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I’m happily working my way through the reading assignments for the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy that I am participating in (and finding all sorts of goodies to share with my colleagues), and this paragraph from Mary J. Allen’s book Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education (2004) reminded me why I care so much about assessment [...]

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I have written already about Walmart’s PLA program, so I am not going to get my knickers in a twist again about *that* topic. My first 2 cents Here My next 2 cents Here The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning announced that Pam Tate, the President of CAEL, was interviewed on NPR´s show Here [...]

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I am reading a book right now recommended by a friend called How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer.  She recommended this to me when I needed to make a decision and had consulted her; her statement to me was, “You actually already know the answer. Now you’re just trying to rationalize it.” And then she [...]

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David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]

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Wal-Mart has announced that it is going to offer its workers support for a college degree program. Ordinarily, most of us in higher ed would say “Great! More employers should recognize that helping their employees pay for and earn a degree is an investment; it is a Good Thing to do for the employee and [...]

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Fortunate

As recently found in a fortune cookie: Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

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In this day and age, learning requires becoming and being comfortable with ambiguity and finding our way through a tunnel in which the end may not be in sight (or, in fact, in which there may not be an end). In his book Learning as a Way of Being, Peter Vaill calls these conditions of [...]

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Earlier today, Obama gave a speech to America’s schoolchildren. My kid isn’t old enough for Obama’s words to be inspirational (unless Obama happens to be driving a trash truck and happily honking at toddlers while passing out balloons, bubbles, and chocolate milk), but I am. And even though Obama’s speech is geared toward children, there [...]

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The First Eight Words

LEARNING: Changes a person makes in himself or herself that increase the know-why and/or the know-what and/or the know-how the person possesses with respect to a given subject. (Learning as a Way of Being, by Peter Vaill, p. 21) Read the first eight  words again:  Changes a person makes in himself or herself… I second [...]

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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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