Clips to Learn Best of Simon Sinek (~30) 12/08/202407/17/2025 If you want to read about why I think we should use "Video Clips to Learn More and Live Better," click here. If you want to see some some clips…
Clips to Learn A Few Favorite Speakers (~25) 12/01/202407/17/2025 If you want to read about why I think we should use "Video Clips to Learn More and Live Better," click here. If you want to see some "Clips that…
Uncategorized Clips About My Favorite Athletes 11/30/202411/30/2024 Cal Ripken Jr. - baseball Larry Bird - pro basketball Len Bias - college basketball Dan Marino - football QB Barry Sanders - football RD https://videopress.com/v/DVwGpPCA?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Cal Ripken Jr. -.…
Clips to Learn Clips That Remind Me How to Live Better Daily (~25) 11/30/202407/20/2025 If you want to read about why I think we should use "Video Clips to Learn More and Live Better," click here. If you want to see my favorite clips…
Clips to Learn Clips on The Secret to Finding Joy – Our Thoughts (~30) 11/30/202407/17/2025 If you want to read about why I think we should use "Video Clips to Learn More and Live Better," click here. If you want to see some clips that…
Uncategorized Other Stories of Facing Challenges (~15) 11/29/202407/20/2025 Quotes/Fables (7) https://videopress.com/v/YacbuhYX?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Up and Down Stitches Fix Wound-.5 https://videopress.com/v/9nhGlUVk?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Donkey & the Well-1.4 https://videopress.com/v/OQqHApBK?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Struggle to be a Butterfly-1.5 https://videopress.com/v/LIDLtftT?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true When We Believe in Ourselves-1.5 Real Stories (8) https://videopress.com/v/f4xaPAls?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true…
Stories Sports Stories of Inspiration (~30) 11/29/202411/30/2024 My 2 Favorite Upsets https://videopress.com/v/WWIB1PSi?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true App State vs Michigan 2007- 3 https://videopress.com/v/uoWkgnmz?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true N.C. State 1983-7.3 Short Clips (15) Ping Pong with No Hands https://videopress.com/v/q9eg1mFM?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Finishing Marathon-.1 https://videopress.com/v/y97QzpaU?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Blind Runner-.2 https://videopress.com/v/0e82RyJE?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true…
Stories Kindness to others Stories (~30) 11/29/202407/21/2025 Links to TikTok Jimmy Darts goes around helping others Rockefeller learns to give Grandfather lifts weights every day for a reason Front end loader loads up little boy's truck Wedding…
Stories Stories that Touch My Heart (~35) 11/27/202407/20/2025 Jim Doyle with grandson Jake over the years Dementia Stories Man with Alzheimer's walks daughter down aisle Mother remembers she had a daughter Dementia can't take memory of singing Man…
Uncategorized Facing Health Challenges Stories (~25) 11/27/202407/20/2025 Stories couldn't download Student with dystonic quadriplegia speaks at graduation Dad says goodbye to daughter Woman with no hands Woman with no arms Young man with autism learns to eat…
Uncategorized Personal Reminders of Perseverance 11/27/202411/27/2024 If you know me, you hopefully know that my greatest core value in life is perseverance. To me this, this drive is rooted in a hope or vision for the…
Higher Ed Mascots College Mascots – The Only Live Wild Animal Mascots Living on Campus 11/24/202411/24/2024 Louisiana State’s Mike the Tiger VII Baylor’s Judy Indy & Belle Auburn’s War Eagle VIII Air Force’s Nova For the record, U. of Colorado’s Raphie VI (buffalo) lives on…
Higher Ed Mascots College Mascots – Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (& Boats) 11/24/202411/24/2024 As far as I can find, there are only 4 universities in the nation with mascots that are named after modes of transportation. There are many examples of mascots named…
Higher Ed Mascots College Mascots without an “S” at the End – O’ Canada Edition 11/22/202411/22/2024 After the popularity of my original post, College Mascots without an “s” at the End- Division I FBS, I expanded my search to Colleges Mascots in Division I FCS and…
Uncategorized Favorite Nate Bargatze Clips 11/14/2024 Story on Nate Bargatze by CBS Sunday Morning How to Make a Marriage Work Is that a Wolf? Nathaniel or Nathan Pocket Knife Protector I Love Pancakes Bus Number? Chicken…
Uncategorized Favorite Jim Gaffigan Clips 11/13/2024 I Love Salads My Zodiac Sign My Wife’s Surgery Fitness Goals Massages Legal Documents Prince Edward Las Vegas is Hot I’m White Women are Amazing New Year’s Resolution Bugs in…
Clips to Learn Using Video Clips To Improve Our Lives 11/10/202407/17/2025 If you want to see some clips that help me know "How to Live Better" click here. If you want to see my favorite clips on "The Secret to Finding…
Higher Ed Mascots The Only College Mascot Named a Number 11/09/202411/09/2024 U. of North Carolina Charlotte 49ers In 1946 the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina opened to educate returning World War II veterans. It was struggling to survive…
Deep Thoughts Articles Reflections on a Friend’s Untold Stories from their time at Baylor University 11/03/202411/04/2024 I began this reflection in an effort to encourage others to purchase and read Brittney Wardlaw’s new book about her time at Baylor University. However, in an effort to not…
Personal & Family My First 5 Cars in Life! 09/25/2024 These 5 cars lasted from 1986 to 1998. 1) 1970 Ford Ltd Country Squire Station Wagon (dark green with wood grain) 2) 1976 Buick Century Station Wagon (yellow with wood…
Higher Ed Mascots College Mascots without an “S” at the End – FCS and DII 09/15/202411/22/2024 Go here for a list of the College Mascots without an “s” at the End- Division I FBS Go here for a list of the College Mascots without an “S”…
Higher Ed Mascots Mascots that are Blue and Orange 09/09/202409/14/2024 Blue Ridge Mountains When I spent 9 years in Charlottesville, Virginia earning 3 degrees, I fell in love with the color combination of blue and orange. It didn't hurt that…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! Harris, Trump, Vance, & Walz Education Quiz – Can you Identify the 15 Places They Went to “School”? 08/28/2024 Kamala Harris - Westmount High School, Vanier College, Howard University, U. of California San Francisco Donald Trump - New York Miliary Academy, Fordham University, Wharton (U. of Pennsylvania) J.D. Vance…
Deep Thoughts Articles Predicting Closure of Religious Universities in TX & OK 08/18/202408/19/2024 Based on the number of times below that the three institutions were identified as struggling in what Gary Stocker and I consider to be important factors to university viability, I…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! 50 Fascinating Facts About the Number of Colleges in the U.S. 08/16/202408/28/2024 Thanks to Jon Boeckenstedt's (Vice Provost of Enrollment at Oregon State University), recent post, How Many Colleges are There?, on the blog, Higher Ed Data Stories, I was able to distill…
Uncategorized The Only 10 AI Undergraduate Degrees in AI (as of 8/10/24) 08/10/2024 From Computer Science Degree Hub Credit to Alcino Donadel, from University Business, for studying rankings of AI programs done by BestColleges, U.S. News & World Report, Computer Science Degree Hub and TechTarget. I…
Uncategorized Favorite Quotes from the Movie, Stutz 07/30/2024 Some of my favorite quotes from the documentary I watched on 7/29/24. It is the story of actor Jonah Hill interviewing his therapist, Stutz, about the teachings and wisdom Stutz…
Student Success Ranking College Student Retention Software based on Predictive Analytics Ability 07/28/202408/28/2024 Doyle - Retention Software AnalysisDownload
Deep Thoughts Articles 10 Themes for Why People Go To College 07/20/2024 I don't necessarily agree with all of these reasons, but an honest answer, based on 30 years working in colleges, leads me to share these 20 reasons. They are not…
Personal & Family Two Stories of Growing Up on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 07/13/202407/23/2024 The author of this piece, by Tim Neville, in Outside Magazine, was a few years behind me in school in Salisbury. He surprisingly captures many aspects of my childhood in…
Higher Ed Mascots The Only 13 universities with “and” (or &) in Their Name (Division 1) 07/10/202408/28/2024 For the record, A&M in university names typically means Agriculture and Mechanic (sometimes Mechanic Arts). Interestingly, of the 10 (out of 13) universities that don't have "and" hidden in their…
Personal & Family Personal Essay for Admission to M.Ed. for Student Affairs in Higher Ed (1992) 07/07/202407/07/2024 College is more than just getting good grades. When I first came to the University of Virginia I felt that my grade point average would be the best measure of…
Student Success Matrix of Student Success – A 2×2 w/ Social & Academic Engagement 07/07/202407/07/2024 Multiple years of my and colleagues' research has revealed that students' sense of belonging is the one factor more predictive of student persistence (retention) than other variable except for grade…
Student Success The Penguin Promise – How to Ensure Students Get a Good Job After College 07/06/2024 I developed this program for a private college. It is based on my understanding of best practices in student success and in studying how 7 other colleges are approaching this…
Higher Ed Mascots Mascots that are Aggies 07/03/202407/04/2024 At its root, an Aggie is someone from the farm. In this case, an Aggie is college student at an agricultural college. In 1862, the United States passed the Morrill…
Uncategorized My Father and His 6 Siblings 07/01/202401/11/2025 Phillip James (Jim) Doyle - September 22, 1940 - February 24, 2018 (age 77) Floyd Doyle - October 16, 1941 - November 23, 2017 (age 76) Lloyd Doyle - October…
Uncategorized My Doyle Grandparents 06/30/2024 My Pop-Pop's 1920 birth certificate My Pop-Pop's updated 1960 birth certificate Pop-Pop's parents - Charlie & Bertie May. They had 13 children. He was a farmer. Pop-pop Mom-Mom's 1922 birth…
Uncategorized Results of Jeff’s “Personality Tests” 06/23/202409/12/2025 In Summer 2024, I taught a short-course on using personality tests to improve our ability to lead. In spite of the boxes some personality types get put into by others,…
Uncategorized 45 things I know (by Sasha Cohen) 06/20/202406/20/2024 Sasha is much younger than me but the challenges he has faced in life has resulted in his ability to state some major truths that I deeply resonate with and…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! College Towns, Enrollments, & Football Stadiums 06/19/202407/02/2024 Found an analysis by someone on Reddit named e8odie and although their data was originally from 2012, I updated it to 2023. How many of these did you know? Football…
Uncategorized 30 of the Best Sources of Knowledge on the Future of Higher Education 06/11/2024 Most Well Known & Respected Higher Ed Resources - includes best estimate of # of employees, year founded (if known), other notes Chronicle of Higher Education, 179 staff (72 writers/editors),…
Uncategorized Free “Personality” Tests That Can Improve Our Leadership 06/05/202412/08/2025 Most of this Content is Based on a Class Taught in Summer 2024 Links to Personality Tests for Quick Access Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) Test DISC Test HEXACO (includes the…
Uncategorized The Future of Higher Education – Summer 2024 05/31/202405/06/2025 Course Description (for Summer 2024) Everyone likes to prognosticate what universities will be like in the future, but few people study and use emerging data to more accurately estimate the…
Uncategorized HEd History – Colleges that Moved Their Entire Campus 05/27/202406/06/2024 From 2001-2003 I worked at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. As someone who enjoys learning the history of each college where I work, I discovered Shenandoah had spent its first…
Uncategorized My Grandmother’s Life as a Child 05/27/202405/27/2024 This is a letter my grandmother wrote to my cousin, Anne, in 1977. The letter is about my grandmother's life when she was 9, the same age Anne was in…
Deep Thoughts Articles Top 50 Higher Education Consulting Companies 05/13/202406/01/2025 Growing up on 2 college campuses, earning a doctorate in the study of universities, publishing and professionally presenting on universities over 100 times, and working for the past 30 years…
Uncategorized The End of the American Empire Will Be ~2026 03/23/202403/23/2024 Based on The Fate of Empires, by Sir John Grubb, 1976 Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, (16 April 1897 – 17 March 1986) was a British soldier, scholar, and author,…
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