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Higher Education Beyond COVID with Regan Gurung and Dwaine Plaza

Derek Bruff Episode 6
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Regan Gurung is associate vice provost and executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University, as well as a professor of psychology. Dwaine Plaza is a professor of sociology at Oregon State, and the two of them are editing a forthcoming book titled Onward to Better: How Facing a Pandemic Will Improve Higher Education in the 21st Century. Regan and Dwaine are in the interesting position of having read about two dozen chapter submissions for the book, all about lessons learned from teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic authored by faculty, staff, and administrators, including a healthy amount of teaching center directors. Full disclosure: I am one of those contributors! I wrote a chapter on our experiences with pandemic teaching at Vanderbilt University.

I asked Regan and Dwaine on the podcast so I could pick their brains about what they’ve learned reading and editing all those chapters. What lessons has higher education learned from such a challenging time? What lessons should higher ed learn? And how can we get ready for whatever challenge comes next? 

Episode Resources:

Regan Gurung’s faculty page, https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/regan-gurung

Dwaine Plaza’s faculty page, https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/dwaine-plaza 

Center for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State, https://ctl.oregonstate.edu/

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"The Weekend" by chillmore, via Pixabay

 

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