Academic Professor/Support
Summary
An exceptional educator, and innovator with an extraordinary record in business creation and corporate endeavors. Come with an advanced educational and research background, and proven dynamic leadership, university instruction, and lecturing capabilities. I consider each learner's motivations, goals, skill levels, disabilities, backgrounds, and so on, and I work carefully to craft an honest response or a product to guide the learner toward a comfortable place where understanding, engagement, learning, achievement, reflection, and continual reinvention flourish. A student-centered educator and administrator with an exemplary ability to build internal and external partnerships focused on enhancing the student experience and delivering positive results, including the development and implementation of programs and initiatives designed to serve marginalized and historically underrepresented students. Highly motivated and enthusiastic learning specialist effectively and efficiently creating learning experiences across diverse disciplines.
Work Experience
Princeton University
Academic Professor/Support
- Responsible for executive level, Ph.D., and master level and community entrepreneurship, and innovation programs.
- Responsibilities include academic, admissions, administrative, financial, human resources, and enrollment management.
- Serve on various hiring committees, selection committees, evaluation committees, and assessment committees.
- Lead the development and implementation of the school's first fully online master’s in educational leadership degree.
- Train academic advisers regarding all-university core curriculum requirements, the composition program, and required composition courses.
- Oversee all academic content, webinars, student supervision and mentoring, and other programs designed to impact the US.
- Provide academic advisement of undergraduate and graduate students.
- Assess composition placement exams regularly.
- Develop and implement recruitment campaigns culminating in an increase of 27% enrollment in the master’s program, and a 111% increase in the doctoral degree program.
- Develop communication campaigns and disseminate department, college, and university-wide.
- Areas of focus include the entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurial mindset, gender, diversity, and youth, and high growth/scalable startups.
- Work closely with the Director of Academics.
- Use an experiential learning model for improved student outcomes in entrepreneurial skills and self-efficacy.
Columbia University
Lead Adjunct Professor
- Graded weekly assignments within 72 hours while providing constructive feedback.
- Conceived and developed two premier courses, entrepreneurship and professional development, for the University's entrepreneurial degree program.
- Encouraged student participation and engagement through guidance and motivation.
- Supervised and evaluated 116 full-time and adjunct faculty, plus 35-40 certified tutors with assistance from the associate dean and department chairs.
- Trained, supervised, and mentored new instructors, providing them with a curriculum from which they teach as well as providing many professional development opportunities and workshops.
- Allowed students to apply academic knowledge to real-life business experiences before graduation.
- Posted weekly communication materials into the classroom.
- Collaborated with the college's continuing education and the technology departments to make available project-based coursework for a gateway to college students.
- Observed instructors to ensure effective teaching strategies are applied, making recommendations of course design and curriculum delivery, when necessary.
- Answered questions within 24 hours via email or phone communication.
- Mentored new instructors with assessment strategies.
- Served as the team lead for 25 Columbia University educators each term; this consisted of mentoring and coaching faculty through each term to improve teaching and the student classroom experience, as well as identifying best practices to help students achieve their goals.
Yale University
Lecturer/Academic Support
- Monitored and reconciled student accounts receivable.
- Designed and implemented "The Presidential Campaign Project" and "The Tiny House Project," two innovative programs that combine integrated marketing communication plan concepts with ethical practices in politics and the workplace.
- Participated in public relations and marketing efforts to provide the civilian and military sectors with relevant information regarding degree programs.
- Supervised eight academic departments, including mathematics, all developmental studies (math, reading, and writing), human development, dual credit, learning assistance center, and Gateway to College.
- Designed and tested instructional materials and methods that utilize effective technology.
- Was also responsible for entrepreneurship and marketing courses.
- Encouraged student participation and engagement through guidance and motivation.
- Taught composition and literature courses, experimenting with effective teaching strategies that used technology in various, meaningful, and engaging ways.
Education
Harvard University
Ph.D., Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Science
Stanford University
Associate Degree