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Future-Proof Your Career: Essential Skills for Healthcare Leadership
Technological advancements, policy changes, and demographic shifts are contributing to widespread transformation within the U.S. healthcare industry. Agreli et al. expanded on this notion in their article on healthcare role reconfiguration, writing: “New technologies including digital health and robotics are driving the evolution of healthcare. At the same time, healthcare systems are transitioning from a…
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Mid-Career MFA Leads a Documentarian Back to Fiction—and to the Stage
In April of 2023, the playwright and documentarian Dara Padwo-Audick made an ambitious request: that her community give $20,000 to underwrite staging her play, Onion Skin, as part of the Capital Fringe Festival. She explained to potential backers that Onion Skin, her first full-length play, drew on her experiences as a skin cancer survivor, as…
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Awakening Courage, Compassion, and Kinship for Justice and Change
I reach out to all of you feeling the weight of sadness in these challenging times. The recent election has left many of us questioning the future, yet it’s essential we recognize this moment as a call to deepen our courage and compassion. Our society’s struggles—marked by our susceptibility to fear, misinformation, and corporate control—can…
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Engaging Social Emotional Learning Activities for Any Classroom
In our digitalized world, emotional awareness and interpersonal social skills are increasingly important abilities for students to possess. Social emotional learning activities play a crucial role in fostering these abilities. As psychologist Roger Weissberg explains, “Today’s schools are increasingly multicultural and multilingual with students from diverse social and economic backgrounds. Educators and community agencies serve…
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Reclaiming Deliberative Democracy
Aqeel Tirmizi, PhD “We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.”— Aung San Suu Kyi While the basic idea of democracy is generally understood, to set the stage for this reflective article, it is useful to highlight some of its key aspects. The foundation of all democratic experiments center around freedom, equality, and justice…
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Mindfulness in the Classroom for Educators: A Guide to Being Present While Teaching
In today’s fast-paced and demanding educational environment, maintaining well-being and preventing burnout among educators is more important than ever. Mindfulness practices, traditionally aimed at students, are now being recognized for their profound benefits for educators themselves. Benefits of Mindfulness for Educators Mindfulness practices foster a sense of personal well-being and enhance teaching effectiveness, creating a…
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A Post-Election Message to My Fellow Counselors
Cathy Lounsbury As you grapple with the news of this year’s U.S. elections, my thoughts are with all of you as we process the range of emotions this moment brings. It is in times like these that I truly yearn for the opportunity to be in space together, supporting one another. I know many of…
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Veterans Day 2024: Honoring Those Who Honor Democracy
Dear Fellow Antiochians, Today our University and our nation observe Veterans Day, honoring the many women and men who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces. It is particularly poignant today to recognize the sacrifices of so many veterans who fought for the values of freedom, democracy, and the common good. We…
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Chancellor’s Message After This Week’s Election
Dear Antiochians, On Tuesday, our nation held its 60th presidential election. Many of us voted in the election, and many of us got involved in other ways, too: as poll workers, poll watchers, canvassers, donors, phone bankers, protesters, and more. I want to send out a huge thank you to all of you who participated…
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