If I could, I would bottle Sarah Ragsdale. I would put her at every Scolari’s or Raley’s we have in town. I would take her to large gatherings of people. I would share her enthusiasm for our institution with everyone.

We have no better salespeople for our University than young people like Sarah Ragsdale.

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(A Conversation with Shannon Ellis, Vice President for Student Services: Part I)

We all reach a certain age when statements like the one I’m about to share with you strike you as prescient, pitifully truthful or perhaps a bit on the peculiar side. Either way, I had to smile when I read an exchange from the blogosphere, where Tech Confidential Blog’s Andrea Orr questioned Michael Kinsley’s wisdom concerning the way we package information in this era of electronic communication. “Haven’t you heard that blogs – at least many of them – have crossed the threshold to respectability?” Ms. Orr asked Mr. Kinsley, who some would argue may actually understand how ideas can be exchanged without killing off an entire forest. Continue Reading »

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On April 20, I sat down with Robert Payne and Josh Kenzer of Twelve Horses — Listen to the podcast

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