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I start most days by checking email and reading/scanning various newsletters.   I work from what I like to think is a holistic, almost intuitive sense of direction, and that seems to require immersion in information.   I wish I did a better job of retaining specific sources and details, but at this point in my life I’m going to roll with my strengths and not worry too much about my deficits.   (That’s a shout-out to all my strengths-based leadership friends!) I realize that most people lack the time to invest that I do in exploring ideas, whether through reading online newsletters, networking, or otherwise pursuing new developments.   I hope to provide a brief series of posts, here, to capture a few key elements, as I think they might relate to administrators at branch campuses or other small public and private institutions. I recommend that anyone interested in emerging change subscribe to at least two online resources that I check out every day. ...

By far the most read post on this blog is titled Characteristics of Branch Campuses, and it was posted July 11, 2007.   If you want to read it, you can find it at http://branchcampus.blogspot.com/2007/07/characteristics-of-branch-campus.html .   Be warned:   When I first started posting, I wrote some relatively long entries. One of the challenges in writing about branch campuses, never mind building a base of research on branches, is the lack of clear definitions or a shared understanding of what makes something a branch.   My piece on “characteristics” was an attempt to describe what I called an “idealized” branch, but there are many, many variations across the country. A few days ago, I saw a list of “10 Satellite Campuses With Impressive Reputations All Their Own” on a site called thebestcolleges.org.   ( http://www.thebestcolleges.org/?s=satellite )   I’m familiar with nearly all of these campuses, and there are interesting stories al...