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
Meghan Gilbert– Supporting the Whole Student
Meghan Gilbert is an Associate Professor of English and the Faculty Coordinator of the First Year Experience (FYE) at Guttman Community College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in English from St. John’s University. She has led and participated in several series on Implicit Bias Racial Literacy and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, as well as many additional workshops and sessions on equitable curriculum and pedagogy, which inform her practice in the classroom and, in particular, her efforts, as Guttman’s FYE Coordinator and former Coordinator of Writing and Writing Across the Curriculum, to center curriculum and pedagogy on anti-racism and linguistic justice. Dr. Gilbert’s recent book- and article-length publications focus on intersectionality and advocacy in contemporary popular culture and fiction. She is the co-editor of Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s Edited Book Award, and the forthcoming special issue of South Central Review, “Intersectional Feminist Detective Fiction,” her contribution to which was awarded a Popular Culture Association Earl Bargannier Award. She is writing a book-length manuscript, Composing an Anti-Racist Academy, about culturally responsive pedagogy, anti-racism, and linguistic justice in the Composition classroom and beyond, a version of which she has presented in spaces across the nation, including CUNY’s renowned Teaching Matters series and the nationally recognized Gardner Institute’s Symposium on Transforming the Post-Secondary Experience. She is a 2024 Gardner Institute Russell Edgerton Innovation Fellow, a 2023 Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, and a 2022 recipient of the American Association of Community Colleges’ Dale P. Parnell Faculty Distinction Recognition.
