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An open access Asia Shorts edited volume from AAS. The spring of 2020 will remain etched in collective memory as a moment of profound upheaval. The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities around the world to close their doors, reshaping education overnight. Teachers scrambled to reimagine their classrooms in online spaces, while students adjusted to a new, distanced reality. For educators of Asia-related topics, these shifts carried unique challenges. Already marginalized within English-speaking curricula, Asia's place in classrooms faced further reductions amidst the chaos of pandemic adaptation. Recognizing this, our Asia Shorts volume, Teaching about Asia in a Time of Pandemic (AAS, 2025), was conceived as a timely response, offering guidance and inspiration during those uncertain times. Almost five years later, the world has moved forward, but the ripple effects of that historic spring are still felt. This supplemental set of open-access essays, edited by Kin Cheung (Associate Professor of East and South Asian Religions at Moravian University) builds upon the foundation of the original volume, reflecting on the enduring impacts of the pandemic on education, equity, and how we teach about Asia. One lasting consequence of the pandemic has been the rise in anti-Asian racism. Harassment and violence against Asians, fueled by pandemic-related scapegoating and xenophobic rhetoric, surged globally. In the United States, inflammatory phrases such as “China virus” and “kung flu” further stigmatized Asian communities, exacerbating a wave of hostility. Educators now face the challenge of addressing these injustices while fostering inclusive, empathetic learning environments. The essays in this collection delve into the pedagogical responses to anti-Asian racism, advocating for teaching frameworks that prioritize social justice and counteract harmful stereotypes and complement the important work of the scholars whose work appears in our recent Asia Shorts volume, Global Anti-Asian Racism, edited by Jennifer Ho. Another critical dimension explored in this volume is the necessity of representation. Asian Americans remain underrepresented in both the teaching workforce and teacher education programs, leading to a curriculum that often overlooks the rich cultural and linguistic assets of Asian students and their families. This gap underscores the importance of preparing teachers to adopt culturally responsive practices, ensuring that all students—especially Asian American learners—feel seen and valued in the classroom. These essays also challenge educators to move beyond surface-level engagement with Asia. A case in point is the life and legacy of Grace Lee Boggs, an Asian American activist whose story offers rich insights into the intersections of race, gender, and political activism. By teaching figures like Boggs through an antiracist, transnational lens, students can develop a deeper, more empathetic understanding of complex historical narratives. This approach not only enriches their knowledge of Asia and its diasporas but also equips them with critical tools to navigate and challenge systemic inequities in their own societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

An open access Asia Shorts edited volume from AAS. The spring of 2020 will remain etched in collective memory as a moment of profound upheaval. The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities around the world to close their doors, reshaping education overnight. Teachers scrambled to reimagine their classrooms in online spaces, while students adjusted to a new, distanced reality. For educators of Asia-related topics, these shifts carried unique challenges. Already marginalized within English-speaking curricula, Asia's place in classrooms faced further reductions amidst the chaos of pandemic adaptation. Recognizing this, our Asia Shorts volume, Teaching about Asia in a Time of Pandemic (AAS, 2025), was conceived as a timely response, offering guidance and inspiration during those uncertain times. Almost five years later, the world has moved forward, but the ripple effects of that historic spring are still felt. This supplemental set of open-access essays, edited by Kin Cheung (Associate Professor of East and South Asian Religions at Moravian University) builds upon the foundation of the original volume, reflecting on the enduring impacts of the pandemic on education, equity, and how we teach about Asia. One lasting consequence of the pandemic has been the rise in anti-Asian racism. Harassment and violence against Asians, fueled by pandemic-related scapegoating and xenophobic rhetoric, surged globally. In the United States, inflammatory phrases such as “China virus” and “kung flu” further stigmatized Asian communities, exacerbating a wave of hostility. Educators now face the challenge of addressing these injustices while fostering inclusive, empathetic learning environments. The essays in this collection delve into the pedagogical responses to anti-Asian racism, advocating for teaching frameworks that prioritize social justice and counteract harmful stereotypes and complement the important work of the scholars whose work appears in our recent Asia Shorts volume, Global Anti-Asian Racism, edited by Jennifer Ho. Another critical dimension explored in this volume is the necessity of representation. Asian Americans remain underrepresented in both the teaching workforce and teacher education programs, leading to a curriculum that often overlooks the rich cultural and linguistic assets of Asian students and their families. This gap underscores the importance of preparing teachers to adopt culturally responsive practices, ensuring that all students—especially Asian American learners—feel seen and valued in the classroom. These essays also challenge educators to move beyond surface-level engagement with Asia. A case in point is the life and legacy of Grace Lee Boggs, an Asian American activist whose story offers rich insights into the intersections of race, gender, and political activism. By teaching figures like Boggs through an antiracist, transnational lens, students can develop a deeper, more empathetic understanding of complex historical narratives. This approach not only enriches their knowledge of Asia and its diasporas but also equips them with critical tools to navigate and challenge systemic inequities in their own societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

An open access Asia Shorts edited volume from AAS. The spring of 2020 will remain etched in collective memory as a moment of profound upheaval. The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities around the world to close their doors, reshaping education overnight. Teachers scrambled to reimagine their classrooms in online spaces, while students adjusted to a new, distanced reality. For educators of Asia-related topics, these shifts carried unique challenges. Already marginalized within English-speaking curricula, Asia's place in classrooms faced further reductions amidst the chaos of pandemic adaptation. Recognizing this, our Asia Shorts volume, Teaching about Asia in a Time of Pandemic (AAS, 2025), was conceived as a timely response, offering guidance and inspiration during those uncertain times. Almost five years later, the world has moved forward, but the ripple effects of that historic spring are still felt. This supplemental set of open-access essays, edited by Kin Cheung (Associate Professor of East and South Asian Religions at Moravian University) builds upon the foundation of the original volume, reflecting on the enduring impacts of the pandemic on education, equity, and how we teach about Asia. One lasting consequence of the pandemic has been the rise in anti-Asian racism. Harassment and violence against Asians, fueled by pandemic-related scapegoating and xenophobic rhetoric, surged globally. In the United States, inflammatory phrases such as “China virus” and “kung flu” further stigmatized Asian communities, exacerbating a wave of hostility. Educators now face the challenge of addressing these injustices while fostering inclusive, empathetic learning environments. The essays in this collection delve into the pedagogical responses to anti-Asian racism, advocating for teaching frameworks that prioritize social justice and counteract harmful stereotypes and complement the important work of the scholars whose work appears in our recent Asia Shorts volume, Global Anti-Asian Racism, edited by Jennifer Ho. Another critical dimension explored in this volume is the necessity of representation. Asian Americans remain underrepresented in both the teaching workforce and teacher education programs, leading to a curriculum that often overlooks the rich cultural and linguistic assets of Asian students and their families. This gap underscores the importance of preparing teachers to adopt culturally responsive practices, ensuring that all students—especially Asian American learners—feel seen and valued in the classroom. These essays also challenge educators to move beyond surface-level engagement with Asia. A case in point is the life and legacy of Grace Lee Boggs, an Asian American activist whose story offers rich insights into the intersections of race, gender, and political activism. By teaching figures like Boggs through an antiracist, transnational lens, students can develop a deeper, more empathetic understanding of complex historical narratives. This approach not only enriches their knowledge of Asia and its diasporas but also equips them with critical tools to navigate and challenge systemic inequities in their own societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

An open access Asia Shorts edited volume from AAS. The spring of 2020 will remain etched in collective memory as a moment of profound upheaval. The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities around the world to close their doors, reshaping education overnight. Teachers scrambled to reimagine their classrooms in online spaces, while students adjusted to a new, distanced reality. For educators of Asia-related topics, these shifts carried unique challenges. Already marginalized within English-speaking curricula, Asia's place in classrooms faced further reductions amidst the chaos of pandemic adaptation. Recognizing this, our Asia Shorts volume, Teaching about Asia in a Time of Pandemic (AAS, 2025), was conceived as a timely response, offering guidance and inspiration during those uncertain times. Almost five years later, the world has moved forward, but the ripple effects of that historic spring are still felt. This supplemental set of open-access essays, edited by Kin Cheung (Associate Professor of East and South Asian Religions at Moravian University) builds upon the foundation of the original volume, reflecting on the enduring impacts of the pandemic on education, equity, and how we teach about Asia. One lasting consequence of the pandemic has been the rise in anti-Asian racism. Harassment and violence against Asians, fueled by pandemic-related scapegoating and xenophobic rhetoric, surged globally. In the United States, inflammatory phrases such as “China virus” and “kung flu” further stigmatized Asian communities, exacerbating a wave of hostility. Educators now face the challenge of addressing these injustices while fostering inclusive, empathetic learning environments. The essays in this collection delve into the pedagogical responses to anti-Asian racism, advocating for teaching frameworks that prioritize social justice and counteract harmful stereotypes and complement the important work of the scholars whose work appears in our recent Asia Shorts volume, Global Anti-Asian Racism, edited by Jennifer Ho. Another critical dimension explored in this volume is the necessity of representation. Asian Americans remain underrepresented in both the teaching workforce and teacher education programs, leading to a curriculum that often overlooks the rich cultural and linguistic assets of Asian students and their families. This gap underscores the importance of preparing teachers to adopt culturally responsive practices, ensuring that all students—especially Asian American learners—feel seen and valued in the classroom. These essays also challenge educators to move beyond surface-level engagement with Asia. A case in point is the life and legacy of Grace Lee Boggs, an Asian American activist whose story offers rich insights into the intersections of race, gender, and political activism. By teaching figures like Boggs through an antiracist, transnational lens, students can develop a deeper, more empathetic understanding of complex historical narratives. This approach not only enriches their knowledge of Asia and its diasporas but also equips them with critical tools to navigate and challenge systemic inequities in their own societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

Send us a textDr. Susan J. Kressly, MD, FAAP, is the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics ( https://www.aap.org/en/about-the-aap/aap-leadership/susan-kressly-md-faap/ ), an organization of 67,000 pediatricians committed to the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.​Dr. Kressly is board certified in Pediatrics and Clinical Informatics, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Kressly has also been at the forefront of innovation, advocating for pediatric functionality in Health IT. Her expertise includes Quality Improvement, Healthcare Financing and Payment, Practice Management and Optimization of Clinical Workflows.Dr. Kressly received a Bachelor of Science (BS), in Biology, from Moravian University, her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine and served her residency at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Dr. Kressly began practicing in the Doylestown area in 1990 and has been an involved member of the medical community since then. Her independent pediatric practice has been a recognized medical home since 2011, a model that Dr. Kressly strongly believes all children deserve access to, and that all pediatricians, including medical and surgical specialists, deserve sufficient resources, payment, and support to meet the needs of the patients and families they serve.#SusanKressly #Pediatrics #Pediatrician #ClinicalInformatics #AmericanAcademyOfPediatrics #MedicalHome #Advocacy #Telehealth #Vaccination #Vaccines #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #Podcasting #ViralPodcast #STEM #Innovation #Science #Technology #ResearchSupport the show

This show is sponsored by Leopard Solutions Legal Intelligence Suite of products, Firmscape, and Leopard BI. Push ahead of the pack with the power of Leopard. For a free demo, visit this link: https://www.leopardsolutions.com/index.php/request-a-demo/ ---------------------------------------- In this episode of The Rainmaking Podcast, host Scott Love speaks with Michael Frino and Katie Desiderio, co-authors of The Beekeeper: Pollinating Your Organization for Transformative Growth, about how leaders can cultivate a high-performance culture within their organizations. Drawing insights from their research on beekeeping, they explore how leaders can optimize their "hives" by fostering collaboration, self-awareness, and meaningful work. They emphasize that culture starts with leadership and requires humility, self-reflection, and a commitment to unlearning old habits. Key topics include the importance of self-awareness in leadership, replacing the golden rule with the platinum rule (treating others as they want to be treated), and making challenging decisions to maintain a healthy organizational environment. Michael and Katie also highlight the concept of "pollinating" an organization by prioritizing growth and learning at all levels and creating psychologically safe environments where individuals can thrive. This episode offers practical strategies for leaders who want to build stronger, more cohesive teams and drive transformative growth in their organizations. Visit: https://therainmakingpodcast.com/ ---------------------------------------- Michael G. Frino always was told he was creative and had a vivid imagination during his childhood. He parlayed this feedback by finding a passion for writing and storytelling. He published his first poem in 1993 entitled The Human Tree and is the author of Welcome to Waycool School (2010) and Waycool School Takes the Bus (2011) children's book series. In addition to writing, Michael has over twenty years professional experience working for Fortune 500 companies in sales, leadership and organizational development across the payroll/human resources, pharmaceutical, and med-tech industries. Michael finds his flow state today from helping organizations transform their culture with a focus on the growth and development of human beings. Katie P. Desiderio counts her blessings starting with the people in her life, which guides her approach to work where her focus is on every organization's most important asset – you! Her personality and behavioral attributes emphasize collaboration and all things that keep human beings in focus, which fuels her intrapreneurial spirit. As the mama of two extraordinary girls, she is committed to the development of rising leaders, namely in the spirit of leading from any seat. Along with her work as a tenured faculty member at Moravian University, Desiderio is Principal Partner in Learning of Proximal Development, LLC, an authorized DiSC partner, specializing in leadership development and the advancement of performance through learning. Upon completion of her doctorate in Organizational Learning and Leadership, Katie has been co-authoring scholar-practitioner journal articles, conference proceedings, and now this book with her learning partner and friend. Join them on this journey to inspire how you will pollinate the world! Links: Book

In this thought-provoking first episode of the 'Islam and Contemporary Challenges' series, Syed Arman Kazmi sits down with Dr Arash Naraghi, a Professor of Philosophy and Global Religion at Moravian University, to explore the nuanced relationship between science, mysticism, and Islamic reform. Dr Naraghi reflects on his transformative journey from pharmacology to philosophy, shedding light on his challenges with the Islamisation of science and his enduring fascination with Islamic mysticism, particularly the works of Rumi and Attar. The conversation delves deep into the societal impact of political Islam in post-Islamic Republic Iran, the solace offered by mysticism as a spiritual alternative, and the urgent need for reform in Islamic thought. Discover valuable insights into the complexities of reconciling faith with modern values, addressing the existential "love crisis," and finding meaning in today's fast-paced and fragmented world.

Benjamin Illkanoff is the owner of Persian Cat Vintage. A store that offers a variety of antique furniture, clothing, and more. Before venturing into entrepreneurship, Illkanoff was a student at Moravian University studying political science and psychology. “I definitely was on track to doing something like, you know, with the law and I had in planning for that. But in the back of my head and the back of my mind, I, I've always really loved clothing. Like, I started out with streetwear back in 2016 and, you know, just from high school all the way to, you know, even post College, you know, looking at graduate school and stuff.” There are currently two Persian Cat Vintage Stores. The first location was opened in Lancaster, and the second was opened in February in Elizabethtown. Both stores offer different products to shoppers. “So the store in Elizabethtown is an it's kind of like what I would call like a college nook, a college closet. It really, really encapsulates a 1990s and a really heavy like Y2K, 2000s vibe, whether it be like the plushies. And I'm like, I'm in the store right now, so I'm kind of just looking around and reciting back to you what I'm what I'm seeing. But it's a lot of like NASCAR stuff and toys and Pokemon and, you know, Looney Tunes and more like college crew snacks and sports memorabilia. It definitely is geared towards a college crowd versus my Columbia store is geared towards a crowd of anywhere from like the college high school crowd that I get in town to, you know, the oldest collector that I guess could walk in to the shop.”Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textAbout This EpisodeWhat does it mean to truly lead boldly? Join us for an engaging discussion with Katie Desiderio and Michael Frino, co-authors and organizational experts. Katie and Michael share the transformative experiences that inspired their book, The Beekeeper: Pollinating Your Organization for Transformative Growth, including insights into unlearning inherited beliefs to become a more effective leader. Through their personal stories, they illustrate the power of stepping out of comfort zones and embracing new perspectives. As we navigate the importance of authentic leadership, Katie and Michael reveal how storytelling, curiosity, and vulnerability can drive both personal and professional growth. Throughout the episode, they highlight the value of having a growth partner for accountability and the joy of continuous learning in leadership. Tune in for a rich conversation that promises to inspire and challenge your approach to leadership.About Katie Desiderio & Michael FrinoKatie Desiderio is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Beekeeper; Pollinating Your Organization for Transformative Growth. Along with her work as a Professor of Management and tenured faculty member at Moravian University, Desiderio is Principal Partner in Learning of Proximal Development, LLC, an authorized DiSC partner, specializing in leadership development and the advancement of performance through learning. Katie's personal mission is grounded in her r2C model, where she has devoted her work to recognize what we give our time and energy to grow, to reflect on how we interact with and see the world, and, at the heart of her approach, to connect with why this fuels transformative growth. Upon completion of her doctorate in Organizational Learning and Leadership, Katie has been co-authoring scholar-practitioner journal articles, conference proceedings, and now this book with her learning partner and friend.Michael Frino is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Beekeeper; Pollinating Your Organization for Transformative Growth. Michael has over 20 years of professional experience working for Fortune 500 companies in sales, leadership, and organizational development across the payroll/human resources, pharmaceutical, and med-tech industries. His curiosity on how organizations optimize performance at work inspired him to obtain his PhD in Organizational Learning and Leadership in (2010) and embrace opportunities to help individuals, groups, and organizations reach their peak potential. His co-authoring of The Beekeeper is the culmination of decades of research and publishing with his friend, Katie Desiderio, in performance improvement journals to understand how organizations can provide transformational growth to their most important assets, people.Additional ResourcesWeb:leadershipfables.comLinkedIn:@KatieDesiderio  @MichaelFrinoSupport the show-------- Stay Connected www.leighburgess.com Watch the episodes on YouTube Follow Leigh on Instagram: @theleighaburgess Follow Leigh on LinkedIn: @LeighBurgess Sign up for Leigh's bold newsletter

Weekly shoutout: The Ugly Radio is wrapping up season 4, listen asap! https://linktr.ee/theuglyradio -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author Kate Brandes! https://katebrandes.com About our Guest: Kate Brandes lives in the small river town of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two sons. She writes about and paints rural places and small-town dynamics with underlying environmental themes. Kate has worked as a geologist and environmental scientist for more than twenty years. She currently teaches geology, creative writing and a course on Landscape, Culture and Story of Place at Moravian University, where she also co-directs the Moravian Writers' Conference. Kate's first novel, The Promise of Pierson Orchard, was published in 2017. STONE CREEK, a new novel, now available from Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing! BOOKSHOP https://bookshop.org/p/books/stone-creek-kate-brandes/21590727?ean=9781954332522 BARNES & NOBLE https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stone-creek-kate-brandes/1145904467?ean=9781954332522 AMAZON https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Creek-Kate-Brandes/dp/1954332521 About STONE CREEK: Seventeen years ago, Tilly Stone (age 13) is left to fend for herself in rural Pennsylvania when her infamous eco-terrorist father disappears under mysterious circumstances. Ever since she's tried to forget the dams they blew up together and forge a new life until her father's return threatens to upend her small-town world and her friendship with the dogged FBI agent still pursuing him. Ultimately, as the past and present fuse and blow up with more than one kind of casualty, Tilly must choose between the father she loves and her home. Instagram: @kate_brandes | Facebook: @kate.a.brandes Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Kate! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j

Dr. Timothy Schwarz, Founder & Artistic Director of the Techne Music Festival, and Dr. Lawrence Stomberg, Techne Faculty Member, speaking about the 2024 weeklong program for talented young musicians at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA. The festival runs from June 9th through the 13th with a final concert on Thursday, June 13th at 7:00 pm in Peter Hall, 342 Main Street in Bethlehem. There is no admission fee. For information: www.technemusic.org/

    Michael Frino, Ph. D, Director Organizational Development at Boston Scientific | WSJ Bestselling Author | Performance Researcher. Over the last 25+ years he has worked with Fortune 500 companies in the areas of sales, sales training and leadership development. I am passionate about building high-performing teams and organizational cultures.   He enjoys publishing research on human performance, sales and the euphoric state of flow. His experience has also given him the opportunity to work closely and lead teams responsible for multimedia production, organizational DE&I strategies and marketing competency development.    Katie Desiderio, Ph. D, Assistant Vice President, Corporate-Educational Partnerships | Tenured Professor of Management | Partner in Learning | WSJ Best Selling Author | Mama. Katie  counts her blessings starting with the people in her life, which guides her approach to work where her focus is on every organization's most important asset – you! Her personality and behavioral attributes emphasize collaboration and all things that keep human beings in focus, which fuels her intrapreneurial spirit.   As an athlete, she found flow in sports and later discovered flow at work to fuel her professional trajectory. After working for several years in corporate marketing, Katie chose a second career in higher education, where she celebrates the honor of being the first female chairperson of the Economics and Business Department at the sixth oldest institution in America and first to educate women. As the mama of two extraordinary girls, she is committed to the development of rising leaders, namely in the spirit of leading from any seat. Along with her work as a tenured faculty member at Moravian University, Desiderio is Principal Partner in Learning of Proximal Development, LLC, an authorized DiSC partner, specializing in leadership development and the advancement of performance through learning. Upon completion of her doctorate in Organizational Learning and Leadership, Katie has been co-authoring scholar-practitioner journal articles, conference proceedings, and now this book with her learning partner and friend. Join them on this journey to inspire how you will pollinate the world!    Show Highlights   Unceremoniously squash the queen bee of your hive to put productivity front and center.  Embracing messiness in leadership is essential for generating new ideas and encouraging diverse perspectives. Learning and unlearning are vital components of value creation and collective progression when creating change. Encouraging people to lead from any seat to create influencers around you to engage your entire community. Maximize production in your “hive” with a hexagon shape collaboration. Place yourself the center of someone's growth to create the honey in your bee hive.  Get your FREE growth guides that encourage learning in the space of curiosity for deep level diversity.   “There's an opportunity here to think about change agents. As Ruckus Makers, we have to continually turn the lens to be able to self reflect, to think about value creation.” -Katie Desiderio   “We can't let that serve as a blind spot for us to think about the impact on the collective whole. For all of us to be able to hit the pause button to say, ‘I probably could have done that better,' or ‘how could I rephrase that or how could I look at this from a different lens to try to do it different or to bring someone else that might be more effective than I am in this space.'”   -Katie Desiderio “If you don't have a philosophy that you can share how you're going to lead the good, the bad, and ugly and share it, then the environment that you're creating may not be one that's vulnerable and authentic, and people will just see you as kind of a hierarchical leader. And that's not what we're trying to encourage. We're trying to convert, encouraging buyers where everybody can lead from every seat. It's okay to bring your best self to work, come as you are, choose the lens you want, but let's all work at this together.” -Michael Frino   “When we think about being innovators and disruption and demonstrating a ruckus, you have to go through a process, and it has to be messy. It can't be so rigid. The best ideas come when the process is messy, and you have to allow yourself permission to do that. Some people are really uncomfortable in that space, but getting out of your comfort zone, whiteboarding, brainstorming, being messy, will bring to life brand new ideas, brand new concepts, and probably allow people who have really great ideas to speak up that may not otherwise be heard, be messy.” -Michael Frino   Get a copy of the episode transcript here!   Katie and Michael's Resources & Contact Info: Leadership Fables Linkedin:Michael ​​Linkedin:Katie Twitter / X-Katie Katie P Desiderio-Facebook Twitter/X-Michael Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! 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When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™  I'll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.   Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™  for free at https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals SHOW SPONSORS:   TEACHFX How much student talk happened today? When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.    The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.    With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. 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The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically altered spring activities and college orientation for the class of 2020. Those young adults are this year's graduating college class. In this two-part episode, Liz Yates, dean of campus life at Moravian University, and Nicole Posluszny, assistant director for student engagement and leadership at Nazareth University, will talk about how their institutions planned special events to make up for the shortcomings of 2020.

Subscribe to Receive Venkat's Weekly Newsletter This April, I had the privilege of doing a series of conversations with undergraduate researchers at NCUR 2024 in Long Beach, California. This is the First in a series of 3 episodes  based on those conversations. On this Episode we feature 3 Student Researchers. Their research is broadly related to Inequities in society.  Our Guests: The students are Lucas Wolk of Moravian University in Pennsylvania, Sriman Thangarajan of American Univ in DC, and Willem Flaugher of UW OshKosh. Memorable Quote: “ And everyone's like, Oh, you're gonna become a teacher? And I was like, No, I'm gonna just keep fighting to make sure that kids across the state have better educational opportunities, like as a whole.” Lucas Wolk, Moravian University. Episode Transcript: Please visit Episode Transcript. Calls-to-action: Follow us on Instagram. To Ask the Guest a question, or to comment on this episode, email podcast@almamatters.io. Subscribe or Follow our podcasts at any of these locations: Apple Podcasts, Spotify and others.

Has your life and business plateaued and you're not sure how to move forward?  Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Katie P. Desiderio & Michael Frino on their new book The Beekeeper: Pollinating Your Organization for Transformative Growth.Katie P. Desiderio, MBA, PhD, is a Wiley DiSC Partner and Partner in Learning at Proximal Development, LLC, her leadership development consultancy. She is also Professor of Management at Moravian University's School of Business and Economics.Michael G. Frino, MBA, PhD, is a Wiley DiSC Partner and oversees Human Capital Development for a division of a Fortune 500 MedTech Company. He also leads DE&I program management and leadership development. https://leadershipfables.comFor more show information visit: www.MariannePestana.com#bookclub #readinglist #books #bookish #author #authorinterview #KMET1490AM #radioshow #booklover #mustread #reading 

Paul Krauss MA LPC and Laurie Belanger LCSWR speak about the foundations of what Trauma-Informed Care really means in the context of our greater society, not just mental health practice or trauma therapy. Laurie and Paul discuss the intersections of Trauma-Informed Care and change in greater society This is a different way of approaching human behavior and it really ought to help us question, reorganize or even dismantle many of our institutions of care (medical, educational...for starters) and build something better. That may sound a bit ambitious, yet it becomes pretty clear once you begin unpacking the core concepts of Polyvagal Theory. Neuroscience and Trauma therapists agree: It's something like a ‘Windows update' for "being a human.” We are living in a very strange time in history. We actually have the knowledge that we need to create more compassionate and science backed care and education of every member of society. Yet we are falling farther and farther behind in many real spaces. Much of it comes down to systems that were not designed with emotional safety in mind as being important for learning or healing  physical health issues. Fear of change keeps broken systems in place. This means that trauma-informed providers and educators are out here in society trying to share and equip a community working from within systems that were not designed to work that way.  Rather than become discouraged, Laurie Belanger LCSWR is talking about it. As citizens, the steps we can all take from within the outdated systems we are working within. We are talking about the possibilities of someday re-inventing the systems that no longer serve us. Laurie Belanger LCSWR is a licensed Clinical Social Worker & Trauma Psychotherapist in New York State. With a bachelors in Psychology from Moravian University and a Masters in Social Work from The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Social work, Laurie continues to pursue a lifetime of advanced learning attending conferences and training herself on the advances continuing to be made in the field of trauma, social work and psychology. Get involved with the National Violence Prevention Hotline: 501(c)(3) Donate Share with your network Write your congressperson Sign our Petition Looking for excellent medical billing services? Check out Therapist Billing Services. A behavioral and mental health billing service developed by therapists for therapists. Preview an Online Video Course for the Parents of Young Adults (Parenting Issues) EMDR Training Solutions (For all your EMDR training needs!) Paul Krauss MA LPC is the Clinical Director of Health for Life Counseling Grand Rapids, home of The Trauma-Informed Counseling Center of Grand Rapids. Paul is also a Private Practice Psychotherapist, an Approved EMDRIA Consultant , host of the Intentional Clinician podcast, Behavioral Health Consultant, Clinical Trainer, and Counseling Supervisor. Paul is now offering consulting for a few individuals and organizations. Paul is the creator of the National Violence Prevention Hotline (in progress) as well as the Intentional Clinician Training Program for Counselors. Paul has been quoted in the Washington Post, NBC News, Wired Magazine, and Counseling Today. Questions? Call the office at 616-200-4433.  If you are looking for EMDRIA consulting groups, Paul Krauss MA LPC is now hosting weekly online and in-person groups.  For details, click here. For general behavioral and mental health consulting for you or your organization. Follow Health for Life Counseling- Grand Rapids: Instagram   |   Facebook     |     Youtube  Original Music: ”Alright" from the forthcoming album Mystic by PAWL (Spotify) “Zoom Zoom” from Caravelle by Polo & Pan (Spotify)  “Canopee' ” from Caravelle by Polo & Pan (Spotify) 

The year Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, 1968, was a big year for a cause Rev. King championed: the labor movement. King was in Memphis, Tennessee, to campaign with unionizing sanitation workers. In April, he would be shot and killed. His death reverberated across the county. But the success of the sanitation workers in Memphis would have direct consequences for Baltimore and Maryland, where thousands of public sector workers were seeking to unionize. Jane Berger, PhD, is an Associate Professor of History at Moravian University. She is also author of “A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement.” (Photo from the AFRO American Newspapers Archives.)Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472

In this episode, Bryon Grigsby – President at Moravian University – offers his perspective on the value of a liberal learning and applied arts education coupled with faculty who embrace the societal changes impacting students, especially adult learners, in real-time. Grigsby contends higher education has an even greater societal role now, as technology makes information, and disinformation, more readily available.  References: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryongrigsby/ https://www.linkedin.com/school/moravian-university/  https://www.moravian.edu/  

We are so very close to the end of 2023! But regardless of what part of the year you're at, news is always showing up. So we're here to discuss the biggest stories from the commercial AV space. Joining us this week is Steve Kawasaki from The Farm, Brock McGinnis from Nationwide AV, and Britt Yenser from Moravian University.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father's practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin's father conduct a blessing ritual. Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so be sure to subscribe to Blue Beryl! Resources mentioned in this episode: First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019) Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020) Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan) Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024) Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020) Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father's practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin's father conduct a blessing ritual. Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so be sure to subscribe to Blue Beryl! Resources mentioned in this episode: First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019) Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020) Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan) Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024) Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020) Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father's practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin's father conduct a blessing ritual. Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so be sure to subscribe to Blue Beryl! Resources mentioned in this episode: First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019) Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020) Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan) Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024) Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020) Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-american-studies

Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father's practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin's father conduct a blessing ritual. Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so be sure to subscribe to Blue Beryl! Resources mentioned in this episode: First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019) Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020) Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan) Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024) Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020) Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father's practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin's father conduct a blessing ritual. Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so be sure to subscribe to Blue Beryl! Resources mentioned in this episode: First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019) Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020) Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan) Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024) Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020) Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father's practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin's father conduct a blessing ritual. Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so be sure to subscribe to Blue Beryl! Resources mentioned in this episode: First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019) Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020) Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan) Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024) Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020) Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Dr. Larry Lipkis, Starner Professor of Music & Composer-in-Residence, at Moravian University in Bethlehem, speaking about the premiere of his new violin concerto, "Columbina". The piece is dedicated to the memory of Maestro Donald Spieth and is a salute to violinist Michael Montero, concert-master of the Moravian University Orchestra. Dr. Lipkis will lead the orchestra in a concert on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at 7:00 in Foy Hall on the Moravian campus. Also on the program, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and more. www.moravian.edu/

In this episode, I sit down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father's practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin's father conduct a blessing ritual.Enjoy, and please subscribe so that you do not miss any episodes in the future!Resources Mentioned in this Episode:First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian MedicineChenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021)Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019)Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020)Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan)Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024) Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020)

Dr. Larry Lipkis, Starner Professor of Music and Director of the Early Music Program at Moravian University in Bethlehem, speaking about the Fall 2023 Early Music Concert in Peter Hall on Sunday, October 29th at 5:00 pm. There will be music of William Byrd and more. www.moravian.edu/

Ajala Elmore '20 joins the podcast to discuss the impact of WFS, advancing to the Division III College World Series, and interning at the Chase Fieldhouse this summer - enjoy!

In today's episode, Massimo is joined by Geoffrey Roche. Geoffrey is currently the Senior Vice President of National Healthcare Practice and Workforce Partnerships at Core Education PBC. He speaks often on healthcare workforce topics at national conferences such as Becker's Annual Conference, HIMMS, and ViVE. In 2022, Roche was also nominated to the Forbes Business Council for his national-level work. Roche has over nine years of hospital administration experience, including senior leadership roles in various departments at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono. He also held leadership positions at Lebanon Valley College and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, focusing on strategic partnerships, organizational strategy, and business development. Roche earned his Master of Science degree in Management and Leadership: Public Administration at East Stroudsburg University and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Moravian University. He also holds several certificates, including a Mini-MBA in Healthcare from the University of Arizona's Eller Executive Education, Innovation in Healthcare Management from Arizona State University, Healthcare Leadership from Duke Corporate Education, and Heroic Leadership from Santa Clara University. Geoffrey Roche's Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreymroche Highlights from today's podcast include: What it means to truly be of service to both your team and your customers The importance of having empathy when running a business and overseeing a team of people  Treating your team members as if they are customers How to protect yourself from the potential of being let go in a volatile work landscape Why succession planning and mentoring for the future need to be focused on more in leadership.

Claire de Mézerville López and co-host Kaleigh Mrowka welcome Laura Mack to the Restorative Works! Podcast as part of our higher education series.   Laura speaks about the difference between using restorative methods in higher education spaces versus K-12 education. Navigating the transition between teenagerhood into young adulthood requires high support and high accountability. This allows students to sharpen skills that will be most important as emerging adults in the world outside of college. She describes how she engages students facing conduct issues by first building rapport and letting that student know that their individual experience is important to understanding the conflict they are addressing. She helps to foster a sense of community on her campus by proactively using a restorative framework with her staff and students.   Laura Mack is the Associate Director of Student Accountability and Conflict Transformation at Moravian University. Her understanding of restorative practices occurred as a residence life hall director, and, after her initial training, she expanded her knowledge of the work and applied it to much of her life. Today, she takes pride in her work at Moravian University, helping college students recognize their actions' impact on the greater campus community and training faculty and staff on how utilizing a restorative framework can create opportunities for a truly engaged community. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master's in Counselor Education from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore.

Multi-Instrumentalist Carries On Legacy#multiinstrumentalist #musiclegacy #moondog #trimba #newmusic Julian Calv was a music major recently graduated from Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA. He now resides in the art community of Woodstock, VT. Calv can occasionally be seen on Church Street in Burlington, VT, busking much in the way Moondog, aka the Viking of Sixth Avenue, had done in NYC during the 50's and 60's.Calv has studied every aspect of the avant-garde musician's creative life. In addition to composing and performing, Moondog's life included the invention of several musical instruments, most famously the trimba (a sort of triangular drum). Calv has even built his own one-of-a-kind trimba, going to great lengths to travel to Sweden and Germany to meet with fellow Moondog aficionados, and study the design of the instrument. Moondog archivist Wolfgang Gnida states, “Julian Calv - The future of the trimba, that's what I called Julian some time ago. That may seem a bit of an exaggeration, but since the time I've been working at the Moondog Archive, I've yet to meet a musician who has been as intensely involved with the trimba as Julian. His first trimba was still made from drums put together, but his first homemade trimba based on Moondog's model soon followed.”Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/julian.trimbaOrder a copy of Route 4/Thorn and Roots Vinyl: https://www.dekoentertainment.com/julian-calvYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLhlri4zvh06I2l8ggi5_dgInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/julian.trimba/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julian.trimbaTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@julian.trimbaTwitter: https://twitter.com/julian_trimbaThanks for tuning in, please be sure to click that subscribe button and give this a thumbs up!!Email: thevibesbroadcast@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/listen_to_the_vibes_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevibesbroadcastnetworkLinktree: https://linktr.ee/the_vibes_broadcastTikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeuTVRv2/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheVibesBrdcstTruth: https://truthsocial.com/@KoyoteFor all our social media and other links, go to: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/the_vibes_broadcastPlease subscribe, like, and share!

Laurie Hackett begins by sitting down with Carol Andersen of Bloom for Women, and then speaking with Moravian University's Dr. Chris Hunt about the Black & Latino Male College Readiness Program of the Lehigh Valley at Moravian University.

In today's episode we have a great conversation with Tracey DeMaria. Tracey helps define sensory integration and regulation, words that are being used more mainstream in education these days. She talks about the need for our system to become more developmentally respectful in regard to the self-regulation expectations we set on students, and reminds us we all need co-regulation. Tracey highlights that classrooms need to keep moving more towards movement and rhythm in order to promote learning in our schools.  Tracey DeMaria, OTD, OTR is an accomplished occupational therapist with a strong dedication to promoting regulation skills. She obtained a clinical Doctorate in occupational therapy from Misericordia University. With over a decade of experience in the field, Tracey currently serves as an occupational therapist in the Phillipsburg School District and is an adjunct professor in the Occupational Therapy master's program at Moravian University. Tracey is also an accomplished author, with her upcoming book, How to Surf the Waves: A Sensory, Emotional, and Behavioral Regulation Skills Curriculum, set to be released this Fall. A passionate advocate for disability rights and mental health, Tracey remains committed to helping individuals of all ages learn the power of regulation.

Bryon Grigsby - President, Moravian University, joins Brad Johnson. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/plexuss/message

On this episode we'll be talking to Danielle Costanzo, MS, OTR/L about OT's role adolescent mental health in the school system. Danielle co-authored a recent article about her program in OT Practice and is an adjunct faculty member at Moravian University.

This week, we talk with interdisciplinary artist, designer and arts administrator, Melissa R. Strom.Melissa R. Strom is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Lehigh Valley and New York City Metropolitan area. She earned her BFA in Studio Art and Graphic and Interactive Design at Moravian University. Primarily working with oil paint and found object assemblages, her practice stems from themes including mental health, relationships, music, and everyday life, and is often informed by a span of historic and current events. Recently, patterns, light, and text have become important aspects of her work, and she continues to explore different approaches to forming, altering, and handling these components. Melissa currently works at the Allentown Art Museum.To keep up with Melissa and hear more about what she's doing, follow her on Instagram at @artbymelsie or check out her website at https://melissarstrom.com/.  This episode's opportunity of the week is for The Gold Door Gallery's fundraiser "Heart of Gold Charity Show." Proceeds collected at this year's exhibition are benefiting the Pennsylvania SPCA. This event will be held on February 11, 2023 from 7-9pm. All artwork on display will be for sale or auction. Entry to the event is free, but they are asking for supply donations if possible. These include pet food and general pet supplies. You can follow the Gold Door Gallery on instagram at @golddoorgallery or check out their website at https://www.golddoorgallery.art/. 

This week we're speaking with Geoffrey Roche, Geoffrey Roche, Senior Vice President, National Health Care Practice of Core Education Services, a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to support small and mid-sized institutions through innovative shared services.  Geoffrey shares an ecosystem approach to creating sustainable, equitable change in the healthcare and education systems. He says we're at an inflection point in the workforce world, and the root cause of high turnover, burnout and dissatisfaction is due in large part to problems of culture and inclusion (or lack thereof). We also discuss: The negative impact of larger organizations purchase smaller practices and expect the purchased practice to relinquish their culture Solutions for the very real problem of a need for leadership in healthcare (namely that it is already there and requires support and recognition beyond job titles) The possibility of starting an action-oriented organization like a think tank to create solutions to the many difficulties in healthcare Bio: Geoffrey M. Roche, MPA, is an accomplished healthcare and higher education executive with steadfast commitment and passion for healthcare innovation, future-focused strategy, transformation, cultural change, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and workforce impact. His professional career includes over 15 years in hospital administration and higher education leadership as a strategic advisor to the President and CEO and department director of various departments, including Business Development and Strategic Planning, Government Affairs, Community Health, and Public Relations. Roche is an Adjunct Instructor of Health Administration in the MBA/MHA Program at Moravian University and a Corporate Faculty member in Population Health for Harrisburg University. Roche earned his Master of Science degree in Management and Leadership: Public Administration at East Stroudsburg University and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Moravian University. Find Geoffrey: LinkedIn Ed Up, Health Up Podcast Core Education Website Book Mentioned: Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them Connect With Us: Instagram  Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy's LinkedIn Business Page LinkedIn

Higher ed AV PodcastEpisode 189Britt Yenser, Director of Event Technology at Moravian University joins the show to discuss her role and career path. She offers incredible insight into how to build your team and what priorities are important for success. Oh yeah, and just wait until you hear her closing advice and opinions on hybrid.Britt YenserDirector of Event TechnologyMoravian UniversityLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/britt-yenser

Does there never seem to be enough time in the day? Are you a business owner wishing you could get more done in 24 hours? Then this week's podcast episode is for you. Gina Perin shares her life-changing journey as well as her tips and tricks for mental wellness and productivity. Gina is from Bethlehem Pennsylvania and currently lives in Los Angeles. She has a B.S. in Business Management from Moravian University. After experiencing great personal loss and having to rebuild her life, she went back to school and became a certified Health and Well-Being Coach based in Positive Psychology. After years of being a fitness coach in big box gyms, she felt a calling to focus solely on one-on-one coaching. Today she helps people regain their health, which she learned along the way is much more than just physical health, but mental and spiritual health as well. Be sure to take notes as Gina shares: Why being busy doesn't mean you are being productive Why when you quiet the noise your productivity level jumps How waking up one hour earlier every day adds 15 extra days to your life every year Why it's important to focus on your morning routine and make it your alone time How small changes done consistently over time produce huge results Get motivated by Gina's wellness and productivity tips to build the business of your dreams - let's get hacking! Follow the Local Business Hacks podcast for more inspiring interviews, hacks, and insider secrets to help grow your business.

Geoffrey M. Roche, MPA, is an accomplished leader with steadfast commitment and passion for healthcare innovation, future-focused strategy, transformation, cultural change, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and workforce impact. His professional career includes over nine years in hospital administration as a strategic advisor to the President and CEO and department director of various departments, including Business Development and Planning, Government Affairs, Community Health, and Public Relations, for Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono. At Lebanon Valley College and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Geoffrey held senior leadership roles focused on strategic partnerships, organizational strategy, and business development. As Senior Vice President, Business & Workforce Development at Dignity Health Global Education, he led a diverse team focused on developing institutional relationships with leading health systems while simultaneously championing national conversations and initiatives to develop innovative diversity, equity, and inclusion solutions for the healthcare workforce. He currently serves as the Senior Vice President, National Health Care Practice & Workforce Partnerships for Core Education. He is an Adjunct Instructor of Health Administration in the MBA/MHA Program at Moravian University and Corporate Faculty member in the Population Health program at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, serves on the United Way of Lebanon County and United Way of Pennsylvania Board of Directors, IU 13 Board of Directors, Leadership Council for Moravian College, Patient Safety Committee for WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital, and as an elected School Director of Annville-Cleona School District. Roche earned his Master of Science degree in Management and Leadership: Public Administration at East Stroudsburg University and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Moravian University. He also holds a Mini-MBA in Healthcare from the University of Arizona, Eller College of Management, a Certificate in Innovation in Healthcare Management from Arizona State University, Thunderbird School of Global Management, the Certificate in Healthcare Leadership from Duke Corporate Education, and the Certificate in Heroic Leadership from Santa Clara University.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreymroche/Heroic Leadership book: https://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Leadership-Practices-450-Year-Old-Company/dp/0829421157Beaker Health: https://beakerhealth.com/

Managing over 100 acres on the 6th oldest college campus in the United States is not an easy task. Randy Haffling has been doing just that for over 14 years at Moravian University in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. For the last six years, he has embraced a biological soil management program for the campus. This has changed the soil chemistry bringing the soil pH down by a full point. He has also built a level of soil sustainability that has kept the campus vibrant even during one of the worst droughts. In addition, his campus wide tree inventory allowed everyone to see the true economic assets that the campus provides to the community. This has allowed him to make stronger economic decisions when it comes to the tree population that is also managed with a biological soil management program.

Danny Cooper round 2! Danny is one of the best up and coming young trainers in this industry and his work ethic, passion and drive speak towards it. He's a guy that works for everything he has and nothing happens by accident, he and I catch up and talk a little about his summer as well as his last year in general which has been very impactful for him.He was able to connect with Mac McClung and helped him out for a camp that he put on in Gate City while also training Mac, then he tagged along with Mac during summer league in Vegas. He's built a really good relationship with Mac. He also worked with Lamar Stevens of the Cavaliers for 5 weeks towards the end of the summer.He was training all summer as well as working out himself and preparing for his upcoming season at Moravian University in Pennsylvania, he's going to have a great year individually while also being a huge piece in the leadership needed to get his team into the playoffs and make a push!Make sure to keep up with him on all socials:IG: https://www.instagram.com/dcoopbball/YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/DannyCooperBasketballTik Tok: @dcoopbball

This episode is the latest in the series of cases we've profiled focusing on mergers within higher education. We speak with Bryon Grigsby, President of Moravian University and David Rowe, who served as Interim President of Lancaster Theological Seminary (LTS) who discuss how they partnered to integrate LTS into Moravian to operate alongside the existing Moravian Seminary. Moravian is the 6th oldest college in the U.S. and was the first to admit women. They describe how the vision for the merger evolved during their initial discussions from having LTS move to Moravian's campus in Bethlehem, to enabling LTS to retain its historic campus and expanding it to serve as a branch campus for Moravian. They share the hard-earned lessons with all of the regulatory and other hurdles that need to be cleared to complete a successful merger. David Finegold is the president of Chatham University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This episode is the latest in the series of cases we've profiled focusing on mergers within higher education. We speak with Bryon Grigsby, President of Moravian University and David Rowe, who served as Interim President of Lancaster Theological Seminary (LTS) who discuss how they partnered to integrate LTS into Moravian to operate alongside the existing Moravian Seminary. Moravian is the 6th oldest college in the U.S. and was the first to admit women. They describe how the vision for the merger evolved during their initial discussions from having LTS move to Moravian's campus in Bethlehem, to enabling LTS to retain its historic campus and expanding it to serve as a branch campus for Moravian. They share the hard-earned lessons with all of the regulatory and other hurdles that need to be cleared to complete a successful merger. David Finegold is the president of Chatham University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

This episode is the latest in the series of cases we've profiled focusing on mergers within higher education. We speak with Bryon Grigsby, President of Moravian University and David Rowe, who served as Interim President of Lancaster Theological Seminary (LTS) who discuss how they partnered to integrate LTS into Moravian to operate alongside the existing Moravian Seminary. Moravian is the 6th oldest college in the U.S. and was the first to admit women. They describe how the vision for the merger evolved during their initial discussions from having LTS move to Moravian's campus in Bethlehem, to enabling LTS to retain its historic campus and expanding it to serve as a branch campus for Moravian. They share the hard-earned lessons with all of the regulatory and other hurdles that need to be cleared to complete a successful merger. David Finegold is the president of Chatham University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We humans all face loss. When a child dies, however, it is a particularly brutal, life-altering loss. As caring bystanders, we may not know how to respond, help, or approach those who are grieving. We're worried we'll say the wrong thing and upset the grieving person, and therefore might end up doing nothing at all.  Enter Anita Swartley, grief coach and Founder of Mosaic Restorative Coaching, and Kristin Kane Ford, Founder of the Kellan Ford Foundation. Both have lost children to illness and both are on a mission to help others navigate grief.  These two bright women share their inspirational, messy, heart-wrenching, yet hopeful stories and offer up practical advice on the best ways to walk alongside those who are grieving. This one is a must-listen for every human.   Anita Swartley is the Founder of Mosaic Restorative Coaching, an outreach created to walk alongside individuals who have experienced loss. After experiencing the loss of her father, two children, and her marriage, Anita's life was shattered into a million pieces. Despite these devastating losses, Anita was able to find healing and purpose in her life even through the pain. Her strongest desire is to reach back into the depth to help others find a way to live with their loss, and to create a space for grievers to not only share their pain, but to find hope. Anita has her B.A. in Religious Studies from Moravian University and her M.A. in Human Services Counseling from Liberty University. She is a certified life coach accredited through the International Coaching Federation and is a certified SAP counselor.  Kristin Kane Ford leads a boutique digital marketing firm, Kane Partners. In 2021, Kristin and her husband Mike started The Kellan Ford Foundation in honor of their 5-year-old son, Kellan who lost his life to brain cancer. Kristin is an active member of the community and has been a subject matter expert, featured in numerous media outlets. She speaks nationally on topics related to social media and marketing. And now she shares her grief journey and the impact of her faith. While learning to live with grief Kristin often turns to her son's faith and mantra of "Today I Choose Happiness" for strength and inspiration. She has a new found appreciation for time, especially time spent with Mike and their son Parker.  Learning Objectives: 1.     Name the physiological process that are triggered by an individual who is struggling with a loss2.     Implement 3 effective interventions to use in working with an individual who is grieving 3.     Describe 3 effective interventions to use when working with children who have suffered a loss4.     Utilize effective therapeutic approaches when working with an individual who has lost a childCheck out therapeuticperspective.com to obtain CE credit hours!

1: Jaclyn Megan Sions, PT DPT PhD, Clinical Research Scientist, Assistant Professor in Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE Characterizing Pain among Adolescents and Young Adults with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita Primary study objectives were to characterize pain and explore differences between adolescents and adults with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and evaluate associations between pain-related outcomes and mobility. 2: Diana Early, PT PhD PCS, Children's Health, Dallas, TX The Journey: Parental Expectations and Perceptions of Therapy Services for Children with Down Syndrome The researchers identified and described parents' expectations and perceptions of therapy services received by their children with Down syndrome 3: Courtney M Goldsbury, PT DPT PCS, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Infants with Congenital Muscular Torticollis Requiring Supplemental Physical Therapy Interventions To describe supplemental intervention frequency in infants with congenital muscular torticollis and compare groups of infants who received first-choice intervention only to infants who received supplemental intervention. 4: Kelly R Greve, PT DPT PhD PCS, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy, Cincinnati, OH Infants with Congenital Muscular Torticollis: Demographic Factors, Clinical Characteristics, and Physical Therapy Episode of Care 5: Luke Wakely, PhD, MHSc(Paed Physio), BAppSc(Physio), Department of Rural Health, The University of Newcastle, Tamworth, NSW, Australia A Survey of Parents' and Carers' Perceptions of Parenting a Child with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip To explore parents' and carers' perceptions of parenting a child with developmental dysplasia of the hip. 6: Rebecca Kern PT DPT, Dept of Rehab & Neurosciences, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, Student Support Programs and Services Seated outcome measures in children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy To study the feasibility of seated trunk strength using hand held dynamometry and care giver reported subjective functional independence measures in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 7: Mitch Wolden, PT DPT PhD, Physical Therapy Program, University of Jamestown, Fargo, ND Student Self-Efficacy in Pediatrics: Evaluation and Modification of the Pediatric Communication and Handling Self-Efficacy Scale Our purpose was to examine the reliability and validity of the Pediatric Communication and Handling Self-Efficacy Scale and develop a shorter, modified version. 8: Kimberly D Wynarczuk, PT PhD MPH, Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA The How and the Why of Including Children: Experiential Learning in Teaching Physical Therapy Students This study describes experiential learning activities with children and the rationale for using experiential learning. 9: Jennifer Price PT DPT, Director of Clinical Education & Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, and Tonya Y. Miller, PT, DPT, PhD Program Lead, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, Harrisburg University of Science & Technology The Impact of an Overnight Summer Camp on the Quality of Life for Individuals Who Require Ventilatory Support. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of a camp experience for individuals who require ventilatory support.

Anthony "Sonny" Beltrami is an Associate Attorney at Fitzpatrick, Lentz, and Bubba, a full-service law firm in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His focus is primarily on estate planning, administration of estates and trusts, taxation, fiduciary and beneficiary representation, and business succession planning. He graduated from Moravian University with a Bachelor of Business Administration and from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.  This podcast has been prepared and published for general information and educational purposes only and should not be relied on for legal advice.  Legal advice cannot be given without full consideration of all relevant information relating to an individual's situation. In this episode… Discussing topics like death, incapacity, and life-altering events can be daunting. But what can you do to prepare your assets for the future? Education is the key to your peace of mind and transforming your aversion to the process. Anthony “Sonny” Beltrami educates and empowers clients as they walk through estate planning. By providing the tools to understand important documents, Sonny guides clients to make informed decisions based on their current situations and also to be prepared if a change occurs.  In this episode of Cornerstone Unplugged, Evan Cowen sits down with Anthony "Sonny" Beltrami, Associate Attorney at Fitzpatrick, Lentz, and Bubba, to discuss some common estate planning misconceptions. Sonny talks about the impact of mentorship on a green attorney, preparing for life changes through estate planning, and why client education is crucial for preparing for the future.

In this episode I'm joined by Danny Cooper of Danny Cooper Basketball. Danny is a basketball trainer from outside of Philadelphia who also is currently the starting point guard at Moravian University. We go through a ton of different topics in this podcast, including how players can improve their confidence and stop overthinking, habits players should build to be successful, how players can make it to and succeed at the college level, ways to make our training more effective, the importance of watching film for players and trainers, why building your personal brand matters so much, and way more!Be sure to follow Danny below:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dcoopbball/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aMAHL9kgoxMrNkW8oQQ8wTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dcoopbball?lang=enClick the link below to get my FREE Elite Perimeter Scorer Workout:https://www.visiondrivenbball.com/eliteperimeterscorer If you have any questions or topics that you want me to talk about on the podcast, DM me on Instagram! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visiondrivenbasketball/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe1Ka1W1V_TfRSwE_luacEg?view_as=subscriberThanks for listening!0:00 Intro2:12 Danny's Experience as A College Player AND Trainer3:38 How To Be A Great Leader7:38 College Basketball vs. High School Basketball9:04 Things You Need To Be GREAT At If You Want To Play In College10:44 Why Your Training Needs To Have A Reactionary Element16:56 Why We Need To Train With Exhaustion19:00 How To More Effectively Train Finishing20:24 What Danny Learned Training In Miami With Coleman Ayers (By Any Means Basketball)23:40 Big Keys For Players Who Struggle With Confidence and Overthinking28:05 Habits Players Should Have If They Want To Be Successful29:57 Why Watching Film Is So Important For Players and Trainers33:42 Why Players Should Ask Their Coaches For Feedback35:55 Why Players Need To Take More Responsibility For Themselves and Their Teammates40:20 Personal Branding and Why It's So Important For EVERYBODY48:30 How You Can Connect With Danny

Happy Holidays from the Follow The Brand Podcast!!  I am your host, Grant McGaugh, and today I come bearing gifts! One of the biggest hurdles for our diverse population of emerging healthcare executives is access to opportunity. Imagine a world where only 11% of the RN workforce is male, only 5% of physicians identify as Black, and only 27% of board members at the top 100 U.S. hospitals are women. This is the healthcare workforce we know today. We believe we can do better. That's why my guest Geoffrey M.  Roche is partnered with CommonSpirit Health to promote inclusion, diversity, and equity in healthcare through a $3 million scholarship program geared towards healthcare professionals looking to develop their skills, knowledge, and expertise through skills-based education and training. This scholarship offers experiential learning by providing access to top-tier institutions and relevant educational programs that will help professionals in health solve the diverse challenges they're facingGeoffrey is an accomplished leader with steadfast commitment and passion for healthcare innovation, future-focused strategy, transformation, and workforce impact. His professional career has included over nine years in hospital administration, where he served as a strategic advisor to the President and CEO and department director of various departments, including Business Development and Planning, Government Affairs, Community Health, and Public Relations, for a regional healthcare system in Northeast Pennsylvania. Geoffrey also has served in senior leadership roles at two academic institutions. He led strategic partnerships, organizational strategy, and business development for Lebanon Valley College and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He has significant experience creating high-impact partnerships. He is also an Adjunct Instructor of Health Administration in the MBA/MHA Program at Moravian University, serves on the United Way of Lebanon County and United Way of Pennsylvania Board of Directors, IU 13 Board of Directors, Leadership Council for Moravian College, Patient Safety Committee for WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital, and as an elected School Director of Annville-Cleona School District.In this episode, Geoffrey Roche and I discuss the identified inequities among healthcare professionals and how he has committed himself as a healthcare leader to promote the Equity Impact scholarship to create a  more equitable workforce for minority healthcare professionals. As the son of a Nurse, Geoffrey has been an advocate for the healthcare profession all his life, and he has been making a positive impact professionally since 2008.Let's Welcome Geoffrey Roche to the Follow the Brand Podcast, Where we are creating a 5 STAR Brand That You Can Follow!

Welcome back to Powering Your Retirement Radio. Today, we're going to continue our conversation about college planning and colleges in general with my good friend, Dr. Bryon L. Grigsby, who I've known since we were high school classmates, college roommates, and many other things throughout our lives. Bryon is the President of Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and he is one of the few presidents is also the President of his own Alma Mater. Moravian was founded in 1742. It's the sixth-oldest school in the country. It was the first to educate women. And it's been thriving since Bryon became the President back in the summer of 2013. So with that, welcome back, President Grigsby. Why don't you tell people that maybe didn't hear our last episode, just a bit of yourself and Moravian? Start of Interview President Bryon L. Grigsby: It's great to be here. Dan is a treat to run our Alma Mater, and I'm not quite sure when we were tearing around the campus. Either one of us thought that we'd be in the roles we're in right now, but it's a joy to be at your Alma Mater. It is the sixth oldest college in the nation. It's in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We have one of the only Revolutionary War hospitals on the campus, and we're about to get UNESCO world heritage designation, which will be the second a university in the nation to be a world heritage site, the University of Virginia being the other one. So it is a place of very historic buildings. My house, the President's house, comes with a desk that was George Washington's. And so you are when you're wandering around the streets of Bethlehem, truly wandering around in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Lafayette. So it's a neat place to be. The campus is a Division III sports campus. We have about 2,600 students on the campus. We have about 25% of our students are graduate students and primarily in the healthcare and business industries. The other 75% are undergraduate students and all sorts of liberal arts and science and nursing.   Main Points Covered Four Year School vs. Community College Risk vs. Reward Value of a Liberal Arts Education Training people for jobs that don't exist, yet What does success look like in college? Relationships with Faculty and classmates and taught by professors, not grad assistants   Dan: As an aside for the listeners, I've got to tell you the story of the George Washington desk. I was back at Moravian for Bryon's inauguration, and I heard the story about George Washington's desk. Later we were back at the President's house for a reception. And I asked him, where is this George Washington's desk? And Bryon looked me square in the eye and said, you're leaning on it, which I promptly got off of and wondered why there wasn't a velvet rope around it. The things you learn after you graduate from college. Anyways, one of the things that is an issue here in California, and we talked about it a little bit in the last episode about affordability, is kids that aren't quite ready for a four-year school. Here the answer is DVC - Diablo Valley College. It's the community college much like North Hampton in Pennsylvania or Orange County Community College, where we grew up, and that's in New York, not California for all my California listeners. Should I go to a four-year school and figure out if I like it or not, or should I do two years in community college? Let's start with that. President Bryon L. Grigsby: The lowest level of risk financially is to go to a community college. If your child doesn't know academically, what they want to do, and financially you're having difficulty affording college education, community college is a very viable opportunity. If a student is not successful at community college, they'll have maybe a couple of thousand dollars worth of student loans. As opposed to, if they're not successful at a state university or even an independent college, you could have $10,000 or more in student loans and no degree to be able to help pay down those loans. If you look at when people talk about the student loan crisis, everybody's eligible by the federal government. When you do a FASFA to get a loan from the federal government, it's guaranteed from the federal government. You don't have to put up any collateral for it, but paying that loan back without a college degree can be nearly impossible.   If you look at the default rates of all the student loans, they're all in $10,000 and less that's because a person who has $150,000 probably is going to med school and will be able to pay that loan back after they graduate. But the person who has $8,000 and did not get a college degree of any kind associates or bachelors can't afford to pay back that loan. And so that's where all the defaults come in. So if you are financially at risk and academically at-risk, community college is a great opportunity. It is an ability to very, cost-effectively see if you can make it in college courses where the downside comes in is if you academically know that you can make it in college, you're confident that your academic, your college material going to a community college may set you back in your degree, completion in programs such as nursing and engineering and computer science, because, the four-year schools have programs where you're going to get basic level information for your major in your first two years.   So that's the only risk you have is that if you have a career path that you really want to do in health professions, in computers and technology or an education, and, you know, you can make it, your college material you'll do fine in college. Then the best avenue is to go into a four-year school so that you can graduate within four years. If you are wondering whether college is right for you or having significant issues about paying for college, then community college, that gives you the ideal situation. And, students transfer from North Hampton here. They become highly engaged in our campus as a transfer in for the last two years. Sometimes if they're in nursing or computer science, they may have to take an extra semester to complete out that degree. But even at that level, it's still financially better for them if they're having difficulty paying for the finances. Dan: Obviously, Moravian's a liberal arts college. And we had talked about it a little bit before we got started today.  I thought it was an interesting comment. In liberal arts school, you're training people for jobs that don't exist. Talk to me a little bit about the value of liberal arts versus going in with like, just I'm going to be an engineer, and this is all I'm going to do. President Bryon L. Grigsby: Well, Moravian's proud of saying that it intentionally combines the liberal arts with professional programs. So, in my experience, I find two kinds of students have Moravian. I find the student who has known since they were eight years old exactly what they want to do. So I want to be a doctor. I want to be a veterinarian. I want to be a lawyer. I want to be a nurse. I want to be an occupational therapist. And those students come in, and they have a path. They know what that path is. They want to go. They want to go straight through that path to get their degree. Where the liberal arts benefit them is liberal arts are what we call the soft skills. So I want at the end of a college career, I want a student to be able to critically think, to work well as a team member, to be a leader, to be ethical, to be able to use quantitative, qualitative analysis, to arrive at a decision, to understand and use technology effectively in their disciplines and their majors, and to be a global citizen that understands the value of diversity. Those are the components of a liberal arts college. Those components are transferable across every career possible. So, I may want to be a veterinarian, or I may want to be a medical doctor. And after four or five years of doing that, I decide I want to move into finance. And I do a career change because you have all these liberal arts skills. You can make that switch into a different career. Statistics will tell us that children today who are going into college will have four to five different careers over their lifetime. So, the value of the liberal arts college, even if to the student who knows exactly what they want to do right now, most likely across their lifetime, they will switch careers and need to rely on those liberal arts skills so that they can manage moving into careers back in the day when you and I went to school, everybody wanted to be a web page designer. The internet was just starting, and all these tech schools created eight-month web page designers. Well, someone eventually created a software program that was easier just to do the software program than hire the guy for $60,000 to do your webpage. And they all lost their jobs because they didn't have all those other soft skills. So that's one kind of student that knows exactly what they want to do and the benefits of still getting a liberal arts degree, even in their professional programs, so that they can switch careers seamlessly for the student who comes into Moravian. And I would say, this was me who doesn't know what they want to do. The liberal arts provide a sampling of a variety of different careers that are possible. I had five different majors at Moravian. I went from a physics major to a math major, to a computer science major, to a criminal justice major, to an English major. The liberal arts allowed me to think about different careers, and if I wanted to do those for the rest of my life, and then settle on the one that I wanted to do. The liberal arts right now, as you said, Dan, not only are we training students to have four or five different careers over their lifetime, we are also training students for careers that will exist in four or five years or ten years. Think about what's happening with Tesla and automated cars as automated cars come out and electric vehicles. There's going to be this mass need for technicians to build charging stations, repair stations. Those careers don't exist yet. They will in five or ten years as more and more vehicles become autonomous. The skills of the liberal arts will allow people to learn how to learn again, to learn a new career. And that those are the benefits of not just going to a technical school where you're just going to learn how to be a webpage designer. You're just going to learn how to be an engineer. You're going to learn how to just do one thing. You want to go to a place that will allow you to learn that and create all the other skill sets that you're going to need to be more diversified and more able to change careers. Dan: And I can attest, I was there for at least three of the major changes. I know which class it was that made him an English major. And Bryon is still good friends. How has Dr. Burcaw President Bryon L. Grigsby: And he's good, 92 years old, still learning quantum physics and other things. Dan: I was in that class. I went a different route, but it worked for Bryon for sure. And that, that kind of is a good lead-in, I think to our next question, which is, what do you think success looks like for someone at college? And I bring that up because, you know, I know the answer you gave me earlier. I'll let you tell the people, but I know who one of those people is for you. President Bryon L. Grigsby: It is actually pretty simple. It's been studied by Harvard for over 50 years. Success is that you have out of college, uh, one or two, three or four close friends, people that you truly are your lifelong friends and one mentor, and that mentor can be a faculty member or a staff member, but someone that you rely on to mentor you through your college career and beyond. I've said that person is Dr. Burcaw for me. And you know, Dan's been a lifelong friend. We were friends before college, but we were roommates in college. So it's really not rocket science for having a successful college career, two or three strong friends, and a mentor. That's it. The chances are of that happening at a small college are way greater, particularly in the mentor program. When I started out my career teaching at the University of Connecticut, I had 450 students in an upper-division Shakespeare class in a large rake auditorium. There was not any way to get to know any of the students. That was markedly different than my Chaucer class at Moravian with four students at eight o'clock, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, where we had breakfast, the last class at the faculty member's house, getting the mentorship part is much easier at small independent colleges than it is at large state universities. For parents, the one thing I would say is to visit lots of college campuses, ask your child, do you see yourself fitting in here? Do you see yourself walking around and seeing people with who you could be friends with? Do you see yourself sitting at a table in the cafeteria, and you would have friends here? That's going to be the key for finding a place where they feel they fit and belong?   Dan: I can attest to that as a, again, back to Bryon's inauguration. When he talked about his dreams to become present and all of that, I got to remind him that I was the first student he ever recruited to Moravian because I was a transfer student to Moravian. And I know that everything Bryon just said about, do you see yourself fitting in at the school I was at? I definitely did not. And when I would come to visit Bryon and Moravian, I did. And by the end of my first semester, I had already applied and was ready to go for my first semester, sophomore year. Bryon was a good recruiter then and is still doing a great job for the college. Now, why don't we wrap up with this one, Bryon? You kind of touched on it a little bit there, but you might want to hit a few other points—just some of the benefits of, you know, a school like Moravian University. I won't use one that's in the same city. So, let's say a school like the University of California, Berkeley, or Stanford, or one of the schools where you've got thousands and thousands of students there versus hundreds in a class like in the entire class, not just one that you're taking, but like everybody that's a freshman. There are what now? 500 at Moravian President Bryon L. Grigsby: Well, we're about 450 incoming first-year students. And then about 150 transfers and 50 international students. It's what the student wants essentially. And, and I get back to, you know, mom and dad who are paying the bill has to think about the value of the education. I personally don't see a whole lot of value in 40,000 students and focused on Division I, football, or Division I basketball. That's not, to me, the reason you should be going to be educated. There are many people that love that. And, there are 4,000 institutions of higher education in the United States. I guarantee you, if you want to go to a Buddhist school, there's a Buddhist school. If you want to go to a Catholic school, there's a Catholic school. You can find any mission possible in higher ed. But I find that the places that truly transform students are the small independent colleges where they have less than 5,000 students. You're taught not by a graduate assistant, which is the case for almost all state universities and research universities. The first two years of undergraduate education is taught by a graduate student who has not finished their Ph.D. I was one of those students that taught other students when I was getting my doctorate. There's value to that. But there's also value to having a full professor who has 20 years of teaching experience teaching your child, freshmen writing. That's the kind of places that small independent colleges have at a place like Moravian. You most likely in your four years there we'll have a dinner at the President's house. We cycle through all the athletic teams and all the clubs every other year. So, if you're even remotely engaged at the campus, you're on a, in a club or you're in a sporting, or you're an athlete. You will get a dinner at the President's house with the President. I guarantee that's not happening at Berkeley. There are just too many students for that to be occurring for some students. That's not important. But for me, that was, it was life-changing for me to be able to go over to Bob Burcaw's house and have dinner with him and Dottie and become part of the family, or be known on campus by your Faculty on a first-name basis, not a number it's not right for every student. I realized that there are students when I said I was at UConn. They wanted nothing to do with me. They simply wanted to go back to what they were doing together as a group of adolescents. I just think if you're paying a lot of money for this education, you want to get the most out of it. And, at small independent colleges, you know, the faculty member is by your elbow, helping you with your skills that are going to be so important for your career. Dan: Fantastic. I think that's a great way to wrap up today. I want to thank you for taking some time out with me to do the last two episodes for the listeners on the Powering Your Retirement Radio website. There is an ask a question button. If you just click on that, you can leave a voicemail or type in a question. If you have one, as I said, if we get overwhelmed, maybe we can have Bryon come back and answer a few of those. But, I will work with Bryon to try to get answers to any of the questions that do come in and get back to you with a response. So, I sincerely appreciate your time, Bryon. I know you're a busy guy, so we'll let you get back to, uh, the important business of running a school and, uh, for my listeners, uh, until next episode, stay safe. And, uh, this should have just come out the week after Thanksgiving. So I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving and a good holiday season. Thank you so much. President Bryon L. Grigsby: Thanks, Dan   For more information, visit the Podcast Episode page here: https://poweringyourretirement.com/2021/12/03/the-value-of-a-liberal-arts-degree-and-how-to-measure-success/

Welcome back to Powering Your Retirement Radio. Today, we're going to talk about college planning, and I've been looking forward to this show because I get to interview my lifelong friend and college roommate, Dr. Bryon L Grigsby. Bryon happens to be the President of Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bryon is one of the few university presidents that is the President of his Alma Mater. Moravian was founded in 1742. It's the sixth-oldest school in the country. It was the first to educate women, and it has been thriving since Bryon became President in 2013. So with that, I want to welcome President Bryon Grigsby. Bryon, why don't you take a second to tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and Moravian? President Bryon L. Grigsby: Hey, Dan, it's great to be here. Moravian is a unique university. It has about 2,600 students. As Dan said, it's the sixth oldest in the nation. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, College of William and Mary, St. John's Annapolis, and the University of Pennsylvania are the ones that precede us. We were the first school founded to educate women. I've been the President at my Alma Mater for nine years now. I'm in my ninth year. We built a lot of healthcare programs over these past few years. We have multiple doctoral programs, including a doctorate in physical therapy and a doctorate in nursing practice. We have occupational therapy, athletic training, a very vibrant nursing program, and an incredibly vibrant undergraduate liberal arts college.   Affordability of College Average tuition of $54,000, average student pays $26,000.   Value Proposition Apple MacBooks & iPads for every student, small class sizes, full-time faculty, not grad student teachers.   US News & World Reports – College Metrics Ignore the glamour numbers and look at Freshman retention rates and four-year graduation rates.   See the details on the website Blog page or listen to the show today.       Interview Transcript: Dan: Fantastic. Thank you, Bryon. So, as I think we've talked about, but just so you know, a bit of the listener, primarily most of the people listening to the show today, will be in one of two areas. They either work for PG&E, our power company ranging from the guys out in the field to people in the office, doing everything it takes to run a company. The other is Kaiser Permanente, which you're probably familiar with them as a healthcare provider. But, again, most of those people here in Northern California do have some clients in other parts of the country. And what I find is when I'm talking to parents and grandparents, there are similar themes that come up in almost every conversation. So, I want to address a few of those and get your take on what you tell a parent that's about to send their child to Moravian as far as you're concerned about X, and this is what we can do. The first one I think goes without saying for many people is how do I afford college today? You look at the predictions of a newborn baby today, and it's, you might as well take the ride on Elon Musk's rocket and call it a day. And it would be the same as an education, but I know from our own experience at Moravian that it was affordable, and we could get through it. So how do you ease parents' concerns there? President Bryon L. Grigsby: Well, one thing that is a challenge for private schools is that independent schools like Moravian, which are not controlled by the federal government or controlled by state governments, have sticker shock. If you look at Moravian, our sticker shock is $54,000 a year for tuition. The average student pays around $26,000 a year. So that gives you some idea. We have a $150 million endowment that spins off scholarship money. We raise about $6 million a year from alumni like you and me that pay it forward. And that offsets the next generation. You'll find that many students who apply to these independent colleges will pay less than tuition at a public university. And they're getting a lot more for that. They're getting a lot more in smaller classes, not being taught by graduate assistants but by full-time faculty. So, I would encourage everybody to apply to the institutions that they want to apply to and see what their tuition will be. Please don't assume that the sticker price they see is what they're going to pay because they're going to pay less than that sticker price at almost every independent college and university in the nation.   Dan: Fantastic. That's, uh, it's good advice. And most people do know how to ask for a bargain. President Bryon L. Grigsby: And the public universities do not do discounting in any significant way. So, their sticker price is most likely their sticker price, unless you're in an honors college or something else because they operate by state government regulations. The independents are just that independent, so they can raise money from their alums and redirect it as the alumni dictated to offset costs.   Dan: Okay, I don't have kids in schools in California, but I know Berkeley and Chico, and a lot of the schools that are state schools here are impacted where, you know, if you don't have over a four-point O, you don't have a shot at getting in. So talk to me a bit about when you're looking at a school and use a term earlier value proposition. When you're looking at a school other than obviously the name, the mascot, the sports teams, all the things that people think about for college, what should a parent, even a student, be thinking about? President Bryon L. Grigsby: I think you want to think about what value add any institution is giving you. For example, at Moravian University, we pride ourselves on leveling the playing field and ensuring everybody has technology skills by the time they graduate. We provide every student with a Mac book and an iPad. That's a value proposition that you don't see at many institutions. There are only 16 apple distinguished college campuses. Moravian happens to be one of them in the nation, small classrooms. I talked about this in the last set of comments. You are paying for a faculty member to be at your child's side, working on the skills that will make them successful in life. That's what your dollars are paying for. Do you want to have that in a classroom of 450 students? Or do you want to have that in a classroom of 10? Which one will give you the most significant value add of small colleges and universities like Moravian? They don't have a lot of dollars for marketing. They don't get on national football channels and get to get their brand out there. But from a value-add standpoint, you're getting more time with a professor with a Ph.D. in that area working on your child's skills than any state university with a Division One football program. Dan: Now, I know we've talked about this in the past, not on this show, but just in general, I had come across a podcast that was talking about the US News and World Report. You know, where some of the schools ranked some of the historically black colleges ranked lower, but the studies said, if we gave them a new dorm and a football team and few other advantages, they'd be in the top 10. As lovely as that sounds, one university president of a university will go unnamed because it might be in the same region as Moravian. Still, that school's President was giving out hot sauce to everybody to help increase name recognition. So what kind of metrics should somebody be looking at other than the ones that all the high school seniors look at the top party schools and all of that? What should we be looking at? President Bryon L. Grigsby: Yeah, I would stay away from the US news and world report rankings. We call the beauty school rankings college presidents have to say whether they like all the other colleges are not like them or recognize them. And they weigh that pretty heavily in the US news world report. Here are the measures. And you can find these measures out on any website colleges publish them all the time. I would look for a retention rate of first-year students. Moravian's retention rate is 83%. That means that 83% of our students choose to stay with us into their sophomore year. Uh, we have a 70% four-year graduation rate. Most public universities don't get up to 70% until six years. So that's two more years of tuition and two fewer years of your child working in the workforce. So, there's an advantage to how quickly does the school graduate? The students once they enter the doors? The last thing I would look at is the statistic on how six months after graduation, how many employed students are in graduate school. A Moravian is 98% of our students are employed or in graduate school six months after graduation. You want something as high as that because you're getting the greatest value for your money. Dan: Fantastic. Every parent's dream is to have a kid with a job six months after graduating from college and maybe not living in the basement. It depends on where they are in the country. Quite a few people moved back with mom and dad during the pandemic. So, I think that's an excellent place to wrap up for today. We're going to continue this interview in our next show as well. So, we're going to break it up into two. As you know, on the website, you can go to PoweringYourRetirementRadio.com and use the ask a question button. What I'll do is if you have questions from either listening to this show or the next one, if you drop comments in there, if we're overwhelmed, maybe we can convince Bryon to come back for a third episode, but I can also work with him to get some answers. Suppose people have specific questions about that. So that's going to do it for this week's show until our next episode. Stay safe. And we'll talk to you soon.   For more information, visit the Podcast Episode page here: https://poweringyourretirement.com/2021/11/19/affording-college/

In the first episode of season three, Meg chats with Fred Amicucci. Fred is the VP of Sales & Marketing for Data Screening. He is a member of the Professional Background Screening Association, American Staffing Association, as well as serving on the board of directors for the New Jersey Staffing Alliance. Fred has a BA in psychology and criminal justice from Moravian University.

In part 2 meg continues her conversation with Fred Amicucci, the VP of Sales & Marketing for Data Screening. He is a member of the Professional Background Screening Association, American Staffing Association, as well as serving on the board of directors for the New Jersey Staffing Alliance. Fred has a BA in psychology and criminal justice from Moravian University.

Kelly Denton-Borhaug has long been investigating how religion and violence collide in American war-culture. She teaches in the global religions department at Moravian University. She is the author of two books, U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation and, more recently, And Then Your Soul is Gone: Moral Injury and U.S. War-Culture. She recently wrote "Why Are So Many Military Brothers and Sisters Taking Their Own Lives?" for TomDispatch, com. See her faculty website for information about additional publications and podcasts about her work addressing religion and moral injury, theology, and ethics. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Ph.D. (she/hers)Professor, Global Religions DepartmentCo-director, Peace and Justice Studies MinorExecutive Director, InFocus Centers of InvestigationMoravian Universityhttps://moravian.academia.edu/KellyDentonBorhaug Follow Drew Hart on Instagram and Twitter @druhart. Follow Jarrod McKenna on Instagram and Twitter @jarrodmckenna. Discover our global community on Twitter and Instagram @inversepodcast. Become a Patron of Inverse at https://www.patreon.com/InVerse Inverse Podcast is produced by Jen Kinney @iamjenkinney With thanks to David Andrew (@davidjandrew) for the ongoing use of his music in this podcast.

Geoffrey M Roche, MPA is Vice President at Dignity Health Global Education as well as Corporate Faculty, Population Health Team at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He is on the National Health Equity Task Force. He got his Bachelor's of Arts in Political Science at Moravian University. Then got his Master of Public Administration at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. He currently is the Senior Vice President at Dignity Health Global Education.Equity Impact Scholarship: https://dhge.org/equity-impact-scholarshipGeoffrey M. Roche, MPA on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreymroche/Shownotes: http://thephmillennial.com/episode73Support The Public Health Millennial: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thephmillennialUse Code “thePHmillennial” for discount: https://thepublichealthstore.comWebsite: https://thephmillennial.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thephmillennial (@thePHmillennial)Email List: https://thephmillennial.com/signup/Support the show (http://paypal.me/thePHmillennial)Support the show (http://paypal.me/thePHmillennial)

On this episode of Nonviolence Radio, Stephanie and Michael are joined by Kelly Denton-Borhaug. Kelly teaches in the Global Religious Department at Moravian University and has written extensively on issues of war culture, moral injury and the ways that sacrifice can be used as a means to dehumanize and oppress marginalized people. Kelly traces the celebration of sacrifice -- so pervasive in America today -- back to the Bible, back to Ancient Greece and Rome, revealing the deep roots of this powerful and destructive rhetoric. Her work encourages us to think seriously about the damaging consequences of this kind of thinking and to be aware of how religious language can be misused to support, sustain and normalize a culture of war. We need, Kelly insists, to listen to the voices of those who have been unjustly pushed into lives of violence and battle. More broadly, we need to push back against this worldview and reckon with the impact it has, not only on soldiers but on all of us, collectively, as human beings.What I would like to call for is for members of the nonviolence community to really become much more sophisticated in terms of seeing these kinds of dynamics and calling them out, calling out the exploitation of the use of sacrificial verses in the Bible and the way that they are used in war culture; calling out the language and the logic of sacrifice, and actually lifting up the destructive consequences of actual sacrificial dynamics that are endemic to war culture.I think that as people who care about nonviolence and who are, frankly, so often characterized as naïve about the world and about the dangers of the world -- nonviolent actors -- I would love to see them become much more sophisticated about calling out the naivety of those who claim that violence works, and those who unashamedly resort to these kinds of references to religion, to sacralize, undergird, and frankly, conceal the real process and the real consequences of the use of violence.[End music by Nimo Patel - https://soundcloud.com/emptyhandsmusicnimo/ode-to-women]

On this episode of Nonviolence Radio, Stephanie and Michael are joined by Kelly Denton-Borhaug. Kelly teaches in the Global Religious Department at Moravian University and has written extensively on issues of war culture, moral injury and the ways that sacrifice can be used as a means to dehumanize and oppress marginalized people. Kelly traces the celebration of sacrifice — so pervasive in America today — back to the Bible, back to Ancient Greece and Rome, revealing the deep roots of this powerful and destructive rhetoric. Her work encourages us to think seriously about the damaging consequences of this kind of thinking and to be aware of how religious language can be misused to support, sustain and normalize a culture of war.  We need, Kelly insists, to listen to the voices of those who have been unjustly pushed into lives of violence and battle. More broadly, we need to push back against this worldview and reckon with the impact it has, not only on soldiers but on all of us, collectively, as human beings. What I would like to call for is for members of the nonviolence community to really become much more sophisticated in terms of seeing these kinds of dynamics and calling them out, calling out the exploitation of the use of sacrificial verses in the Bible and the way that they are used in war culture; calling out the language and the logic of sacrifice, and actually lifting up the destructive consequences of actual sacrificial dynamics that are endemic to war culture. I think that as people who care about nonviolence and who are, frankly, so often characterized as naïve about the world and about the dangers of the world — nonviolent actors — I would love to see them become much more sophisticated about calling out the naivety of those who claim that violence works, and those who unashamedly resort to these kinds of references to religion, to sacralize, undergird, and frankly, conceal the real process and the real consequences of the use of violence. Transcript archived at Waging Nonviolence The post No Greater Love? Moral Injury and Sacrifice appeared first on Metta Center.

Great stone monuments to the glory of war serve to silence the pain. Currently four times as many troops and veterans die by suicide as in combat. Our guest on today’s show is  Moravian University professor of religion Kelly Denton-Borhaug. The post Veterans and Suicide: The “Moral Injury” We Don’t Want to See appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.

In this episode, we speak with Moravian University Social and Digital Media Manager, Claire Boucher.  We talk about running into The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore in downtown Bethlehem during the snowstorm of the year, her road to her current job, the excitement of transitioning to a university, what she's looking forward to the most as travel opens up, and much more! Follow her on Instagram: @claire_boucher Thank you to our sponsors! Burke Insurance Agency  Michael Bernadyn of RE/MAX Real Estate and our Season Featured Partner, Venture X – Get all of our links here. – Subscribe to the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast. – Want to be a guest on the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast? Watch the video version of this Podcast epsiode here or below.