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Affinity Housing: The Importance of Roommate Matching
College of Coastal Georgia recently transitioned to a four-year residential institution. Among the many changes, the campus will soon include residence halls and a director of residence life. Dave Leenhouts, director of CCGA’s student life, heads the committee to hire their director of residence life. In a conversation with Dave over the weekend, he talked […]
Guiding Principles – Part 2
The following is the second part of our assumptions, pulled from our “Guiding Principles” Wikipage. Here is Part 1** Assumptions Part 2: These are broad based and not as set as principles. It’s useful to list assumptions, just to be clear on the thought behind the system. Some of these are more controversial than others. […]
Utilizing Red Rover Tag Clouds for Marketing
Red Rover uses tags throughout its interface to help match people and groups together on campus. Tags are simple keywords that describe a person or group. Institution tag clouds, like the one seen here, are a collection of all the individual and group tags for an institution. The institution tag cloud becomes a poster for […]
What If We DO Succeed in Increasing Student Engagement?
Over the weekend, I was talking with a group of students and advisors from Kutztown University about student engagement. In Swift Kick, we use dance floors to describe how student leaders are the ones in the center of the dance (fully engaged), and the rest of the student body (60-84% according to NSSE) are against […]
7 Steps to Awesome: The Tech of a Leadership Conference
I promised the good student affairs folk of the Penn State system that I would write up a draft outline of a tech plan for a state wide student leadership event. I delayed a bit, so that we could finish up this new sachat platform – I think it’s an important example of the goal. […]
The Value of Integrating Social Media into Education
Dean Long, of LAUS, only needs two minutes to perfectly explain how every educator should be thinking about social media. VIDEO FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE And if your life is too busy for a two-minute interlude, here are the highlights: Use SM (Social Media) to cultivate a community around the activities already being done on […]
Webinar – Leveraging Social Media for Student Engagement
This Wednesday, Dec 16th, from 3:00-4:15pm EST, we’re partnering with The Student Affairs Blog to host our third webinar in an ongoing effort to provide value to the community on relevant topics. WEBINAR OVERVIEWTitle: Leveraging Social Media for Student Engagement Date: Wednesday, Dec 16th 2009 Time: 3-4:15pm EST Abstract: Most research concludes that at least […]
New Feature: Mass Mailing / Export By Tag
One of the goals of the project is to enable relevant communication from the school to the students. Schools, for lack of a better method, end up sending too many emails to everyone. Students learn that emails are rarely relevant, and start ignoring all of them. loan in texas The tag cloud architecture of Red […]
The Value of Leveraging Network Nodes In The College Community
Last spring, I was traveling on a public bus from Laguardia Airport in New York to my hotel on the north side of Manhattan. When I got on the bus at the airport, the bus driver was in a heated argument with someone complaining about being charged twice for the ride. The bus driver was […]