Dakota Once Owned a Donkey – Meet The New Member of the Swift Kick team
We are super excited to have Dakota join the team as our intern from January to June! Dakota a recent graduate from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated with a degree in Developmental Psychology and the honor of Summa Cum Laude. Presently, she serves as one of two Graduate Resident Directors at The University of Pittsburgh […]
Personalizing The Institution From Within
A well known trend in higher ed is to move away from the “one-size-fits-all” education model to a model that treats each student as an individual learner. With Red Rover, we help institutions move towards this learner centered education vision by building out individual identity profiles and delivering relevant opportunities for connections, learning, and growth. […]
The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D
Related to Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 hours to become an expert” rule, Matt Might is helping the visual learners of the world with his Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. ——————– Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little: By the time you finish high school, you […]
Your New Best Friend, Social Networking in the First Year Experience (Part 4)
Comfort is curing the loneliness that inevitably comes with moving to a new peer network. Some evidence suggests that the brain may even process social exclusion using the same circuitry as physical pain. Loneliness hurts.
State of the (Red Rover) Union
Red Rover is an experiment with many layers. It’s a big vision made of many small steps.
Here’s where we are at: what’s working, what’s an issue, what’s a real challenge, and our plans moving forward.
Is Facebook Killing Email?
There’s been talk for awhile now about college students not checking e-mail, instead preferring new technology like text messaging and Facebook. Schools, in an understandably institutional response often now “require”** students to check their email, making the process exciting to the students by calling it “official”. I really do have sympathy for the institutions, especially […]