american politics On Attending the 2024 Northeastern Political Science Association Conference You are owed an explanation about conferences.
education Four Ideas About Leadership I never thought I'd talk about leadership in the way business schools or youth pastors do.
education A few short remarks to open "Monstrous Musings," Odessa College's Poetry and Storytelling Night I think what's hitting me most nowadays is neglect.
education Literacy and Leadership "To thine own self be true," says Polonius, and viewers of Hamlet might think it terrible advice.
education On Conferences, or Thank You To Sigma Tau/Sigma Kappa Delta for "In Flux" I initially resisted some of the best advice I got in graduate school: go to conferences.
education How to Maintain an Innovative Chapter, or Unofficial Year in Review for Sigma Kappa Delta, Psi Alpha Chapter AY 2023-24 ...the Psi Alpha chapter of Odessa College has done incredible work this past year.
education "With great power comes great responsibility." I forget there are incentives for ignorance.
education Valentine's Day, 2024 It would be so cool to give out Valentine's cards with Optimus Prime saying stuff like "I will transform your heart."
education On Moral Idealism I do not tell people what to think, but some lines of thought are better than others.
education On Taking Notes I don't want to own up to how little organization I have. I don't want to think about all the good stuff I've lost.
education What I Mean When I Call Your Work "Good" What follows are some thoughts for a discussion in a Texas Government class tonight.
texas Can Texans communicate better? I lived in Dallas 20 years and felt like an outsider the whole time.
education Remarks given at a Lenten Retreat of Collegium Cantorum at Cistercian Abbey in Irving, TX ...what got me through grad school was being involved with choir.
education Short Encomium for Joshua Parens For me, Dr. Parens’ tenure as Dean was perfectly in line with his teaching as a professor.
writing Writing Oneself: An Outline for a Short Talk It may not be auspicious to begin by admitting a mistake, but William Deresiewicz had it right at the end of "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education."
education About Me, 8/21/23 Every semester I ask my students to talk about themselves. This semester I have a lot of high school students taking dual credit courses.
education Themes, Connections, and Getting the Most out of a Humanities Class I don't think I ever was a good student.
education Daniel F. Chambliss and Christopher G. Takacs, "How College Works" (2014) Chambliss and Takacs' How College Works, published in 2014, initially seems an unlikely candidate for the term "quietly radical."
education Thoughts on the Job Search, 49 applications in I'm feeling like a student again, but with a slightly better toolbox.
education The Surprising Ways Students Relate to the Classics How does an intuitive notion about education, one with the power of clarity and simplicity, become a problem?
education The Potential Importance of Advising for Honors Programs A good advisor listens and highlights possibilities. A student is encouraged to explore, and no field or topic is off the table.
education How to Write a Paragraph Someone telling you "write a paragraph where you name and describe a piece of evidence for your argument" is not helping.