Development of Curricula and Co-Curricula

I have had the pleasure of teaching for a variety of higher education institutions in New England working with both undergraduate and graduate student populations.

I currently serve as the coordinator of general education at Southern New Hampshire University. I work at University College, the residential, face-to-face unit of the university. My position includes the management of the SNHU Experience courses which is a series of success and transition courses for our undergraduate population that are taken at critical transition moments in their college careers.

These syllabi were developed by faculty on the General Education Committee and passed on to me to build out and facilitate among my 50+ instructors:


SNHU 101: Transition to College (for incoming freshmen)

SNHU 202: Transition to SNHU (for transfer students)

SNHU 303: Life After SNHU (for juniors)

SNHU 404: General Education Capstone (for graduating seniors)


SNHU 490: General Education Internship (for students completing the Integration area of their General Education program)


These courses also feature numerous co-curricula events including the Involvement Fair (SNHU 101/202), Resume Critique Night (SNHU 303),  the SNHUfolio Session (SNHU 404) and academic technology training (all courses). For fall 2014 I am also coordinating activities associated with the Common Book program which will be the required text for all SNHU 101 and 202 sections. The activities include associated film, music, and food events as well as guest speakers.


The SNHU 490 course provides students the opportunity to directly apply the knowledge they have gained in their Integration cluster. The Integration area of the General Education program has students study a topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The syllabus provided here was developed for a rising senior in Education whose Integration topic is America. This student is using the SNHU 490 experience to investigate how literature is being integrated into the Social Studies curriculum in middle school.





I have served as a teaching lecturer at Plymouth State University since 2002. Courses in which I developed the syllabi at Plymouth include:


Curriculum and Assessment in Integrated Arts (M.Ed. Program)

Philosophy, Ethics and Education (M.Ed. Program)

Critical Perspectives for Arts Advocacy  (C.A.G.S. Program)







I have also had the delight of teaching at the New Hampshire Institute of Art which offers undergraduate and graduate fine arts degrees. I am currently teaching a course in aesthetic philosophy for graduating seniors.

Art and Meaning



 
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I work in higher education overseeing AI policy. I came to this position in the after a long tenure as an associate dean which included the guidance as well as development of academic polidies. My current position oversees the development and support of guidelines on AI policy use and adoption, as well as curriculum initiatives. I moonlight as an adjunct, teaching undergraduate courses first-year seminar and the humanities, and have taught graduate courses in philosophy and arts education. I came to higher ed by way of a career as a stage actor in NYC where I also helped manage several theatre companies and venues. My graduate work at Teachers College introduced me to Maxine Greene who influenced how I encounter art, the creative process, and education. Greene's focus on social justice has set me off on a successful career in education and was the subject of my dissertation, "The Lived Life in the Writings of Maxine Greene."