Last week, Michelle Obama gave her last official address as First Lady of the United States, and I fully admit […]
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Meeting People Where They Are
Over the past 20 years, when I haven’t been working in higher education, I’ve worked in government, at both the […]
Week in Review: The Post-Thanksgiving Sprint
Welcome back to the Week in Review! Here’s hoping you’re still feeling refreshed from the long Thanksgiving weekend. Though, if […]
Week in Review
I have two statistics for you today. There are 51 ½ weeks until the presidential election. There are eight weeks […]
Week in Review
Happy almost Halloween! I’m just back from watching the world’s cutest pirate parade around his daycare, and I know the […]
Back to School
It’s been said that if you want to get better at something, teach it to someone else. Teaching requires you […]
Answering the Faculty's Toughest Question
What’s in it for me? That’s a question that is often explicitly or implicitly asked by faculty members when the […]
Bring It On: Communications Considerations for Campus Leaders
For those of you who have participated in media training with me, you know that when I talk about bridging […]
True Confession
I have a confession to make. On Sunday morning, I was working my way through The New York Times, coffee […]