Mariah Burkert

The Ally Advantage

Education EN ↓ 3 episodes

The Ally Advantage: Where support meets strategy—and students thrive! The Ally Center is Lancaster Bible College’s hub for innovative academic services, resources, and accessibility by which each student can expand his or her potential for servant-ministry leadership. This Ally Center podcast focuses on building confidence, clarity, and skills online students can use. Click here to schedule an appointment with our Ally Center staff. We provide expert, compassionate one-on-one appointments, study group sessions, and workshops on a variety of topics. To view our library of previous workshops, ch...

Author

Mariah Burkert

Episodes

Research Process of Pros (Part 1) 09.07.2026 20:02

In this episode, Hannah Kahn, Dr. Rhonda McClenton, Chantelle Patschke, Kristen Slone, and Mariah Burkert describe what they have learned about how to do research--both what worked well, and what didn't--from their days as undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. For more tips and tricks for how to navigate the LBC library, check out Mariah's workshop, " Learning the Library: How to Find Sc...

Workshop Re-Release: The Works Cited Page: Because "I Googled It" Isn't a Source 07.07.2026 1:18:39

For our first re-released workshop, this was a workshop on MLA formatting and Works Cited pages led by Mariah Burkert Mariah explained the importance of using Works Cited pages for academic integrity, standardizing formats, and lending credibility to writing, then demonstrated how to set up MLA formatted papers and create entries for different source types including scholarly journal articles, web...

The Ally Advantage: Mission and Meetings 01.07.2026 14:49

In this episode, meet the podcasting team: Dr. Rhonda McClenton, Mariah Burkert, Hannah Kahn, Kristen Slone, and Chantelle Patschke. We discuss the mission of the Ally Center at Lancaster Bible College and why each of us was drawn to work at LBC/the Ally Center.