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Faculty Excellence Seminar

Keys to be Successful in the Classroom
Date(s)
March 3​ – 12​, 2025
Location
Virtual
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Faculty Excellence Seminar

Multiple virtual sessions will take place March 3–5 and March 10–12. A more detailed agenda will be posted soon.

Discover your teaching potential and enhance your classroom management, course planning, and student engagement skills. This interactive, five-day program focuses on practical strategies for developing effective course syllabi, creating active learning environments, and applying assessment techniques that promote student success.

Learning Objectives 

  • Gain insight into planning, organizing, and delivering courses.
  • Experience firsthand, how to develop a course syllabus and learning measures.
  • Develop classroom management techniques and teaching skills.
  • Engage and inspire today’s diverse learners toward intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and professional excellence.

Who Should Attend

Those looking to sharpen or refresh their teaching skills, gain new teaching insights, or further develop their pedagogy.

Facilitators

Susan_MasonSusan Mason, Founder and Principal, Vital Visions Consultants

Susan Mason, M.A., M.S., is the founder and principal of Vital Visions Consultants where she acts as consultant, researcher, instructional designer, coach, master trainer, and subject matter expert to executives and organizations looking to develop theory-in-practice adult learning strategies, professional development programs, and corporate universities. Additionally, Susan has had a long career in higher education beginning with her role as a research associate at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, chairing the Liberal Arts and Humanities curriculum at Tompkins-Cortland Community College-SUNY, and continuing as Hamilton College’s founding director and faculty member in the Education Studies Program, NYS Teacher Certification Program, and Oral Communication Center and Program. She has been the recipient of a variety of excellence in teaching awards, administrative service recognitions, and academic grants.

Haywood_SpanglerHaywood Spangler

Haywood began his career as an instructor of business ethics at UVA’s McIntyre School of Commerce. An independent researcher since 2008, Haywood holds the copyright to two statistically reliable preference assessments: Spangler Ethical Reasoning Assessment and Innovation Inventory. He has collaborated with academic colleagues to conduct research, using his instruments, at institutions such as Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School and Christ University Business School, Bangalore, India. He is currently the owner of Work & Think, LLC, which he founded in 2011. His practice includes curriculum and instructional design, and executive coaching, as well as research. His clients range from National Institutes of Health to Morgan Stanley. He actively publishes and his current scholarship focuses on assessing ESG initiatives and a principle-based approach to AI ethics. He holds a master’s degree magna cum laude from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Connect With Us

For more information, please contact [email protected].
Pricing (USD)
Member Pricing
$3,500
Non-Member Pricing
$3,500
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