Party in the Library
Every year, a few weeks into the fall semester, the University Libraries have a two day Library Open House. The Open House is designed to get the freshmen students into the library and comfortable with...
View ArticleStorming and Norming
One interesting principle I have learned in while studying the process of leading change is that it is a processes and the fact that you have to go through some of the more difficult stages of early...
View ArticleI Know I’m Faking It
Every since I started working at Penn State I have almost always been the youngest person in my department, or on a committee, task force, or any other work-related assignment. Along with being the...
View ArticleLeadership Philosophy Statement
Now that we are coming to the end of the PSEL program – we revised the leadership philosophy that we wrote at the beginning of the year and went through some exercises to discover out leadership...
View ArticleThe General Purposes of General Education
As part of the introductory material for our policy paper, we are interested in discussing the purposes of a general education in a very broad, open sense starting with exactly why they arose. Nascence...
View ArticleBlog-ception: aka Blogging About a Blog
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Americanah, the head-strong Nigerian-American, Ifemelu, forges her own path in America, a country that is paradoxically familiar yet new. She channels her many...
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