Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt - 092: Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned - Introductory Episode

092: Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned - Introductory Episode

10/05/20 • 30 min

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

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President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith kick off the 2020-21 season by introducing this year’s podcast theme: Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned. They preview some of the topics to be discussed, like the partnership between SUU and Southwest Technical College and SUU’s Three Year Degree program.

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We don’t give salary increases for people that are creative, we don’t give a bonus to anybody like that. But as you move up the ladder and get to the top, so you’re at the point where you can be the most creative and influence change the most, it seems like in the public sector, that you also tend to irritate more people. And, as we say in politics, “Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
Scott L Wyatt

. . . disruptions always lead an organization or a person into being better or worse at the end of the disruption. So, that’s...and the approach that we’ve tried to take as a university is we are going to be better at the end of this pandemic.”
Soctt L Wyatt

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091: 2020 Summer Book Club #4: The Poker Bride with author Christopher Corbett

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Author Christopher Corbett joins the podcast today as we discuss his book The Poker Bride.

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Mark Twain talks about not writing about mankind, but writing about a man and I was very interested in putting a human face on an experience that we don’t know that much about, and that is the experience of the Chinese in the West and more particularly, of Chinese concubines in the West. And that’s how I found Polly Bemis, who was and is now and probably always will be known in Idaho as 'the Poker Bride.'
Christopher Corbett

. . . when you’re looking at a story like Polly Bemis’, you really have to start at the end, not at the beginning. And the reason for that is quite simply that we know a great deal about Polly Bemis, and you’ve read the book, but we know a great deal about her because of the end of her life in the 1920s and ‘30s.
John M. Barry

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093: Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned - The SUU Three Year Degree Program

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President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith talk with SUU's Faculty Senate President Bill Heyborne about the Three Year Degree program. They discuss the initial concept, the ripple effect it had on campus - specifically among faculty members - and how authentic communication and using the brilliant minds available made the program setup a success.

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After you approached me about participating in this podcast, I started thinking about the things that have gone well, the things that haven’t gone so well, and as I thought about the things that haven’t gone so well from the faculty perspective, I then started thinking, “Well, what is it that these things all have in common? Why did they not go so well?” And the place where I’ve landed is: faculty are creatures of habit. And I don’t mean that in a derogatory way at all.
Bill Heyborne

What impressed me and what I learned from this experience, is that all I had to do was say to you and your committee in the Faculty Senate, "Whatever you want to do is fine." [ . . . . what I learned is that those who care the most about something have to be in at the beginning, not reviewing proposals.
Soctt L Wyatt