Most of you who read this blog know me from my academic and/or online activities rather than my administrative duties. This post comes from my blog as dean of the Schreyer Honors College, Penn State. This past weekend our founding benefactor and our students’ greatest supporter died. William A. Schreyer […]
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This is a poem by Robin Becker, the 2010-11 Penn State laureate and professor of English and women’s studies. Well worth the 1:56 it takes to watch and listen.
This is from my other blog and I thought I would share it here as well. For our Late Night program last week students were asked to fill out cards with their questions for the dean. I was only able to answer a few and we have hundreds! So I […]
Students are already moving back in. Just a few more days until things get wonderfully crazy. If you are a blog reading person you should be following the the tag “SHOTime” on PSU blogs (or just click here). Our upperclass mentors are sharing about their favorite courses, the summer reading projects, […]
I had a great photo walk with my daughter last evening. She was shooting for her 4-H project and I wanted a few more shots to consider for the Grange Fair. We ended at the dairy barns across the street from Beaver Stadium. I love this place!
I was invited to offer the invocation for Penn State’s 35th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Banquet. I thought I would share my prayer with you here. Lord and Father of all, We come together tonight to commemorate and celebrate the life of your servant Dr. Martin Luther King, […]
Last week the university released its annual video greeting. I was honored to have a brief appearance. If you are interested in the work I was referring to in the video it was just published in this article. (I mentioned it on this blog back in Oct.)
By jamelah on flickr used under Creative Commons license. From my “other” blog as Dean of the SHC. I share it here because I am not sure that everyone would agree with my definition of a scholar. (I should note that our students are “Schreyer Scholars” so there is a […]
Or split personality? Christopher Long, associate professor of Philosophy at PSU and soon to be associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, is wondering how to manage his online presence. Should he have one unified identity @cplong? Or two or more, such as I have (@targuman and @shcdean)? My […]
Just back from SBL and getting ready to be descended upon by 10 relatives, but I caught this in the Penn State Newswire. How would have thought that engaging in excessive use of alcohol could effect your grades? College students who engage in binge drinking tend to earn lower grades […]