Office Hours with John Gardner
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Office Hours with John Gardner
Episode 125- Amy Goodburn- Centering Innovation
Amy Goodburn is Senior Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) where she leads units in advising and career development, teaching and learning, and student retention and transition. Passionate about UNL’s land-grant mission to support access and equity, in 2017 she created First Generation Nebraska, a campus initiative to support first generation scholars.
Goodburn has served as a board member and president for UERU, a board member for UNIZIN, and a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission. She was UNL’s institutional lead for the APLU Powered by Publics initiative from 2018-2023 and has led UNL’s First Scholars participation since 2018.
From 2001-2013, Goodburn co-coordinated UNL’s Peer Review of Teaching Project, a faculty development program to document and assess student learning which won the 2006 TIAA-CREFF Hesburgh award. Her publications include Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Model for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Peer Review and Course Portfolios. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Political Science from Miami University and two Masters’ degrees in English Education and English and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from The Ohio State University.
