110: Final Episode
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Scott L Wyatt
3y ago
As he begins the transition to his new position as Senior Executive Director of State Online Education, President Scott L Wyatt reflects on his service at SUU and future opportunities. Featured Quotes: It has become so much a part of my identity and my whole life, along with my wife Kathy. It seems that being a president of a university is not a job, it's a lifestyle. It's every day, weekends, evenings... my whole life is consumed in Southern Utah University and it's been a spectacular time. Scott L Wyatt, President, Southern Utah University I hope that you, our listeners, have enjoyed this ..read more
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070: A Veteran’s Day Commemoration
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Gayle Pollock, Amanda Keller, Scott L Wyatt
3y ago
Show Notes: In a special Veteran’s Day episode, President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with the SUU Veteran’s Resource and Support Center Director Amanda Keller and Executive Director of the Bryce Canyon Association Gayle Pollock to discuss the history of Veteran’s Day, what life can look like after service for veterans, and the resources for veterans in southern Utah. Featured Quotes: In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. Generations that k ..read more
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109: Purdue University Global - Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Frank Dooley, Scott L Wyatt
3y ago
President Scott L Wyatt and host Steve Meredith talk to Dr. Frank Dooley, Chancellor of Purdue University Global, about Purdue University Global. Featured Quotes: I think that the biggest thing that has changed in the past year, I think the acceptance of online education has moved forward—and I mean by both faculty and by prospective students—has probably been moved forward a decade. Dr. Frank Dooley, Chancellor - Purdue University Global ...we're serving a set of students, when you look across the country, that largely have been ignored by higher education for a long time. Dr. Frank Dooley ..read more
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108: Resilience Amidst Adversity: Supporting Teaching and Learning During the Covid Pandemic
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Johnny MacLean, Matt McKenzie, Steve Meredith, Lynn Vartan, Matt Weeg, Scott L Wyatt, Sylvia Bradshaw
3y ago
Show Notes: President Scott L Wyatt and host Steve Meredith sit down with members of Southern Utah University’s faculty and staff to discuss how the University has adapted teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sylvia Bradshaw, Matt McKenzie, Johnny MacLean, Lynn Vartan, and Matt Weeg all share their perspective on the last year. Featured Quotes: I think all of these offices and probably all of the offices across campus have really learned a lesson in being nimble with the changing priorities as we’ve tried to address the challenges that…kind of the ever-changing challenges that ..read more
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107: Resilience Amidst Adversity: The SUU Dance Program
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Danielle Sheather, Scott L Wyatt, Bailey Walker
3y ago
Show Notes:   Featured Quotes: . . . I think as artists, all of us are really enthralled by the unknown, at least I am. I think it’s exciting to discover new things, I do take the approach that I am forever a student. And so, I think learning about multimedia…I know a little, and just being thrust into a situation where you have to learn is exciting. Danielle Sheather, Assistant Professor of Dance, Southern Utah University And all of these things that we’ve learned from screen dance, I do think they can be applied to live dance and I think it will make creative works moving forward, es ..read more
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106: Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education: The Workflow Academy
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Scott L Wyatt, Peter Fuller
3y ago
Show Notes: President Scott L Wyatt and Solutions for Higher Education host Steve Meredith are joined by Peter Fuller, president of Workflow Academy. The trio discusses Workflow Academy and how it upscales students, preparing them for placement in cloud technology related careers.  Featured Quotes: . . . a massive opportunity that I see, one that makes me try and partner with SUU and with other universities, I want to tap the immense talent pools that you’ve done such a good job of preparing. And the implicit message there is you’ve prepared them 80% of the way . . . Peter Fuller, CEO Th ..read more
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105: Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education: Microsoft Mixed Reality Team
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Scott L Wyatt, John O'Brien, Seana Murray
3y ago
Show Notes: President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith welcome Seana Murray and John O'Brien from the Microsoft Mixed Reality Team as we explore more Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education.   Featured Quotes: And so, the new [Case Westen University] medical school is going completely holographic, and they have taught already a number of semesters doing holographic anatomy and cadaveric research. And if I remember correctly, they had decided at one point that approximately…their students are getting approximately 30% additional recall by learning anatomy via spatially contextual hol ..read more
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104: Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education: Amazon Web Services
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Aaron Osmond, Scott L Wyatt
3y ago
Show Notes: Getting into our Spring 2021 theme of Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education, today's show we are joined by Aaron Osmond from Amazon Web Services. We talk about the educational avenues offered through AWS and how different paths of learning can be part of a total learning experience, not just "alternative" offerings.   Featured Quotes: Last year alone in the United States, there were 5.3 million open cloud jobs that were posted in the U.S. Of that, more than half of those jobs remained unfilled. We were not able to find students or existing industry professionals to fil ..read more
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103: Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education - An Introduction
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steve Meredith, Scott L Wyatt
3y ago
Show Notes: In the first episode of the spring 2021 season, Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt and Solutions for Higher Education host Steve Meredith introduce this semester’s topic, Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education. The two discuss the upcoming season and begin to dive into the variety of options available for people outside of higher education.   Links Associated with this Episode: Transcript Follow Us: Solutions for Higher Education Podcast SUU Blog SUU Facebook ..read more
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061: Pride and Prejudice (Summer Book Club 2019 - Book 4)
Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt
by Steven Meredith, Scott L Wyatt, Jean Boreen
3y ago
Show Notes: Dr. Jean Boreen, dean of SUU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, joins President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith this week for the last book in the Summer Book Club: Pride and Prejudice. They discuss the bridge Pride and Prejudice has built between classic literature and young adult literature and outline some of Jane Austen’s background as a successful author in the 1800s. Featured Quote: . . . there were women during the timeframe that Austen compared herself to who were being published, and I think in that way, she was very competitive and wanted to make sure that wha ..read more
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