Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed


Unpacking Resilience & Grief

March 31, 2022

Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.


Quotes from the episode

It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.


People are grieving and hurting.

-Chinasa Elue


Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now.

-Chinasa Elue


Language is power.

-Laura Howard


We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve.

-Chinasa Elue


Educational developers are caregivers.

-Este Jordan


The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity.

-Chinasa Elue


People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard.

-Chinasa Elue


We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces.

-Chinasa Elue


It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.

-Chinasa Elue



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