InCITEful Teaching

Higher education is changing rapidly—and faculty are at the center of it all. From the rise of artificial intelligence and evolving approaches to assessment, to student engagement, faculty well-being, and preparing graduates for an increasingly complex workforce, today's educators are navigating opportunities and challenges unlike any before. In this special episode of InCITEful Teaching , ho...

Some of the most powerful learning happens when students step outside the classroom and into real-world settings. In this episode, host Dr. Shannon Harmon talks with Amy Fountain—faculty member in the Department of Communication, Media, and Theatre, internship coordinator, and member of the College of Arts and Sciences' TEAMS initiative—about how internships and experiential learning shape st...

Teaching is deeply meaningful work, but it can also be demanding work. In this episode of InCITEful Teaching, host Dr. Shannon Harmon sits down with Dr. Emily Stafford, Director of Mississippi State University's Psychology Clinic, to explore faculty well-being, burnout, work-life balance, and the importance of seeking support. Together, they discuss how burnout manifests in higher education,...

Dr. Andrew Mercer is a meteorologist and climatologist at Mississippi State University, home to one in three of today's on-air broadcast meteorologists. As Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Geosciences and meteorology team lead, his research applies machine learning and AI to large scale atmospheric problems, from severe weather forecasting to hurricane prediction. In this conversati...

Dr. Neil Deochand is completing his first year as an assistant professor at Mississippi State University. He came with a doctorate in behavior analysis, years of online teaching experience, and a lot of ideas about how people learn. This year, he has been putting all of it into practice at Mississippi State. In this conversation with host Dr. Shannon Harmon, Neil reflects on what it looks like to...

Dr. Greg Francom came to teaching through four degrees, four universities, a lifelong faith community, and a conviction that media and technology are most valuable when they help people learn. Today, as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Technology, Leadership, and Design at Mississippi State University, he is the author of the first ever multi-platform interactive textbook for educational...

Dr. Melissa Moore has taught at Mississippi State University for 26 years. Today, her marketing courses enroll up to 450 students at a time. She is a Turner A. Wingo Endowed Professor, a department head, and a Grisham Master Level Teacher. And after all of that, nothing disappoints her more than leaving class feeling like she didn't connect. That standard, and what she does to meet it, is at...

What does it mean to teach relationally? For Karyn Brown, assistant dean of communication and media at Mississippi State University and a Grisham Master Level Teacher, the answer begins with a simple conviction she's carried since her first day in the classroom: you cannot be an effective teacher without first building genuine relationships with your students. In this episode — the very first...

Welcome to InCITEful Teaching, a podcast from Mississippi State University's Center for Innovation and Teaching Excellence. I'm your host, Dr. Shannon Harmon. I've spent my career in higher education as a teacher, researcher, and faculty developer — first as a tenured Associate Professor of Elementary Education at Middle Tennessee State University, and now as an Instructional Suppor...