Severance

with Rob Parke & Michael Boyce

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Podcast (tihe_podcast):

Rob Parke and Michael Boyce explore with me what the tv show Severance would look like if it took place in higher ed (spoilers at very end – we warn you when to hop off)) on episode 424 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think there is a culture of “I’m going hard for 9 months with very little boundaries and then I am off for the summer.”
-Rob Parke

Setting boundaries in my syllabus is me setting up expectations for work-life balance.
-Michael Boyce

I think a lot of push on student-centered teaching almost encourages bad boundaries.
-Michael Boyce

Many of us in our institutions don’t deal with grief well.
-Rob Parke

Resources

Wikipedia: Severance
IMDB: Severance
Episode 301 with Andrew (Andy) Stenhouse (about Positive Work-Life Spillover)
Episode 394 with Tracie Addy (she talked about The Who’s in Class survey)
Episode 419 with Julia Charles-Linen (she recommended Octavia Butler’s books)
Episode 126 with Jackie and Rob Parke about empathy toward greater inclusion

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”

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Rob Parke

Associate Professor of Information Technology Practice

Rob Parke is an Associate Professor of Information Technology Practice in the Information Technology Program in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, and he has previously held a joint appointment in Iovine / Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation. Recently, he established the Connected Devices and Making minor to teach non-engineering students to create internet-enabled, hardware devices, and he currently serves as lead faculty for the gateway programming course whose mission is to introduce and excite non-computer science majors to the world of programming. He has a strong interest in inclusive teaching practices and has been actively involved in addressing issues of inclusion and equity, both within USC and externally. He served as General Chair of the 2021 CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference which encourages and supports diversity within computing. Outside of academia, Rob has a lifelong love of technology from the technical to the creative, with professional experience in software development, information technology, web design, audio engineering, film / TV post-production, and digital media.

Michael Boyce

Vice President Academic and Professor

Dr. Michael W. Boyce is Professor of English Literature and Film Studies at Booth University College in Winnipeg, MB Canada. He's currently Vice President Academic and Dean, a position he’s held since 2017. He teaches a wide selection courses, including Film History, British film, Religion and Popular Culture, Fantasy Literature, and Television Studies, Film Adaptation, Film Noir and Film Genre. He writes on postwar British film, Bond, television and popular culture. He encourages his faculty to engage in public scholarship and, to end, Michael was recently featured in the documentary film The Science Fiction Makers: Rousseau, Lewis and L'Engle and has, since 2019, hosted the podcast. Geek 4, which looks at fans, fandoms and fan cultures.

Bonni Stachowiak

Bonni Stachowiak is the producer and host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, which has been airing weekly since June of 2014. Bonni is the Dean of Teaching and Learning at Vanguard University of Southern California. She’s also a Professor of Business and Management and teaches a few times a year in an Educational Leadership doctoral program. She’s been teaching in-person, blended, and online courses throughout her entire career in higher education. Bonni and her husband, Dave, are parents to two curious kids, who regularly shape their perspectives on teaching and learning.

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Severance

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