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CFI Faculty Lounge PodcastEpisode 8 - Advice for Your Former SelfOvercoming challenges, embracing opportunities, and using your resources: A compilation of advice from faculty Welcome back to the CFI Faculty Lounge Podcast, where we explore the experiences, challenges, and strategies of dedicated educators. In this special episode, host Eric Magrum shares a collection of interviews with various faculty members, each responding to the question: If you could go back in time, and meet yourself before your first day at JMU, what advice would you give -- and why? Faculty members share advice on: Staying present Networking Recognizing your skills Planning Community-building Being open to new expe...
2025-08-2619 minCFI Faculty Lounge PodcastEpisode 2 - Teaching Excellence, Personalizing the Classroom, and Building Rapport – A Conversation with Dr. Robyn KondradWelcome back to the CFI Faculty Lounge Podcast, where we explore the experiences, challenges, and strategies of dedicated educators. In this episode, host Eric Magrum sits down with Dr. Robyn Kondrad, Associate Professor at JMU’s Department of Psychology, to discuss her journey in academia, her approach to excellence in teaching, and how she fosters strong connections with her students.In this episode, Dr. Kondrad shares:-Her journey as an educator, teaching on a ship, and how she arrived at JMU.-What excellence in teaching means to he...
2025-02-0829 min
With Good ReasonPut the Phone DownWhether you’re on foot crossing the street, or behind the wheel -- there are a lot of new technologies to be distracted by. Bryan Porter says that we do not recover from looking at our phones as quickly as we think. Is your brain on the road when you are? And: Screen time is transforming children’s brains. Robyn Kondrad says there are times when it is useful, alongside glaring limitations.
Later in the show: Many of us have horror stories of how we took out extra student loans or took on a new job to pay for textbooks. Thom...
2022-05-1252 minWith Good ReasonPut the Phone DownWhether you’re on foot crossing the street, or behind the wheel -- there are a lot of new technologies to be distracted by. Bryan Porter says that we do not recover from looking at our phones as quickly as we think. Is your brain on the road when you are? And: Screen time is transforming children’s brains. Robyn Kondrad says there are times when it is useful, alongside glaring limitations.
Later in the show: Many of us have horror stories of how we took out extra student loans or took on a new job to pay for textbooks. Thom...
2022-05-1252 min