ON Cultivating Student Engagement in Higher Ed

In this episode, Katy Berkow shares exciting news about her new transition. She introduces her podcast successor and invites her listeners to get ready for an exciting new season!

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This episode focuses on how we can contribute to successful searches, with a focus on including candidates of all backgrounds. Dr. Lauren Vicker shares her expertise, published in The Complete Academic Search Manual, and includes some great ideas for sourcing and evaluating candidates and making sure new hires make connections after they join your team. 

Katy speaks with Em Rowe and Bri VanArsdale about gender inclusivity in the classroom and how it contributes to student success both in and out of the classroom. This episode starts with gender and leans into reducing barriers to learning for all of our students. 

Katy is back with co-executive producer for this mini-season, Dr. Amanda Bullough. They're excited to share two new episodes focused on inclusion and how it can generate engagement in the classroom. 

This very special episode of the podcast was recorded during a session of the Lerner College's Research & Teaching Showcase at the University of Delaware, coordinated by our Deputy Dean Dr. Sheryl Kline. Among other staff and faculty, Drs. Julia Bayuk, Andrea Everard, Ali Poorani, Max Dolinsky, and Amanda Bullough share practices that generate engagement. 

This episode is a rebroadcast of my second interview on one of my favorite podcasts, Tea for Teaching (https://teaforteaching.com/). I highly recommend Tea for Teaching, as I’ve learned so much from both the hosts John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare and their guests and implemented some of the ideas in my own classroom. This episode features our discussion of my experiential learning capstone courses, their design and outcomes.

This episode is a rebroadcast of my interview on one of my favorite podcasts, Tea for Teaching (https://teaforteaching.com/). I highly recommend Tea for Teaching, as I’ve learned so much from both the hosts John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare and their guests and implemented some of the ideas in my own classroom. This episode features our discussion of the use of digital portfolios as a medium for students’ evidence of learning in my classroom. 

Dr. Michael Posner, Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Founding Director of the Center for Statistics Education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Villanova University, joins us to discuss motivating students with the meaning behind the material and inviting students into courses that generate fear (like statistics!)

Dr. Jennifer Joe, Whitney Family Professor of Accounting in the University of Delaware’s Accounting and Management Information Systems department, and Dr. Anu Sivaraman, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Delaware, join us to discuss their new course, Race in Business, why it matters for our students to develop an awareness of bias, and how more faculty might begin to incorporate these critical topics into our courses

Dr. Wendy Smith, Professor of Management in the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware and cofounder and co-director of the Women's Leadership Initiative, joins us to discuss why we should build community in our classrooms and how we can do it most speedily and effectively