If you don’t mind, I’m going to cheat a bit and highlight a couple of interesting posts that I looked at while I was off. The State of PSE Web in Canada Today – Ken Steele’s wrap up and review of the PSEWeb conference held at Brock Life of a student leader – blog post…
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Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading – May 14
Short post this week as I`m taking some time off next week to be with the family and will be more or less unplugged (hopefully more). Student Engagement from the Canadian Federation of Students (pdf) – focuses mostly on economic pressures faced by undergraduates Smokers may have to butt out – story from Memorial about…
Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading – May 7
As the summer session begins, my campus like many around the country enters into a more measured pace suitable for reflection, planning and collaboration. I`m really looking forward to taking some time to write more in-depth posts and make some tweaks to the design treatment. In relation to student affairs news you can use, one…
Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading, April 30
This week was quite busy with our office organizing our annual leadership conference for incoming student leaders. Here are a number of articles that resonated over the course of the week: The magic of high-impact learning experiences @ Lisa Tetzloff from SABloggers Profs now outsourcing marking to India @ Toronto Star List of the various…
Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading – April 23rd
NHL playoffs are underway! And although the Leafs, Flames and Oilers didn’t make the cut, hopefully the Habs, Sens or Canuks will advance. Most campuses are quiet with exams, yet there is still quite a bit of activity including… Students protest frosh decision at board meeting @ the Charleton Carleton’s press release Carleton University Students’…
Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading, April 16
This week, I was reminded by a couple of tweets to read the Cronk which essentially is a parody of higher educations stories (if you’re into the Onion, you’ll love this). Several samples: Despite Huge Financial Losses, Student Fundraiser Surpasses All Expectations Panel Ends 75 Year Culturally Questionable Senior Tradition (hmm, wonder if this is…
Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading – April 9
After a pleasant holiday break, we’re back with our Roundup! As students are busy writing their final exams (best of luck!), many campus papers have published their final paper of the fall/winter semester. This has resulted in time honoured articles about convocation controversies, reflections on the year that was and sage graduating students providing advice to the next…
Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading – March 26
This week saw a number of rather large stories from across the country which matter for student affairs professionals. Undoubtedly, the largest story for better or for worse was the ‘Ann Coulter Affair’ which made me think once more of Brian Sullivan’s insightful post about contested spaces on campus and what we are learning from…
Weekly Roundup, Weekend Reading
The weather in Toronto this week has been exceptionally warm and sunny. Looking around campus, it has brought with it a timely lifting of the spirits for our students before those final classes and exams hit! Some interesting reads this week include… For economics and decency’s sake, let’s help our Indian students @ the Globe…
Weekend Reading and Roundup
As you may tell by the lack of posts, it has been a rather busy week at work. Still, here are a couple of interesting reads that mirror the week that was… March 4th Day of Action In California @ studentactivsm.net Own the Podium Needed in Higher Ed @ wepp’s blog on higher ed (good…