Episode 182 - Care By Invitation Not Accusation: Marsha Foster
Dialogue on Teaching, Wabash Center’s podcast series, is hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director of the Wabash Center. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcasts focus upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, university, seminaries, as well as the publics impacted by these schools. Dialogues with faculty and administrators working in the wide range of institutional contexts illumine the complexity of teaching and the teaching life.
When students are emotionally tender accusations do not help. Distressed students and colleagues are increasing in number. Hear ways of referring persons for professional help.
Faculty are human and can succumb to dangerous behaviors. Institutional patterns of care and support might need to include a wide array of local resources.