Strategies for active engagement with diversity concepts in an online environment
Explore inclusive virtual classroom strategies to foster community and equity in diverse online student populations with Pearson authors Michele Kegley and Carol Harvey.
Michele D. Kegley, PhD, Professor of Business and Economics, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College, UCBA
Carol P. Harvey, EdD, Professor Emerita, Assumption University
Education requires actively engaging students. With more and more classes going online and student populations growing across a wide variety of diverse backgrounds, it can be difficult to build a sense of community and equity in our classrooms. Join Pearson authors Michele Kegley and Carol Harvey as they dive into experiential learning strategies and tools to help build a more inclusive virtual classroom.
About the speakers
Michele D. Kegley, PhD, Professor of Business and Economics, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College, UCBA
Michele D. Kegley, PhD, is Professor of Business and Economics at the University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College, UCBA, where she is also the Program Director of the Bachelor of Technical and Applied Studies. She received her PhD in Leadership and Organizational Change from Antioch University, her MS in Social and Applied Economics from Wright State University, and her BA in Economics and English from Wilmington College. In 2022, she was inducted into the University of Cincinnati, Academy of Fellows for Teaching and Learning, where she serves on the editorial board of The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching. She was awarded the 2020 UC Blue Ash Outstanding Faculty Service Award, and the 2019 University of Cincinnati Jack Twyman Award for Service Learning. She was nominated by her college and graduated from the yearlong regional 2022 to 2023 Women’s Institute for Leadership Development.
Dr. Kegley supported her faculty and college through the Covid pandemic transition to online learning while serving as 2019 to 2020 Chair of the UCBA College Faculty Executive Committee. She serves on the University’s Service-Learning Advisory Committee. She mentors, presents, and writes on multiple intersectional and interdisciplinary areas. Her research interests include leadership, socioeconomic stability, women’s promotion, service-learning, work-life balance, and online course design. She seeks to engage students in active learning about the world in which they are economic citizens.
Carol P. Harvey, EdD, Professor Emerita, Assumption University
Carol P. Harvey, EdD, is Professor Emerita from Assumption University where she was the former Chair of the Business Studies Department and Director of the MBA program. She received her EdD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, her MBA and CAGS from Northeastern University, and an MA in Psychology from Assumption College. She was formerly employed as a manager at the Xerox Corporation. After retiring from Assumption, she taught leadership, diversity management, and organizational behavior at Suffolk University in Boston. She has served multiple times as an evaluator for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges for collegiate accreditation.
Dr. Harvey received the 2011 ALANA faculty award from Assumption is the co-recipient of the Roethlisburger award for the best article published in 2002 in the Journal of Management Education from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, and received a volunteer of the year award for her mentoring of female entrepreneurs from the Center for Women in Enterprise. She has been a volunteer tutor for English as a second language serves on the Massachusetts Executive Council for AARP and on the Curriculum Committee for the Worcester Institute for Senior Education.