Note: This is the first post with someone from Queens College and I hope a nice new dimension of this blog as Northeastern and Queens experiences merge. – Jim The Development of a Passion for Learning Voula Galanopoulos … Continued
Unexpected career change and what it might mean for reform in higher education. Mercedes Carota NU’10 and Jim Stellar Mercedes Carota is a Business Student at Northeastern. She should have graduated, but stayed on to complete premedical requirements … Continued
Co-op vs. Permanent Employment Natania Crane NU ’08 and Jim Stellar Natania graduated a year ago with a BA in Psychology and worked in a Behavioral Neuroscience laboratory down the hall from ours at Northeastern University. We kept in … Continued
Mentor-Mentee: Self Discovery, Emotional Connections, Learning and Memory. Shiela Kern ’09 and Jim Stellar Shiela and I have known each other for a few years. We started talking seriously this last year or so about how she could … Continued
Study abroad is in many ways the most academic of experiential programs and therefore has the greatest acceptance in colleges and universities. What is interesting then is how it is sometimes combined with co-op abroad to really intensify the abroad … Continued
Here is another post that comes out of Jim’s conversations with Northeastern students. It is touching on social media, something Shwen writes about in his blog, Med 2.0. -Jim and Shwen Social Media, Warmth, and “Other … Continued
In this blog, we have thought of the “other lobe of the brain” as the limbic system, the emotional system that made logical decisions about meaning and value to accompany the facts-and-theories type of logic that some have called academic … Continued
Some time ago, Northeastern Professors Rick Porter and Jim Stellar, job shadowed a student, Amanda Marsden, on e-mail and later those three wrote a paper (posted below on 2/17/09) that points to the value of reflection in experiential learning, a frequent … Continued
Jim asked Ashley Pira, a freshman behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern who has managed to get into a laboratory, to write a piece on how students and professors connect and to do it from a student view. You will find … Continued
This post is the third in a series co-authored by Jim and students. We wanted to give a flavor of what it is like to think with students as well as just have them take and give feedback on programs. … Continued