Raise the Floor
Michael GillespieMusings on higher education student success and faculty development from a Dean of Student Success and university professor.
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Ode to Joy
I have been struggling lately.
My summers in higher education no longer look like my junior faculty days, and this summer in particular delivered more than I bargained for. Probabilistically speaking, a tornado was not on my bingo card.
B...
On Wonder
Socrates said, “Wisdom begins in wonder.”
I’ve been sitting with that this summer, because I keep running into a phenomenon that looks like logistics but isn’t.
We’ve leaned hard into making sure incoming students complete their math plac...
The Promise
I needed to prioritize some things the past few months, so I have not been writing as much. Hopefully this means I am back.
I taught the Sociological Imagination to a class of 14 men at Danville Correctional Center on Tuesday.
I al...
The Tania Fund
Late last year, we lost one of a kind. A human so pure, so honest, so devout — you find yourself asking why cancer was her destiny. But as Einstein once said, “God doesn’t play dice with the universe.”
Tania Ward was an academic advisor of...
Accompaniment
One thing people come to know about me quite quickly is a glaring character flaw: I am a former summer camp director and counselor.
Why is this a flaw? We are the folks who are quick with a song or a question in times of delay or duress. W...
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