NDNU Podcast

Artificial intelligence is changing how educators plan lessons, personalize learning, and manage their classrooms—but great teaching still depends on human judgment, empathy, and connection. This episode explores how educators can thoughtfully integrate AI while keeping equity, ethics, student needs, and professional judgment at the center of every decision.
Discover how NDNU's School of Education is preparing educators to use emerging technology as a tool to enhance teaching, not replace the human intelligence that makes meaningful learning possible.

Inspired by a profile of Dr. Helen Marlo, Dean of NDNU’s School of Psychology, this episode explores the experiences, ideas, and perspectives that have shaped her nearly 30-year career as a clinical psychologist, educator, Jungian psychoanalyst, and academic leader.
Discover how Dr. Marlo bridges clinical and depth psychology, integrates teaching with active clinical practice, and encourages students to explore different approaches as they develop their own paths as mental health professionals. The conversation also explores her work with synchronicity-informed therapy and her commitment to bringing together the known, unknown, and unknowable in psychology.

How can higher education prepare students for an AI-driven future without losing sight of the knowledge and skills at the core of their chosen fields?
 
NDNU President Leamor Kahanov, EdD, ATC, joins as a featured guest on The Spark to discuss how colleges and universities can responsibly integrate AI across existing academic disciplines.
 
Drawing on more than 25 years of higher education leadership, President Kahanov explores why AI may be most valuable when embedded throughout the curriculum—enhancing students’ areas of study rather than replacing them with standalone AI degrees.

What happens when learning no longer fits neatly within the traditional degree model?
 
In this episode of Accreditation Insights, NDNU President Leamor Kahanov, EdD, ATC, joins the conversation as a co-host to explore the growing role of continuing education, workforce credentials, employer-aligned training, and lifelong learning.
 
The discussion examines how accreditation can evolve beyond traditional higher education, why quality and credibility matter across new learning pathways, and how continuing education may play an increasingly important role in the future of higher educatio

How is accreditation evolving to meet the changing needs of higher education?
In this episode of Accreditation Insights, NDNU President Leamor Kahanov, EdD, ATC, joins the conversation as a co-host for a timely discussion on the future of accreditation and quality assurance in higher education.
The episode explores how accreditation can better recognize diverse institutional missions, provide institutions with greater choice and alignment, and adapt to an evolving higher education landscape.

In this episode, John Veitch, Dean of NDNU's School of Business & Management, breaks down a recent speech by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller and explains how inflation expectations influence monetary policy, interest rates, and the broader economy. Gain practical insights into one of today's most important economic concepts and what it could mean for businesses, consumers, and financial decision-making.

On NDNU's podcast, Dean Dr. Kelly Vaughn reflects on the personal experiences that inspired her lifelong commitment to educational advocacy. From the compassion of a middle school principal who supported her family during a difficult time to a decade spent teaching middle school mathematics, Vaughn shares how those experiences ultimately led her to prepare future educators, creating a lasting impact far beyond her own classroom.
 
The conversation explores whole-child education, social-emotional learning, and Vaughn's influential research on California's teacher performance assessment, which helped uncover structural barriers affecting teacher candidates from historically underrepresented communities and contributed to changes in state policy. She concludes by discussing the future of artificial intelligence in education, advocating for a human-centered approach that uses AI to enhance efficiency while preserving the meaningful relationships at the heart of teaching.

On NDNU’s podcast, Dean Dr. Helen Marlo traces how our understanding of dreams has journeyed from Freud and Jung’s visions of the unconscious to today’s neuroscience labs and AI-driven research. She contrasts early psychoanalytic views of dreams as portals to repressed desire and individuation with later models that saw dreams as emotional housekeeping or meaningless neural noise.
Highlighting contemporary work by leading dream researchers, the conversation shows how modern findings circle back to depth-psychological insights while adding new tools—from sleep laboratories to AI-assisted analysis and dream incubation. Marlo invites listeners to reclaim a living relationship with their dreams, treating them as creative, symbolic companions that can guide problem‑solving, emotional integration, and personal growth.

On NDNU’s podcast, hosts draw from Dean Dr. Helen Marlo’s insights to introduce core concepts that make dream interpretation more grounded, creative, and clinically useful. They explain how to track both a dream’s emotional tone and narrative, why everyday details can carry symbolic weight, and how context from waking life shapes what a dream is asking us to see.
The episode explores distinctions such as inner versus outer perspectives, personal versus collective meanings, and when to approach a dream literally versus metaphorically. Using accessible examples, the hosts show how these guiding ideas—rooted in Marlo’s depth psychology—help therapists and dreamers alike listen more deeply to dreams as invitations to insight, integration, and transformation.

Join NDNU’s podcast as we explore how the language of dreams helps shape our identity. Dr. Helen Marlo, Dean of the School of Psychology, explains how basic Jungian concepts make dream work a powerful tool for personal growth.
This episode contrasts reductive (backward) and prospective (forward) interpretations, and subjective (inner) versus objective (outer) perspectives, emphasizing condensation—how one dream image can hold many meanings. Using relatable examples, the discussion shows how dreams reveal past wounds, future development, inner conflicts, and real-world context to guide self-understanding and growth.