Posted by Melanie Perry The Non-Traditional Billiken blog was started two years ago, if you’d like to take a trip back in time and relive part of this SLU journey with me: Getting Started – what derailed my education and what got me back on track… despite a little surprise Eureka! – when I discovered [...]
Posted by Hadley Kombrink With the recent release of the newest Twilight movie, as well as an evening spent at a Demi Lovato concert, I found myself thinking about the concept of the role model. Growing up, I spent half the time wanting to be “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and the other half wanting to [...]
Posted by Martino Britt One of my favorite things about St. Louis is the fall weather, especially the scenery. I like the changing colors of the leaves. However, I do not care to clean them up much. It seems to me this people are more hospitable this time of year as well. Maybe it is [...]
Posted by Martino Britt I took two excellent classes last term. The material was great and required you to be involved. One of my classes required me to complete thirty hours of community service. During that semester, there was inclement weather that forced just about every school in the area to cancel class and other [...]
Posted by Alyssa Owens I was driving to work one morning and heard a commercial for adult education on the radio. The students in the commercial were talking about their person responsibilities and how they had a desire to obtain a great-quality college education. When I first heard the beginning of this commercial, I was [...]
Posted by Sherry Wright-Gully What is mentoring? Traditionally defined, it is an interpersonal relationship between two individuals known as the mentor and mentee or protégé. In organizations mentoring is a vehicle used to cultivate and grow employees. Simply put, it is a higher ranking employee who has advanced in organizational experiences and knowledge and is [...]
Posted by Julia Jean Jackson-Fowler Old dogs have nothing on cats or the adult brain. The saying goes, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” I have a doddering old Yorkshire terrier and, alas, the idiom is true. However, I have a cat-”Hermie”-and an adult brain (not pictured). I am happy to report that [...]