Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt - 086: Strange days and new opportunities: SUU and the coronavirus

086: Strange days and new opportunities: SUU and the coronavirus

04/27/20 • 56 min

Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt

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President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit 6 feet apart and discuss SUU and COVID-19, how the coronavirus has impacted Southern Utah University and higher education.

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This generation that has been sometimes accused of being overly socially engaged on technology and not socially enough engaged face-to-face . . . is the most well-equipped generation of all time to be able to handle a pandemic like this.
Scott L Wyatt, SUU President

It reminds me that of all the things that we’re trying to teach, the character is probably the supreme. We’re trying to help people develop grit, the ability to face change, to adjust their lives.
Scott L Wyatt, SUU President

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Show Notes:

President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit 6 feet apart and discuss SUU and COVID-19, how the coronavirus has impacted Southern Utah University and higher education.

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085: The Classes Everyone Loves to Hate: Fixing General Education

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President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by Beth McMurtrie, senior writer for The Chronicle for Higher Education. They discuss McMurtrie's article "Fixing the Courses that Everybody Loves to Hate" and how the student success movement has adjusted in light of Generation Z students flooding college campuses.

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This generation, Gen Z they call it, is an interesting one. They're quite practical, they're kind of skeptical, they’re very comfortable with being self-taught, they learn a lot of stuff from YouTube and other means, they don’t necessarily assume the teacher has all of the answers. So, they kind of...they're challenging them in a way saying, "Explain to me why I should care." And I think a good teacher should be able to do that, right? They should be able to stop and say, "This stuff does matter."
Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Somebody called what happens in the classroom a donut hole in the student success movement. People talk about nudges, they talk about chatbots, they talk about all sorts of things outside of the classroom that might keep students in college, but they don’t really talk about the core of their experience which is what happens in the classroom day in and day out. What are you learning? Do you feel engaged? Do you feel connected? Do you feel like you belong? Do you feel like you’re learning how to do college?
Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher Education

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087: 2020 Summer Book Club Kickoff

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As part of the podcast series Solutions for Higher Education, SUU President Scott L Wyatt will lead a “Summer Reading Club” focusing on a new book each month. Readers who join the podcast will be given an introduction to the book by Scott Wyatt and podcast host Steve Meredith, who will be joined by an expert guest to give additional insight and context to the completed reading.

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. . . We've put together an interesting collection of books that we hope are all relevant to the time that we're in. And some of the books are new, some are old, some are really deeply thoughtful and some are just fun. But we think that it’s going to be a good group of books. And they’re all from kind of a different genre.
Scott L Wyatt, SUU President

Well, and it’s a good time to be reading books. So, people are always asking us, "What are we doing with our time?" And the answer is usually, "We’re actually working harder than we were last summer."
Scott L Wyatt, SUU President