Professional Goal

To influence generations of scholars and scholar-practitioners through mentored scholarship. It is important to have faculty and student engagement in each other’s research, teaching, and service scholarship projects as part of the professorate mentoring process. This compatibility and common professional interest help ensure long-term collegiality as students join and move through the ranks of academic scholarship.

Philosophy of Teaching Scholarship

All learners are treated as professionals with unique knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities. I provide practical and relevant knowledge of the fields I teach. Learners will be prepared to enter or advance in their chosen profession with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes their employers and customers require.

Philosophy of Faculty Scholarship

Balance, integration, and theory-to-practice guide my approach to faculty scholarship. Balance provides me the understanding that research, teaching, and scholarship should be individually consuming factors of my workload as a university community member. Integrating research into the university classroom provides students first-hand experience reading, consuming, and creating new theories and practices that guide their field. Finally, theory-to-practice provides opportunities to translate the “ivory tower” theories of the university classroom into the everyday practices of corporate and educational work environments. Without the theory-to-practice step in the learning process, students may never be allowed to practice the theories and methods they have learned in the confines of a university classroom.

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“Don’t lecture someone about their ignorance — teach them otherwise.”