Faculty’s Role in Student Success

Teaching in Higher Ed

Jody Greene discusses faculty’s role in student success on episode 515 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The special power of literature comes from that capacity to have one foot in the factual or the real and one foot in the imagination or the fictional.
-Jody Greene

We know that there are so many other important elements to students’ success, their well-being, their thriving, their career pathways, their ability to pursue interests and curiosities, their engagement, their activism, and all of these multiple measures.
-Jody Greene

I think people care about what the institution has told them they need to care about.
-Jody Greene

I don’t think we should have expectations based on people’s gender in a classroom.
-Jody Greene

Resources

• About Jody Greene
• Teaching Environmental Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community, edited by Sikina Jinnah, Jessie Dubreuil, Jody Greene, and Samara S. Foster
• The dualistic mind, by Richard Rohr
• Gina Garcia
• Torgny Roxå – ‘shame briefcase’
• Listen: Improving Student Success in the Classroom, Inside Higher Ed podcast with Jody Green
• New Day (live) – Alicia Keys
• Alicia Keys: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
• Try a little kindness
• Notice
• ASK: What is the most generous reading I can have right here?
• “If things were simple, word would have gotten around.” Jacques Derrida