Tara Singer

My predecessors posted a weekly piece entitled “The Friday Letter.”  While I like the concept of posting on Fridays and at the end of a work week, I am taking the liberty to retitle this post as “Friday Fusion.”  So much of O∆K is the intersection of great ideas, the five phases of collegiate leadership,…

Today marks the completion of my first full week as the new Executive Director of Omicron Delta Kappa.  It is such an honor to serve our members and organization in this capacity.  In the last five days we have interviewed candidates for the Centennial Fellow position, confirmed the dates for the winter board meeting (January 10…

I’ve had the fortune (or misfortune) of sitting through a good number of commencement ceremonies in my career; both as the recipient of a degree and  as a member of the platform party and/or the marching/hooding faculty. Commencements at once serve as both the culmination of one’s academic course of study, while signaling the beginning…

It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. Kathy Smith as an At-Large Member of the Society’s Board of Directors. Dr. Smith’s appointment is effective May 1st. She will succeed COL Thomas Hiebert who is stepping down from the Board due to his military deployment abroad. The Board of Director’s approved Dr….

The “field of 64” (really 68) has been set, and the annual rite of spring known as “March Madness” is upon us. Beginning this evening, men’s college basketball teams will compete through six rounds of tournament play to become national champions. For sports junkies the proverbial “brackets” have been filled in and each has identified…

At ODK’s national convention in Charlotte this summer, I said we could not underestimate the “transformational potential of information technology,” particularly for advancing the strategic goals of ODK. As you may know, the Society has sought to address ‘technology’ issues during the better part of the last decade. In order to conduct a whole sale…