CTI Teaching & Innovations Podcast

Chelsea Gambles, LCSW is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Life and Human Development at Southern Utah University. She received her masters of clinical social work from the University of Utah. Chelsea has owned a clinical mental health private practice for 14 years. She specializes in trauma with intersectionality between spirituality/faith transitions and sexuality and trauma. Chelsea has worked with diverse populations related to gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc and applies theory to practice with a feminist-multicultural and systems lens. Chelsea spent five years at the Counseling and Psychological Services at Southern Utah University where she developed an interest in development, particularly amongst college-age students. Chelsea is most passionate about mental wellness, trauma recovery and trauma-informed education. This led Chelsea to teaching college students. Chelsea implements trauma-informed education in her pedagogy and finds a great deal of meaning in educating future social workers. Chelsea takes pride in being a constant learner by attending conferences frequently in the field of mental health and education, maintaining licensure in a number of areas, as well as staying present in literature and best practice. Chelsea enjoys anything outdoors and time spent with her three daughters.

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Join Joshua, Jeb, and host Tony Pellegrini as they discuss teaching, learning, and service at Southern Utah University (SUU). Dr. Joshua Price received the 2021-22 Faculty Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Price came to SUU eight years ago and has made an indelible impression on the campus community. With a bachelor’s degree in economics from BYU and two master’s
degrees and a Ph.D. in economics, policy analysis, and management from New York’s Cornell University, he uses his extensive knowledge to inspire students by tailoring his courses to their interests. Aside from his work as an associate professor of economics and director of the Health Education Action Lab (HEAL), he volunteers his time to provide color commentary for radio coverage of SUU women’s basketball games and to mentor new football recruits. Josh supports all of his students both inside and outside of the classroom with his knowledge, kindness, and humor.

Dr. Jeb Branin was one of three 2021-22 Distinguished Educator recipients. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Administration who has taught and nurtured SUU students for 24 years. He has earned degrees from Snow College, Utah State University, and Brigham Young University. He teaches many general education courses for his department, and in the past, taught “English Through the Internet” courses through the MOFET Institute and Talpiot Teacher College in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Additionally, he designed the “SUU in London” program, taking students and community members to London, England, to study theatre. Jeb carefully constructs his courses using the principles of intentionality, interconnection, and reflection and believes that failure is essential to learning. He provides his students opportunities to fail safely and learn by correcting their mistakes.

This podcast is part of SUU's Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI). You can find previous episodes of this podcast on the CTI Podcast page.

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SUU Center of Excellence for Teaching & Learning

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Chris Younkin is SUU's Scholarly Communication Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science. His library work focuses mostly on affordable learning materials, such as Open Educational Resources, and scholarly publishing. He also teaches information literacy and academic research. Chris earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Ohio State University, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Miami University, and a Master of Library and Information Science from Kent State University. His research interests include intellectual freedom, library ethics, and library instruction.

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General

Dr. Richard Saunders is an academic librarian and former Dean of Library Services at Southern

Utah University. A graduate of Utah State University, he holds a library degree from Brigham

Young University and a PhD from the University of Memphis with an emphasis on the social

history of recent America, and is professionally accredited by the Academy of Certified

Archivists. His professional work experience includes service at the Utah State Historical

Society, Montana State University, in the production side of commercial publishing, and at the

University of Tennessee at Martin. Though a professional librarian, he has conducted historical

research across the US and published widely, on Yellowstone literature, early Utah printing,

Montana history, the work of historian Dale L. Morgan, Tennessee novelist Harry Kroll, and the

civil rights movement in the rural South during the 1950s and 60s.

History

Dr. Richard Saunders is an academic librarian and former Dean of Library Services at Southern

Utah University. A graduate of Utah State University, he holds graduate degrees in history from

USU and the University of Memphis. His career in history has centered on preserving the

sources of history as a Certified Archivist and special collections librarian, but he has also

researched, written, and published widely in historical topics including Yellowstone, the

American West, Mormons, American popular literature, and the US civil rights movement. His

biography of Utah native and historian of western America Dale L. Morgan was named a Finalist

in 2024 for the Evans Biography Prize. He is currently at work on a study of post-war social and

economic change in the rural South, focusing on several counties in West Tennessee.

Library

Dr. Richard Saunders is the former Dean of Library Services at Southern Utah University and

has been an archivist and librarian since the days of typewriters and ARPAnet. He holds a

library degree from Brigham Young University, one of the library-school casualties of the 1990s,

a PhD in History from the University of Memphis, and has been a member of the Academy of

Certified Archivists since 1992. Since 1988 he has worked as an archivist or librarian at the

Utah State Historical Society, Montana State University, University of Tennessee at Martin, and

Southern Utah University where he was dean from 2014 to 2018. Dr. Saunders currently serves

as the editor of RBM, ACRL’s journal of special collections librarianship.

Printing

Dr. Richard Saunders, academic librarian and former Dean of Library Services at Southern Utah

University, has been a student of printing, type, and publishing for over two decades. Informed

by activity as an amateur handset printer and craft bookbinder, his scope of interest includes

industrial-scale papermaking, typography, printing, and both historical and descriptive

bibliography. He worked professionally in the production side of commercial publishing in the

1990s during the industry’s transition from filmsetting to direct-to-plate technology. Dr.

Saunders has guest-lectured to college students and the public in classes and at symposia at

institutions including Brigham Young University and the University of Tennessee. His

professional output includes Printing in Deseret: Mormons, Politics, Economics, and Utah’s

Incunabula, 1849–1851 (Univ. of Utah Press, 2000), and Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in

Utah, 1849–1893 (Legacy Press, 2021).

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