Educators
Faculty Excellence Showcase
Webinar This webinar will take place 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Are you a new faculty member wondering how to get started in your teaching role?
Are you an early-career college instructor looking to strengthen your teaching and evaluation strategies?
Are you an adjunct faculty member or industry professional seeking to leverage your professional experience in the college classroom?
Are you leading department, division or college-wide new faculty onboarding and/or teaching and learning initiatives?
The Faculty Excellence Seminar (FES) Showcase offers opportunities to experience several activities from this highly interactive, experiential learning seminar while gaining insights into key FES topics, including instructional design and development, learner analysis, uses of artificial intelligence, active and experiential learning techniques, and methods for assessing and evaluating student learning.
The FES program is designed for new, early-career, and mid-career college instructors; and professionals transitioning from organizational or corporate roles to college teaching.
The Faculty Excellence Seminar (FES) can be your answer to efficiently giving faculty grounding or an update in teaching and learning best practices, AI integration, and instructional design, development and evaluation. Attend this Showcase and experience how AACSB can simplify and streamline your programing with FES on-campus and/or online deliveries.
Speakers
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 Spangler, Ph.D. is the founder and principal of Work & Think, LLC. He is a corporate consultant, a researcher, and an author, and was an instructor of business ethics at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce. His Spangler Ethical Reasoning Assessment® (SERA®) and Innovation Inventory™ (II™) are used across industries and around the world. He is the author of Reasoning for Business: The Inquirer’s Guide to Decision Making (Routledge, 2026).
In addition to his teaching experience, Haywood has consulted with numerous organizations, including Morgan Stanley, The National Institutes of Health, and The United Nations Pan American Health Organization.
As an independent researcher, Haywood has authored popular and academic articles on topics including ESG's implications for businesses, gaps in senior leaders' approaches to developing strategy, and post-pandemic uncertainty tolerance among professionals. He has collaborated with academic colleagues to conduct research, using the SERA, at institutions such as Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School and Christ University Business School, Bangalore, India.
Haywood holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and an M.Div., magna cum laude, from Yale University.
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