Professor Walter V. Wendler writes a column for seven newspapers in Southern Illinois each week regarding the university and its place in the world. While these pieces have direct application to Southern - Our University - they also have value in other higher education settings. These articles are posted on his website at http://walterwendler.wordpress.com/.

Follow

Submissions from 2016

PDF

Our Universities: Degree Production, Walter V. Wendler

Submissions from 2013

PDF

Our Universities: Five Cost Lowering New Year’s Resolutions, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Admissions Standards, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Educating a Workforce, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Creating a Powerful Corporate Culture, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Place and Culture, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: People, Purpose, Principle, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Culture and Energy, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Corporate Confidence, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Yes-Men and Corporate Citizenship, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Liberal Arts and China, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Lessons from California and China, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Adjunct Faculty, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: A Canary in the Mine, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Contemplating a Career?, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Bankruptcy – Financial and Moral, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: One Size Fits One, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Function and Finance, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Bureaucracy and Morality, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Fifteen Dollars a Week, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Borders of the Mind, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: All That Glitters Is Not Gold, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: A Cacophony of Concerns, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Agility, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Hybridization, Walter V. Wendler and Walter V. Wendler

PDF

A Fearful Future?, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Debt and Learning: Cause and Effect, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Rules and Regulations, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Hire Power, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Learned Helplessness, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

The Presidency, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Selecting the Right College, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Solvency, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Micromanagement, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Boards, Leadership, Politics, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Leadership and Stock Value, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: $10K–B. A., Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Everyone Must Have a B.A. or B.S.?, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Students and Their Aspirations, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Students and Their Aspirations, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Mr. Big, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: $10K–B. A., Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: What am I, or Who am I?, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Demographic Shift, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Human Touch, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Research Funding and Value, Walter V. Wendler

Submissions from 2012

PDF

Our Universities: Undergraduate Research, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Locality and Vitality, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Roots, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Intent and Research, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Research Matters, Absolutely, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Strictly Business, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Morality of Cost and Value, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Serving the Public Good, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Community College Innovation, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Governance, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Institutional Pride, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Learning Not To Care, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Image, Reputation and Babble, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Creating Victims, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Blame Game, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Liberal Education, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Cost and Competition, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Performance Measures, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Spirit and Tradition, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Principles and Pragmatics, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: College Towns, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Great, Gray Fountain, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Capital of Confidence, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Campus Castles, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Research and Resources, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Sports Spending, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Giving, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Cost of Remediation, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Enormity of the Cost, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: The Flow of Dollars, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Open Letter to High School Graduates, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Passing the Buck, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Enough to go Around, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Elitism, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Transparency, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Outsourcing, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Where is the Leadership?, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Bread and Circuses, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Community College Prejudice, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Campuses and Systems, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Habit, Tradition, Culture, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Traditions, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Collegiate Cronyism, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Certification, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Competition, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Rockin’ Robin, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our University: Marriage, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Sowing and Reaping, Walter V. Wendler

Submissions from 2011

PDF

Our University: Summertime, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Eighteen Inches, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Me, Me, Me, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Mission Evolution? Nay. Revolution!, Walter V. Wendler

PDF

Our Universities: Luxuries and Necessities, Walter V. Wendler