This past spring, along with two of my Mandel School colleagues, Dr. Jenny King and doctoral candidate Braveheart Gillani, I launched an antiracism course, Operationalizing Antiracism for Everyday ...

We don’t think of some of our significant life events as stories in the moment. It’s just life happening. It’s only later, with the benefit of hindsight and reflection, that we shape experiences into ...

Each day is unique. Any day can bring good times, difficult times, challenges, or opportunities. We may not have much influence over external events or life’s inevitable challenges, but we do have ...

Many years ago, I started reading the work of Warren Bennis, who is sometimes referred to as the father of leadership development. I appreciated his book On Becoming a Leader, from which I discovered ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the annual conference of the Association for Continuing Higher Education. This organization is dedicated to the success of students who don’t follow the ...

Did the pandemic cause widespread learning loss? Or did students and educators learn new lessons and skills in creative ways? These questions dominated much of the discourse about education in 2022.

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

WMU provides a holistic, experience-driven education. Here, transformational learning emerges from traditional classroom instruction paired with application in live situations. It is in our DNA. Nine ...

We don’t think of some of our significant life events as stories in the moment. It’s just life happening. It’s only later, with the benefit of hindsight and reflection, that we shape experiences into ...