Higher Education Cost – make it more worthwhile by adding experience to the academic curriculum Allyson Savin and Jim Stellar We started talking about writing this post at the end of June 2014 when there was a burst of media … Continued
My Year in the CUNY Service Corps Naomi Ducat QC’16 and Jim Stellar Naomi just finished writing a short paper on a different topic for another section of this website, but I had to ask her to write this blog … Continued
Reinforcement history, unconscious-decision making, and learning from experience Ciara Sanchez QC ’15 and Jim Stellar Ciara was a student in a class I taught last year. We had many follow-up conversations about the neuroscience of unconscious decision-making, operant … Continued
Peer Counseling is Experiential Education Sanaa Mylan QC’13 and Jim Stellar Sanaa and I met in 2009 when she was a freshman and I was a newly arrived Provost at Queens. I had taken a faculty apartment in the new … Continued
Counseling and Diversity Ashley Bryant QC 15 and Jim Stellar Ashley took my large general education lecture class that I co-teach in the spring. That led us to a conversation about how we best help students find their way through … Continued
College Price vs. Value and Experiential Education Allyson Savin NU’07 and Jim Stellar AS and JS wrote a blog post a few years ago on leadership – a natural topic as AS was a student leader.But AS was also a … Continued
Social Capital and Experiential Education Carolina Morgan NU ’10 and Jim Stellar I met Carolina in her freshman year at Northeastern University over her application to a scholarship that my office ran when I was Dean of the College of … Continued
The Insular Cortex, von Economo neurons, and awareness of feelings Ilyssa Monda-Loiacono, Golshan Aghanori QC’13, Jungyo Kim QC’13, and Jim Stellar Led by Ilyssa, who is a graduate student, Golshan, Jungyo, and Jim have been reading papers on the human … Continued
Knowledge fluency Marina Vazura QC ‘15 and Jim Stellar Marina is a Speech Pathology Major and met Jim at an honor society event at Queens College. The resulting conversation began with the general idea of taking knowledge from an internship … Continued
An Attachment to a College Jessica Bruder QC ’11, ’13 and Jim Stellar Jessica just finished her master’s degree at Queens College. Counting from the time she was in high school taking her first college course under a program called … Continued