Subha V. Barry
Subha Barry is a C-suite leader and an Advisor who brings a unique perspective on the alignment of corporate culture to talent strategy and business results. As a transformational change agent, she has a proven record of identifying and accelerating new business creation, driving sales, and increasing profitability.
She is president of Seramount, now part of EAB. Seramount is a strategic professional services firm dedicated to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. Here, she drives the firm’s vision, strategy, and business development.
Prior to Seramount, Subha was SVP and Chief Diversity Officer at Freddie Mac, where she served on the firm’s management committee and led their Foundation. During her 20+ years at Merrill Lynch, Subha was a Managing Director and the company’s first Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, driving strategy, infrastructure and execution with a lens on both global and local community.
She has taught Gender Policy at Columbia University and speaks passionately about the ability to drive innovation by embracing diversity and creating a culture of inclusion. She serves on a number of boards aligned with her passions—education, cancer research, and women’s advancement.
A native of India, Subha holds a BA from Bombay University and an MBA and MS in Accounting from Rice University. She enjoys golfing, reading poetry and rallying for social change. She has two grown children and lives in Naples, Florida and New Hope, PA with her husband.
Jason Levin
Crafting A CBE Strategy Based On Pedagogy And Faculty Buy-In
Transitioning traditional programs to a Competency-Based Education (CBE) format can be daunting – and feel as though you need to reinvent your model. What is CBE? Simply put, it measures skills and learning rather than time spent in a classroom. Students earn competency units (the equivalent of credit hours) when they demonstrate their skills through completing assessments. Cultivating faculty buy-in to this strategy can be similarly difficult. Contrary to these beliefs, CBE can be applied as pedagogy without drastically altering a program’s structure or delivery, while also fulfilling the needs and assuaging the concerns of faculty members.
In this interactive discussion, led by learning experience designers from WGU Labs, we will begin by exploring the different learning models within the CBE framework to help you better understand which might best align with the needs of your institution. We will highlight how other colleges and universities have woven key elements of CBE into their existing time-bound, Carnegie Unit models with success. We will explore how to create faculty buy-in by highlighting the benefits of a CBE model, while ensuring that their concerns are understood, and support is provided to help transition courses.
During this discussion, we will share 5 key CBE elements and how these elements can flex to fit any context. We will also showcase examples of institutions that have transformed courses for optimal CBE delivery into online learning environments. Join us to learn how your institution can adapt CBE elements to create an experience that meets the needs of your learners, faculty, and administrators. Lastly, we will share a faculty buy-in guide to support re-imagining the role of faculty in a CBE mindset through supporting students in active learning.
As Executive Director of WGU Labs, Jason has combined a non-traditional accelerator with product research and development capabilities to tackle big challenges in education. Under Jason’s leadership, WGU Labs invents de novo EdTech products and provides high-quality research and product design and development services to early-stage mission-aligned organizations. WGU Labs was born out of the Center for Applied Learning Science, which Jason founded in 2018 to increase student outcomes through scientifically sound and engaging EdTech products. The Center was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant with Carnegie Mellon University and won the J-PAL Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition. Jason has more than 15 years of experience in data analytics and business intelligence and served as WGU’s VP of Institutional Research for seven years. In this role, he created the Student Success Research Pipeline and experimented with innovative approaches to improve student outcomes. His Leadership & Communication course won an innovation award from the Online Learning Consortium in 2017. Before WGU, Jason worked at Kaplan University leading the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, responsible for data analytics, assessment, and institutional research. Jason was an early champion of modern data warehousing and leveraging business intelligence to advance higher education outcomes, and he welcomes new opportunities provided by advancements in technology. In his free time, Jason spends time with his family and enjoys Utah’s famous snow.