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Allison M. Vaillancourt Dr. Rachel Aho @DrGMBettencourt Jaime Hunt | The Higher Ed CMO Jeanna Mastrodicasa @readywriting on all the socials ALL OF THEM Gerald Hector @kevinrmcclure @AdamJussel And if you want a preview of the report, check out this retention advice that was also printed in its pages. chronicle.com/article/how-to…

Hello, National Rail. This man is sitting in my reserved seat and refuses to move, saying he has a ticket to ride. Please investigate.

What a relief. apple.news/A4jDC72FgTRWsM…

We had some powerful conversations about how things really happen. Learning the tricks, especially the dirty tricks, of workplace politics is so important. Thanks for your contributions to the conversation, Ilana Addis, MD, MPH, MBA (she/her)

25 Words That Are Their Own Opposites mentalfloss.com/article/57032/…. Allison M. Vaillancourt This is for your amusement particularly. Cheers!

I grew up using "y'all," but I dropped it when I left the south. Looks like it might be going mainstream. theconversation.com/yall-that-most… via The Conversation U.S.

Last-minute holiday shopping? Pick up a couple of these! ⁦Ellen is at the Grammar Table⁩ ⁦Ellen Jovin

Two approaches to fairness. #strengths

Always *great* advice from Allison M. Vaillancourt "How to Run a Good Meeting" chronicle.com/article/how-to…

This just arrived. I am a huge jonah berger fan!

You must read this thread. My stomach has butterflies and I want to know how the story ends.

Love on a pencil. Brilliant.

Are you using your time well? Keith E. Edwards and I shared strategies and personal missteps in this StudentAffairsNOW podcast.

Higher education attendance linked to more kindness, and better health and civic engagement insidehighered.com/news/students/…

"in higher education, meetings are more than meetings. They’re not just tools for getting our work done. Meetings are what the anthropologist Helen B. Schwartzman calls “sense making” events" chronicle.com/article/how-to… Allison M. Vaillancourt Inside Higher Ed #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

There are many opinions about unions, but I continue to be impressed by Costco.

Best post of 2024! Thank you for making me laugh outloud, @NimishaBarton

Worrying is a cheap replacement for caring. Complaining is a cheap replacement for fixing. Outrage is a cheap replacement for supporting. It’s easy to tear down. It’s much harder to build up.

Culture change depends on micro-interventions—small adjustments to the structure, dynamics, or framing of interpersonal interactions, applied consistently over time. sb.stratbz.to/3vNcTmS via strategy+business