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How Facebook Can Ruin Study Abroad
Cellphones and social media protect students from culture shock, and that’s a loss The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14, 2013 Robert Huesca, Professor of Communication & Director of...
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“Creativity is just connecting things” (Steve Jobs)
Stephen Jay Gould, the great paleontologist, third culture intellectual and popularizer of science, who passed away eleven years ago this week, on the keys to creativity: Identify your talent, work...
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“Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to...
Daily quote from a favorite book, thematically matched with a song. A side project by Maria Popova. We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to...
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Ideals & Impact in International Education
This is the annual conference of the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), which Dr. Craig Cobane, Director of the Honors College & Chief International Officer of WKU, is attending. The...
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Annan praises study-abroad programs for promoting international understanding
Jo Mannies, St. Louis Beacon, May 28, 2013 The more I see and hear of the younger generation, the more confident I become. They are perhaps the first generation of truly global citzens who seem to...
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Wild Ones: Looking at people looking at animals in the Anthropocene
Maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything. This is reminiscent of Einstein’s famous dictum that There are only two ways to live your life. One is as...
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Rules Of Engagement: How Students Can Learn Well And Do Good
David Skorton (President of Cornell) & Glenn Altschuler (Vice President for University Relations at Cornell), Forbes, May 28, 2013 Thanks to Elizabeth Gish for pointing out this post. Dr. Gish...
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Welcome to the global remix
TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 10-14, 2013 We are in the midst of a global remix. Disciplines merge and cross-pollinate. Technology intrudes into biology and society. Power and...
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Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can...
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 3, 2013 Art is something that you encounter and you know it’s in a different kind of space from the rest of your life, but is directly connected to it.
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Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Dan Rothstein & Luz Santana, Harvard Education Press, 2011 The authors are directors of the appropriately named Right Question Institute (RQI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Isn’t this the single...
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Your Brain on Study Abroad: The Experience Changes Lives, and Neurons, a...
Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 31, 2013 (subscription required) Closely related: Interacting with international students develops many important skills (June 13, 2013) This is a...
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Honors faculty & students presenting at conference: 21st Century Citizens:...
This conference goes to the heart of HON 251 Citizen & Self, and Dr. Elizabeth Gish and two of her former students and teaching assistants, Kaitlyn Dickinson and Phil Pearson, will present a paper...
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The Future of the Humanities: Cross-disciplinary, collaborative & engaged
Doesn’t this sound like the future of liberal arts and honors education more generally? This is a collection of recent reflections on the potential and challenges of the humanities. For some context,...
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AASHE Conference 2013: Resiliency & Adaptation
North America’s largest higher education sustainability conference! Nashville, TN, October 6-9, 2013 I am so very pleased to announce that WKU will be a sponsor of the Association for the Advancement...
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Interacting with international students develops many important skills
See our previous post on how study abroad not only changes your life, but also your brain & why culture shock is good for you! Two researchers at Duke found that regular interaction with...
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“Something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one...
Thanks Kelly Madole and Elizabeth Gish for pointing that out to me. Every once in a while, I have the irresistible urge to post something funny or at least silly. Being German, loving philosophy and...
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Where is the spirit at home?
Annie Dillard on presence over productivity & Pico Iyer on where home is The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. (cf....
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The secret to learning anything: Joy & flow
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 14, 2013 Einstein’s experience and advice is very similar to what US-Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, has coined as ‘flow‘ – a person’s joyfully full...
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Virtual Student Foreign Service eInternship with the US Department of State...
The Virtual Student Foreign Service is part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of...
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Can We Move Beyond the MOOC to Reclaim Open Learning?
Interesting critique of MOOCs and reflection on the potential of open learning and how to optimize it by Anya Kamenetz, Journalist at Fast Company and author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the...
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