University of Texas at Tyler

I'm your host, Darren Short, and here in our sixth season, we're featuring conversations between members of the Academy Board and lead authors of recent HRD articles.

This second episode of the season features a conversation between Dr. Matthew Hertini of the University of Texas at Tyler and Dr. Hee-Sun Kim of Francis Marion University.

Matt and Hisan met in September 2026 to discuss the 2024 article entitled Silence in the Workplace, What Do We Know from Research? The article was published in the European Journal of Training and Development, Volume 48, Number 10.

Just visit allbypodcast.com forward slash silence for a link to the article, for bios of the two participants, and also to connect with our episode sponsors.

We went through all these things.

And then he actually went to Tyler University, and he was a tennis player, where Abigail went to St. Mary's.

So we had all this great—we walked nine holes together.

And at the very end, I came home, I told Stacey about it, and she goes, well, did you get his number?

Dr.

White previously served also as president of Austin Peay State University, vice president for academic affairs at University of Texas at Tyler, and held academic leadership roles at Midwestern State University and in Alaska, Louisiana, and Georgia.

She earned her bachelor's degree from Lee College and her master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, where she was recently selected as the University of Tennessee's 2026 Donald G. Hilleman Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest alumni honor from its College of Communication and Information.

She's also chaired the Board of Directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and chaired on NCAA committees, Conference USA committees, and received the Woodlands North Houston Trailblazer Award in 2022.

And then we're going to have Brownsboro Pioneer Day on the 10th.

The 17th, we got the Kappa Sigma Car Show, which is at UT Tyler, just like we did last year.

Coming up April 24th, we're going to be at Bray's Motors Museum and Playground.

It's going to be a fun deal.

And like he said, that McLaughlin, a respected pollster himself, says that they're undercounting.

Now, are all these like University of Texas Tyler poll that's been really bad or the UT ones or those or Rice University or Houston polls? I don't think, but they're run by liberals, and I think a lot of this, they do it not just under Kennedy.

They may try to get the right universe of people to respond, but I think it's in their weighting and things that sometimes the brain just leads you to weight it in the way that you think the world is versus how the world is.

It is true that they use this to suppress the vote because people think, well, it's all lost anyway.

It's very difficult to reach culture conversion.

Dr. Griffith showed many years ago among his patients at the University of Texas Tyler who had macrolide-resistant MAC, he could get cure in only 5% of patients.

But if he did surgical resection and gave six or more months of parenteral aminoglycoside, he could get it back up to 80.

But in that setting, the patients have had thoracic surgery, probably ototoxicity.