A newly-released report out of Oxford University, confirms what many of us already suspected. Namely, that a humanities education provides students with a set of skills that prove to be invaluable over the course of their lives and careers. These include not just familiar skills like communication, critical and strategic thinking, empathy, creative problem solving,... Continue Reading →
Articulating Your Values
Justin Lorts For any career or "intro to college" class that I teach, I love beginning with a values activity. I find that having students articulate their values early on in the process not only puts them in the right frame of mind, but also gives them a reference point that they can use throughout... Continue Reading →
Five Tips for the Fall Semester
Next week marks the start of the Fall semester at Johns Hopkins. A lot has changed on campus over the past several months and this Fall semester - even more than previous Fall semesters - offers the opportunity for students to reimagine both themselves as well as their Hopkins experience. With this sense of possibility in mind, I would like to offer five Life Design-inspired tips for approaching the Fall semester.
Structuring Co-Curricular Knowledge
Photo by Ekrulila on Pexels.com Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how the knowledge and expertise of those who work in co-curricular spaces is understood, organized, and shared with students and the broader university community. I know from my own experience that there is a wealth of knowledge across campus, often hiding in unexpected... Continue Reading →
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