Denise Bartell is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Kent State University, where she facilitates strategic initiatives related to access, retention, completion, and student success with a focus on improving equity of outcomes for historically underserved students and empowering faculty as key stakeholders in this work. Her scholarship takes a systemic and explicitly relational approach, most recently exploring a reconceptualization of faculty development to utilize principles of high impact learning experiences and authentic engagement to create communities of transformation where members are empowered to transform public higher education as a tool for building a more just and equitable society. Denise earned a B.S. in Human Development & Family Studies from Cornell University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Human Development & Family Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jerry Daday is a Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Indianapolis where he teaches courses focused on crime and victimization and research methodology. His primary research focuses on the etiology of violent offending and victimization and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, with a specific emphasis on high-impact practices (HIPs) and experiential learning. He served for seven years as the Executive Associate Dean for the Institute for Engaged Learning at IU Indianapolis, where he collaborated with colleagues to promote high-quality experiential learning opportunities for students. He is the co-editor of the book, Delivering on the Promise of High Impact Practices: Research and Models for Achieving Equity, Fidelity, Impact and Scale, published by Routledge (2022). He lends his expertise to the Center for Leading Improvements in Higher Education, which includes the HIPs in the States track at the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis and Assessment Update. He received his BA in Sociology from Bridgewater State University and his MA and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Mexico. Before joining IU Indianapolis in 2018, he was a Professor of Sociology and served as the Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Western Kentucky University.

Resources from the episode:

The Student Experience Project (SEP) website

The SEP final report

The PERTS Ascend survey

Information on the Kent State faculty communities of transformation

Information on the Student Experience Champions

Information on Ascend Champions

Information on the USU/APLU SEP Institutes

Contact information:

Denise Bartell – dbartell@kent.edu

Jerry Daday – jdaday@iu.edu