Deep Thoughts Articles Elder Academies – A New Population and Shift for Higher Education 07/03/202507/07/2025 I was recently pondering how higher education will adjust to the impending demographic cliff that begins in spring 2026 due to the massive drop in birth rate that started with…
Student Success Doyle Student Sense of Belonging Inventory 05/10/202509/18/2025 Doyle Sense of Belonging Inventory (2025) Ten years ago, a team of student success staff and I at Baylor University discovered that if a student self-reported that they belonged at…
Student Success Holistic Advising: Is Student Support Too Decentralized to Best Help Students Succeed? 03/29/202504/29/2025 A shorter version of this article was published by University Business in April 2025. Two Parables Mr. Patel, a 62-year-old retired school principal, was experiencing chronic fatigue, joint pain, and…
Student Success The Research is Clear – Cut Down on Lecturing in Classes (and/or Giving Long Sermons in Churches) 03/23/2025 From Chapter 9 of Adam Grant's Think Again One class is a lecture. The second is an active-learning session. In both cases the content and the handouts are identical; the…
Student Success 10 Most Proven Methods for Real Learning: Myelin Applied 02/24/2025 One of my, and many others', favorite colleagues at Baylor University was Dr. Rishi Sriram. Dr. Rishi, as students often call him, has the incredible gift of being a deep…
Student Success 4E Student Development Model 01/04/2025 I created the 4E Student Development Model to provide myself, my colleagues, and my students, with a theory for how students should approach their co-curriculum experiences. It makes common sense…
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