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Steve MacQueen is the Executive Director of the Vermont International Film Festival, a position he has occupied since June of 2023. He has been a curator and arts administrator since 1998, heading multidisciplinary programs in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina before coming to Vermont. He was the Artistic Director for the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and Burlington Discover Jazz Festival from 2012-2022. From 2022-2023, he was the Executive Artistic Director of Circus Smirkus, the iconic youth-cirque troupe based in Greensboro, VT. Prior to his arts-admin life, he spent 10 years as a reporter and arts writer for daily newspapers in Florida. He is a double-graduate of Florida State University, where he earned his BA in English/Film Studies and his MA in Arts Administration.

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Steve MacQueen is the Executive Director of the Vermont International Film Festival, a position he has occupied since June of 2023. He has been a curator and arts administrator since 1998, heading multidisciplinary programs in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina before coming to Vermont. He was the Artistic Director for the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and Burlington Discover Jazz Festival from 2012-2022. From 2022-2023, he was the Executive Artistic Director of Circus Smirkus, the iconic youth-cirque troupe based in Greensboro, VT. Prior to his arts-admin life, he spent 10 years as a reporter and arts writer for daily newspapers in Florida. He is a double-graduate of Florida State University, where he earned his BA in English/Film Studies and his MA in Arts Administration.

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Episode 168- Innovating Through Debate: Insights with Paul Mabrey and Michael “Mike” Davis 52:43

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Paul Mabrey is Director of Student Success Analytics and Associate Professor in Communication Studies at James Madison University. His work bridges holistic student success, data analytics, communication education, and civic engagement to improve the transformative impacts of higher education. At JMU, he leads the Early Student Success Quality Enhancement Plan and campus-wide student success & retention efforts, collaborating on campus-wide initiatives that integrate academic, well-being, basic needs, and co-curricular data to close success gaps and improve outcomes. A scholar of debate pedagogy and democratic engagement, Paul has collaborated and published on how debate-based pedagogy can improve student learning, student success, and contribute to the civic mission of higher education. He has received grants and led projects supporting debate across the curriculum, data-informed student success, civic learning, and the integration of high-impact practices. Paul regularly presents nationally on student success, analytics, engaged pedagogy, and institutional transformation. Dr. Michael “Mike” Davis began his tenure as the 27th President of Fairmont State University in July of 2023 and immediately committed himself to positioning Fairmont State as the best regional university in West Virginia. Using the insights he gathered from listening to countless constituents ranging from students to faculty and staff, community members, business partners, international partners, and state legislators, he guided the creation of a robust Strategic Vision. This vision — for the University to become a Great Place to Learn, to Work, and to Call Home — will guide Fairmont State throughout the next decade as it seeks to educate engaged citizens in a community distinguished by opportunity, growth, and achievement, and delivers transformational impact for West Virginia and beyond.…
 
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Episode 167- Leadership and Legacy in Education with Duncan Harris 54:32

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Dr. G. Duncan Harris has had an illustrious 30-year career in higher education, most recently serving as the CEO of the Capital Campus of Connecticut State Community College (formerly Capital Community College) in Hartford, CT, from 2018 to 2025 where he was responsible for the strategic direction and daily operations of the campus. The Capital campus hosts CT State’s largest nursing program, a number of innovative higher education partnerships with companies like Accenture, Travelers, and Pursuit Aerospace, and is known for its success in providing access to careers that disrupt cycles of poverty and equity gaps for its students, 70% of whom are Black and Hispanic. Dr. Harris is recognized as an expert in student success and retention, community college collaboration with non-profit and corporate entities, and takes pride in his role as a mentor/coach to many community college professionals. Prior to his tenure at CT State Capital, he served in a number of roles including – chief academic officer, chief student affairs officer, counselor, coordinator of advising and was the founding executive director of the CSCU Kresge Student Success Center. Prior to his work in higher education, he had a career in banking and finance. He has served on a number of boards during his tenure including the New England Board of Higher Education, the American Association of Community Colleges Economic Development and Workforce Commission, the National Council on Black American Affairs, Windsor Federal Bank, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum. He has received many awards for his contributions to the community, including the CT African American Affairs Man of the Year and the NAACP 100 Most Influential Blacks in CT Award. He holds a Doctorate of Education from Nova Southeastern University, a Master of Science degree in counseling from Central CT State University, a Bachelor of Arts in economics from UConn, and a certificate in Management and Leadership from Harvard University. He is an proud, active, lifetime member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He resides in Windsor with his lovely wife of 24 years, Garcia, and two children, Grant, a junior, and Grayson, a freshman, both attending Hampton University.…
 
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Episode 166- Preserving Institutional Values with Phil Cavalier 51:07

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Dr. Phil Cavalier was named the 13th president of Kutztown in Pennsylvania on April 30, 2025 and will begin his tenure on July 7th. For the previous seven years, he served as the provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He also served as Interim Chancellor at the University of Tennessee at Martin from March to August 2023. Some of Dr. Cavalier’s accomplishments during his tenure at UT Martin include leading the university in creating a strategic plan for 2025-30, developing a two five-year strategic enrollment plan, guiding the university to a record-high 77% retention rate for first-year students, adding several new academic programs, and building a UTM in Siena, Italy study abroad program. Prior to his appointment at UT Martin, Dr. Cavalier served as the provost at two residential liberal arts colleges, Lyon College in Arkansas and Eureka College in Illinois. During the 2005-6 academic year, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he taught American literature at two Ukrainian universities and delivered lectures throughout Ukraine as well as in Estonia and Egypt. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the University at Buffalo, an M.A. in English from Northeastern University, and a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College.…
 
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Episode 165- Empowering First-Generation Students with Maria Erb and Anthony Jack 56:18

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Maria Dykema Erb , M.Ed. is the Inaugural Executive Director of the Boston University Newbury Center which was established to foster the holistic development and success of first-generation undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Maria has over three decades of higher education experience having worked at the University of Vermont, Elon University, Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and currently at Boston University. She has worked in a broad range of areas including Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging; student recruitment/admissions, enrollment management, academic advising, retention, and outreach; academic dean’s office and graduate/professional school program administration; and student affairs/life. As a proud first-generation college graduate, Maria holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire and Master of Education degree from The University of Vermont (UVM). As a higher education and student affairs practitioner, Maria has shared her scholarship through numerous presentations and book chapters. Most recently, she has chapters in: Know That You Are Worthy: Experiences from First-Generation College Graduates; A Handbook for Supporting Today’s Graduate Students; A Practitioner’s Guide to Supporting Graduate and Professional Students; and Fostering First Gen Success and Inclusion: A Guide for Law Schools (in press). Anthony Abraham Jack , Ph.D. is the Inaugural Faculty Director of the Boston University Newbury Center and Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership at Boston University. His scholarship appears in the Common Reader, Du Bois Review, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, and the Sociology of Education and has earned awards from the American Sociological Association, American Educational Studies Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Eastern Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Tony held fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation and was a 2015 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. In 2016, The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan named him an Emerging Diversity Scholar. In May 2020, Muhlenberg College awarded him an honorary doctorate for his work in transforming higher education. The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Huffington Post, The Nation, American Conservative Magazine, The National Review, Commentary Magazine, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Times Higher Education, Vice, Vox, and NPR have featured his research and writing as well as biographical profiles of his experiences as a first-generation college student. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019) was awarded the 2020 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, the 2019 CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary Scholarship, and the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize and was also named a finalist for the 2019 C. Wright Mills Award and a NPR Book’s Best Book of 2019. It is available in English and Chinese. His second book, Class Dismissed: When College Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price (2024), received a Starred Review from Kirkus Reviews, was named a finalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Education from Foreword Reviews, and earned the 2025 PROSE Award for Education Theory and Practice by the Association of American Publishers.…
 
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Episode 163- Graduate and Professional Student Success with Dan Volchok 40:37

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Dr. Dan Volchok is currently the Assistant Dean of Student Success at Harvard University’s Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In this role he supports nearly 5,000 Master’s and PhD students studying in 57 graduate programs across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Dr. Volchok is responsible for most non-academic support services including student conduct, policy development and review, major events such as orientation, convocation and commencement, emergency management and collaboration with university services including disability services, general counsel, health services, registrar, campus police and international students. Prior to Harvard, Dr. Volchok was Associate Dean of the Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences where he was responsible for all student, faculty and academic affairs within the school. In addition to supervising admissions, registrar and program services, he managed student affairs, advised the students government and helped develop new academic programs. He was previously Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Life at Northeastern University and Director of Graduate Program and Student Services at Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Dr. Volchok is also currently adjunct faculty in the Northeastern College of Professional Studies Graduate School of Education where he teaches a variety of courses in the Master’s program, including Higher Education Law and Policy, as well as acting as Dissertation Chair for doctoral students in the EdD program. Dr. Volchok continues to advocate for graduate and professional students through his professional positions and work with the NASPA Administrators in Graduate and Professional Student Services Knowledge Community. Dr. Volchok earned a Bachelors in Business Administration and MBA from Ohio University and an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University.…
 
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Episode 162- Pathway Out of Poverty with Teresa Rivenes 47:29

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Teresa R. Rivenes is currently the Senior Vice President for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, also known as the NWCCU, which is a previously regional and now international accreditation agency. Before this role, Dr. Rivenes served as the Vice President at Umpqua Community College and as the Vice President of Academic and Student Services at Tillamook Bay Community College, both located in Oregon. At both institutions, she focused on systemic change, transforming struggling assessment processes into shining examples of assessment and accreditation success. She also led the first faculty teams in Oregon to eliminate developmental education classes and implement guided self-placement for all students. Prior to this, Dr. Rivenes was the Dean of Instruction at Rogue Community College, where she became the first administrator nominated by faculty for The League for Innovation Excellence Award for outstanding leadership in cross-campus first-year experience initiatives. Prior work included serving as the Director of Academic Success for Great Falls College—Montana State University, the Campus Center Director and Faculty for Park University, and the Academic Director and Faculty for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Rivenes has also served as the co-chair of the statewide Transfer Council, which is developing Common Course Numbering and Transfer Degree Maps across all state institutions in Oregon. Dr. Rivenes is a proud community college graduate and first-generation student. She earned her Master’s and PhD in Psychology, focusing her research on the impact of self-esteem on cross-cultural adoption, with a focus on Native American self-esteem and cultural identification. She then went on to earn her EdD from Montana State University, where she earned the Land Grant Student of the Year award and the Distinguished Scholar Award for her research in community college governance and unfunded mandates. Dr. Rivenes has continued to teach psychology and sociology classes because she is passionate about student success and loves being in the classroom. She is also passionate about relationship-based management, strategic planning for long-term success, innovative educational solutions, and building community partnerships that support student success and economic mobility. Since 2013, she has served as an NWCCU peer accreditor. Dr. Rivenes is a proud completer of the Oregon Institute for Leadership Development, the Future President’s Institute through the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), a 2020-2021 NWCCU Assessment fellow, a 2023-2024 Gardner Institute Chief Academic Officers Innovation Community member, and a lifelong American Association of University Women (AAUW) member.…
 
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Episode 161- Technology for All Students with Nariman Farvardin 45:55

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Dr. Nariman Farvardin , Stevens Institute of Technology's seventh president since 2011, has transformed the university into a nationally prominent technological research powerhouse. Under his leadership, undergraduate applications surged 294%, enrollment rose 62% and career outcomes reached an impressive 96.8% of graduates employed or in graduate school within six months. Farvardin's tenure has driven a 199% increase in research funding and $500 million in campus improvements, including the landmark University Center Complex. His innovative academic initiatives and creation of new research centers have positioned Stevens at the forefront of technology education, preparing graduates to excel in an increasingly complex, technology-centric world. Access his full bio at //stevens.edu/president . Contact: president@stevens.edu…
 
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Episode 160- Intentional Innovation with Drew Koch 55:03

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Dr. Koch is a child of immigrants who came to the United States in pursuit of a better life. His first language was not English, and postsecondary education was valued by his family as a means for realizing the American Dream. A recipient of need-based aid while in school, Koch is a staunch advocate for and leader of efforts that increase student access to and, ultimately, completion of postsecondary education. He has worked in and with higher education institutions for over 30 years. He has done so since 2010 at the Gardner Institute where he was named Chief Executive Officer in 2021. Dr. Andrew Koch has substantive experience with undergraduate education administration, redesign of educational systems to address performance gaps, strategic planning, fundraising, reaffirmation of accreditation, postsecondary access and success, and enrollment management efforts. His work includes extensive grant writing and fundraising with support coming from sources such as Ascendium Education Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ECMC Foundation, GEAR UP, Kresge Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Inc., Lumina Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Koch holds a baccalaureate degree in history and German from the University of Richmond, a master’s degree in history from the University of Richmond, a master’s degree in higher education administration from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American Studies. He was an American Council on Education Fellow in 2013-14. Dr. Koch’s scholarly and professional interests are focused on student success and the ways in which colleges and universities both reflect and shape democracy and culture in the United States. Through this work, he serves as a passionate advocate for historically underrepresented and underserved students – seeing higher education as a vehicle for advancing equity and social justice. He is the author of an array of publications such as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions of The First-Year Experience in American Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography as well as Improving Teaching, Learning, Equity, and Success in Gateway Courses: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 180. He is the co-editor of The Transfer Experience (Stylus, 2021). His solo-authored book on " Transforming the gateway course experience: A call to action for higher education " was recently published. Koch has served on several boards and commissions including the Gardner Institute’s Board of Directors; the Board of Directors for Asheville Empire Youth Lacrosse; the Indiana College Access and Success Network; the Directorate Board for the American College Personnel Association Commission on Admissions, Orientation, and the First-Year Experience; the Military Family Research Institute; the Higher Learning Commission’s Think Tank on Persistence and Completion; the Higher Learning Commission’s Defining Student Success Task Force; the advisory committee for the Association of American Colleges and Universities Strengthening Guided Pathways and Career Success by Ensuring Students are Learning project; the National Advisory Board for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition; and the editorial review board of the Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Dr. Koch lives with his wife, Dr. Sara Stein Koch, and their six children in Mills River, North Carolina. In their spare time, he and his wife enjoy hiking with their children; attending their children’s track, soccer, and lacrosse events; gardening; and reading. To contact Drew, email him at koch@jngi.org.…
 
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Episode 159- Graduate Student Orientation with James Black and Marc Ebelhar 53:17

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James Black, Ph.D. is an administrative faculty member currently serving as the Director of Student and Academic Affairs in the Office of Graduate Education at Georgia Tech. He reports to the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education and is a member of her leadership team. In his role as director, he supports a team of faculty and staff that manages student services and success programs for Tech's more than 8,000 on-campus master's and doctoral students. These services and programs address all phases of the graduate student life cycle and graduate student experience. He is the creator of GT6000, an Institute-level, 8-week graduate student first-year experience and extended orientation program. His team oversees graduate student hiring policy compliance for over 4,500 graduate assistants, the administration of over $10M in annual fellowship funding including 120 on-tenure students supported on the NSF GRFP, and thesis and dissertation processing. He is active in shared governance at Georgia Tech chairing and serving on multiple Institute committees and advisory boards. Before joining the Office of Graduate Education, he completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech doing research on a novel droplet levitation technique utilizing a fluid property called thermocapillarity. While a graduate student, he served as Graduate Student Body President in the Student Government Association. Outside of Georgia Tech, he recently served as the President of the Georgia Council of Graduate Schools, a state-level professional organization that advocates for graduate education in Georgia and currently serves on the national board of directors for Theta Chi Fraternity. He’s also a part-time CrossFit coach, amateur gardener, sci-fi nerd, and father of two young children. Marc Ebelhar, Ed.D. is an academic professional that serves as graduate student success specialist in the Office of Graduate Education and the instructor of record for GT6000. In this role, he leads the implementation of the GT6000 program along with supporting the assistant instructor and 45 student leaders. Marc has over 20 years’ experience as a higher education professional with a primary focus in graduate education, students in transition, LGBTQIA allyship, and campus housing. Marc earned a bachelor of arts in economics and political science from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY, a master of education in higher education and student affairs from the University of South Carolina, and a doctorate in student affairs leadership from the University of Georgia. Outside of work Marc enjoys playing tabletop board games, is a proud supporter of Memphis Grizzlies basketball and Leeds United football and loves to explore the cuisine, culture, and community of Buford Highway with his partner, Christina.…
 
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Episode 158- Supporting Graduate and Professional Students with April Perry 45:44

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Dr. April Perry (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the M.Ed. Higher Education Student Affairs program and serves at Department Head/Chair for Human Services at Western Carolina University. Her research is primarily on college student identity development, career development, student transitions, and institutional initiatives for student success. She is the co-editor of the recent book - A Practitioner's Guide to Supporting Graduate and Professional Students (Routledge, 2022). As a practitioner, April has worked in Student Leadership Programs, Parent & Family Programs, Fundraising & Marketing, Academic Tutoring Services, Graduate School Administration, and has served in various leadership roles in the academy such as Department Head, Assistant Department Head, Interim Associate Dean of the Grad School, and HESA Graduate Program Director. In 2016, April received the WCU Graduate School’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring. In 2017, she was named Outstanding Professional in Graduate and Professional Student Services by NASPA's AGAPSS Knowledge Community. In 2020, she was selected for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Blue Ridge Stand Out (14 under 40). In 2022, she was honored with NASPA AGAPSS’ Outstanding Contribution to Research and the Profession Award, and also in 2022 received NASPA Faculty Council’s Outstanding Support for Graduate Students Award. In 2024, her book was selected for the Outstanding Publication Award by NASPA’s Faculty Council. April is passionate about student/human development and lives by the motto that 'the only thing better than watching someone grow is helping them grow.'…
 
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Episode 157- Providing Time and Space with Cate Denial 51:49

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Cate Denial is the Bright Distinguished Professor of American History and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. A winner of the American Historical Association’s Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching award , Cate has served as a member of the Educational Advisory Committee of the Digital Public Library of America , as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and as a Learned Scholar for the National Historic Landmarks division of the National Park Service. Cate currently sits on the board of Commonplace: A Journal of Early American Life . She has held an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship from the American Philosophical Society, and is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. Cate is a pedagogical consultant who works with individuals, departments, and institutions in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. Cate’s new book, A Pedagogy of Kindness , argues that instructors and institutions of higher education must urgently focus on compassion in the classroom; the book is available from the University of Oklahoma Press. Issues of care animate Cate’s work. Between 2022 and 2023, Cate was PI on a $150,000 grant awarded to Knox College by the Mellon Foundation, bringing together thirty-six participants from across higher education in the United States to explore “Pedagogies, Communities, and Practices of Care in the Academy After COVID-19.” In 2024, Cate was also a participant in the NSF-funded “Convening of Care” project, directed by the American Association of Geographers and the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Cate’s historical research has examined the early nineteenth-century experience of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing in Upper Midwestern Ojibwe and missionary cultures , research that grew out of Cate’s previous book, Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country (2013). She is presently researching the life of Susan Richardson, an African-American woman who escaped from slavery to establish herself in Galesburg, Illinois in the 1840s. As founder and director of the Bright Institute at Knox College, Cate oversees a program which supports thirteen faculty from liberal arts schools across the United States in their teaching and research for three years. Each fellow attends an annual two-week summer seminar on new scholarship in early American history, and receives $3,500 in research funding per year.…
 
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Episode 156- Connections are Everything with Peter Felten, Leo Lambert, Oscar R. Miranda Tapia, & Isis Artze-Vega 1:01:18

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Isis Artze-Vega , Ed.D. serves as college provost and vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College in Central Florida, a Hispanic-Serving Institution that serves about 70,000 students annually and has long been regarded one of the nation’s best community colleges. Isis Artze-Vega provides strategic leadership for the areas of curriculum, assessment, faculty development, distance learning, career and workforce education, and partnerships for educational equity. Prior to joining Valencia, Isis served as assistant vice president for teaching and learning at Florida International University (FIU), leading such efforts as a gateway course project, a hybrid course initiative, and the comprehensive redesign of teaching evaluation. Prior to joining FIU, she taught English composition and enrollment management at the University of Miami. Most importantly, she is the proud wife of visual artist Sinuhe Vega; the proud mami of Kamilah, 13, and Delilah, 11; and forever indebted to extraordinary parents, Mayra and Elias. Her work is fueled by a commitment to equity and justice, implemented through love and service. Peter Felten Ph.D., is an assistant provost for teaching and learning, executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and professor of history at Elon University. Peter Felten has published seven books about undergraduate education, including Connections are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) co-authored by Isis Artze-Vega, Leo Lambert, and Oscar Miranda Tapia – with an open access online version free to all readers. He has served as president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) and also of the POD Network , the U.S. professional society for educational developers. He is on the advisory board of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) . Leo M. Lambert is President Emeritus and Professor at Elon University. Lambert served as president from 1999-2018, leading Elon’s rise to national prominence by promoting a student-centered culture that values strong relationships between students and their faculty and staff mentors. Focused on developing students as global citizens, ethical leaders and creative problem-solvers, Lambert led two strategic plans, creating a model for the modern liberal arts university. Oscar R. Miranda Tapia is a Research Associate at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and a Policy Intern at North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities. He is also a PhD student and Provost Fellow at NC State University, pursuing a degree in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, with a focus on higher education opportunity, equity, and justice. Prior to his doctoral studies, Oscar led the first-generation initiative at Elon University. He is a co-author of Connections are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education and holds a bachelor’s degree from Elon University and a master’s degree from Harvard University.…
 
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Episode 155- From History to Impact with Chaouki Abdallah 1:04:47

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Chaouki T. Abdallah became the tenth president of the Lebanese American University (LAU) on October 1, 2024. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President for Research at The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), from September 2018 until September 2024. Under Dr. Abdallah’s leadership, research expenditures at Georgia Tech increased significantly from approximately $850 million at the start of his term in 2018 to $1.45 billion as of December 2023. Dr. Abdallah previously served as the 22nd president of the University of New Mexico. His efforts there contributed to an 8% increase in first-year student retention and a 125% increase in four-year graduation rates. A prominent expert in control theory and systems engineering, he has authored eight books, serving as co-editor for three of them and co-author for five. Additionally, he has contributed to more than 400 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Abdallah is deeply committed to guiding students and has personally mentored 36 Master’s degree and 16 Ph.D. candidates. Dr. Abdallah studied at the Faculté d’ingénierie of the Université Saint-Joseph in Lebanon before continuing his studies in the United States at Youngstown State University in Ohio, where he obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in 1981. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1982 and 1988, respectively. Dr. Abdallah is a native of Rachana, a village in northern Lebanon known for its beautiful sculptures, where his parents still reside. He and his seven siblings are all first-generation college graduates, thanks in part to the hard work of their parents. Dr. Abdallah met his wife, Catherine, also an engineering graduate, at Georgia Tech. She is the president of a global supply chain company. Their twin sons are Carter, a software engineer in Silicon Valley, and Calvin, who just began medical school.…
 
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Episode 154- Engaging with Learning Centers with Amanda Haney-Cech 58:07

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For nearly a decade, Amanda worked in TRiO programs, spending a year with Talent Search and the next nine leading an Upward Bound project. In 2008, she joined the staff at Marietta College directing the Academic Resource Center (ARC). As the Director of the ARC, Amanda has led the center in tremendous growth including such activities as developing the PioPREP Academy bridge program, the Campus Food Pantry, and co-advising the Tri-Alpha first-generation national honor society to name a few. Under her direction, the ARC has achieved and renewed national certification from the College Learning Center Association’s (CRLA) International Tutor Training Program Certification team. In 2021, The ARC was named the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) Frank Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award winner for four-year institutions. Amanda has been recognized for her outstanding service at Marietta College, receiving honors for numerous areas of service. She was recently named the Distinguished Alumna of the year by Washington State Community College for outstanding professional achievement. In addition to her role in the ARC, Ms. Haney-Cech teaches First Year Experience (FYE) courses, a gender studies course, and the PIO 101 and 102 Pio Pathway courses. Amanda is highly active both on campus and off, working with myriad committees and organizations that promote student success and positive staff engagement. Amanda has been active in promoting academic success and the value of the learning center profession on the state and national level as well. She has served on the board of directors for the Association for the Coaching and Tutoring Profession (formerly ATP), Ohio TRiO (formerly OAEOPP), and most recently, the Ohio College Learning Center Association (OCLCA) where she was engaged with the founding board for the NCLCA affiliate. Amanda has presented numerous conference workshops over the past 20 years and was the featured keynote speaker at the New York College Learning Skills Association annual conference in November of 2021.…
 
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Episode 153- Understanding Curricular Complexity with Greg Heileman 1:03:34

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Gregory (Greg) L. Heileman, Ph.D., currently serves as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, where he is responsible for facilitating collaboration across campus to strategically enhance quality and institutional capacity related to undergraduate programs academic administration. He has served in various administrative capacities in higher education since 2004. Greg Heileman’s experience includes work in the areas of faculty development, institutional research, accreditation and academic program review, curriculum management, student success, academic advisement, tutoring, student health & wellbeing, student conduct, budget and finance, economic development, policy development, information technology and data governance, and strategic planning. From 2017-2019, he served as the Associate Provost for Student & Academic Life and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky, where he was responsible for providing vision, leadership and strategic direction for campus-wide student success efforts, while also serving as the university’s Chief Student Affairs Officer. From 2011-2017, he served as the Associate Provost for Curriculum and then as the Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning and Innovation at the University of New Mexico (UNM). During that time, he led campus-wide student academic success initiatives, and worked with key stakeholders on campus, to produce all-time record retention and graduation rates. His work as a professor began in 1990 when he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UNM. He subsequently advanced through the academic ranks to Professor. He has more than 170 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of machine learning and data analytics, information security, and student success in higher education. His research activities have generated more than $9,000,000 in external funding, and he has served as the advisor for 48 M.S. and Ph.D. students. From 2005-2011 he served as Associate Chair (Director of Undergraduate Programs), and led the department through two ABET accreditation visits. In 2011 he became an ABET program evaluator. In 2009 he was also awarded the IEEE Albuquerque Section Outstanding Educator Award. He was the recipient of ECE’s Lawton-Ellis Award for combined excellence in teaching, research, and student/community involvement in 2001 and again 2009. He held ECE’s Gardner Zemke Professorship from 2005-08. He received the School of Engineering’s Teaching Excellence award in 1995, and the ECE Department Distinguished Teacher Award in 2000. During 1998, he held a research fellowship at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and in 2005, he held a similar position at the Universidad Politénica de Madrid. He earned the BA degree in Biology from Wake Forest University in 1982, the MS degree in Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1986, and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1989.…
 
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Episode 152- Learning to Learn Courses with Taylor Acee and Russ Hodges 58:49

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Dr. Taylor W. Acee is professor in and program coordinator of the Graduate Program in Postsecondary Student Success in Learning, Literacy, and Mathematics at Texas State University. His research is focused on college student learning, motivation, and self-regulation, and assessments and interventions related to these areas. A major area of his research and practice is focused on postsecondary learning-to-learn courses. Faculty profile: https://faculty.txstate.edu/profile/1921174 Dr. Russ Hodges is an associate professor in the College of Education at Texas State University (TXST), where he co-created and teaches graduate courses in the doctoral and master's program in Postsecondary Student Success in Learning, Literacy and Mathematics. Dr. Hodges also coordinates the university's learning frameworks courses for undergraduates. His current research focuses on postsecondary student success interventions including learning-to-learn courses, peer-mentoring, peer-tutoring and academic coaching. Among his many publications, Dr. Hodges is co-author of Handbook for Academic Transformation: The Road to College Success (2015, 3rd ed., Pearson), and co-editor of The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peer Tutoring (in press, Rowman & Littlefield), and Handbook for Training Peer Tutors and Mentors (2012, CRLA & Cengage). Dr. Hodges has held leadership positions including treasurer and president of the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA), chair of the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA), and co-founder and current co-editor of the Journal of College Academic Support Programs ( J-CASP ). Dr. Hodges has received many awards throughout his career including the Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Award , TXST, 2020 ; Gladys R. Shaw Outstanding Service to Developmental Education Students Award, National Association for Developmental Education, 2016; Distinguished Teaching Award, CRLA, 2015; Teaching Award of Honor, TXST Alumni Association, 2015 ; National Fellow, CLADEA, 2009; Lifetime Achievement Award, College Academic Support Programs, 2008, and the Robert Griffin Long and Outstanding Service Award, CRLA, 2007.…
 
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Episode 151- Duane Williams- Creating Tradition 46:01

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Duane A. Williams , Ph.D, is the Associate Vice Provost of Student Success and Retention at TexasA&M San Antonio. In his role, he oversees Undergraduate Academic Advisement, the StudentAcademic Success Center, First-year Experience, and other student success-related initiativeswithin the Division of Academic Affairs and the Office of the Provost. In his role, Dr. Williamsworks collaboratively with other university divisions, academic leadership, and various campusunits to develop, implement, and evaluate student success initiatives. Before Texas A&M - San Antonio, Dr. Williams served in several Directorship roles at MontclairState University, New Jersey. Specifically, he served in the Office of Student Belonging, in theCenter for Leadership and Engagement, and in the Office of Academic Success and RetentionPrograms. In this role, he spearheaded a broad range of programs and activities that supportedstudents' transitional experiences and fostered a sense of belonging. These included multipleareas such as First Year Student Orientations; First-Gen Initiatives, international student supportservices, veteran and military student certification, adult and transfer student programs,advising and engagement initiatives; and an array of leadership development experiences. Before Montclair State University, Dr. Williams had served as a Director in the Center forAdvisement and Student Success at Hudson County Community College, New Jersey. There, hewas able to develop a comprehensive understanding of the non-traditional and first-generationstudent population. Being a first-generation student, Dr. Williams has enjoyed working oninitiatives that directly and indirectly affect the success and retention of students during theircollege years. With a formal management and public administration background, Dr. Williams has utilized hisorganizational leadership skills to support and create policies and practices that affect studentdevelopment and ultimately, student success. Dr. Williams earned his Ph.D. in Family Scienceand Human Development at Montclair State University.…
 
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Episode 150 - Andy Person- Active Engagement in Student Support 51:12

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Dr. Andy Person serves as the Chief of Strategy and Advancement at Long Island University, a nationally recognized research institution, where he leads transformative initiatives to drive institutional growth, enhance strategic planning, and advance the university's mission. With over two decades of leadership experience in higher education and maritime institutions, Dr. Person is recognized for serving on executive teams that increase enrollment, retention, accreditation excellence, research development, and partnerships that foster workforce development. Dr. Person's career spans notable leadership roles at SUNY Maritime College, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Mercy University, where his innovative approach has consistently delivered measurable results. A former U.S. Navy officer, Dr. Person brings a unique perspective shaped by his service aboard aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. His hands-on maritime expertise, combined with his strategic acumen, positions him as a forward-thinking leader dedicated to preparing students for success in a competitive, globalized world. At Long Island University, Dr. Person's vision emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to academic and institutional excellence, ensuring the university remains a leader in higher education.…
 
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Episode 149- Digital Education with Nuno Fernandes 1:01:03

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APUS President Nuno Fernandes is a visionary leader who has been successful in making online higher education more affordable and accessible, while delivering top-quality education and favorable student outcomes. As the fifth President of APUS, he is focused on a global digital journey that integrates personalized, collaborative, technology-driven learning experiences to prepare students for tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities. Mr. Fernandes has a wealth of experience driving innovation across higher education, technology, and business. He has been serving as APUS President since September 2022. Previously, Mr. Fernandes was president and CEO of Ilumno, the largest online program manager in Latin America, and among the top 3 globally (in terms of managed students, which numbered 300,000). He served in several roles with increasing responsibilities at the company for over a decade. Mr. Fernandes was instrumental in improving student retention, student satisfaction, graduation rates, and reputation at the company’s owned and partner universities. He also led efforts to expand access to higher education in several countries. Prior to his roles in higher education, Mr. Fernandes accumulated over a decade of experience in the consumer goods industry at Bosch, where he undertook numerous international assignments and held various leadership roles. Born in Porto, Portugal, Mr. Fernandes holds a Master of Business Administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Porto. He has also participated in several executive education programs at Harvard Business School and Carnegie Mellon University, among others. Mr. Fernandes is trilingual, speaking English, Spanish, and Portuguese. To see what Nuno comments on often, please visit LinkedIn: Nuno Fernandes | LinkedIn Read his works: The EdUp Experience: Differentiate or Die: Navigating the Landscape of Higher Education The Evolllution Modern Campus: Reimagining Higher Ed: It’s Time to Embrace Change (and Technology)…
 
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Episode 148- Amber Fallucca, Ambra Hiott, & Silvia Patricia Rios Husain- The Carolina Experience 53:08

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Amber Fallucca serves as the inaugural Director of the Carolina Experience, University of South Carolina’s focus on providing access to a comprehensive undergraduate experience through an emphasis on transfer, sophomore, junior, and senior student experiences. Prior to joining Carolina Experience, Amber served as USC’s Quality Enhancement Plan Director on integrative and experiential learning. Amber also serves as affiliate faculty in the College of Education at USC where she earned her PhD in Higher Education Administration. Ambra Hiott currently serves as the Director of the Leadership and Service Center at the University of South Carolina. People recognize her expertise in student leadership, addressing basic needs insecurity, student governance, community partnerships, student involvement, and resolving conflict. She has previous experience in a variety of higher education functional areas including orientation and transition programming, residence life, and student activities. She earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Student Affairs Leadership from the University of Georgia. Dr. Silvia Patricia Rios Husain serves as the Associate Vice President for Student Success within the University of South Carolina’s Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support. Her career spans over 20 years in higher education, with a deep commitment to fostering student success and enhancing the student experience. As AVP, she provides strategic direction and oversight to University 101 Programs, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Career Center, Student Success Center, and Carolina Experience. The Carolina Experience is a new initiative to make the entire four-year student experience as impactful as the first year. This initiative leverages and scales peer leadership and structured collaboration while focusing on students’ career readiness and overall health and well-being.…
 
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Episode 147- Colleen McCabe- Getting to Know your Learners 51:44

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Dr. Colleen McCabe serves as the Provost and Vice President for the Wisconsin Technical College System. In this role, she provides leadership and administrative oversight for the development and delivery of technical college educational programs, student services and assessment, economic development and adult and ELL education. Prior to this position, she served for 14 years as a K-12 educator, and most recently served as a professor and the department chair of Health and Human Performance at UW-Platteville. At UW-Platteville, her duties for the past 17 years included teaching, directing the development, implementation, and assessment of three programs, and the professional development and evaluation of department faculty and staff. In all, Colleen has over 39 years of experience in education including 20 years in leadership within higher education.…
 
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Episode 146- Jamia Stokes- Leading Postsecondary Innovation in Tennessee 45:04

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At the time of this podcast recording, Jamia led SCORE’s postsecondary strategy, relying on her deep experience in higher education to build relationships in the field to ensure all Tennessee students have access to postsecondary opportunities that prepare them for a career. Jamia joined SCORE in 2022 as senior director of postsecondary pathways. Prior to that, she served as dean of student success at Rhodes College, worked as an admissions counselor at UT Chattanooga, and held positions at UT Knoxville in career services, teacher education recruitment/retention, academic advising, and student services. Jamia serves on the advisory board for the University of Memphis K-12 Schools and The Schools of Perea, a Memphis public charter school. A Knoxville native, she is a proud graduate of Tennessee public schools. Jamia earned a bachelor’s in communication and a master’s in public administration from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and holds a PhD in higher education administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.…
 
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Episode 145- Marta Mohr- Belonging to a System 52:14

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I'm newly retired and in the process of sorting through 40 years of books and papers! My professional life has been shaped by a variety of experiences, including my childhood in South Dakota, my experiences at rural and tribal colleges and universities, travels to Latin America and the South Pacific, nonprofit agency and board leadership, teaching undergrad and graduate students, and advocating for social justice. These experiences have taught me how to approach student concerns holistically and to trust the student’s instincts and my own. I seek to bring a diversity of viewpoints to find creative solutions to complex problems, whether that's in a large system workgroup or in a classroom. I was educated at the University of Sioux Falls, graduating with a degree in Psychology, and Sioux Falls Seminary, where I served as a graduate teaching assistant and was awarded a Masters in Counseling. When I became a licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and Chemical Dependency Counselor, I provided clinical supervision and executive leadership to a large nonprofit organization that provided K-12 prevention education to an 18,000 student school district, outpatient treatment services, city/county detox services, county jail and state prison treatment programs, a halfway house for men coming out of treatment and the state’s first halfway house for women and their children. I returned to graduate school at South Dakota State University, where I was accepted into the Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta, and awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy. The field research for my dissertation, Higher Education in Rural America: A Study of Northern Plains American Indian and Non-Indian Attitudes, Aspirations, Expectations and Perceived Barriers, was conducted with over two hundred people living within a twenty-five-mile radius of Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Reservation, home of the federally recognized Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Chief Spotted Tail (Sinte Gleska), was noted for his interest in bringing education to his tribe. In 2008, I came to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system to work with stakeholders across the system’s 54 campuses to develop, implement and assess academic programs and transfer policies and procedures. The Minnesota Legislature had just passed degree credit cap legislation, and my first assignment was working with the seven state universities and 30 colleges to reduce associate degree programs to 60 credits and baccalaureate degree programs to 120 credits. During my tenure I facilitated the system’s Transfer Governance Team, sat on the Policy Council, Graduate School Council, and the Transfer Pathway Coordinating Team, charged with improving student transfer through the development of 26 “Transfer Pathways” designed to guarantee acceptance of all associate-level and junior status for students transferring to the system universities.…
 
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Episode 144- Ron Cole- Sharing Innovation Goals 50:01

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Ron Cole, Ph.D., is the 23rd president of Allegheny College. As president, he leads the senior leadership team of the College to drive holistic student success and an interdisciplinary, 21st century education. Under his direction, the College has implemented a bold Strategic Pathway that emphasizes five primary goals focused on academic excellence, broadened academic offerings with an emphasis on student engagement, community and economic development, a vibrant and inclusive campus and financial sustainability. The message has boosted student enrollment and resonated with benefactors, as Allegheny College’s largest and most ambitious campaign ever, “In for Allegheny: Our Pathway Forward,” launched in the 2024-25 semester has already shattered records for donor support in the College’s 210-year history. After serving as a faculty member for 20 years, Dr. Cole became provost and dean of the college in 2015. He held a range of leadership positions (including department chair, faculty moderator and a member of the trustee diversity task force), and he chaired the natural science division, faculty council, the faculty review committee, and finance and facilities committee. As chief academic officer, Dr. Cole promoted data-informed change to improve student success that led to revisions to first-year curriculum and course sequencing in STEM and humanities fields and new structures to unify and advance holistic student advising. He established student retention as a top collaborative priority at the College through the Gardner Retention Performance Management program, achieving a five percent increase in first-to-second year retention within two years. Dr. Cole planned and led strategic work to achieve operational savings while investing in new programs including Informatics, Business, Art/Science and Innovation and the Allegheny Lab for Innovation and Creativity. Dr. Cole advanced diversity of faculty and the curriculum with an interdisciplinary cohort program in race, gender and/or social justice. He was recognized in 2021 by the Council of Independent Colleges with their Chief Academic Officer Award. As a teacher-scholar, Dr. Cole received the Allegheny College Thoburn Award for Excellence in Teaching and established an active student-focused undergraduate research program in the geosciences with more than $500,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society and the American Chemical Society. He was named by City & State PA to their 2022 Power 100 list and Trailblazers in Higher Education in 2023. He is a sought-after speaker and has authored more than 100 published articles and book chapters. Dr. Cole is a proud alumnus of Allegheny College, having earned a B.S. in Geology in 1987. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of Rochester (NY).…
 
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Episode 143- Michael Benitez- Using Your Influence 56:20

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Michael Benitez, Ph.D. is a nationally acclaimed educator in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education, often called upon by colleges and universities, community organizations and corporations nationwide for his deep knowledge and practice of innovate equity and inclusion-based strategies and approaches to address some of higher education’s most pressing diversity, equity, and inclusion issues and challenges. Over the past two decades, Benitez has served higher education in different capacities, including academic and student affairs; diversity, equity and inclusion; and teaching. He brings deep knowledge and experience working in and leading areas in student success, organizational leadership and culture, intercultural development, race and ethnicity, policy and practice, inclusive leadership and pedagogy, and institutional equity, and has authored book chapters and articles on identity development, cultural centers and ethnic studies, hip hop culture, institutional research and campus climates, and faculty development. Dr. Benitez has been featured in educational documentaries, contributed to online magazines, scholarly databases, books, and peer reviewed journals, is often invited by media outlets to conversations on issues of significance, and collaborates with leading national scholars and practitioners. Dr. Benitez has assumed roles at several institutions throughout his career, including Penn State University, Dickinson College, Lafayette College, Grinnell College, and the University of Puget Sound. He completed both his B.S. and M.Ed. at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), where he gained interest in pursuing doctoral studies as a TRIO student and McNair Scholar, his Ph.D. at Iowa State University, and has been recognized with multiple leadership and scholarly awards throughout his career, including the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences Alumni Achievement Award. Dr. Benitez joined MSU Denver in 2019 as vice president for Diversity and Inclusion, where he also serves as an Associate Professor of Multicultural Education the School of Education. Dr. Benitez also serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE), is highly engaged with the National Conference on race and Ethnicity (NCORE) and serves as a subject matter expert for Colorado Inclusive Economy (CIE).…
 
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Episode 142- Kate Lehman- Supporting Changing Demographics 37:00

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Dr. Kate Lehman serves as Director of the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (NRC) where she provides leadership for all center operations, strategic initiatives, conferences and events, publications, and scholarly and research activities. The NRC is the trusted expert, internationally-recognized leader, and clearinghouse for scholarship, policy, and best practice for all postsecondary student transitions. Kate also serves as an affiliated faculty member in the University of South Carolina’s Department of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry. Dr. Lehman’s research interests center on the major selection process for first- and second-year college students, experiences that promote student retention and success in their major field (particularly STEM and computing fields), and the college-to-career transition. Prior to joining the NRC, Kate served as co-founder and Associate Director of Momentum: Accelerating Equity in Computing and Technology and as Assistant Academic Researcher and Assistant Adjunct Professor in UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies. Over her 12 years at UCLA, Kate worked alongside Dr. Linda Sax to establish Momentum ’s reputation as a leader in computing education research. Kate continues to serve as co-PI on Momentum ’s NSF-funded study of students at Center for Inclusive Computing institutions.…
 
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Episode 141- Thomas Ranzweiler- Shaping a News Career 44:59

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Tom Ranzweiler is an Edward R. Murrow award-winning and Emmy-nominated senior producer for NBC News. He currently oversees a two hour block of primetime programming for the networks pioneering free 24-hour streaming platform NBC News Now. He previously worked as a producer for NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and Al Jazeera America. Ranzweiler graduated from Monmouth University in his home state of New Jersey with a bachelor’s degree in communications.…
 
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Episode 140- Bryan Dewsbury- Fostering Connection in the Classroom 1:03:11

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Bryan Dewsbury, Ph.D is a Gardner Institute Fellow and an Associate Professor Biological Sciences Florida International University. He serves as a Teaching and Learning Fellow at the Gardner Institute. Bryan Dewsbury is the principal investigator of the Science Education and Society research program, which focuses on the social context of teaching and learning in a variety of education contexts. He is ultimately interested in helping to re-frame the education discussion to better address questions of equity and community-building. His work addresses pressing issues such as student retention in STEM fields (especially in higher ed), the under-representation of minority groups in certain STEM fields, and the role of affect (instructor and student) in promoting student learning gains. He also use the results of those efforts to help faculty develop inclusive curricula and sense of community in the classroom.…
 
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Episode 139- Nido Qubein- Applying a Business Perspective 1:12:13

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Dr. Nido Qubein serves as the president of High Point University where, even in the middle of the Great Recession, he increased enrollment by 261%, grew net assets from $56M to almost a billion dollars, created 10 new academic schools – most recently adding the Workman School of Dental Medicine, and attracted $500 million in philanthropic investments. His family is among the institution’s most generous donors. Qubein has led HPU’s total enrollment this year to a record-breaking 6,040 students this year, HPU’s largest ever enrollment. He came to the United States as a teenager with limited knowledge of English and only $50 before going on to build business partnerships in banking, real estate, publishing, and retail businesses. Prior to his role as HPU president, Dr. Qubein rose to prominence as an internationally known author and consultant who has given more than 7,500 presentations worldwide. He serves on the corporate boards of several Fortune 500 companies including Truist, the 6th largest bank in the nation, La-Z-boy, and Savista . Qubein is also executive chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company. As a member of the Piedmont Triad Partnership executive committee, Qubein participates in discussions regarding industry recruitment and job-creation among many other important regional topics all tied Piedmont Triad economic growth. Additionally, President Qubein has previously chaired the Economic Development Corporation in High Point and the High Point Chamber of Commerce. He is inducted into the Horatio Alger Association for Distinguished Americans, along with Oprah Winfrey and Colin Powell. He is also the recipient of the DAR Americanism Award and, along with four U.S. presidents, the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Dr. Qubein has also been recognized as both the Citizen of the Year and Philanthropist of the Year in his home city of High Point. Most recently, he was named the Honorary Chairman for the internationally recognized PGA Wyndham Championship.…
 
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Episode 138- Akilah Martin- Access to Learning for Everyone 38:29

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Akilah A. Martin serves as an Assistant Vice President for the Gardner Institute. In this role, Dr. Martin serves as one of the leads for the Institutional Transformation Assessment project. Akilah A. Martin, Ed.D., began her higher education career pathway as a TRiO advisor with Lone Star College, and she continued in higher education, holding positions in admissions, student activities, and advising. Akilah served as the Alvin Community College’s director of dual enrollment and then the director of college and career pathways, championing pathways reform for the institution. In 2020, Akilah became the first Black dean of students in Alvin Community College’s 70-year history. Dr. Martin last served on a campus as dean of student transition and academic engagement at Texas Southern University, and most recently served as a strategy director with Complete College America. Akilah holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Southwest Texas State University, a master’s degree in Counselor Education from Texas Southern University, and a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership – Higher Education from the University of Houston–Clear Lake. As an Assistant Vice President for the Gardner Institute, Dr. Martin serves as one of the leads for the Intermediaries for Scale project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As a first-generation college student who struggled to find her academic stride, during her junior year in undergraduate school at (Southwest) Texas State University, she finally realized that she could be successful in college. During that year, she joined the first African-American Sorority founded in 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Inc., and she learned the value of time management, which led her to academic success for the first time ever! Akilah went on to earn a Master’s degree from Texas Southern University in Education and a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Houston – Clear Lake. As an only child to parents who did not pursue higher education, Akilah’s educational journey developed within her a passion for students who have been able to succeed beyond their environment and circumstances. Her passion is evident in how she serves students, ensures their sense of belonging, and roots for their success in and outside of the classroom! Akilah has managed to positively impact students for over 20 years through her Student Services work as a student activities coordinator, academic advisor, director of programs, adjunct faculty, and Dean of Students. Akilah’s passion and experience with K-12, community colleges and universities has now led her to the Gardner Institute, where she brings her knowledge, strengths, and skillset to help cultivate relationships and influence policies that will significantly impact the educational experience of students across the states. Akilah is mom to her 17-year-old high school senior! She enjoys creating memories (outside as much as possible despite the Houston heat) with family and friends. Traveling has become more of an interest, and she loves Christmas movies.…
 
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Episode 137- Gerald Whittington- Innovation and Purpose in Finance 1:03:31

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As Special Assistant to the President at Elon University, Mr. Whittington provides strategic leadership for the President on projects and initiatives assigned by the President in all areas of the campus. Formerly, Gerald Whittington was the Senior Vice President for Business, Finance and Technology at Elon University serving from January 1992 to June 1, 2019. He also served as the Corporate Treasurer of the Elon University Board of Trustees and Corporation. He was the Vice President for Business and Finance at Agnes Scott College and has served in the administration at the University of Virginia, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2018, Mr. Whittington was named the national Distinguished Business Officer by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). This is the highest and most prestigious award and honor offered by NACUBO. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Duke University. Mr. Whittington is regularly a national speaker on the topics of higher education finance, institutional planning and construction. Additionally, he is a member of NACUBO and SACUBO and is a finance and administration evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.…
 
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Episode 136- Oscar R. Miranda Tapia- From Challenges to Change 1:00:14

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Oscar R. Miranda Tapia is a Research Associate at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and a Policy Intern at North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities. He is also a PhD student and Provost Fellow at NC State University, pursuing a degree in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, with a focus on higher education opportunity, equity, and justice. Prior to his doctoral studies, Oscar led the first-generation initiative at Elon University. He is a co-author of Connections are Everything: A College Student's Guide to Relationship-Rich Education and holds a bachelor’s degree from Elon University and a master’s degree from Harvard University.…
 
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Episode 135- Sarah Bunnell- Transforming Teaching Practices 38:58

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Sarah Bunnell is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University and Past-President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Bunnell is an internationally recognized leader in the scholarship of teaching and learning and faculty development. During her tenure at Amherst College, Bunnell partnered with Dr. Sheila Jaswal, Megan Lyster, and countless students and colleagues to assess, refine, and support colleges and universities across the country who have adopted and adapted the “Being Human in STEM (HSTEM)” course (see Bunnell, Jaswal, & Lyster, 2023, Routledge Press). This student, faculty, and staff co-designed course grew out of a 4-day student protest and occupation of the Amherst College library in 2015, in which students holding marginalized identities on campus spoke to their experiences of exclusion and lack of belonging on campus. Now taught across the country, HSTEM seeks to prepare students, faculty, and staff to face moments of challenge and crisis as partners. Through this work, Bunnell and colleagues are working to support educators across the country to work in partnership with their students to enable all individuals in the community to thrive, as full humans, in the academy.…
 
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Episode 134- Kimberly Koledoye- Defining and Developing Success 52:13

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Dr. Kimberly Koledoye is a professor of academic student success and serves as the program coordinator for the Houston Community College system. Additionally she teaches developmental and credit level English. She has made tremendous impact on the institution and statewide as a leader of development teams for First Year Experience courses and Developmental English redesigns. She possesses a Bachelor of Arts in English, Master of Education Administration, a Graduate Certificate in Rhetoric and Composition, and a Doctorate of Higher Education Leadership.…
 
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Episode 133- Meghan Gilbert– Supporting the Whole Student 54:09

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Meghan Gilbert is an Associate Professor of English and the Faculty Coordinator of the First Year Experience (FYE) at Guttman Community College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in English from St. John’s University. She has led and participated in several series on Implicit Bias Racial Literacy and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, as well as many additional workshops and sessions on equitable curriculum and pedagogy, which inform her practice in the classroom and, in particular, her efforts, as Guttman’s FYE Coordinator and former Coordinator of Writing and Writing Across the Curriculum, to center curriculum and pedagogy on anti-racism and linguistic justice. Dr. Gilbert’s recent book- and article-length publications focus on intersectionality and advocacy in contemporary popular culture and fiction. She is the co-editor of Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s Edited Book Award, and the forthcoming special issue of South Central Review , “Intersectional Feminist Detective Fiction,” her contribution to which was awarded a Popular Culture Association Earl Bargannier Award. She is writing a book-length manuscript, Composing an Anti-Racist Academy , about culturally responsive pedagogy, anti-racism, and linguistic justice in the Composition classroom and beyond, a version of which she has presented in spaces across the nation, including CUNY’s renowned Teaching Matters series and the nationally recognized Gardner Institute’s Symposium on Transforming the Post-Secondary Experience. She is a 2024 Gardner Institute Russell Edgerton Innovation Fellow, a 2023 Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, and a 2022 recipient of the American Association of Community Colleges’ Dale P. Parnell Faculty Distinction Recognition.…
 
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Episode 132- Robert Smith- Inspiring Innovation 1:01:05

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Dr. Robert (Bob) Smith is the University of Tennessee System’s Senior Advisor for Executive Leadership and Talent Development. In 2023, he took leave to serve as the Interim Executive Director for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, the state’s agency for coordination and state-wide policy guidance to all public institutions of higher education in Tennessee. Responsibilities included executing the state’s master plan for higher education, managing the state’s performance and quality outcomes formulas, as well as increasing degree attainment and protect students and consumers. Smith has devoted more than five decades of service to public higher education. In 1999, following administrative roles at Wichita State University and the University of Tennessee at Martin, he became the Provost at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (SRU) later president, retiring as President Emeritus in 2012. He was named Chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM) and Chancellor Emeritus for service between 2015 and 2017. Since 2017 in his current role, he created and directed the University of Tennessee Executive Leadership Institute and the Tennessee Higher Education Innovation and Leadership Fellows program for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. These two programs have helped prepare a new generation of executive leaders for all Tennessee public higher education sectors. In 1980-1981, he was competitively selected as a Fellow for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, serving in the Carter and Reagan administrations. His work has led to more than two dozen national institutional honors for innovation in enrollment management. In 2011, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers awarded him their inaugural “Strategic Enrollment Management Leadership” award. He has also been recognized as a "First-Year Student Advocate" by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition; and recipient of two national teaching awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). In 2005, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Letters from Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University in Udaipur India for his help in developing educational opportunities in rural India. Smith and his wife, Ramona, live in Franklin, Tennessee. His son and daughter-in-law live in Knoxville, Tennessee and his daughter and son-in-law live in Raleigh, North Carolina.…
 
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Episode 131- Leonard Cassuto- Student-Centered Graduate Education 52:51

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Leonard Cassuto wears many hats. He's a professor of American literature at Fordham University, a well-known voice of reform in the graduate school world, and--encompassing all of these--he's a writer. He has written or edited ten books on subjects such as race and slavery, detective stories, and of course graduate education. As a scholar and journalist, Len has written about science, music, and even sports. In more than a decade as a columnist on graduate education for The Chronicle of Higher Education ("The Graduate Adviser"), he has helped graduate schools think about how to change to meet the needs of changing students during exigent times. Len's newest book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter , takes in all of these pursuits. It's a pithy and witty handbook filled with advice and examples from across the arts and sciences--and it's also a hortatory call for academic writing that will build community with different kinds of readers, to serve the public good. We cover a lot of ground in this podcast conversation with Len, from his early career as a scholar, his concerns as a higher ed reformer, and the path that has led to his new book. Visit his website: www.lcassuto.com…
 
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Episode 130- John Lawless- Shared Dreams for Innovation 55:19

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John W. Lawless has many years of experience as a manager and CEO of business and non-profit organizations. His career began in the information systems division of McDonnell Douglas and includes the founding of HBOC, a nationwide healthcare information systems company. John Lawless was also involved in the establishment of several start-up companies and mergers, most notably the merger of Inforum and Medstat to create the Michigan-based firm of Medstat, a healthcare information company. Lawless has also served on the boards of several arts organizations and served as chair of the board for the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head,SC. Lawless is now retired and lives with his wife, Barbara, in Hendersonville, NC. Mr. Lawless served the Gardner Institute board for over 8 years. He brings a long history of making non-profit organizations even more viable in addition to his extraordinary business acumen and experience in strategic planning.…
 
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Episode 129- Wendy Ault- Connecting for Educational Development 50:07

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A Maine native, Wendy Ault is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She has worked as a reproductive health teacher and the Assistant Director of Admissions at Westbrook College (now the University of New England) in Portland, Maine. Wendy Ault served as University of Maine at Farmington’s Associate Director of Admissions for seventeen years. For eight years of her time at UMF, she ran and was elected to the Maine House of Representatives representing part of Kennebec County from 1988 through 1996. She served all eight years as a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs, serving as its House Chair during her last term. In September 1999, Ms. Ault became President of the non-profit Maine Educational Loan Marketing Corporation. When MELMAC was sold to a for-profit corporation in January 2001, the proceeds from that sale created the MELMAC Education Foundation. Since 2001 Wendy has been the Executive Director of the MELMAC Education Foundation. She lives in Wayne, Maine with her husband.…
 
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Episode 128- James Reardon- Social Aspects of Mental Health 52:43

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Dr. James “Jim” Reardon is a retired psychiatrist who resides with his wife in New Zealand. He came to the attention of this podcast by being the first supervisor of podcast host, John Gardner, when both Gardner and Reardon were THE “Psychiatric Clinic” at Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Carolina during the Vietnam War. Dr. Reardon was the Base psychiatrist and Gardner was his only psychiatric social worker. Together they provided mental health services for 8000 troops and 19,000 dependents during wartime. Jim is a perfect fit for this podcast because he was then an innovator right after finishing medical school, residency, and practice at a large California state mental hospital. Jim showed his impressionable and seven years younger subordinate how to do two things: 1) innovate in a profession where one successfully modified the status quo modality for “treatment” of patients for the kinds of challenges they were facing in the Air Force during war time; 2) innovate in a highly structured, disciplined and seeming inflexible military structure where to best serve troops some innovative approaches were greatly needed. While young John didn’t quite know it yet, his mentor, Jim Reardon, was teaching him a great deal about how to serve college students better and to enact change in a very traditional, centuries old structure. After the Air Force Jim went on to practice psychiatry for the next 50 years or so in both the United States and New Zealand. He and John continue to influence each other via Zoom on a regular basis. Jim hasn’t lost his mentor touch and John his openness to learn from other inspiring innovators.…
 
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Episode 127- Will Bryant- Compassion and Engagement 48:13

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Will Bryant is a native of Western North Carolina and was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 2021. Will holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Divinity degree from Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. With over 12 years of experience working in and among Episcopal congregations, Will is passionate about pastoral care, preaching, and youth ministry. He currently acts as the dean of the Asheville deanery. He is a product of Camp Henry, and he attended the diocesan summer camp for over a decade as a camper and counselor. He proudly serves on the Board of Directors for the Lake Logan Episcopal Center. Will is a proud alumnus of the Young Adult Service Corps of the Episcopal Church (YASC). Will completed two years as a YASC missionary, proudly serving at the Mission to Seafarers in Hong Kong, and St. Paul's Within the Walls Episcopal Church in Rome, Italy. When not at church, you can probably find Will out running or hiking on one of Asheville's many trails. He loves being outside, cooking, reading fiction, and playing backgammon. He and his wife, Molly, and their charming dog, Camper, live in West Asheville.…
 
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Episode 126- Will Bryant - Guiding Life Changes 51:09

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Will Bryant is a native of Western North Carolina and was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 2021. Will holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Divinity degree from Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. With over 12 years of experience working in and among Episcopal congregations, Will is passionate about pastoral care, preaching, and youth ministry. He currently acts as the dean of the Asheville deanery. He is a product of Camp Henry, and he attended the diocesan summer camp for over a decade as a camper and counselor. He proudly serves on the Board of Directors for the Lake Logan Episcopal Center. Will is a proud alumnus of the Young Adult Service Corps of the Episcopal Church (YASC). Will completed two years as a YASC missionary, proudly serving at the Mission to Seafarers in Hong Kong, and St. Paul's Within the Walls Episcopal Church in Rome, Italy. When not at church, you can probably find Will out running or hiking on one of Asheville's many trails. He loves being outside, cooking, reading fiction, and playing backgammon. He and his wife, Molly, and their charming dog, Camper, live in West Asheville.…
 
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Episode 125- Amy Goodburn- Centering Innovation 43:37

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Amy Goodburn is Senior Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) where she leads units in advising and career development, teaching and learning, and student retention and transition. Passionate about UNL’s land-grant mission to support access and equity, in 2017 she created First Generation Nebraska, a campus initiative to support first generation scholars. Goodburn has served as a board member and president for UERU, a board member for UNIZIN, and a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission. She was UNL’s institutional lead for the APLU Powered by Publics initiative from 2018-2023 and has led UNL’s First Scholars participation since 2018. From 2001-2013, Goodburn co-coordinated UNL’s Peer Review of Teaching Project, a faculty development program to document and assess student learning which won the 2006 TIAA-CREFF Hesburgh award. Her publications include Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Model for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Peer Review and Course Portfolios. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Political Science from Miami University and two Masters’ degrees in English Education and English and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from The Ohio State University.…
 
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Episode 124- Steve Ehrmann- Authentic and Sustainable Opportunities 58:22

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Dr. Stephen C. Ehrmann has dedicated over fifty years to supporting innovation in higher education through his roles as a researcher, grant-maker, consultant, and academic leader. He is currently exploring how institutions can simultaneously enhance the authenticity of learning, equity of access to degrees, and affordability. Throughout his career, Dr. Ehrmann has worked hundreds of institutions in the US and abroad, keynoted conferences, and authored three books and over one hundred articles. He holds a Ph.D. in Management and Higher Education from MIT. Dr. Ehrmann began his career at The Evergreen State College, where he evaluated the development of the institution. He also worked with administrators and faculty to help them get answers to their most important questions by doing research together. Today that practice is called the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. For the next 18 years, he served as a program officer, initially with the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and later with the Annenberg/CPB Project. During this period, he supported pioneering projects including early online degree programs, innovative faculty development approaches, novel program evaluation methods, multimedia databases for research and teaching, and a consortium for quality in non-traditional education. Dr. Ehrmann then became the founding Vice President of the non-profit Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (TLT Group), where he led the Flashlight Program. Flashlight provided innovative tools and methods for evaluating educational innovations, particularly in the use of technology. The Flashlight Program received the 1998 award for Best Contribution to Distance Learning Research from the United States Distance Learning Association and the 2001 Award for Outstanding Innovation in Distance Learning from the Instructional Technology Council. As Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at The George Washington University, Dr. Ehrmann established the university’s teaching center and directed its faculty development efforts. He led a cross-silo effort to make valuable and visible improvements in undergraduate research. Steve also created the GW Coalition for Teaching Support, uniting leaders from nearly 40 units and committees responsible for teaching support. During his tenure, he collaborated with leaders of new online degree programs to identify features that enhanced both recruitment and educational effectiveness. At the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, Dr. Ehrmann evaluated the University System of Maryland’s eight-year course redesign program. The redesigned courses typically had lower DFW rates and higher grades while saving faculty time. Undergraduate learning assistants were often a key factor in the success of large, redesigned courses. Dr. Ehrmann’s influential publications include "Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever" (co-authored with Arthur Chickering), "Asking the Right Questions: What Research Tells Us About Technology and Higher Learning," and "The Future of the Learning Space" (co-authored with Phil Long). His latest book, Pursuing Quality, Access, and Affordability: A Field Guide to Improving Higher Education , has been called “one of the most important books on higher education in decades.”…
 
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