213 Voices from the University/OSU's Cutting Edge

213 Voices from the University/OSU's Cutting Edge

Online | This course is completed

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2/16/2021-4/6/2021
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213 Voices from the University/OSU's Cutting Edge

Online | This course is completed

As a multi-campus, public land grant, educational system, OSU’s mission is to improve lives through teaching, research and outreach. In this course, we’ll visit with administrators, department heads and teachers to learn the latest developments in each of these areas and how they’re shaping our future.

  • Tuesday Voices from the University Topic
  • 2/16 Brad Rowland, Endeavor Lab
  • 2/23 David Kersnar, OSU Theatre
  • 3/2 Dr. Gina Peek, EECE Interim Dean - Role of Extension
  • 3/9 Dr. Jim Ansley, Galápagos, Peas and Plates – a Convergence of Ideas
  • 3/16 Dr. Pamela Fry, "Education 2020-2050"
  • 3/23 Dr. Glen Krutz, Dean Arts & Sciences
  • 3/30 Dr. Quraysh Ali Lansana, "Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation"
  • 4/6 Dr. Thad Leffingwell, "Stress of the pandemic"
Ansley, Jim
Jim Ansley

James (Jim) Ansley currently is Professor and Head of the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater. The department includes faculty with expertise in wildlife, forestry, rangeland and fisheries. Jim heads the OSU connection to the South Central Climate Science Center project, administered at the University of Oklahoma. Before moving to Stillwater, Jim was a Regents Professor with Texas A&M University and Texas A&M AgriLIfe Research (Vernon Center) and did field research related to rangeland shrub ecology, fire ecology and woody plant invasion of grasslands and rangelands in the southern Great Plains, USA. He continues to publish in these topic areas.

Fry, Pamela
Pamela Fry

Pamela Fry became OSU-Tulsa's third president on July 1, 2019, and brings 30 years of higher education leadership experience. Prior to her selection as president, she served as OSU-Tulsa provost and vice president for academic affairs since 2016. During most of this term, she split her time between Stillwater and Tulsa while also serving as vice provost for the Stillwater campus. Fry has held a series of leadership roles at OSU, including interim provost, associate provost and associate vice president of undergraduate education, dean of the College of Education and head of the School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership. Before joining OSU, she served 12 years as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Oklahoma. A professor in curriculum studies, Fry holds a bachelor’s degree with highest honors from OU, a master’s degree from OSU in applied behavioral studies and a doctorate from OSU in curriculum and supervision. Her research focuses on analyzing teaching, learning and curriculum at the pre-kindergarten-12 and collegiate levels. Throughout her career, she has provided leadership to education at local, state and national levels, including serving as editor of one of the top national journals in teacher education and as one of four nationally elected representatives to the board of directors for the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. She also served two terms as a trustee on the Stillwater Public Education Foundation’s board and was honored with the foundation’s Pioneer Service Award.

Kersnar, David
David Kersnar

David Kersnar is a founding ensemble member of the Tony Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company and has performed, designed, written, instructed, and directed with the company since it was founded in 1988. Kersnar recently co-wrote and directed the smash hit production of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas for the Lookingglass 30thseason. Kersnar served twice as the Lookingglass Artistic Director and founded and directed the Lookingglass Education & Community Programs. Kersnar has also worked with the Goodman, Steppenwolf and Remains Theatre in Chicago, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Actor’s Gang in Los Angeles, and the Touchstone Theatre of Pennsylvania. Kersnar currently serves as Head of Theatre and Dance at Oklahoma State University where he will be directing his fellow Lookingglass ensemble member Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation, Argonautika: The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts. Kersnar has served as the Education and Community Engagement Fellow of the Alley Theatre of Houston, Chair of Theatre for Monterey Peninsula College, and Head of Directing at University of Wisconsin - Madison. David has over thirty-five years of experience teaching courses for Roosevelt University, DePaul University, Lake Forest College, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, residencies for children with special needs in Chicago area schools, and Master Teacher for the Lookingglass Studio. Kersnar recently directed The 39 Steps and Six Characters Without an Author at UW Madison, As You Like It and The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe for Monterey Peninsula College,SNAFU for University Of Illinois and Iphigenia 2.0 for Next Theatre, Pulcinella and Peter and the Wolf for Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Marisol, Old Times, and Some Girls for Northwestern University. Other directing and writing credits include The Magic Victrola and Popcorn and Pasquale for Chicago Lyric Opera, Goodnight Moon for Chicago Children’s Theatre, The Last Act Of Lilka Kadison, La Luna Muda for

Krutz, Glen
Glen Krutz

Glen Krutz serves as dean of the Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). He is also a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Puterbaugh Foundation Chair. As dean of CAS, he leads OSU’s largest college, which provides instruction to all OSU students and includes well over 100 degree programs in the humanities, fine and performing arts, social sciences, and natural sciences and mathematics, as well as a variety of centers serving the entire university. Krutz and the CAS leadership team utilize a data-driven approach as they strive—together with the outstanding department heads, faculty and staff—to improve individual student success, maximize faculty and staff impact, and deliver significant community engagement. Recent initiatives include holding General Education teaching workshops, re-envisioning large freshman classes, expanding need-based scholarships for continuing CAS students, increasing experiential learning opportunities (internships, study abroad), establishing a CAS faculty fellow for diversity, equity and inclusion to oversee the Equity Advocates program, investing more heavily in faculty start-up and summer research grants, supporting external pre-review of research grant proposals, supporting subvention publication funding, increasing instructional and research partnerships with OSU-Tulsa, expanding OSU’s concurrent enrollment offerings to high school students in all 77 Oklahoma counties through the new Cowboy Concurrent Online, and increasing the number of fine arts performances for the Stillwater community and all of Oklahoma. Krutz previously served as senior vice provost at the University of Oklahoma, where he oversaw instruction, student success (retention/graduation), research compliance, and State Regents’ matters. During his tenure, new records were set for freshman retention and graduation, large GenEd classes were revitalized, new niche graduate programs were launched, student advisement incorporated c

Lansana, Quraysh Ali
Quraysh Ali Lansana

Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of 20 books in poetry, nonfiction and children's literature. He is a Tulsa Artist Fellow, acting director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation at OSU-Tulsa, writer in residence and professor at OSU-Tulsa. He is the creator and executive producer of KOSU’s Focus: Black Oklahoma.

Leffingwell, Thad
Thad Leffingwell

Motivation and ambivalence in the behavior change process, including clinical interventions (motivational interviewing) for resolving ambivalence and promoting behavior change-currently focused on health risk behaviors including substance use.

Peek, Gina
Gina Peek

Gina Peek is a Wisconsin native and first-generation college graduate. A graduate of the land grant system, Gina attended the University of Georgia for both her master’s (May 2004) and Ph.D. (December 2009) degrees. Upon graduation, she joined the Department of Design, Housing and Merchandising in the College of Human Sciences as the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service (OCES) state housing and consumer specialist. In 2016, Gina became DHM Graduate Coordinator and in 2018 the Associate Department Head. In June 2020, Gina was named the Interim Associate Dean for Extension, Engagement, and Continuing Education in the College of Education and Human Sciences. Gina firmly believes in the land grant mission: teaching, research, Extension.

Rowland, Brad
Brad Rowland

Dr. Rowland has extensive military experience that includes military acquisition, research and development related to test and evaluation of military equipment, management of high risk technical programs and advanced application of statistical designs. He served as the Chief Scientist for the Chemical Test Division at the Dugway Proving Ground. He also served as the Director of Research for NitroLift Inc. and has extensive laboratory safety experience. MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH Scientific and technical support for Test and Evaluation of Chemical Warfare (CW) equipment Development of interdisciplinary teaching pedagogy Scientific and technical support for advanced industrial processes and applications Laboratory safety and safety practices for acutely hazardous chemicals and processes