mentor: EDUCATION AS CARE The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledgling artists as [...]
On Grad School – Show Me The Money
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Preparing for Grad School, tagged education, financialaid, gradschool, graduate on May 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I teach a course called Preparing for Graduate School, but I only teach it twice a year, and it might be helpful for some of you to have the latest resources I find on this topic, even if you aren’t in my class. To this end, I will continue to post resources here, on this [...]
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