Writing a post every day this week has been hard, but a lot of fun. So many great BSU folks have been participating- it's been nice to see how everyone tackles the daily theme prompts! I have really enjoyed getting to learn more about our students and my colleagues in the process!
Today we are asked to envision the future at BSU and share our thoughts on what the campus will be like in 10 years. In 2021, if I am still at Bridgewater, I will be closing out three decades in our community. I have seen so much change in the last 19 years, I am absolutely confident that the BSU of the future will be one in which change is the operative word. I could never have guessed in 1992 what today would look like, so I am going to dream big and share my vision for what I hope will be our new reality in the next decade....
Walk with me, if you will, down Park Plaza....students milling around between classes, tossing frisbees, reading the RCC blog on their Ipad 10s, (given to all new students upon arrival on campus) and watching today's campus guests head through the underpass to the new DMF Campus Center, which opened in 2020 as the result of the Campus Master Plan adopted in 2011.
Today's campus guests walk excitedly past the Zip Car lot behind the Esposito Catholic Center (newly expanded in 2016 by a generous donation from Tony Esposito after an investment in an off-broadway show hit big, earning him millions. These guests are heading to the Campus Center, the new pride of BSU standing three stories tall on the former LGH North parking lot, to attend their first FAM for Change meeting where they will hear a keynote from a recent BSU's grad now enrolled at the Wharton School of Business. This student, a member of FAM's first cohort in 2009, will share her story to inspire these soon to be 9th graders to stay in school and dream big about their futures..
As our guests approach their destination, they are temporarily distracted by a gathering of students outside the McHugh Community Service Center (funded by a generous donation from Dan McHugh, former CESO director and service trip advisor, after he won a MegaMillions lottery in 2014). The energy and enthusiasm of these BSU students as they set up tent city to raise awareness about homelessness is contagious and our guests begin to wonder what life will be like at BSU in 2026 when they join the BSU campus as first year college students.
Inside the DMF Campus Center, our guests follow the signs to the Ballroom where the FAM dinner will be held. As they pass the Center for Leadership Development they watch a group of students preparing for tomorrow's Leadership Summit at which 250 area college students will gather to hone their skills for their roles as campus student leaders.
Continuing down the hall, they notice a group of students sitting with two older faculty members engaged in heated debate as they sip fair trade coffee. They are surprised because they never thought that students would be hanging around campus on a Friday evening.
Across the hall, they see students practicing for tonight's Dragfest program outside the Gentlewarrior Center for Student Diversity.
As our guests stand outside the elevator, watching hundreds of students milling around the dining complex, studying the art work that adorns the corriders, their excitement grows as they think that in 5 short years they could be part of this vibrant college community working towards a college degree and a better future.
They see life, community, and possibility on this Friday evening at Bridgewater in 2021. For the first time since they were selected to participate in FAM for Change, they begin to understantd the possibilities BSU is offering. Seeing the vibrancy of the campus captured in a building that symbols what community really is on a college campus, our guests begin to see what the future can hold for them if they strive for excellence, complete their high school degrees, and join the BSU campus community. And so, the cycle continues.....
Is this a dream? Maybe. But I would like to think it is the very real possibility of our future at Bridgewater....a vision of the reality that could be if our campus can achieve its stragetic goals going forward... if we can become the University I know we can....
To tomorrow......see you all there!
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Race Matters - an example of the BSU community at work
It's day 4 of blogfest and our topic today is community- What is community like at BSU? What does it mean to me?
Having been a part of the BSU community for almost 20 years, I think I've gotten to know our community pretty well. In many ways it is not unlike most college communities - there are things that make us special and some we need to work on. Perhaps one of the things I love most about being part of a community like Bridgewater is that we aren't afraid to look at the latter. Take today for instance when 300 members of the community including students, faculty, adminstrators, staff and alumni came together for a day of dialogue called Race Matters. The focus of the day was to explore issues of race, racism and white privlege and to consider - as a community - how we can confront the ways in which our community lets these issues stand in the way of being the kind of place we want it to be for all our community members, most importantly the students we are committed to serving.
The day began with the breaking of bread because food is....well....a symbol of community at BSU. After a welcome by the president, Dana Mohler-Faria, and a keynote bynewly appointed president Rusty Barcelo of Northern New Mexico College, a group of students shared stories from their peers about their BSU experiences in and out of the classroom. They offered us a look at life for students of color, GLB students and others who are in the minority on our campus and shared their hopes for how the university could improve to help them feel more included and empowered. For many of us, it opened our eyes to how different the BSU experience can be for some and helped focus discussion during lunch and an afternoon of concurrent sessions that explored how to create racial equity, for students and employees, Dr. Barcelo's path as a trailblazer for equity in the academy, and how to improve course design and discussion in the classroom to raise awareness about issue of race and privilege.
By the end of the day, the candid, powerful and hopeful closing remarks by Michele Wakin helped us all reflect on what we heard and how we can all, both as individuals and as a community, work to keep these issues in the forefront of dialogue as we strive to make Bridgewater the type of community we all know it can be and hope it will become.
The discussions today and the diverse array of people who came together to share their thoughts and ideas are perfect examples of why I am so proud and privileged to be a part of the Bridgewater community! While we celebrate our successes, we are not satisfied with them. We want to be the best campus community possible for all our community members. We want to be an excellent community, one in which equity and excellence go hand in hand. That's a community to be proud of!
Having been a part of the BSU community for almost 20 years, I think I've gotten to know our community pretty well. In many ways it is not unlike most college communities - there are things that make us special and some we need to work on. Perhaps one of the things I love most about being part of a community like Bridgewater is that we aren't afraid to look at the latter. Take today for instance when 300 members of the community including students, faculty, adminstrators, staff and alumni came together for a day of dialogue called Race Matters. The focus of the day was to explore issues of race, racism and white privlege and to consider - as a community - how we can confront the ways in which our community lets these issues stand in the way of being the kind of place we want it to be for all our community members, most importantly the students we are committed to serving.
The day began with the breaking of bread because food is....well....a symbol of community at BSU. After a welcome by the president, Dana Mohler-Faria, and a keynote bynewly appointed president Rusty Barcelo of Northern New Mexico College, a group of students shared stories from their peers about their BSU experiences in and out of the classroom. They offered us a look at life for students of color, GLB students and others who are in the minority on our campus and shared their hopes for how the university could improve to help them feel more included and empowered. For many of us, it opened our eyes to how different the BSU experience can be for some and helped focus discussion during lunch and an afternoon of concurrent sessions that explored how to create racial equity, for students and employees, Dr. Barcelo's path as a trailblazer for equity in the academy, and how to improve course design and discussion in the classroom to raise awareness about issue of race and privilege.
By the end of the day, the candid, powerful and hopeful closing remarks by Michele Wakin helped us all reflect on what we heard and how we can all, both as individuals and as a community, work to keep these issues in the forefront of dialogue as we strive to make Bridgewater the type of community we all know it can be and hope it will become.
The discussions today and the diverse array of people who came together to share their thoughts and ideas are perfect examples of why I am so proud and privileged to be a part of the Bridgewater community! While we celebrate our successes, we are not satisfied with them. We want to be the best campus community possible for all our community members. We want to be an excellent community, one in which equity and excellence go hand in hand. That's a community to be proud of!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Effective Leadership: What Does It Look Like? How Can We Manifest It?
Day 3 of. Blogfest and today the focus is on leadership. What does effective leadership mean? What does it look like? Can it be described? Any review of leadership will reveal that there are hundreds of definitions, each highlighting a slightly different quality or perspective of leadership. Sorting through all the definitions can leave you confused that so many people see it so differently! But I think this is one of the beauties of leadership - there is no RIGHT definition, no RIGHT way to lead. Rather, I think, leadership is something that depends upon the situaton in which it is exercised. Consider these quotes from an array of people:
"Leadership is intentional influence." - Michael McKinney
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." - General Colin Powell
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there." - John Buchan
"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'" - Lao-tzu
They all sound pretty good, don't they? And yet each describes leadership differently. To the General, it is about solving problems, getting everyone on board, and if one were leading a group into battle or in a great crisis, it would indeed be important to be able to find that common denominator around which those you lead could mobilize. According to Lao Tzu, the most effective leaders are those who stay out of the limelight and empower their people to accomplish things and believe they did it without any leadership. But perhaps the one that resonates most with me is Buchan - the idea that all of us have greatness within us - or leadership within us - and effective leadership will bring it out, elicit from each of us the inate qualities and skills we already have but may not realize we possess.
The common elements in these different definitions is the dynamic that takes place between leader, those being led and the shared goal or purpose. This inherently means that leadership is situational & the leadership a group needs will depend upon the goals to be achieved. Sometimes the need is for strong individual leadership, but at other times collaborative group leadership, in which each person has a role to play is more effective. Effective leadership is understanding what is needed in a situation and playing your part to bring what is needed to the group, whether you hold a position or not.
That sounds hard, doesn't it? There are so many circumstances that we can't anticipate, so how do we know what's the right thing to do? For me, the answer to this question lies in having a strong central guiding core of principles and values that guide our decision making and indeed, for some, how we lead our lives. But that is a subject for another post......
What do you think? Can we all be effective leaders? Can you think of a situation in which you had to step up and assume that role? What did you do? How did you decide?
"Leadership is intentional influence." - Michael McKinney
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." - General Colin Powell
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there." - John Buchan
"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'" - Lao-tzu
They all sound pretty good, don't they? And yet each describes leadership differently. To the General, it is about solving problems, getting everyone on board, and if one were leading a group into battle or in a great crisis, it would indeed be important to be able to find that common denominator around which those you lead could mobilize. According to Lao Tzu, the most effective leaders are those who stay out of the limelight and empower their people to accomplish things and believe they did it without any leadership. But perhaps the one that resonates most with me is Buchan - the idea that all of us have greatness within us - or leadership within us - and effective leadership will bring it out, elicit from each of us the inate qualities and skills we already have but may not realize we possess.
The common elements in these different definitions is the dynamic that takes place between leader, those being led and the shared goal or purpose. This inherently means that leadership is situational & the leadership a group needs will depend upon the goals to be achieved. Sometimes the need is for strong individual leadership, but at other times collaborative group leadership, in which each person has a role to play is more effective. Effective leadership is understanding what is needed in a situation and playing your part to bring what is needed to the group, whether you hold a position or not.
That sounds hard, doesn't it? There are so many circumstances that we can't anticipate, so how do we know what's the right thing to do? For me, the answer to this question lies in having a strong central guiding core of principles and values that guide our decision making and indeed, for some, how we lead our lives. But that is a subject for another post......
What do you think? Can we all be effective leaders? Can you think of a situation in which you had to step up and assume that role? What did you do? How did you decide?
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Technology: Is it Friend or Foe to Relationships
I love this topic! I suspect my take on how technology enhances - or detracts from - relationships will be different based on my membership in the baby boom generation. I remember the day we got a color TV (I was in elementary school) and the only choose besides the big 3 networks were 3 local UHF channels that took a lot of shifting of the rabbit ears to see without snow! No computers- an electric typewriter in college was a huge advance! We had 78 and 45 records - bet many students haven't actually seen an 8 track player or tape in action! My first work computer had a floppy disk to start the operating system and the various programs and we felt so advanced! I will spare you all the walk down memory lane with the literally hundreds of examples of technological advances that have captivated my imagination in my 50+ years, but the point I am trying to make is that my perspective is shaped by the doors and possibilities I have seen technology open over the years, including the ways in which it has enhanced my relationships.
Personal connections across time and space - When I left Pennsylvania in 1979 to go to grad school, I never returned. After a few short years in Texas, I returned to Massachusetts which became my home. Back then staying in touch with family and friends was hard - land lines were the only real option besides in person visits. I never saw my family enough and lost touch with almost all my high school and college friends, but that has all changed with cell phones and the internet. Facebook has connected me on a daily basis with siblings and cousins, enabled me to watch neices and nephews grow up and to form relationships with them that twice yearly visits just can't forge, and has allowed me to reconnect with friends and acquaintances from school. People I forgot I even missed and with whom I have gone years without contact. Some of my closest friends from college and people I wish I had known better when we were younger. Rebuilding relationships with HS friends as adults is something I could never do without today's technology Just today a high school friend and my nephew in NJ reached out to comment on a Facebook post about an education conference. We can share our passion for education up and down the East Coast from Boston to Atlanta.
Education - I am currently a doctoral candidate for a PhD in Higher Education Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln finishing my dissertation. This education was only possible for me because of technology. As a distance student, I was able to take classes at times convenient to me and use the resources available in a library 1300 miles away. Throught this experience I connected with real people who are my faculty members and whose personalities I have come to know and appreciate as much as their teaching styles. I connected with classmates, sharing important course lessons and developing friendships. And an added benefit to my classes was the time and ability to think, reflect and craft responses carefully rather than in the heat of the moment in a classroom. Through Blackboard I could dialogue over several days will ALL my classmates without the cachophony that sometimes happens in a classroom. For me, as an older, self-motivated student I have no doubt that my technology driven degree program offered the same quality as an in person model and resulted in MORE work than I might have done in another format because I was the one pushing myself the hardest.
Professional Development - Others in our Student Affairs division have talked about the value of Twitter, Linked In and other technologies in connecting with colleagues from across the country, and I would concur. I was slow to the Twitter table - who cares what I can say in 140 characters and why would I care what random other people had to eat today? However, after lurking for a while and watching the community in action, I realized that when a group comes together to Twitter about a shared interest, the learning potential is high. In addition to #sachat, I share with other students in #sadoc, get support for my healthy lifestyle, share my passion for many sports, banter with other similarly liberal minded people I may never meet IRL (in real life) and have re-established a network of strong women professionals from whom I gain support and can count on excellent dialogue about the many lives we all balance. When days go by and I haven't been connected, I miss it and carve out the time to do so.
I guess it's pretty clear that I think technology is more a boon to building and maintaining relationships than a detriment. I hear the arguments about its potential to isolate, to distract, to allow us to more freely bully others, etc., but the question I would ask is this - Is it technology that does this? Or is it the people who USE the technology that create the negative aspects? For example, how is texting in class any more of a distraction than the good old fashioned note writing and passing that I did as a student before we had cell phones? Is it really more distracting, or just a different form of distraction?
I cannot deny that the way technology enables people to cyberbully others behind the cover of anonymity is disturbing and that as a society we need to get a handle on what it is that causes the bullying in the first place. On the other hand, I can think of several stories in which the use of technology has saved lives when e-friends were able to send help to hurt friends across oceans. And how would we come together in times of disaster to help others without today's technology? How much good does this create when we can sit in our living room and feel the pain of others and be motivated to DO something about it? I continually wonder at this application of technology today.
As an optimist, I believe technology has enhanced MY relationships and has the potential to enhance YOURS too - what do you think?
Check out the other Blogfest posts at http://www.bridgew.edu/sil/bsusmw/blogfest.cfm
Personal connections across time and space - When I left Pennsylvania in 1979 to go to grad school, I never returned. After a few short years in Texas, I returned to Massachusetts which became my home. Back then staying in touch with family and friends was hard - land lines were the only real option besides in person visits. I never saw my family enough and lost touch with almost all my high school and college friends, but that has all changed with cell phones and the internet. Facebook has connected me on a daily basis with siblings and cousins, enabled me to watch neices and nephews grow up and to form relationships with them that twice yearly visits just can't forge, and has allowed me to reconnect with friends and acquaintances from school. People I forgot I even missed and with whom I have gone years without contact. Some of my closest friends from college and people I wish I had known better when we were younger. Rebuilding relationships with HS friends as adults is something I could never do without today's technology Just today a high school friend and my nephew in NJ reached out to comment on a Facebook post about an education conference. We can share our passion for education up and down the East Coast from Boston to Atlanta.
Education - I am currently a doctoral candidate for a PhD in Higher Education Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln finishing my dissertation. This education was only possible for me because of technology. As a distance student, I was able to take classes at times convenient to me and use the resources available in a library 1300 miles away. Throught this experience I connected with real people who are my faculty members and whose personalities I have come to know and appreciate as much as their teaching styles. I connected with classmates, sharing important course lessons and developing friendships. And an added benefit to my classes was the time and ability to think, reflect and craft responses carefully rather than in the heat of the moment in a classroom. Through Blackboard I could dialogue over several days will ALL my classmates without the cachophony that sometimes happens in a classroom. For me, as an older, self-motivated student I have no doubt that my technology driven degree program offered the same quality as an in person model and resulted in MORE work than I might have done in another format because I was the one pushing myself the hardest.
Professional Development - Others in our Student Affairs division have talked about the value of Twitter, Linked In and other technologies in connecting with colleagues from across the country, and I would concur. I was slow to the Twitter table - who cares what I can say in 140 characters and why would I care what random other people had to eat today? However, after lurking for a while and watching the community in action, I realized that when a group comes together to Twitter about a shared interest, the learning potential is high. In addition to #sachat, I share with other students in #sadoc, get support for my healthy lifestyle, share my passion for many sports, banter with other similarly liberal minded people I may never meet IRL (in real life) and have re-established a network of strong women professionals from whom I gain support and can count on excellent dialogue about the many lives we all balance. When days go by and I haven't been connected, I miss it and carve out the time to do so.
I guess it's pretty clear that I think technology is more a boon to building and maintaining relationships than a detriment. I hear the arguments about its potential to isolate, to distract, to allow us to more freely bully others, etc., but the question I would ask is this - Is it technology that does this? Or is it the people who USE the technology that create the negative aspects? For example, how is texting in class any more of a distraction than the good old fashioned note writing and passing that I did as a student before we had cell phones? Is it really more distracting, or just a different form of distraction?
I cannot deny that the way technology enables people to cyberbully others behind the cover of anonymity is disturbing and that as a society we need to get a handle on what it is that causes the bullying in the first place. On the other hand, I can think of several stories in which the use of technology has saved lives when e-friends were able to send help to hurt friends across oceans. And how would we come together in times of disaster to help others without today's technology? How much good does this create when we can sit in our living room and feel the pain of others and be motivated to DO something about it? I continually wonder at this application of technology today.
As an optimist, I believe technology has enhanced MY relationships and has the potential to enhance YOURS too - what do you think?
Check out the other Blogfest posts at http://www.bridgew.edu/sil/bsusmw/blogfest.cfm
Monday, March 21, 2011
Learning for Life
Today's blog topic really threw me! " What learning experience has had the greatest impact on you?"
One experience that has most impacted me....yikes...impossible! There are dozens of meaningful experiences from which I have learned so much it would be impossible to cite just one! Like...leaving the East Coast to live in Texas for 2 years right out of grad school....becoming a mother and perhaps really understanding my own mother for the first time....the HERS Summer Institute at Bryn Mawr in the summer of 1993...that moment in 4th grade when I realized there is no absolute truth - teachers sometimes make it up....an interaction with a student in need when it becomes clear you don't need to understand someone's language to understand their fears...finding out that I can be the calmest person in an emergency even when it is my own...
Almost daily it seems there's an opportunity to learn something new, and the more I thought about it, the more apparent it became that the greatest learning experience of all is just being open to the experience. If we're lucky, we never stop learning, never stop seeing the impacts of experiences that change our life - sometimes subtlely and sometimes dramatically - but always there.
I'll confess that when I was younger I expected to finally "get it" and feel that I had reached my potential, but somehow the older I get, the more I realize that there is no end, no way to "get it" all. In fact, as I get older, the more I realize the things to learn from are expanding and the time to learn them in is shrinking!
Somewhere along the line when I figured this out, I made a commitment to myself to strive to be open to learning something new every single day - no matter how small. Not just for the self-improvement (although that is important), but sometimes just for the sheer joy of discovery & wonder about what new thing will reveal itself tomorrow!
As Eartha Kitt once said " I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma!" How about you? Can you identify what you learned today?
Monday, October 18, 2010
It's a Great Week to be a Bear!
All summer long I watched the construction unfold from the treadmill in the fitness center. First they tore up the track that was so decimated our track team hasn't been able to hold a home meet in years. Then they ripped out the tired old football field, and finally down came the stands and press box - maybe a week or so before they would surely have been condemned! Slowly, the whole complex was rebuilt - with a few challenges that put the project behind schedule. But finally, the new Swenson Field Complex opened this week, serving as the site for the annual Homecoming football game this past Saturday.
As I arrived for the game and walked into the complex, moving through the turnstile and entering the walkway under the bleachers, I actually got chills! It felt like a "real" football stadium - packed with students, alumni, and guests ready to enjoy a Homecoming victory! So cool! I KNOW how long our athletics staff, especially AD John Harper, has been waiting and advocating for a complex worthy of the effort our athletes put out every year. Finally, that complex is here and I don't think John stopped smiling all day!
While Saturday's experience was exciting, I think the scene tonight - and the chills and pride it elicited in this "jaded" administrator- may have been even more moving and meaningful. As I drove by the field after the Student Leader Council dinner meeting, my car drove itself into the lot so I could just stare. There was the beautiful artificial surface field - lights blazing (we have never had lights before!)- and it was filled with women athletes! Our field hockey team was hosting one of its conference rivals on this new "football" field which is actually a multi-purpose field designed to enable all our teams - men's and women's - and our intramural program -to benefit from this investment. Add the fact that our track team can now practice on its own track and actually host home games, and the impact of this field to our athletic program is just incredible! The excitement among our athletes is almost tangible!
But it is also an important statement about what athletics is all about at BSU. You see, Bridgewater is a division III athletic program and we are committed to providing quality experiences to the athletes on all 19 of our sports teams. We believe they deserve this because in DIII, the athletes play purely for the love of their sport and nothing else. No scholarships & no special treatment of any kind - that would be an NCAA violation for DIII athletes. Our over 400 student athletes all have to fundraise to support their teams' programs, most also work (like the rest of our students), and above all, they are students first. Good students too, if you consider over 25% earned conference scholar athlete honors last year with GPAs of 3.3 and above!
And this week these student-athletes got a gift - our entire campus got a gift really! It's a sports complex that makes BSU feel more like the University it became this summer. Maybe I will eventually drive by in the dark and not even notice the lights and action, but I hope that doesn't happen too soon because, while it's always a good day to be Bear, it feels even more special this week!
Monday, October 4, 2010
In Appreciation of #sachat and Debra & Tom
I haven't participated in #sachat for all that long - I think I started in late spring - and have to say that in the beginning I didn't get this "Twitter thing." For the first few chats I couldn't even FIND the questions everyone was answering never mind being able to READ the tweets before another dozen popped up! But once my head stopped spinning, I found the conversations fascinating and very informative. Before long I was joining in and retweeting and now look forward to #sachat each week - when the job doesn't get in the way!
As a new participant, I marveled at this seemingly tight knit community of people, many of whom haven't even met face to face yet, and the collective wisdom everyone so readily shared. At first #sachat offered professional development and a wealth of resources, but after a few non-chat evenings of conversation it was clear that #sachat was so much more - humor, support, encouragement, comardie in my doctoral journey, motivation to stay healthy, recipes, and the opportunity to make the world of student affairs a bit smaller and more intimate across the miles. In the third year of no conference travel for my institution, this community is truly a welcome haven and fantastic resource!
I marveled at the idea that someone had the kind of imagination to think something like this up, wondering how it got started, and only recently discovered that this was the brainchild of Debra Sanborn and Tom Krieglstein, to whom this blog is dedicated today. Thank you both for creating such a wonderful resource and student affairs community! I am honored to be a part of it and learn from so many great professionals who bring a wealth of ideas and perspectives to the "deck" every day. I really get this "Twitter thing" now!
For all you do for all of us - Thanks Deb! Thanks Tom!
With much appreciation,
Cathy
As a new participant, I marveled at this seemingly tight knit community of people, many of whom haven't even met face to face yet, and the collective wisdom everyone so readily shared. At first #sachat offered professional development and a wealth of resources, but after a few non-chat evenings of conversation it was clear that #sachat was so much more - humor, support, encouragement, comardie in my doctoral journey, motivation to stay healthy, recipes, and the opportunity to make the world of student affairs a bit smaller and more intimate across the miles. In the third year of no conference travel for my institution, this community is truly a welcome haven and fantastic resource!
I marveled at the idea that someone had the kind of imagination to think something like this up, wondering how it got started, and only recently discovered that this was the brainchild of Debra Sanborn and Tom Krieglstein, to whom this blog is dedicated today. Thank you both for creating such a wonderful resource and student affairs community! I am honored to be a part of it and learn from so many great professionals who bring a wealth of ideas and perspectives to the "deck" every day. I really get this "Twitter thing" now!
For all you do for all of us - Thanks Deb! Thanks Tom!
With much appreciation,
Cathy
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