Center for Educational Innovation
About the Center
The Center for Educational Innovation is Fordham’s home for pedagogy. Launched in Fall 2025, we aim to support instructors across the university in developing high-quality, innovative, and inclusive teaching practices, leveraging the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm to foster impactful and supportive learning experiences for all of our students.
The Center for Educational Innovation provides faculty with the space and opportunity to focus on their teaching practice, individually and within a community of practice. Each of our programs, services, and initiatives is designed to cultivate experimentation and curiosity about the best of teaching and learning. Wherever you are in your teaching, we will support you.
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Margaret (Meg) Konkel is the inaugural Senior Director for Fordham's Center for Educational Innovation, and brings to the University a commitment to innovative, student-centered, and inclusive teaching practices. Meg was most recently at Radford University in Virginia where she was an associate professor of design thinking and served as the Faculty Fellow for the Honors Program for the past three years. Prior to Radford she held positions at Montana State University and Marymount University (Arlington, VA) where she focused on curricular and pedagogic innovation.
Dr. Konkel earned her Ph.D. from Montana State University, her M.F.A. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, and her B.A. from The College of William & Mary.