FACET: Recent Episodes
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Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) is a community of Indiana University (IU) faculty members who are committed to being—and helping others to be—exceptional educators. FACET strives to further IU’s teaching mission by helping faculty explore new teaching methods, advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and connect with each other to form a university-wide network for teaching excellence. All of this enables them to focus on their ultimate goal: helping students learn.
Sylvia Martinez (FACET Class of 2025), Professor and Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at IU Bloomington, talks transformative teaching, reflecting on pedagogy and instructional practice.
Keely Floyd (FACET Class of 2025), Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at IU Indianapolis, reflects on nonlinear career paths, relational teaching, and supporting students across the full arc of their college experience. We apologize for brief audio overlaps and skips caused by technical issues during recording.
Justin Hodgson (FACET Class of 2025), Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric in IU’s Department of English, talks GenAI, digital pedagogy, and transformative teaching.
In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Dr. Laura Cruz — Research Professor at Penn State and Fulbright Specialist — to explore the future of teaching, learning, and academic innovation. From her experiences shaping higher education around the world to her insights as editor of the Journal of General Education, Dr. Cruz shares powerful stories about what it takes to inspire students, foster excellence, and make a global impact.
Sharon Pratt, Class of 2024, is an Associate Professor of Elementary and Literacy Education at IU Northwest.
Bethany Murray, Class of 2024, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing at IU Bloomington.
Peter Felten,executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning, professor of history, and assistant provost for teaching and learning at Elon University.
Torgny Roxå, Professor, Educational developer, Senior lecturer, Academic Development Unit at Lund University
José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College (voted a Top 10 Most Innovative College under his leadership). He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, pedagogy and D&I consulting and training in both higher education and for Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, Toyota, and Walmart.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with Bernice Pescosolido, FACET Class of 1989, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Pescosolido is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at IU Bloomington, and she shares how she had started advocating for teaching, learning, and excellence from the beginning of her career.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein FACET Director Michael Morrone and Julie Saam, Professor of Education, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at IU Kokomo, talk with former FACET Co-Directors Sharon Hamilton and Bob Orr, FACET Class of 1991, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Hamilton is a retired Professor of English, former Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and former Associate Dean of the Faculties for Integrating Learning at IUPUI. Orr is a retired Professor of Computer and Information Technology at IUPUI. They share about the impact FACET had on their teaching career, their experience as FACET co-directors, as well as how they had to adapt to new teaching styles and learning tools in the classroom.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with David Pace, FACET Class of 1994, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Pace is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of History at IU Bloomington, and he shares about the importance of enhancing one's teaching in a way that will include all students by not adhering to the analogy of "the ivory tower," as discussed on his website, Decoding the Ivory Tower.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with Kyle Forinash, FACET Class of 1992, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Forinash is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics in the School of Natural Science at IU Southeast, and he shares about his teaching experience while in the Peace Corps, as well as how he designed and implemented new technology in the classroom.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with Randy Isaacson, FACET Class of 1989, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Isaacson is a Professor in Educational Psychology at IU South Bend, and he shares how he practiced self-regulative learning and instituted a peer mentorship program that not only aided student learning and teaching but also enhanced his teaching.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein FACET Director Michael Morrone and Julie Saam, Professor of Education, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at IU Kokomo, talk with Nancy Greenwood, FACET Class of 2009, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Greenwood is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at IU Kokomo, and she shares her experience as an advocate for teacher scholarship and the science of teaching.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with Suzi Shapiro, FACET Class of 1993, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Psychology at IU East, and she shares how technology has impacted her both inside and outside of the classroom, as well as how she taught with web-based classes at IU East.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with Gwynn Mettatal, FACET Class of 1994, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Mettatal is a retired Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology Secondary & Foundations, as well as the founding Director of the University Center for Excellence in Teaching at IU South Bend. She shares how she adapted to teaching styles, learned from colleagues early in her teaching career, and started advocating for faculty development.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with Margo Sorgman, FACET Class of 1991, in the pilot episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Sorgman is a Professor of Social Studies Education in the Division of Education at IU Kokomo, and she shares about the profound synergy and community that exists between faculty and students, as well as how she had to configure her classes when discussing challenging topics from history.
Music: Faces of FACET by Claire Eckstein Senior Lecturer in Accounting Katie Metz and FACET Director Michael Morrone talk with Robin Morgan, FACET Class of 1993, in another episode of FACET Teachers: Reflection on Critical Teaching. Morgan is a Professor in Psychology at IU Southeast, and she shares about the importance of using well-designed teaching and grading tools, especially in an online setting, as well as working with colleagues who are supportive and like-minded.
Sandra Ortiz, Class of 2024, is a Senior Lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese at IU Bloomington.
Audrey Dentith is a Professor of Adult Education and Leadership Studies and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Michelle J. Eady is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is a HERDSA and ISSOTL fellow, and a SFHEA. Michelle, the President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), holds a national teaching citation for her work in quality teacher preparation. Her research interests include the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Work integrated learning (WIL), Indigenous Studies and current issues in Education.
Jeanette Heidewald, Class of 2022, Teaching Professor of Business Communication at IU Bloomington.
Adam Maksl, Class of 2020, Manager, eLearning Innovation and Associate Professor of Journalism & Media, IU Southeast.
Meghan Porter, FACET Class of 2021, is the inaugural fellow for the Leah Savion Fellowship. This fellowship annually funds a non-tenure-track (NTT) FACET member’s research in pursuit of continuous improvement as a scholarly teacher.
Susan Batchelder, FACET Class of 2022, Clinical Assistant Professorof Management and Entrepreneurship, IU Bloomington Kelley School of Business
Meganne Masko, FACET Class of 2023, Associate Professor of Music Therapy at IU Indianapolis.
Dr. Paul Hanstedt is the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Innovation at University of Minnesota Rochester. Hanstedt is a nationally recognized leader in teaching and learning innovation. His recent books include, "Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World" and "General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty."
Dr. Dawn Tamarkin is a Professor of Biology at National University. She is also the founder and CEO of CellZone, a company that strives to make Universal Design for Learning (UDL) biology products available to more classrooms so that more students can learn about biology.
Brenda Bailey-Hughes, FACET Class of 2023, Teaching Professor of Business Communication at IU Bloomington.
Katie McCarthy, FACET Class of 2022, Senior Bachelor's of Social Work Program Director and Assistant Professor at IUPUI.
Melinda Stanley, FACET Class of 2022, Senior Lecturer in Health Care Management at IU Kokomo.
Sarah Rose Cavanagh is a psychologist, professor, and Senior Associate Director for Teaching and Learning at Simmons University, where she teaches classes on affective science and mental health, researches the intersections of emotion, motivation, and learning, and provides educational development for faculty.
Janet Decker, FACET Class of 2022, Associate Professor of Education at IU Bloomington. She primarily researches legal and policy issues in special education, but also studies the legal literacy of educators and administrators.
Hannah Haas, FACET Class of 2022, Senior Lecturer in English at IUPUI. Her academic interests include designing instructional materials that help students and employees move beyond the fundamentals to become skilled, sophisticated, persuasive writers.
Andrew Swain, FACET of 2023, Assistant Professor of Business Law at IU South Bend. His research interests include State and local tax overlap and interact with International Tax, and the interplay between tax and corporate social responsibility.
Maureen Rutherford, FACET Class of 2020, Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology. Her research lab studies the impact of drugs and environmental stressors on the physiological and behavioral expression of stress responses in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model.
Niki Weller, FACET Class of 2021, Associate Professor of Sociology at IU Kokomo. Her research is to better understand how sociodemographics influence an adolescent’s exposure to, or protection from, deviant behaviors, with a particular emphasis on risky behaviors such as drug use/abuse and sexual health behaviors.
Allen Davis, FACET Class of 2021, is a Teaching Professor and the Director of the Basic Language Program in Spanish. His research interests lie in phonetics and phonology, especially the role of musical aptitude in pronunciation learning and individual differences in language acquisition. He earned both his Ph.D. and M.A. in Spanish Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University, and B.A. in Spanish at IUPUI.
Jason Organ, FACET Class of 2021, is an Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis. His research examines how the structure of bone and muscle influences how they work. He earned his PhD in Functional Anatomy & Evolution from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and MA in Anthropology from the University of Missouri.
Shelly Burns, FACET Class of 2023, is a Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing and Health Sciences at IU East. Her current teaching interests include building first-year nursing students classroom and clinical experiences through simulations. She received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from IUPUI, Master of Science in Nursing Education from Ball State University, and Bachelor of Nursing from IU East.
Carrie Mier, FACET Class of 2022, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at IU East. Carrie's area of research is drug trends; community risk and resilience to substance issues; stigma; and, risk and protection to violence and victimization. She received her B.S. in public affairs from IPFW (now Purdue Fort Wayne), and master's and doctorate in criminology and criminal justice from Florida State University.
Barbara White, FACET Class of 2022, is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Dean of Nursing at IU South Bend. Barbara's area of research is the success of African American nursing students as one path to promote health equity. She seeks ongoing learning and discussion about race and inclusion through the activities at the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center.
Kathy Berlin, FACET Class of 2022 and Associate Professor of Health Sciences at IUPUI. Her research focuses on the scholarship of teaching, the feasibility of utilizing health education specialists in physician practices, the use of health risk appraisals in the workforce, and the motivations for continued physical activity as individuals’ age.
Meghan Porter, FACET Class of 2021 and Lecturer of Chemistry at IU Bloomington. Porter teaches courses in inorganic and general chemistry, and is especially interested in the development of lab and course assignments involving real-world applications of metals in medicine.
Harold Olivey, FACET Class of 2022 and Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology and Department Chair at IU Northwest. Olivey also serves as the FACET Associate Director for IUN and a member of the 2023 Annual Retreat. He has a passion and dedication for student success and teaching.
Tara Kingsley, FACET Class of 2022 and Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Education at IU Kokomo. Coming from a family of educators, Tara started her career as a fifth grade school teacher. Then completed a master's and P.h.D. in elementary education at Ball State University, where she was an assistant professor for a year before coming to IU. Her research primarily focuses on enhancing the classroom experience for students through the use of technology and gamification of knowledge.
Demetra Andrews, FACET Class of 2022 and Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing at IUPUI. She is a consumer researcher and focuses primarily on internal and external factors that influence consumer confidence and readiness to act. Andrews holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Houston and an MBA in marketing and finance from University of Texas at Austin.
Mike Polites, FACET Class of 2022 and Teaching Professor of Communication Studies. He earned both his BS and MA in Speech Communication from Ball State University, along with a Certified Training Certificate. Prior to his academic career, he worked in sales and consulting. Since 2004 he has been teaching classes on Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, and Interviewing Skills in the Department of Communication Studies at IUPUI.
Miranda Rodak, FACET Class of 2020 and Clinical Associate Professor of English at IU Bloomington. She also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Teaching, English. Previously, she worked in the Kelley School of Business, teaching, coaching, and developing communication/writing courses in the undergrad, MBA, and online executive MBA programs.
Emily Beckman, FACET Class of 2022 and Assistant Professor and Director of the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program at IUPUI. She also serves as the Co-Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Medical Humanities and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the IU School of Medicine. Her academic interests include literature and medicine; empathy in medical education and practice; medicine in film; human sexuality; hope/end-of-life; Central State Hospital and the history of institutionalization in Indiana.
Galen Clavio, FACET Class of 2022 and Associate Professor of Sports Media at IU Bloomington. He is also the current Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Media School and Director of the National Sports Journalism Center. His research focuses on the impact of new and social media on interactions between consumers, media, and sports entities, including social media’s impact on journalism, content creation among fans, and the hybridization of communications and marketing in the digital sphere.
Sarah Johnson, FACET Class of 2022 and Lecturer of Health Policy and Management. She also serves as the Director for the Bachelor of Science in Health Services Management program, and before joining the department, she served as the Director of Career Development for the Fairbanks School of Public Health. She earned both her MS and BA degrees from Indiana University and utilizes her educational and career experience to focus on pedagogical and retention initiatives.
Virginia Hojas Carbonell, FACET Class of 2019 and Teaching Professor of Spanish at IU Bloomington. Her teaching interests lie in backwards course design and flipped learning, which she applies to her classes. She teaches the Honors section of S250 as a flipped class based on active learning and a backwards course design, which she started as a Mosaic Fellow, and she is developing an Intermediate Online Spanish for Business course based on the same principles and using a fellowship from the Center for Language Excellence.
Oi Lin (Irene) Cheung, FACET Class of 2021 and Professor of Finance at IU East. She is also the director of the IU East Business and Economic Research Center, which assists in capturing and creating economic data that will be useful in supporting the economic vitality of the Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio regions.
Jeong-IL Cho, FACET Class of 2021 and Associate Professor of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her research focuses on training teachers to use assistive technology with students with disabilities, the effective use of student evaluations of teaching in higher education, and the systematic development of positive learning environments.
Sridhar Ramachandran, FACET Class of 2019 and Professor of Informatics at IU Southeast, learned at a young age that teaching creates powerful connections. Katie, Sridhar, and I discuss the why and how of this power to create bridges that are both interpersonal and educational.
Welcome to Transformative Teaching, a new podcast presented by the Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching at Indiana University. In our first episode, FACET director Michael Morrone sits down with Katie Metz (FACET class of 2018), a senior lecturer in accounting at IU Bloomington and FACET’s Statewide Selection Committee Chair, to discuss her approach to teaching, how her classrooms have changed over the years, and what motivates her to continue to learn and grow in her profession. Tune in to hear Michael talk with Katie about blended learning, professional growth, and staying current in a constantly changing field - plus a surprise plot twist at the end!
During the FACET Retreat in October 2021, Christina Downey facilitated a panel of students from across Indiana University to discuss the obstacles, challenges, institutionalized barriers, and other issues they face on our campuses that affect their ability to receive equity and justice in their education.
In lots of ways higher education disproportionally focuses on evaluation at the expense of opportunity for student self-discovery of a future self image. Faculty, however, have the power to design these opportunities and integrate them into curricula. In this Great Conversation, Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind and Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization, describes the teacher’s role in helping students explore and see a personally meaningful future of self. He discusses the importance for our students of the move towards self-actualization and connection to their living meaningful lives.
Rather than learning to write, students have been asked to perform writing simulations, artifacts that pass muster measured against surface-level checklists as part of a system rooted in assessment and standardization. They are proficient at creating imitations, but largely inexperienced with the kind of critical thinking which underpins effective writing and sound communication. This Great Conversation features John Paul Kanwit, the IU Bloomington Campus Writing Program Director, and John Warner, author of many books including “Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities”. Writing is thinking and is about making choices consistent with the audience, purpose, and message of the piece of writing. The challenge of engaging students as thinkers starts with authentic assignments that require students to wrestle with the choices writers make.
We all, including our students, come to our daily activities with certain stressors that require some of our limited, mental bandwidth. For our students, bandwidth stealers affect their capacity to learn. Some of our students, however, face higher demands of their bandwidth. Non-majority students, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and first generation students are more likely to experience conditions that steal bandwidth. In this Great Conversation, Yolanda Treviño, Assistant Vice President for Strategy, Planning, and Assessment at Indiana University, talks with Cia Verschelden, Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Malcolm X College and author of Bandwidth Recovery, about strategies to help our students regain lost cognitive resources so they can learn, grow, and live meaningful lives.
Katie and Dawn are back (sadly not in front of a live audience this time) continuing our conversation about how we learn! In this episode, we debrief our most recent pedagogy conference, chat about how to learn more about our own disciplines, and venture into the future of pedagogy.
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Show notes: https://provost.gatech.edu/education-commission/discovery-reports/future-pedagogy
Dawn and Katie are reunited on HTTC, and this time (for the first time) they are in front of a live audience! This episode delves into how we as faculty members learn more about teaching, our students, and developments in pedagogy. Hosted by the Facet Associate Faculty and Lecturer Conference in Indianapolis.
Born from 1995-2010, Generation Z makes up the majority of the traditionally-aged college student population. And they’re not the Millennials that came before them. As each generation grows up, there are myths and misunderstanding that follow them. This conversation features Karli Farrel, a current IU student and French Horn performance major in the Jacobs School of Music, who hosts Meghan Grace, a generational researcher, in a dialogue about Generation Z in college. Karli and Meghan discuss challenges Gen Z faces in this age of political polarization, 365/24/7 information overload, and expectation to maintain a “perfect” social media presence. Grace emphasizes the importance of getting to know this generation. The conversation addresses ways faculty can help this generation succeed in the classroom and prepare our Gen Z students for the workplace and meaningful lives after college.
The Impact of Instructor Bias on Student Success
Teaching and learning are immersive activities to which both the instructor and the student bring personal attributes and dispositions that can profoundly impact the success – or failure – of their educational endeavor. Recent research has established that one compelling factor influencing attainment levels in student success is the pre-dispositions or attitudes of the instructor. Specifically, if a professor feels a student has limited capability for gaining command of classroom content, that feeling will manifest itself in ways that can – and do – affect student performance and attainment. In this conversation, Mary Murphy will discuss the ground-breaking findings of her research team, and explore ways in which we might engage this new information to create higher quality learning environments in our classrooms everyday – for everyone.
Dr. Lowery-Hart was selected into the inaugural class of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence, a rigorous executive leadership program led by the Aspen Institute and the Stanford Educational Leadership Initiative. Dr. Lowery-Hart served as the chair for the Amarillo “No Limits/No Excuses” Partners for Postsecondary Success Collective Impact – a 21 organization collaborative focused on education certificate and degree completion leading to living wage employment. He served as the chair for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Undergraduate Education Advisory Committee charged with evaluating and redesigning the state of Texas general education requirements.
Dr. Lowery-Hart previously served as Vice-President of Academic Affairs for Amarillo College. He was named the National Council of Instructional Administrators Academic Leader of the Year for 2014. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio University; M.A. Texas Tech University; and, B.S. from West Texas State University.
While his calling is education reform, his passion is family. His wife, Tara, sons Christopher and Campbell, daughter, Cadence fill his life with beauty and joy.
From Stigma to Inclusion
Bernice A. Pescosolido is distinguished professor of Sociology at Indiana University and director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Professor Pescosolido received a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982. She has focused her research and teaching on social issues in health, illness, and healing.
Pescosolidos research agenda addresses how social networks connect individuals to their communities and to institutional structures, providing the "wires" through which peoples attitudes and actions are influenced. This agenda encompasses three basic areas: health care services, stigma, and suicide research. In the early 1990s, Pescosolido developed the Network-Episode Model which was designed to focus on how individuals come to recognize, respond to the onset of health problems, and use health care services. Specifically, it has provided new insights to understanding the patterns and pathways to care, adherence to treatment and the outcomes of health care. As a result, she has served on advisory agenda-setting efforts at the NIMH, NCI, NHLBI, NIDRR, OBSSR and presented at congressional briefings.
Bridges and Barriers to Student Persistence
The 21st century campus and classroom can be daunting places for first generation college students. From complicated admissions procedures to complex and confusing financial aid forms, the university culture with which new students are confronted can raise doubts in their minds about whether they can succeed in such an environment, or if they ever belong there. David Yeager and his research team have conducted ground breaking research that asserts that this sense of non-belonging is a compelling factor is student attrition. In this conversation, we discuss how teaching in particular might be leveraged to break down barriers and build bridges to students' heightened sense of belonging, and in turn, their persistence to graduation.
Dr. Jonathan Green became the 15th president of Susquehanna University, the 7th most economically diverse university in the country. Prior to that, he spent six years as provost and dean of the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. He previously served as dean of the college and vice president for academic affairs at Sweet Briar College, where he received the 1999 Award for Excellence in Teaching. He states that we don’t have to guess about numbers or demographics of the Freshmen of the future. They are already here. Infants and toddlers today are our college students of the future.
Curt Bonk is a former accountant/CPA and former educational psychologist who currently assumes the role of professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University where he has published a dozen books (e.g., The World is Open, The Handbook of Blended Learning, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World, etc.) as well as more than 100 journal articles and over 50 book chapters on research related to various emerging learning technologies, online and blended learning, MOOCs and open education, and the global impacts from collaborative technology.
George Kuh is adjunct research professor of education policy at the University of Illinois and Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at Indiana University (IU). In this video, he discusses strategies for building skills that help students to become lifelong learners.
Access, Equity, and New Frontiers
Thomas Ehrlich is a Visiting Professor at the Stanford University School of Education. He has previously served as president of Indiana University, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and dean of Stanford Law School. In this conversation he examines the new frontiers opening up in academia as part of the efforts to ensure fair access to higher education throughout society.
Liberal Education, Equity and Democracy
Susan Albertine is a senior scholar in the Office of Liberal Learning and the Global Commons at AAC&U and a career-long literacy educator and advocate for educational reform. In this conversation, she addresses the role of democracy in education and the challenges of being an educator in the 21st century.
Transparency in Learning and Teaching
Mary-Ann Winkelmes is Director of Instructional Development and Research and an Associate Graduate Faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and founder of TILT Higher Ed. In this conversation, she focuses on some of the great challenges facing contemporary higher education including equity and creating collaborations for new kinds of post-secondary degrees.
College Costs and the New Economy
A well-known scholar and speaker on the topic of outcomes assessment, Trudy Banta has presented at conferences in 25 other countries and has developed and coordinated 30 national assessment conferences in the U.S. and 15 international conferences in other countries. In this conversation, she discusses the dynamics of the 21st century American economy and the challenge to the Academy to preserve the liberal arts and humanities in an age of specialization and vocationalism.
The Power of Community-engaged Learning
Dr. Julie A. Hatcher is Executive Director of the Center for Service and Learning and Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI. In this conversation, she talks about the power of community-based learning on the growth and development of students as citizens and servant leaders.
Teaching Innovation and Assessment for the Campus of the Future
Dr. Patricia Hutchings is a senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). Her work has focused on a variety of strategies for creating a campus culture of teaching and learning: the scholarship of teaching and learning, integrative learning, the peer collaboration and review of teaching, and student learning outcomes assessment. In this conversation, she discusses new possibilities for using assessments in the 21st century classroom.