Teaching Excellence: The Essential Core of the Land-Grant Mission  - Dr. Stephen Gavazzi
Channel: Empower Teaching
Date: 2019-10-22

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference 2019, keynote address:

Being responsive to the communities we serve is paramount for land-grant institutions to be successful in the future, which necessitates becoming more fiercely land-grant in our approach. There is a critical importance of elevating both teaching and engagement excellence. For far too long, both components have been relegated to secondary roles in comparison to research prowess.

In the recent book, "Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good" the present challenges to and future opportunities for these institutions is addressed. Drawing on interviews with 27 college presidents and chancellors, Dr. Gavazzi and co-author Dr. Gordon Gee explore the strengths and weaknesses of land-grant universities while examining the changing threats they face.

Keynote Speaker Bio:
Stephen Gavazzi is a Professor in the Human Development and Family Science program at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on the family influence of raising healthy teenagers, and the evaulation of family-based programs. He also teaches courses associated with individual and family development in addition to courses in family therapy. Dr. Gavazzi has spent his entire adult life studying and working at land-grant institutions and is a fierce champion for the need of land-grant universities to rebalance the tripartite mission of teaching, research, and engagement.