Bridging Education Gaps: Personalized Coaching and Research for Today’s Graduate Students

PODCAST Season 5 EPISODE 4
 
Marj Atkinson
CEO
The Research Sage
 
Quotes of the Podcast:
Make yourself an example of good works with integrity, dignity and incorruptibility in your teaching. Titus 2:7 CSB
 
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. -Harold Howe.
 
Introduction of Guest BIO –
Marj Atkinson received her Master of Library Science from Texas Woman's University in 2012 (as a true nontraditional grad student). She is an academic success coach specializing in personalized support for nontraditional graduate students and research solutions for authors, faculty, small businesses, and nonprofits. She leads engaging workshops including resource organization, literature reviews, AI best practices, and market research tools. With a background spanning libraries, financial services, IT, and nonprofits, Marj is known for helping people find exactly what they need—so if you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, ask Marj!
 
Interview
Agents of Change: Leaders/Innovators.
 

• 30,000 Ft. View – Why so we, as a society invest in education?
• What drew you to education?
• Challenges of nontraditional Grad students in online programs and the lack of resources they receive, especially at but not exclusive to under-resourced schools such as HBCUs.
• Also discussions on AI and academic integrity. And the
• lack of "pipelines" in so many professions from K12 to Higher Ed.
• What are the biggest challenges to you?
• What would you like decision makers to know?”

 
Podcast/ website/ book shoutouts
I'm featured in Careers in Library and Information Services, by Priscilla K. Shontz, editor
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/careers-in-library-and-information-services-9798216185772/
 
Podcasts: A Way with Words, an upbeat and lively public radio show and podcast about language examined through culture, history, and family. https://waywordradio.org/
Code Sw!tch (while NPR is still a thing). It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
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