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	<title>Dr. Phil Wood</title>
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		<title>A New Year</title>
		<link>http://macdrphil.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/a-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
After a 4 month hiatus I&#8217;m back to blogging. Hopefully some of the new readers will be parents of new McMaster students. It was a pleasure to meet some of you at Welcome Day on August 8th. Last year at this time my blog was an introduction to myself and Student Affairs. Since I&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=36&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Delicate Balance of Security versus The Provision of Help to Troubled Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, the following is the presentation I made at the CAUBO Workshop: Emergency Preparedness of Canadian Campuses: an executive perspective; March 27 and 28, 2008; Toronto, ONHere is the link to the actual Powerpoint presentation:
“Student Counselling to Recognize “at risk” Individuals and how to Intervene before Violence Occurs”
Below is the text of my presentation.
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		<title>Catching Up: Violence and Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time between posts! I took a bit of vacation and then had a lot of work to get caught up on. Now there is far too much happening to even focus on a single issue. However, I have been asked to speak at a workshop: http://www.caubo.ca/pandemic/workshops_emergency_agenda_e.cfm . The workshop is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=31&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The NCAA Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s posting will be all about athletics. A number of things have crossed my desk in the past few weeks that deserve comment. I’ll start with an article by James Mirtle that appeared in yesterday’s Globe: “NCAA grass might not be so green”. The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division II paved the way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=30&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of news items this week relate to topics that I’ve blogged on in the past and will form the basis for this week’s posting.  The first was a story by Marc Fisher that appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday:  “At Va. Tech, Near Silence for a Student&#8217;s Anguished Cry”.
A young man named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=29&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research Over Head!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s posting I’ll be wearing another of my hats – that of a full Professor in chemical engineering. My motivation for the blog comes from an article by Elizabeth Church that appeared in the Globe and Mail: “Will Alberta’s energy boom revolutionize higher education?”. The thesis of the article is in its second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=28&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rock and Roll!</title>
		<link>http://macdrphil.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/rock-and-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the middle of December. Students have just finished their exams and between parties, I’m tying up some loose ends before I begin trying to clean up my office. I always clean my office during the Christmas break. My style is to create piles of files during the term instead of filing things away properly. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=27&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maclean&#8217;s Rankings</title>
		<link>http://macdrphil.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maclean&#8217;s magazine has been ranking Canadian universities since 1992. Although Maclean&#8217;s made the first rankings in Canada, they appear to have copied the U.S. News and World Report who have been ranking U.S. universities since 1983. As I&#8217;ve mentioned in previous posts, there are several ways to &#8220;rank&#8221; or &#8220;rate&#8221; universities. The Globe and Mail&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=26&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Cold Shot to Responsible Drinking</title>
		<link>http://macdrphil.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/a-cold-shot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write about the Macleans magazine University Rankings this week but events late last week caused a change in plans. Hopefully I&#8217;ll have something to say about Macleans later this week or early next week. Last Wednesday evening I received the press release: &#8220;Agency announces launch of Molson Canadian Cold Shots Campus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=25&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ranking Universities</title>
		<link>http://macdrphil.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/ranking-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ranking season is upon us. What started in the U.S. with the US News and World Report moved to Canada 16 years ago when Macleans did their first ratings. Since then, in Canada, we have had new satisfaction surveys done by the Canadian University Consortium (CUSC) and more recently The Globe and mail as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macdrphil.wordpress.com&blog=1668976&post=24&subd=macdrphil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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