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Podcast: Instructional Ecology
Episode: Zen and the Art of Beginning
Description: In this episode, we get into the nuance of the difference of being a beginner and beginning something new. We talk with Benjamin Gaston, the college’s Dean of the School of STEM; someone who has a complex brief that includes oversight of multiple departments and many employees, both faculty and staff. Benjamin is an engineer by training and trade and taught for the college before moving into administration, first as Chair of Engineering and now as dean. We talk about being a true beginner at a hobby (he recently learned to ride a mot...