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 Co...
Oct 21, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 134
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 class...
Oct 14, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 133
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 outco...
Oct 07, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 132
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 E...
Sep 23, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 131
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 ...
Sep 16, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 130
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 ...
Sep 09, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 129
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 d...
Sep 02, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 128
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 deane...
Aug 26, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 127
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 deane...
Aug 19, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 126
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 presiden...
Aug 12, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 125
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. H...
Aug 05, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Meet JD Gardner, the grandson of founder Dr. John Gardner. JD is from Lexington, South Carolina and graduated in 2023 from Heathwood Hall, a prestigious private school in Columbia, South Carolina. In his time as a Heathwood Hall student, he earned a 3.9 GPA, was a 3-year honor roll student, as well as voted into school office as the executive council secretary. JD has devoted his life to athletics just as much in the classroom. On the court at Heathwood Hall, JD was a 1000 point scorer, the 2022...
Jul 29, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Claire Howell Major is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Teaching Academy at the University of Alabama. Her research centers on faculty work, pedagogical approaches, technology for teaching, and online learning. Major has authored and co-authored several books, including five with Elizabeth Barkley. Their newest work is titled Engaged Teaching: A Handbook for College Faculty . They also have four additional texts that comprise the College Teaching Techniques series published by W...
Jul 22, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 122
Dr. Eileen Strempel currently serves as the Inaugural Dean of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music and is also a Professor in UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies. Strempel is recognized as one of “The Top Ten Deans in U.S. Colleges and Universities,” and has served as PI or co-PI on ~$11M in extramural funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the NY State Education Department and the Ewing M...
Jul 15, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 121
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 iconi...
Jul 08, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Dr. Kerri Kearney is a professor of higher education and student affairs at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Her research and service primarily focuses on hidden student populations in higher education (students with backgrounds of socially stigmatizing, complex trauma) and organizational behavior, theory, and structure in higher education. Using her evolving research and practice experience, she established the R is for Thursday Network of Oklahoma in 2013, an initiative at the convergence of c...
Jun 24, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 119
Dr. Doris J. Fields is the Interim Associate Provost and Associate Vice President of Academic Programs and Initiatives and Professor of Communication at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Fields completed both a Bachelor of Science degree (1990) and a Master of Arts degree (1992) from Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Fields later pursued a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Communication Education from Wayne State University (2002). Dr. Fields’ areas of specialization include Interracial/Interethnic C...
Jun 17, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Dr. Steven P. Dandaneau is Associate Provost at Colorado State University and Executive Director of the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU ). In these roles, Dr. Dandaneau provides executive leadership for a national consortium of leading research universities focused on innovation in undergraduate education and collaborates with colleagues to strengthen the undergraduate experience at CSU. Dr. Dandaneau previously served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Stud...
Jun 10, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Stephanie M. Foote is the Vice President for Teaching, Learning, and Evidence-Based Practices. Prior to joining the Institute staff in August 2017, Stephanie was the founding director of the Master of Science in First-Year Studies, professor of education in the Department of First-Year and Transition Studies, and faculty fellow for High-Impact Practices at Kennesaw State University. Stephanie M. Foote served as the founding Director of the Academic Success Center and First-Year Experience at the...
Jun 04, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Dr. Robert Blanc has taught in medical schools, universities, colleges, high schools, and a primary school during his 70+ years in education. Bob is a long-time collaborator with Deanna C. Martin. He helped Deanna develop the “supplementary instruction” (SI) program and practices around the world. SI programs are commonly named “Peer Assisted Study Session” (PASS) programs in schools in Europe, Africa, and Oceana. Bob’s successful work at Port ElizabethUniversity (now Mandela University) helped ...
May 27, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Dr. Tonya C. Bailey (she/her/hers) is an accomplished executive leader with over 25 years of experience in higher education and corporate settings, leading transformative programming, and implementing award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, coaching, & teaching services. Dr. Bailey is a sought-after speaker, workshop presenter, life coach, and inclusionist skilled in engaging diverse audiences by creating environments that accommodate the diverse needs of everyone. ...
May 20, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 114
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 practition...
May 13, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Kevin Kelly, EdD, works with colleges and universities as a consultant to address distance education, educational technology, and organizational challenges. He teaches online courses as a Lecturer in the Department of Equity, Leadership Studies, and Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University, where he also previously served as the Online Teaching and Learning Manager. Kevin is the author or co-author of several books including Making College Courses Flexible (2024), The Blended...
May 06, 2024•53 min
Dr. Jillian Kinzie is Associate Director of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute. She conducts research and leads project activities on effective use of student engagement data to improve educational quality, and serves as senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) project. She is co-author of Radical Reimagining for Student Success (2023); Delivering on the Promise of High...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 111
Dr. Phyllis Curtis-Tweed earned her Ph.D. at Emory University in Educational Studies with a focus on educational leadership and issues in psychology, specifically agency development, and moral development. She pursued postdoctoral training in psychology in the Clinical Research Training Program in Social Psychiatry at Harvard University where she was also an instructor for five years and taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Simmons College and at the Harvard affiliated Hospitals. ...
Apr 22, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Steve Smith is a Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University. He has previously held the roles of Associate Vice-President Academic & Enrollment Management, Dean of Science, and Registrar, all at SMU. As an administrator, Steve’s focus was on initiatives to support student success. In partnership with his SMU colleagues, he launched (and assessed) several new initiatives. The research he has presented and published on those initiatives has demonstrated the short- and long-term benefit...
Apr 15, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Denise Bartell is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Kent State University, where she facilitates strategic initiatives related to access, retention, completion, and student success with a focus on improving equity of outcomes for historically underserved students and empowering faculty as key stakeholders in this work. Her scholarship takes a systemic and explicitly relational approach, most recently exploring a reconceptualization of faculty development to utilize principles of high imp...
Apr 08, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Dr. David L. Graham is the Assistant Vice-Provost for Student Academic Success at The Ohio State University. He has been at Ohio State since 2006 and has over twenty-five years of higher education experience in academic affairs, student life, and intercollegiate athletics. Dr. Graham was a 2013-2014 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and earned a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics from Savannah State University, a master’s degree in Sports Management...
Apr 01, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Paul LePore is the associate dean for Student and Academic Programs in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a clinical professor in ASU’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. His appointment began in December 2008. As associate dean, LePore focuses on issues involving student success, including new student recruitment; improving student retention and time to graduation; academic advising; curriculum development; learning assessment; student engagement in high impact pra...
Mar 25, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Professor Sally Kift is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL), and President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows (ALTF). She has held several Australian university leadership positions, including as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University (JCU) and inaugural Director, First Year Experience at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Sally is a national Teaching Award winner (Business & L...
Mar 18, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 105
