Professional Goal

All learners are treated as developing professionals with unique strengths. I provide practical, relevant learning that turns knowledge into benefit for people. Graduates leave with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to make evidence-informed decisions, serve others, and advance in their fields.

Philosophy of Teaching Scholarship

All learners are treated as professionals with unique knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities. I provide practical, relevant knowledge in 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 with 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 with 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.”