EdLuminaries

More than ever, nursing schools are being asked to do more with less. The increasing burden of data manipulation continues to drain time and resources from nursing schools’ already overcrowded schedules. We’ll discuss best practices and innovative methods for automatically transforming your data, so you can get back to focusing on identifying insights and driving outcomes rather than spending time with spreadsheets.

Jerick Togami - Director of New Products and Partnerships, ExamSoft

Alexis Carbone - VP, CORE Higher Education Group

Sarah Renneker - Product Manager, Faculty Information System, PeopleAdmin

With the New AACN Essentials and NGN right around the corner, many nursing schools are scrambling to revise their curricula. But having an accurate curriculum map is only the beginning. Listen to Rishi Rana, Chief Experience Officer (CXO), PeopleAdmin, as we tackle this common dilemma and discuss ways to ensure you can quickly identify and align competencies throughout your curriculum 

What are nurse educators doing to prepare for the shift to a competency-based education model? What tools, technology, and resources are available to your program?  ExamSoft, CORE Higher Education, and Enflux dive into these and other obstacles being presented in the nursing school classroom and explore the best courses of action to take. 

The importance of accreditation for a college or university is more than critical. This process continues to evolve with the addition of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) criteria and measurement into the process. Learn how Dr. Velten and GoCulture are helping colleges and universities be prepared for success in DEI during your next accreditation round.

Dr. Michelle Krupp, Associate Dean for Education and Curriculum at The University of Iowa, College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics shares with us the Best Practices in Programmatic Assessment to Ensure Student Success. Dr. Krupp joined the College of Dentistry in 2015 in the Office of Education. She became Associate Dean for Education in 2020 and provides programmatic expertise and evaluation to ensure student success. She leads many education and faculty initiatives that incorporate innovative curricula and new educational technology to prepare students for the future. She has over 20 years of experience in health profession education. Her research interests include the use of self-assessment for faculty development initiatives and curriculum gap analysis. 

Helping Academic Institutions Fulfill the Mission of Higher Education with Rishi Rana, Chief Experience Office (CXO) of PeopleAdmin, a PowerSchool company where he leads strategy, growth, and with direct ownership of Product, R&D, Services, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing. Enflux and PeopleAdmin recently announced their integration partnership. This partnership is game changing for higher education institutions, providing a tool that directly correlates faculty activity with student outcomes. Never before have academic affairs teams had a comprehensive data-backed solution that provides actionable insights to help faculty be more effective, curriculum be optimized, and students be more successful.

Being Dean is a rewarding opportunity to have a direct impact on student success. Especially if you want a rewarding career that enables you to see students become professionals. But being a Dean also means accepting there will be challenges. Listen to the challenges and rewards of leading as a Dean from Dr. David Maize, Dean at the University of Incarnate Word Feik School of Pharmacy.

The Future of Education and the Role of EdTech join Gregory Cianfarani founder and CEO of CORE Higher Education Group as he discusses the role of EdTech and how CORE supports both learners and administrators through every stage of the student journey by providing tools and solutions that support student recruiting, experiential/clinical education, student assessment, career readiness, and continuing education.

I want to share with you key lessons learned from each of our episodes. We released the podcast in January 2021 and have learned so much from our first 10 guests that I felt the desire to create this episode.

Learn from Kristopher Maday, Program Director and Associate Professor for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Physician Assistant Program, about the most common challenges that program directors face and how to overcome them with passion and determination. The high demand for PAs is driving the creation of new physician assistant programs. This makes it difficult for program directors to find faculty who are knowledgeable and passionate about teaching and education. Furthermore, interacting with a new generation of leaders, meeting them where they are while ensuring delivery and attainment of competencies needed to practice is also an ongoing challenge. Listen to the podcast to learn the best practices to overcome these and many other challenges.