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The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Ultimate Quiz on the Best Public Colleges in Each State 02/04/202312/28/2023 If you study how people learn most effectively, you will discover that testing our recall is one the most effective methods. It does take energy and effort to do this,…
Deep Thoughts Articles Composite Ranking of University Film School Rankings in US 02/03/202312/28/2023 Overview of the Rankings and Their Methodologies Use to Create this Table film-rankings-on-1-pageDownload
Deep Thoughts Articles… The Best University Film Programs – What do the Rankings Say? 02/03/202312/28/2023 A Metanalysis of Film Program Rankings in the U.S. - Spreadsheet of University Film Programs Rankings “Obviously there is no scientific formula to these prizes; it’s not like the movie…
Uncategorized Touching Human Stories 10/09/202209/13/2023 General Father of the bride w/ Alzheimer's Man at the bus stop w/ Alzheimer's Mother's change w/ Alzheimer's Caskets for the family's of Uvalde victims Puppy surprise Man learns skateboarding…
Uncategorized Animals are Smarter Than We Realize 10/09/2022 Primates Chimps have better memory than people? Bonobo understands English Chimps know to help people Chimps smarter than kids? Gorilla likes clean hands Chimps solves complex problems Monkeys cooperating for…
Deep Thoughts Articles Have You Met My Institutional Friends? How Colleges Signal Value in Peer Identification 10/08/202212/28/2023 The explosion of access to data in recent years has revealed all types of interesting information. I have always been interested in knowing why certain institutions select the institutional peers…
Uncategorized Favorite Streaming Shows (not Movies) 08/16/202211/17/2023 Top 12 (alpha order) 3% (subtitles - Portuguese) After Life Anne with an E Breaking Bad (MA) Downton Abbey Narcos Mexico Lilyhammer (MA) Ozark (MA) Stranger Things (scary) The Crown…
Deep Thoughts Articles… Why a Focus on Organizational Performance Can Be More Important than Relationships with Students 08/15/202212/07/2023 A copy of this article appeared in EdSurge (reports on the people, ideas and tools shaping the future of learning) on August 1, 2022. Not All Student Affairs Staff are…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! 10 Facts About The Most Interesting College of the Day – Florida State 08/13/202212/28/2023 I spent the summer of 1995 working in an internship at Florida State University. Before I share some unique facts about FSU, I sadly wanted to mention that I lived…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! 10 Facts About The Most Interesting College of the Day – U. of Delaware 07/10/202212/28/2023 Fact 1 - It is the 7th oldest college in the nation. However, their original charter in 1743 was as the Free School, located in Pennsylvania and it was not…
Deep Thoughts Articles Surrounded by Data – Starved for Meaning: Campus Crime Data in 2022 07/08/202212/07/2023 Part 1 of this article, The Unintended Consequences of Campus Crime Data, is also available. What’s Your Favorite Cheerios? If you had to choose between liberty and freedom versus constraint…
Deep Thoughts Articles The Unintended Consequences of Campus Crime Reporting 06/20/202212/07/2023 Part 2 of this article, Surrounded by Data but Starved for Meaning - Crime Data in 2022 is also available. Seeking Transparency and Accountability Jeanne Clery, a 19-year-old Lehigh University…
Uncategorized Top Movies – Favorite 40 Comedies (& 10 Action Series) 06/03/202206/09/2022 Comedies - I laughed a lot and the story/message was touching (top 10 in rank order, the remainder in alpha order) Note: If we go back and watch some of…
Deep Thoughts Articles An Attempt at Reporting on 25 Universities’ Post Graduation Success Data 05/18/202205/26/2022 Data table accompanying Part 3 of a 3 part series Select Notes on Table Placement Rate - (# students that have accepted a full time job) / (# students that…
Deep Thoughts Articles A Cursory Look at and Analysis of 25 Universities’ Placement/Success Data 05/18/202205/28/2022 (article #3 in 3 part series) If you would like context for my analysis below, I encourage you to read parts 1 and 2 of this 3 part series: 1.…
Deep Thoughts Articles Why Don’t Universities Follow Federal Law To Document Post-Grad. Success? 05/18/202207/26/2024 If you have not read part 1 of this article, Do Universities Really Care and Share What Happens to Students After College?, you may want to do so to learn…
Deep Thoughts Articles Why Don’t Universities Obey Federal Requirements To Properly Document Post-Graduation Success? 05/18/202212/07/2023 (article #2 in a 3 part series) If you have not read part 1 of this article, Do Universities Really Care and Share What Happens to Students After College?, you…
Deep Thoughts Articles Do Universities Really Care and Share What Happens to Students After College? 05/16/202208/12/2024 It was not until 1930 that the U.S. required all children to attend school from K-12. Thirty years ago another term emerged on the national consciousness, the “P-16” movement, which…
Student Success An Institutional Maturity Model for Student Success 04/29/202212/28/2023 How is the university designed and prepared for maximum impact on students? The following 20 strategic areas within universities offer a continuum on which institutions' can evaluate their institutional efforts…
Deep Thoughts Articles How to Makes Sense of Executive Search Firms in Higher Education 04/26/202205/03/2022 This article was published on May 3, 2022 in University Business. Link to the table listing higher education search firm data collected for this article. Don’t Trust Your Gut Most…
Deep Thoughts Articles What’s Your Return on Investment to Your University? 04/13/202205/08/2025 I wrote this piece and was excited to see that University Business posted it on their website soon after - https://universitybusiness.com/whats-your-return-on-investment-to-your-university/ In the summer of 2019, after nine years, I…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting Colleges of the Day! – Aalborg and Aaltort Universities – July 16th 07/16/202102/06/2022 I saw a job opening the other day at Aalto University and it led me to wonder if this was not the first alphabetical university out of over thousands in the world.…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day – National Defense University – July 4 07/03/202112/28/2023 Before World War II, each of the military services would take their enrollees and train them according to their respective field's best practices. As the Cold War began, the need…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – Lincoln University – June 30 06/29/202102/06/2022 If you were with me when you read this, I would bet you a large sum of money you could not guess where this college is located. First, Lincoln University…
Student Success Missing Data that Will Improve Student Success Predictions 06/27/202107/14/2024 This table accompanies the article My Big Idea for Student Success. 00 p.s. special thanks to Wendy Grier, Regional Vice President, Nelnet, for the ideas on the Financial Transactions section
Student Success My Big Idea for Student Success 06/27/202107/21/2024 How many really big ideas do you have? I bet you have some good ones – I hope we all do. I recently decided the likelihood of me implementing some…
Uncategorized Professional Stuff 06/27/2021 It is hard to strike a balance between humility and pride when one is trying to demonstrate some credibility in an area. A humble approach would leave these pages off…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – University of Limerick – June 21 06/21/202102/06/2022 The University of Limerick is in Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, it became a 4-year university in 1989 and it was the…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day – Make School – June 15 06/15/202112/07/2023 Make School states that they are redesigning higher education for the 21st century. They want a college education to be relevant for the modern economy and accessible to students of…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – The Coast Guard Academy – June 8 06/07/202102/06/2022 Some of you may be familiar with the annual Army-Navy football game or the Commander-in-Chief's trophy for the most successful football team of the three largest U.S. service academies. What…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – Colorado School of Mines – June 3 06/03/202102/06/2022 The Colorado School of Mines is a public research university with over 6,600 students located in Golden, Colorado. It is one of the few remaining predominantly male colleges - ~70%…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – Deep Springs College – May 27 05/27/202102/06/2022 "Deep Springs College is one of the most unique, remote, and smallest in the US. Began in 1917, the college 40 miles from Bishop, California on an isolated cattle ranch…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – Ouachita Baptist University – May 25, 05/25/202102/06/2022 Ouachita Baptist University. How would you like to attend a college that no one except for its alumni can pronounce? There are only a few English words that begin with…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – Ottawa University Surprise (OUAZ) – May 24 05/24/202102/06/2022 College of the Day - Ottawa University Surprise (OUAZ). Any guesses where it is? Not Ottawa, Canada... but Surprise, Arizona. The first campus was formed in Ottawa, KS in 1865. Ottawa U…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! The most northern college in the U.S. – May 21 05/24/202102/06/2022 Ilisagvik College in Alaska. They are located 3 miles north of Top of the World Hotel and 6 miles south of the Northernmost Point in the U.S. It is located in…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! The Most Interesting College of the Day! – Marion Military Institute – May 20 05/24/202102/06/2022 “Marion Military Institute (MMI) is the nation’s oldest military junior college tracing its origin back to 1842. Marion Military Institute is one of 4 military junior colleges in the US…
Deep Thoughts Articles… A Hierarchy of Needs for Student Success 05/19/202112/07/2023 Over 75 years ago, at only the age of 35 years old, Abraham Maslow wrote a paper called “A Theory of Human Motivation,” in which he created the foundation for…
Deep Thoughts Articles Before You Make Your Final College Choice, Consider This 03/20/202101/09/2024 The following article was published in the Journal of College Admissions, Spring 2021 issue, on pages 15-17, and titled, "The Economics of Comparisons." I would like to make you a…
Student Success Why Not Going to College Immediately After High School Might Be a Decision to Consider 09/02/202012/07/2023 Would you rather win the silver or bronze medal at the Olympics? Most people select the silver medal. But did you know that research studies of the faces of silver…
Deep Thoughts Articles Worried that Your Desired College Might Close? Don’t Be. 09/02/202001/06/2024 This article was published in a similar format by Road2College on August 9, 2020. The News on Colleges Has Not Been Good Recently The past few months there have been…
Deep Thoughts Articles Should We Believe Scott Galloway’s Predictions of Soon-to-Perish Colleges? 08/08/202002/06/2022 What Did Scott Galloway Do on July 17? On Friday, July 17, in an article on his website titled USS University, Scott Galloway published a list of 89 colleges that…
Deep Thoughts Articles Colleges Must Adapt or Be Left Behind 07/24/202002/06/2022 (this article was also published in a shortened format in University Business) Integrating the use of online video to improve and expand education was the focus of “The Greatest Shift…
Deep Thoughts Articles The Greatest Shift in Learning Ever? 07/22/202002/06/2022 What do the following companies have in common: General Electric, Disney, Microsoft, Netflix, Airbnb? They share the same thing in common as Texas A&M, University of Michigan, University of North…
Deep Thoughts Articles The Second Wave is Coming and the Amplifier Could be Our Colleges 06/02/202002/06/2022 Is It Really a New Normal? Our nation has been dealing with COVID-19 for three months now and the nation-wide quarantine has been lifting one state at a time. As…
Deep Thoughts Articles Why Social Distancing for College Students is Not Going to be Easy 05/22/202002/06/2022 College students are known for making decisions without fully understanding the impact of the long-term consequences. The first table below provides evidence to back up this claim. The second table…
Deep Thoughts Articles Our Universities are Ships and We’re in a Raging Storm: COVID-19’s Impact on Colleges Told through an Analogy 05/19/202002/06/2022 On May 14, Steven Dubner shared the newest episode of his podcast, Freakonomics, titled, “418. What Will College Look Like in the Fall (and Beyond)?” In it, Dubner interviewed three…
Deep Thoughts Articles There is One Secret Not Being Explored In Order to Secure the Fall 2020 Class 05/12/202002/06/2022 Incoming Students Crave Connection to Each Other Graduating from the college in the early 1990s, I remember thinking (more like mourning) that almost all of my college friends were married…
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