An IEC Primer to NACAC

An IEC Primer to NACAC

By Nick Soper Over the past few years, I’ve had a few first conferences—the annual WACAC meeting, the annual HECA conference, and smaller ones like Share, Learn, Connect, and the UC/CSU event. I went into them a bit blindly, assuming...

A Plea Against Ghostwriting the College Essay

Recently, I have traveled to schools, college fairs, libraries, and many homes to help kids with their college applications, including their college application essays and/or personal statements. While I brainstorm essay topics with them and provide some guiding...
Netiquette Lessons

Netiquette Lessons

For the past few years, I’ve run an annual morning workshop on email etiquette for a medical device sales company. Every time I’ve run the workshop, I’m astonished by the need that I feel in the room for it: the …
Netiquette Lessons

Adapting to Changing Times and Media

I’m super charged up about work right now, really figuring out how to better tune and tap into all the possibilities of the digital world. After all sorts of conversations with colleagues (thanks especially to Archie for the chat last …
Going Deep

Going Deep

This blog is brought to you from the 2015 HECA conference in Cincinnati. No guarantees, I’ll strive for coherence, despite the near-delirium brought on by late-night basketball, timezone disorientation, and near-zero tolerance for Midwestern heat and humidity....