As some of you who read this blog know, I practice yoga (and have written about my practice here and here). I emphasize the word practice because it’s ongoing, and I don’t think in yoga you’re actually supposed to get to “perfect” (a concept most yogis I know disregard vehemently, for all sorts of good [...]
Posts Tagged ‘highereducation’
With Intention
Posted in Adult Learners, Goals, Higher Education, Yoga, tagged adultlearners, Goals, highereducation, intentions, Yoga on March 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s About So Much More Than Credit
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment, Higher Education, PLA, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, Marylhurst, PLA on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
CAEL, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, published a study last week about PLA — Prior Learning Assessment. What is PLA? Here’s a nifty synopsis of it from the Introduction to the study:
Prior Learning Assessment, or PLA, is another important and often overlooked strategy for helping adults progress towards a degree. PLA is the [...]
On Plagiarism (Cont.)
Posted in Academic Honesty, Higher Education, Writing, tagged highereducation, plagiarism, Writing on February 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And while I am on the topic of plagiarism, let me share this visual perspective of plagiarism from “What Plagiarism Looks Like“
Plagiarism: A Pirate’s Perspective
Posted in Academic Honesty, Blogs, Friends, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged highereducation, Learning, plagiarism, Teaching on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Didactic Pirate is a blog written by a friend of mine from grad school who teaches English at a state university in Southern California (I wouldn’t be so vague except I think he wants to keep his identity somewhat obscure). In this hilarious post, he shares a somewhat facetious perspective on how college instructors [...]
Looking Forward
Posted in Accreditation, Assessment, Dean Stuff, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, Work, tagged Assessment, deanstuff, highereducation, Learning, Marylhurst, Teaching on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Looking forward. That’s what I am doing, like the Montgomery Improvement Association. I think, in effect, an “Improvement Association” is what our Assessment Committee has defined in our creation of the Marylhurst Assessment Program.
A few weeks back, I read a white paper written by Peter Ewell (aka “The Assessment God”) titled Assessment, Accountability, and Improvement: [...]
45 Credits – And She’s A Better Writer, Too!
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA, Writing on November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today we celebrate Chrissi Antonopoulos, a Business & Leadership major who just completed a 45-credit Prior Learning Assessment portfolio. 45 credits is the maximum number of PLA credits students can earn, and Chrissi achieved it! Here are the topics she wrote for:
BIO 164: Introduction to Human Anatomy
BIO 165: Alternatives to Health and Healing
CCM 322: Interpersonal [...]
Re-Read, And Then Re-Read Again
Posted in PLA, Writing, tagged highereducation, PLA, Writing on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I am reading PLA essays and lots (and lots and lots) of them! For those of you in the midst of revising and editing your essays, let me offer this nugget of writing wisdom:
“If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading [...]
Are You Untouchable?
Posted in Employment, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Professional Development, tagged Employment, highereducation, liberalarts, problemsolving on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Recently, Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called The New Untouchables in which he argued that the economic crisis can be attributed to, in part, our poor educational systems. Here’s an excerpt that I think is key:
A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I asked [...]
Like A Bad Teacher
Posted in Accreditation, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged Accreditation, highereducation, Learning, Teaching on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My institution is struggling in our understanding of a component of a recommendation we need to act on for our regional accreditation. A committee that I co-chair has talked about this component ad nauseum (or at least that’s what it seems like to me), and we still don’t have a clear sense of what it [...]
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