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Pick 1 Thing: 3 Reasons You Must Know Your Endgame

Endgame: The ultimate agenda or desired consequence of a planned series of events (often elaborate and unknown to outsiders). Urban…

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Won’t You Celebrate With Me? Wrapping up my year write

The end of Spring Semester is always hard, but this year it seems particularly challenging for me (after all I…

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Empathy and Respect: Seeing Our Students As People

In recent days I have been a peripheral part of an important conversation on Twitter centering on the issue of…

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What is Your Endgame? Passion or Commitment

The triangular theory of love holds that love can be understood in terms of three components: intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment….

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Don’t Reward Clock Watchers

This week I got a letter from my employer congratulating me on my 15 years of service and urging me…

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Notable Notes: Wrapping Up the Semester Write

One of the things I love about teaching at an extended campus is that I get to really know an…