Kevin Dvorak’s research while affiliated with Nova Southeastern University and other places

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Publications (13)


Using Creative Methods to Teach Equity and Inclusion
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February 2025

The National Teaching & Learning Forum

Russell Carpenter

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Kevin Dvorak







The Centrality of the Center: Best Practices for Engaging Students on Campus
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December 2020

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Michael G Strawser

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Russell Carpenter

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Karen Head

Communication centers exist primarily as a complementary student service (Strawser, Apostel, Carpenter, Cuny, Dvorak, & Head, 2019). As an integral campus student services, centers must place an overarching emphasis on student engagement. Student engagement, according to NSSE, is the time and effort students put into their educational activities and the institutional deployment of educational resources. Communication centers, to continue to prove their value to institutions, must continue to build programming and initiatives that are worthy of students’ time and get students to participate. To address engagement concerns, the authors of this essay offer ten best practices for building and sustaining student engagement in the communication center. The best practices are universal and transferable, meaning, any center, no matter the vision or the resources, could theoretically implement the ideas.

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... In addition, Morgan expressed that they needed to be "constantly 'on.' " These changes led some individuals to yearn for a healthier work-life balance. This finding, while not necessarily unexpected given the urgency of the disruption, also lends cause for concern given the fact that if faculty are forced to transition to online learning in response to future disruptions, EDs might be expected to encourage faculty establishment of clearly defined work-life boundaries (Carpenter et al., 2020). ...

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Impacts of campus disruption on educational developers’ role-identity and teamwork
The implications of COVID-19 on educators, students, curricula, and faculty development
  • Citing Article
  • May 2020

... These researchers, aligning with English composition studies and with prior research, rationalize that "communication fellows" could intensify student involvement with the communication center as well as work closely with faculty to tailor consultations to specific course assignments. Strawser et al. (2020) subsequently note that student consultants trained to work in communication centers are equipped to provide tutoring in most of the communication skills identified by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Career Competencies as crucial across all academic disciplines (pp. 99-100). ...

The Centrality of the Center: Best Practices for Engaging Students on Campus