This morning on PoliticsNation [MSNBC], I heard a terrific interview between host Al Sharpton and guest Neil deGrasse Tyson, the renowned astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium…

Every Nobel conference seems to offer sub-themes that are at least as interesting as the stated theme. This year it seems to me that the…

Another year at the Nobel Conference and it again strikes me that this may be the coolest thing Gustavus does. And that’s saying something, because…

Every fall is a reminder of the summer slide— the backwards roll in the summer months in what students learned the prior school year. Only…

In my role as a business ethicist engaged in getting as many  conversations going about ethics as possible, having a speaker like we had Monday…

THIS is why we do this experiential learning thing. This is exactly why. I had major anxiety about running the Power Game in a group…

An unexpected pleasure of this term at University of Canterbury: seeing fellow Gusties! Rachel Mohr ’16 and I met for lunch today in the re-configured…

One of the assumptions underlying my appointment as a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury is the belief that students learn most effectively…

This week, Sarah and I spent time talking largely about the “making sure they learned it” issue, and how we would reasonably know when there…