Degree and from where it was received:

•  B.A. American International College
•  M.B.A. Western New England College
•  Ed.D University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Courses you teach:

•  Business Communication
•  Business Math
•  Principles of Management
•  Principles of Marketing
•  Principles of Retailing

Accomplishments (personal or professiona)

•  Author of Merchandise Buying and Management, a retail buying and merchandise management textbook written for an upper level course in a fashion-merchandising curriculum.
• "Best of journal" article in the 1999 Journal of Shopping Center Research published by the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Favorite thing about teaching:

•  Seeing positive changes in students at the end of the semester.

Memorable moment at HCC:

•  Too many to mention.

Teaching philosophy:

•  Make theory meaningful with real-world examples to which students can relate.
•  Replace "chalk and talk" with learning activities that engage students.
•  Superficially cover any material that students can read about in a textbook.  Cover in depth individual learning objectives that can be reinforced with active learning experiences.
•  Make learning about even the most mundane topics fun.
•  Keep telling students what they are learning and why.

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