Like many of you, I am getting ready to head out on the road and as I prepare, I wanted to share a few tips on how to get the most out of your time in car and in those hotels.  So, here are 7 survival tips as you “road warriors” get after it for yet another year: Get a binder. Oh yeah, it seems really old school, but putting all of your travel-related information into a 3-ring binder is the way to go.  Snag one of those 3-ring pouches, and suddenly you’ve got a place to store all of those receipts you accumulate.  Expense reports are not nearly the same headache when you’re...

I don’t usually use Admittedly Dutch as a forum for personal items outside of technology and recruitment for higher ed, but this is something I just have to share with those of you who keep up with this blog.  On April 23 at 8 PM, Dave Ramsey is sponsoring an event called “Town Hall for Hope.” In their words, “Town Hall for Hope is your opportunity to sit down with people in your community for a nationwide town hall meeting led by Dave Ramsey. Thousands of venues across the country will host the event, broadcasting Dave’s live presentation. In the opening half hour, Dave...

Note:  This post may seem to digress from the normal topics heralded in this blog, but I promise there’s a connection to technology and higher ed.  Read on to find out more! We were having dinner with friends last summer, and they were telling us about the amazing new cable service they had installed.  It’s called U-verse, they said, and instead of traditional cable service, AT&T actually delivers the TV over the internet. Loving technology, the idea of TV over the internet seemed pretty amazing to me.  I actually got up from the table (right in the middle of dinner), got my...

My job in recruiting students for higher ed embodies one particular challenge: the cohort I am trying to recruit will always stay the same age, and I am only going to get older!  In order to connect with these students and remain relevent, I feel like I have to know what’s going on in pop culture.  Having only graduated from college just three years ago, this isn’t currently that big of a challenge.  I imagine it will only become more difficult as the years go on. With that I would like to introduce my Pop Culture Picks.  From time to time I’d like to share music, TV, and movies...