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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Living Learning Communities (LLCs) have long been recognized as a best practice within higher education and academia, to support student learning and to deepen belonging for residential students. LLCs ...

“We had the experience but missed the meaning.” – T.S. Eliot Think back to a time, in either your professional or personal life, when you learned a very important lesson that has positively impacted ...

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 ...

Being good has never been good enough, there is always room for growth. As a classroom educator, the more I thought about my practice, the more I knew I had to try harder or maybe not harder, but ...

Over 20 years ago, I took my 3rd grade class to Yosemite National Park in the middle of winter. My students (from Oakland, Calif.) had never been in the mountains or seen snow. We cross-country skied ...