{"id":20565,"date":"2024-06-28T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=20565"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:49:05","slug":"end-of-an-eyhra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/end-of-an-eyhra\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of an EYHra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'm marking 25 years at Xavier this month. I planned to formulate some sort of reflection, which undoubtedly would have been insightful and profound if only I'd ever got around to actually writing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, I'd like to focus on a different milestone which seems much more significant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As most everyone knows, Elizabeth Yost Hammer is stepping away from the directorship of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development to return to full-time teaching. After 17 years, this truly marks the end of an era. Future historians might call it the EYH Era, or perhaps just EYHra for short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For fun, here's <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D0d-ARvFY7s\">a brief retrospective video<\/a> that captures some scenes of EYH's tenure at CAT+FD. (Please note this video has no audio; it's just a montage of stills.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0d-ARvFY7s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The EYH Era at CAT+FD<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On a personal note, I have to say it's been a pleasure and an honor to serve under Dr. Hammer's guidance. Rarely have I encountered such resolute positivity in another human being. For the better part of two decades, she's kept us focused on our part of Xavier's mission: supporting our faculty in the endless quest to deliver the best for our students. I look forward to our future collaborations as she moves into the next phase of her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I can't look back at the past too long. We're also excited about CAT+FD's next chapter. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm marking 25 years at Xavier this month. I planned to formulate some sort of reflection, which undoubtedly would have been insightful and profound if only I'd ever got around to actually writing it. Instead, I'd like to focus on a different milestone which seems much more significant. As most everyone knows, Elizabeth Yost Hammer <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/end-of-an-eyhra\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The End of an EYHra\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[169],"class_list":{"0":"post-20565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-housekeeping","7":"tag-historical-figures","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-5lH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4783,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/pod-2014-leverage\/","url_meta":{"origin":20565,"position":0},"title":"POD 2014 Leverage","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"November 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Nichols I attended my first POD conference last week and the theme was Leverage.\u00a0 POD is our faculty development organization and such a wonderful group of people. 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