Illuminating Pathways: Building Relationships as a Center of One

Centering Centers

#Podcasting Education #Laura Baecher

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Chris Hakala and JT Torres talk about operating a center with very limited human resources. JT is a center of one, and in that role, he is working to build relationships, create educational development opportunities and support faculty and student teaching and learning. He does this by developing relationships. In the episode we discuss how JT is able to be so successful in an environment that is different than many in the higher ed world.

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70 episodes

Centering Centers

Illuminating Pathways: Building Relationships as a Center of One

Centering Centers

published about a year ago

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70 episodes

#Podcasting Education #Laura Baecher

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Centering Centers

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Ungrading (INED 2024) 33:34

24 days ago33:34

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What happens when we stop focusing on grades and start focusing on learning? In this episode of Centering Centers , we explore the practice of ungrading in higher education. Our guests reflect on how traditional grading systems can undermine motivation and share insights into alternatives like specifications grading, feedback-centered approaches, and project-based learning. Along the way, they discuss the challenges and opportunities of shifting mindsets and systems toward more meaningful, learner-driven education. Transcript…

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Moving From Faculty to Educational Developer (INED 2024) 30:24

5 weeks ago30:24

30:24

This episode explores the transition from faculty member to educational developer, highlighting how past experiences as students and instructors shape approaches to faculty support. They share insights into the challenges of course design, the value of community, and the ongoing learning required in their new roles. The conversation emphasizes how educational development work can help faculty reconnect with the purpose and joy of teaching. This episode is part of our series elevating the voices of New Educational Developers. It was recorded in July, 2024 as part of the Institute for New Educational Developers hosted by Temple University. Transcript…

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TIA - Virtual Gathering 35:59

31 weeks ago35:59

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Today’s episode features Elizabeth Dickens (University of Virginia) and Nausheen Shafiq (University of British Columbia) in discussion of a manuscript on curriculum developers in educational development, which is under review at To Improve the Academy . This is the fifth episode of the partnership between To Improve the Academy and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the curtain on the journal for our listeners, especially about our authors' research and experiences publishing in our journal. We look forward to bringing you regular conversations with our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and board members. Visit us at TIA: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/ Today’s episode was co-hosted by Liz Norelland Megan Robertson, who serve as co-editors of To Improve the Academy . It was recorded during the “Making Change, Taking Space” virtual gathering organized by disabled educational developers in June 2024.…

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TIA: Impacts of campus disruption on educational developers’ role-identity and teamwork 33:53

35 weeks ago33:53

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Today’s episode features Bill Pilny, Benjamin Brock, and Stephanie Laggini Fiore in discussion of their recent To Improve the Academy article, “Impacts of campus disruption on educational developers’ role-identity and teamwork.” The authors apply the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (or DSMRI) to the work of educational developers during the disruption of COVID-19 on our campuses. They present case studies of educational developers during that time and distill themes across the cases. This is the fourth episode of the partnership between To Improve the Academy and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the curtain on the journal for our listeners, especially about our authors' research and experiences publishing in our journal. We look forward to bringing you regular conversations with our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and board members. Visit us at TIA: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/ And the article we discuss today at: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/4263/ Today’s episode was hosted by Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi. Liz is co-editor-in-chief of To Improve the Academy , along with Megan Robertson (Simon Fraser University) and four assistant editors: Ebony Aya (Macalester College), Anna Bostick Flaming (University of Iowa), Will Hennessy (Algonquin College), and Jessi Hill (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). Transcript…

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Social Justice Advocacy in Educational Development 36:08

40 weeks ago36:08

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Dr. Kim Case, Senior Advisor for Organizational Culture to VCU's Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President for Inclusive Excellence. Dr. Case is a tenured professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and previously served as VCU's inaugural Director of Faculty Success in the Office of the Provost. Dr. Case’s work blends her roles as a social justice educator, faculty developer, and mentor with a passion for inclusive pedagogy and anti-racism training. She’s also the author of several books on teaching about privilege and intersectionality. In this interview, she shares her insights on how social justice scholars navigate and transform academia. Transcript…

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Transforming Support for Adjuncts: Insights from Liza Bolitzer 34:58

42 weeks ago34:58

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Dr. Liza Bolitzer is an experienced researcher, teacher and project manager dedicated to advancing teaching and learning in higher education. She uses qualitative methods to study how college faculty, institutional leaders, and higher education professionals can advance college students' academic learning. She has shared her work in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice and The Journal of Faculty Development. As an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Kean University, she teaches graduate level courses on qualitative methods and educational leadership and collaborates with her faculty colleagues on advancing support for doctoral students.…

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Adrianna Kezar - Dispelling the Myths 37:29

44 weeks ago37:29

37:29

Adrianna Kezar is the Dean’s Professor of Leadership, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. Dr. Kezar holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in higher education administration from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined the faculty at USC in 2003 after serving at the University of Maryland and George Washington University as a faculty member. Dr. Kezar is a national expert of change and leadership in higher education and her research agenda explores the change process in higher education institutions and the role of leadership in creating change. Adrianna’s change and leadership research has been used by government agencies, accreditation bodies, foundations, state systems, consortium, and individual campuses to forward change agendas and initiatives and me leadership research has been used to design leadership development among national associations, consortium of colleges, and campus-based leadership programs. She also regularly consults for campuses and national organizations related to her work on diversity/equity/inclusion, non-tenure track faculty, STEM reform, collaboration, and governance. She is an international expert on the changing faculty and she directs the Pullias Center’s Delphi Project on the Changing faculty and Student Success . She is regularly quoted in the media related to her research including: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, The Atlantic, PBS, NPR (national and local stations), Al-Jazerra, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education , among others. Kezar is a national expert on change, governance and leadership in higher education. Dr. Kezar is well published with 25 books/monographs, more than 130 journal articles, and over 100 book chapters and reports. Recent books include: Shared Leadership in higher Education: Responding to a Changing Environment (2021) (Stylus Press); The Gig Academy (2019) (Johns Hopkins Press), and Administration for Social Justice and Equity (2019) (Routledge). She has acquired over $22 million dollars in grant funding and has worked on grant-funded projects exceeding $35 million dollars on a variety of projects to fundamentally improve higher education. She is currently principal Investigator for the PASS Project : A mixed methods study of a comprehensive college transition and success program for low income students funded by The Buffett Foundation. She is an AERA fellow and has received national awards for her editorial leadership of the ASHE-ERIC report series from ASHE, for developing a leadership development program for women in higher education from ACE, and for her commitment to service learning from the National Society for Experiential Learning. Transcript…

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Academic Librarians as Educational Developers? 22:37

46 weeks ago22:37

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Today’s episode features Jane Hammons (The Ohio State University), who talks about her recent To Improve the Academy article, “Academic librarians as educational developers: Overview, case study, and discussion.” An academic librarian who offers faculty-facing information literacy workshops, Hammons argues that educational developers may have untapped allies in instructional librarians. Her article offers an example of one such partnership and a robust discussion of how identity can impact how educational developers and librarians conceptualize these partnerships. This is the third episode of the partnership between To Improve the Academy and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the curtain on the journal for our listeners, especially about our authors' research and experiences publishing in our journal. We look forward to bringing you regular conversations with our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and board members. Visit us at TIA: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/ And the article we discuss today at: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/4263/ Today’s episode was hosted by Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi. Liz is co-editor-in-chief of To Improve the Academy , along with Megan Robertson (Simon Fraser University) and four assistant editors: Ebony Aya (Macalester College), Anna Bostick Flaming (University of Iowa), Will Hennessy (Algonquin College), and Jessi Hill (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). Transcript…

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Embodiment & AI with Susan Hrach 53:22

1 year ago53:22

53:22

For some, artificial intelligence represents the latest development in an age-old series of fantasies about escaping our vulnerable, imperfect, animal bodies. Humans have continuously developed tools to boost our capabilities; in the case of AI, we’re amplifying the speed of cognitive processes. But what capacities remain distinctively human? Dr. Susan Hrach is the author of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Award-winning book Minding Bodies: how physical space, sensation, and movement affect learning (WVU Press, 2021). As an undergraduate, she spent a year studying at the Universität Innsbruck, Austria, which shaped her lifelong interests in world literature, translation studies, and global education. Her international teaching experiences inform her on-going research and practice. In 2022-23 she served as Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Carleton University in Ottawa. Currently Director of the Faculty Center and professor of English at Columbus State University in Georgia, Dr. Hrach has been recognized by the University System of Georgia with a statewide Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award; she has also served as a scholar for the USG’s Executive Leadership Institute. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation and provides executive coaching within and outside of higher education, incorporating embodied strategies to support mental and physical wellbeing. Transcript…

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Goose Leadership & Empathy Migrations 50:25

1 year ago50:25

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Kelly Ferris Lester , Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, received her BFA in Theatre and Dance from the University of Memphis, her MFA in Choreography and Performance from The College at Brockport (SUNY), and her Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi. Lester is a Professor of Dance. Prior to her role as Associate Vice Provost, Lester was the inaugural director of the Center for Faculty Development. Lester is featured throughout the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) courses demonstrating evidence-based teaching practices, and she regularly presents in the realm of educational development on her work in leadership development, application of the creative process to the classroom, and building community, belonging, and mattering in the classroom. Here's the link to Lester’s piece " Empathy Migrations " that she referenced in our conversation. Transcript…

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Behind the Scenes with TIA 35:56

1 year ago35:56

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In the second of our new To Improve the Academy (TIA) partnership episodes on Centering Centers, Associate Editor, Liz Norrell (Associate Director of Instructional Support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi), Marina Smitherman (Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Dalton State College in Northwest Georgia and Editor in Chief of TIA) and Megan Robertson (Educational Developer at Simon Friesen University in British Columbia, Canada, and Associate Editor with TIA), speak about the forthcoming call for assistant editors to join the team – a brand new role they hope will expand pathways into journal editorship and lower the bar for those who may not be sure they want to make a multi-year commitment. They also discuss the joys and challenges of the role and dig into specific topics like fixing the peer review system, developmental editing, and supporting authors to bring out their best. Transcript…

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Leadership Pathways: Cultivating Equity in Education 38:24

1 year ago38:24

38:24

Chris Hakala talks with Dr. Leslie Alvarez about her move from psychology to educational development. Dr. Alvarez recounts her work with marginalized students and its impact on her path to faculty development, highlighting the role of equity in teaching. She discusses building a faculty development program and her transition to a director role amid the pandemic. Dr. Alvarez's experience underscores the importance of teaching centers in promoting inclusive education and meeting academic challenges. Transcript & AI Generated Episode Summary…

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TIA: Evidencing the Value of Educational Development: Charting a Course on the Waves and Winds of Change 33:29

1 year ago33:29

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Today’s episode features Jovan Groen (Western University), Carolyn Ives (Thompson Rivers University), and Veronica (Roni) Bamber (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh), who talk about their recent To Improve the Academy article, “Evidencing the value of educational development: Charting a course on the waves and winds of change,” which they wrote with coauthors Carolyn Hoessler (Thompson Rivers University), Corinne Laverty (Queen’s University), and Klodiana Kolomitro (Queen’s University). This international group traces its roots back to a Canadian group of educational developers. They wanted to keep working and writing together, and eventually invited in Roni Bamber from Scotland. Their piece provides a RUFDATA-inspired framework for evidencing the value of centers for teaching and learning. This is the first episode of our new partnership between the journal and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the curtain on the journal for our listeners, especially about our authors' research and experiences publishing in our journal. We look forward to bringing you monthly conversations with our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and board members. Visit us at TIA: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/ And the article we discuss today at: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/1715/ Today’s episode was hosted by Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi. Liz is also an associate editor of To Improve the Academy , along with associate editor Megan Robertson (Simon Fraser University) and editor Marina Smitherman (Dalton State College). Transcript…

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Illuminating Pathways: Building Relationships as a Center of One 33:14

1 year ago33:14

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Bridging Dialogues: Partnering with To Improve the Academy 35:47

1 year ago35:47