CTE Podcast The Tracy Seeley Center For Teaching Excellence

This episode features an interview with Jonathan Hunt, Professor of Rhetoric and Language and Director of USF’s Writing Center, who is a former member and co-chair of USF’s Academic Integrity Committee.  Jonathan reflects on USF’s Honor Code, explains the process of reporting a suspected infraction, and shares insights gleaned from research on cheating and plagiarism. The conversation also explores deeper questions about how we define “cheating,” why students take short-cuts, and how we might approach academic integrity in a manner that aligns with USF’s Jesuit values. The opening segment also includes ruminations about how ChatGPT poses both challenges and opportunities for promoting academic integrity in higher education.

In this episode, USF’s College of Arts and Sciences International Studies Assistant Professor Quỳnh N. Phạm converses with Vassar College’s Political Science Professor Andrew Davison about teaching-learning as conversation. Davison shares his pedagogy of caring and approaching students as interlocutors with insights about the material. He also shares his experience of not entering into a graded relationship with students in order to expand the range of consideration and give space to voices that tend to be silenced or excluded. Continuing the conversation, Phạm reflects with USF CTE co-directors Marilyn DeLaure and Eugene Kim on the importance of attending to students’ diverse and unequal conditions of learning, engaging multiple traditions and sources of knowledge, and fostering a co-learning space that can be “reciprocally challenging,” hospitable to risk-taking, and potentially transformative for everyone involved.

Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi (USF Vice Provost for Diversity Engagement and Community Outreach) and USF CTE co-directors Eugene Kim and Marilyn DeLaure reflect on ways in which race and racism factor into every aspect of life, including academia. Wardell-Ghirarduzzi discusses DECO’s work fostering dialogue about racism and equity at USF, and expresses her optimism in the wake of the racial justice protests of 2020.

Danny Dominguez (School of Education) has a conversation with Eugene about how and why she uses podcasting in her classes to connect with her students.

Marilyn talks with Kevin Lo (School of Management) about how he incorporates the Jesuit principle of cura personalis (care for the whole person) into his teaching, both in person and online.

In this episode, we talk with Kelly L'Engle (School of Nursing and Health Professions) about the work done by USF's Public Health Working Group. Join us to learn about evolving public health recommendations and safety protocols, what in-person teaching and learning might look like, and what to expect once we return to campus.

Download the USF Public Health Working Group's June 5, 2020, white paper here: http://tiny.cc/ee3osz

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