Philosophy of Teaching

• All learners are treated as professionals with unique knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
   
• 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 required by their employers, and my customers.

Philosophy of Faculty Scholarship

Balance, integration, and theory-to-practice guide my approach to faculty scholarship.  Balance provides an understanding that research, teaching, nor service scholarship should be individually consuming factors of a faculty member’s workload.  Integration of research provides students in the university classroom first-hand experience with reading, interpreting, and creating new theories and practices that guide their field of study. Theory-to-practice provides opportunities to translate the “ivory tower” theories of the university classroom into the everyday practices of the corporate and educational work environments. 

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