Most of us teachers spend far too much class time suspiciously watching for kids sneaking glances at their Facebook on their phones. So, it might seem odd that I am writing a blog about the virtues of social media as a teaching tool. Yet for the ...
This week, People Magazine announced that Gwyneth Paltrow was The Most Beautiful Woman in the World. Wow. That is some accolade, but is it true? To be sure, she is cute and fresh-faced (which is nice) and certainly seems to have a funny and ...
Our first stop was Rome, to visit the good folks at American University of Rome (AUR)! They provided a great welcome to their university, and we are very excited about developing a dual MBA program, strengthening our study abroad commitment, and ...
You must go. Although it has been several days since I viewed this impressive exhibit of colorful metal links hanging from walls and ceilings, I still feel the impact of the creations by El Anatsui. The exhibition of his sculpture is also his first ...
When the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature, a reporter said to him: "James Joyce wrote the most highly praised novel of the 20th century. William Butler Yeats is perhaps the greatest poet in English. ...
It has to be Double Indemnity, a movie with a screenplay co-written by Raymond Chandler about a nasty, greedy, adulterous pair that everyone should hate. Yet we root for them from start to end. The complicated plot twists add to the nail-biting ...
I recently attended a workshop sponsored by LIM College titled Leading and Motivating led by Keir Carroll. In the famous words of Forrest Gump, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.” I approached the workshop, ...