Office Hours with John Gardner
We are searching for big ideas that inspire hope and action in higher education around institutional transformation and innovation to advance student success and more equitable student outcomes. Joining John Gardner are higher education leaders and other relevant persons of interest who will discuss innovation and strategies that improve higher education.The Gardner Institute, a 24-year-old non-profit, has been at the forefront of innovation in higher education; our mission very clearly connects us to the broader societal efforts to increase social justice.The Gardner Institute connects with thousands of professionals in the higher education ecosystem; through a wide array of activities such as Transformative Conversations, the Teaching and Learning Academy, and the Socially Just Design Series, and through our work as an Intermediary for Scale supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As a leader in the student success movement in higher education, we strive to provide support for institutions interested in social justice and institutional transformation.
Office Hours with John Gardner
Episode 23 - John Whiteley Influential Guides
John M. Whiteley has been an administrator and professor at the University of California, Irvine since 1972. His research has included the clash between citizen expression of concern which conflicts sharply with the national security imperatives of the U.S. government, moral development from late adolescence to early adult development, social ecology of peace, character and community in the college years, history of the profession of counseling psychology, quest for peace and security in the 21st century. The initiative on fostering moral and intellectual motivation in a residential just community for first-year students will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2025. He has published two volumes and a monograph describing in detail this research and a third volume in progress where the chapters most relevant are on four approaches to understanding stages of moral reasoning in men and women, and five initial approaches to moral and character education. There have also been a total of six doctoral dissertations from Harvard, Boston University, and UC Irvine.
