A couple years ago I collaborated with our Interactive Arts & Technology Librarian on a series of posts about one of the "wicked problems" of our modern world: sustainability in the textile & fashion industries.

That series was published to support an interdisciplinary cohort of students in our Business of Design program, all of whom were working on projects to change the way fashion and its materials are designed, produced, purchased, and discarded... change of the sort that our world so desperately needs.

The word "change" is key here. The Business of Design program has changed to Make Change Studio, but the students involved are still trying to change the world, and they've returned to the topic of fixing fast fashion.

<Read on for an update and expansion of the original posts on fixing fast fashion!>

I'm very pleased to announce that SFU students and instructors now have access to the Harvard Business Publishing Student Success database. 

HBP Student Success includes two very useful learning resources: a collection of selected Harvard case studies plus a collection of "core curriculum" readings on foundational concepts...

<Read on for details, samples, tips, and more!>

A number of instructors and students have asked me about resources on critical thinking, so I thought I'd throw together a short list of titles on the topic.

I'll focus on ebooks because they are easier for you all to use in our pandemic world. We do, of course, also have some great print titles on this topic! 

<Read on for a thoughtful list of ebooks on thinking!>