About Campus

From the archives of About Campus

"About Campus" is the magazine of ACPA. These are selected articles I have written over the past two decades.

440 Pearl Street: Autism on (and a block away from) Campus

Working with, for, and around students on the Autism Spectrum.

(Pre-publication version 357k).

The Calculus of Grief

Students' resilience in the face of loss.
(1.6 MB)

Agatha's Flag

Stars, stripes and sentiment.
(296.87 KB)

Behind Every Face is a Story

What would happen if we stopped to notice students, ask questions and actually listen to their responses?
(483.57 KB)

Slaughterhouse Seven

Are there any epiphanies in killing a chicken?
(172.38 KB)

Telling Tales in School

Knowing our students, and our institutions, through their stories.
(139.62 KB)

Jason and Brian, March 16, 1994

Two very different students with two very different fates... a director of campus programs watches their lives converge in a surprising way, and her view of students is never the same again.
(265.45 KB)

Go Brits!

What can truly bring together the hearts and minds of the diverse individuals who make up a college or university? Is there some higher concern that can inspire and unite everyone? Maybe ... or maybe there's football.
(215.39 KB)

Waging Peace on Fraternities

From the font lines... a reluctant warrior's story.
(206.48 KB)

Dreams, Alive and Well and Living in Boone

A hundred students, a hundred carefully crafted lives.
(222.01 KB)

Wide Margins

Paying attention to students who don't fit in.
(237.07 KB)

My Medicated Students

I'm not that kind of doctor.
(358.75 KB)

One Day at Hartman Rocks

Learning to trust the system.
(245.99 KB)

Farcical Moments

Things happen. Sometimes they're funny.
(204.63 KB)

Bulking Up

Yet another trend.
(366.83 KB)

Belly Up Three Feet from the Shore

Sometimes the only recourse for people who are responsible for programs on campus is to scream "cowabunga" and hope for the best.

(137.62 KB)

Is Outsourcing Going Too Far?

A letter like this one may be hitting your in-box soon.
(590.12 KB)

Melody Must Predominate

What is the tune that holds all our work together?

(125.57 KB)

What Students Build

On finding a place for students to hang their coats.

(285.09 KB)

Leadership, Feminism and Classroom Politics -- or How I Gave Up the Fight and Learned to Love Resistance

Most of us resist learning to some extent or another, so it's not surprising that students do as well. But as professionals who bump up against this resistance in our students everyday, whether in a class, workshop, or special program, what's are best recourse? How can we help students get beyond their resistance?

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