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Your Focus vs. Your Locus
The following was shared at a hooding ceremony with the 2024 NJCU Ed.D. graduates in Educational Technology Leadership: I want to begin...
Technology as a Signifier and Creator of Culture
The following was shared with NJCU's Ed.D. in Educational Technology Leadership students at their 2022 hooding ceremony: It is very easy...
Educational Technology, Epistemology, and our Leadership Challenge
In his 1992 book, Technopoly, Neil Postman introduces his work with a story from Plato’s Phaedrus: The Judgment of Thamus. As the story...
The Doctoral Journey and One's Unfinishedness
The following was shared with Ed.D. students at New Jersey City University during a hooding ceremony in 2021. Good morning. How wonderful...
Why the Why?
For departments, colleges, and universities going through a strategic planning process, it is important to make sure that the work we do...
When our Policies and Practices Lead to Growth
Wherever you may end up in higher education, unless it is one of the more entrepreneurial/for profit institutions, you will encounter...
Colleges' "Last Lecture"
This week I started studying the colleges and universities that have closed since 2015. It has been a sobering exercise. If you’ve...
Curriculum as Academic Practice
At my institution, we are currently having a curricular debate regarding the notion of life calling. Helping students discern their life...
A Message to My Faculty As We Begin a New Year
Ephesians 4: 25 & 26, 31 & 32 25. Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are...
Academic Freedom or Something Else?
A tenured full professor refuses to add a key program assessment to her course. An associate professor stands in the way of a program...
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