Podcast appearances and mentions of ernest boyer

Paul LeBlanc, retired president of Southern New Hampshire University and the 2024 NACU Ernest Boyer Award recipient, shares his remarkable journey from a first-generation college student to leading the transformation of SNHU into the nation's largest online university. In this episode, he reveals the “secret sauce” behind SNHU's success and tackles pressing issues in higher education, including affordability, access, and the urgent need for upskilling and reskilling in an AI-driven workforce. LeBlanc reflects on the leadership qualities needed to navigate today's challenges and emphasizes reclaiming Ernest Boyer's legacy of truth and ethical action, even when it involves taking risks. This thought-provoking conversation explores how higher education can uphold social justice, revive the American Dream, and inspire institutions to lead with love—showing students that they truly matter.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Avital O'Glasser, MD, about the challenges facing non-traditional scholarship, amplifying diverse voices in medicine and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About O'Glasser 1:15 •    The interview 2:36 •    Jain and O'Glasser on their friendship and how they met. 2:52 •    What is non-traditional scholarship, and why is it so difficult for academics to adopt to these practices? 5:16 •    Jain and O'Glasser on the added value of non-traditional scholarship in academia and engagement. 11:25 •    How can engaging in non-traditional scholarship be leveraged and disseminated along with more “traditionally” recognized ways of CME? 13:33 •    O'Glasser on Daniel Cabrera's More Than Likes and Tweets: Creating Social Media Portfolios for Academic Promotion and Tenure and Ernest Boyer's The Scholarship of Engagement. 17:19 •    Jain and O'Glasser on utilizing digital abstracts in presenting data and pushing back on non-promotable work.  18:30 •    How can physicians make sure that information reaches its desired audience through non-traditional scholarship, or provide more educational opportunities about this work?  22:29 •    About An Evolution of Empowerment: Voices of Women in Medicine and Their Allies, co-edited by Jain and O'Glasser, and their process in creating this publication. 24:28 •    Do you think we'll collaborate on another book? 32:22 •    If someone could only listen to the last few minutes of this episode, what would you want them to take away? 35:47 •    How to contact O'Glasser 36:45 •    Thanks for listening 38:08 Avital O'Glasser, MD, FACP, FHM, is a hospitalist and associate professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University.  Her clinical practice focus is perioperative medicine, and she is also the assistant program director for social media and scholarship for OHSU's Internal Medicine Residency Program.   We'd love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Jain at oncologyoverdrive@healio.com. Follow Healio on X, formerly known as Twitter, and LinkedIn: @HemOncToday and https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemonctoday/. Follow Dr. Jain on X, formerly known as Twitter: @ShikhaJainMD. O'Glasser can be reached on the Women In Medicine blog. Disclosures: Jain and O'Glasser report no relevant financial disclosures. 

The concept of universities engaging with communities and organisations beyond their walls, is a recurring theme throughout this podcast series. Indeed, it was the submission by the distinguished American scholar, Ernest Boyer a quarter of a century ago, that universities should become much more vigorous partners in the search for answers to the most pressing social problems of the day, that was one of the central motivations for us launching this endeavour in the first place.  To date in the series, our primary focus has been on the nature and significance of some of these most critical social, economic, and ecological issues that include climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. To date we have placed less emphasis on the actual practicalities of the engagement process. How do individual and groups of academics actively engage with members of the public in mutually beneficial ways? How do universities as formal institutions go about developing partnerships with the communities of their region as well as with other public organisations in both the public and private sectors? In this episode we turn our attention to exploring an actual example of how this university, of the Sunshine Coast, is engaging with a wide range of community groups, commercial businesses, and other organisations and institutions. In this instance, the initiative is a specific and vital quest to contribute to the reduction in the number of suicide attempts and completions up here on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. Richard's guest today is Mervat Quirke who is the Manager of Strategic Partnerships/Community Engagement and Development at the Thompson Institute at the University of the Sunshine Coast which is a world-class hub for research, teaching, and clinical services for Australia's most pressing mental health issues. 

In the first of a two part series, the tables are turned. Chatham University President David Finegold interviews NACU President Sean Creighton. What was Sean doing before he came to NACU? What is his connection to the late Ernest Boyer? And why are they called the New American Colleges & Universities anyway?

What do we mean when we say "a lesson"? It seems an obvious question, but to each type of school - traditional, mainstream & progressive, what you may see may be markedly different. Today, we question the pros and cons of the traditional "chalk & talk" style lesson and we also ask how such a model supports and differentiates for the wide range of students that we have in our classrooms. Join us for another deep delve into the world of traditional education as we fish for babies and bathwater. Also in today's show we talk briefly about Salman Khan's Khan Academy and the influential work of Ernest Boyer and his book, "The Basic School"    

As part of our special series on emergent scholarship, Dr. Jon Becker of Virginia Commonwealth University discussed his experiences with emergent scholarship from the varied perspectives of scholar, faculty practitioner, policy developer and administrative support. Emergent scholarship has seen significant engagement since Ernest Boyer’s call for expanding the domain of scholarship, but the support of this scholarship in formal education spaces has not kept up with rate of adoption. What are the various roles and responsibilities for faculty, staff and administrators in supporting, promoting and amplifying the growth of emergent scholarship? ABOUT JON BECKER Jon Becker is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. For four years, he served as the Director of Learning Innovation and Online Academic Programs, and was integral in forming VCU’s Academic Learning Transformation, or ALT, lab. Jon also holds a Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law School, and both his scholarly and practical work exist at the intersection of emergent teaching and public policy. His administrative, scholastic and blogging work can be found at jonbecker.net

As part of our special series on emergent scholarship, Dr. Martin Weller of The Open University (UK) discussed the movement of emergent forms of scholarship, notably the changes and obstacles he has noticed since 2011 publication of his book The Digital Scholar. Our discussion focused on five main themes coming out of Martin’s work and how they relate to Ernest Boyer’s four domains of scholarship, as well as the manner in which education metaphors move educational conversation and policy for better and for worse. ABOUT MARTIN WELLER Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University. He chaired the OU’s first major elearning course in 1999 with 15,000 students and has led many of the strategic technology developments at the University, including being the first VLE Director. He is currently the Director of the OER Hub research team, which examines the impact of open educational practices. His interests are in the changing nature of open education, digital scholarship and open educational practice. He blogs at edtechie.net

James Loxley, University of Edinburgh, gives the final keynote in the DHOXSS 2015. The creation of the discipline - if that's what it is - of the digital humanities has gone hand in hand with the ever more pervasive pertinence for humanities academics of a 'digital scholarship' conceived more generally. Scholarship, in Ernest Boyer's influential terms, consists of the different intellectual activities of discovery, integration, application and teaching; each of these activities has been, and is still, undergoing change as a result of the wider intellectual transformations wrought by digital technologies. But scholarly understanding of the nature of such change rests on a variety of differing assumptions - is this, for example, augmentation, development, or metamorphosis? The difference between such assumptions can readily shape the way in which we react to the challenge posed by the attraction, and encroachment, of digital approaches. Some have been moved to ask: can we ignore or resist them? What will become of our disciplines if we can't, or don't? This lecture will explore some possible responses to these concerns through a series of examples drawn, largely, from my own experience as an originally analogue scholar who has been a long time in the process of becoming digital.

Ernest Boyer is the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is the former U.S. Commissioner of Education and a former Chancellor of the State University of New York. He is the author of two books, High School and College: The Undergraduate Experience. He is currently working on a policy study on education in children's early years.