This is a reflection I wrote after a trip to Kazakhstan in May 2024. It narrates our travels and how it relates to my thoughts on higher education organizational behavior. I spend some time thinking about one of the theories I can’t seem to quit, isomorphism.
What lesson’s might history hold for U.S. Higher Education’s Institutional Autonomy? TLDR (keep some Large Language Model related carbon out of the atmosphere and just skim this section if your in a hurry) This post is going to use the historical example of Ronald Reagan's
This post extends some thinking and justification for this blog’s existence beyond the inaugural post. Specifically, my desire to embrace a posture of sharing and reflecting as the two primary modes of digital existence.
Hello there. What My name is Nicolas Babarskis and this site serves as a public journal of my thinking on colleges and universities. I have 14 years of experience working in postsecondary education settings, primarily in student support services, and for the last 3 years I have been pursuing a
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