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Mount Vernon Integrative Learning Coordinator\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Co-Chair Washington Learning Communities Consortium\u00a0 \u00a0 Business and Economics Instructor\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Skagit Valley College\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mount Vernon, Washington<\/p>\n
I am currently in my fourth year as the Integrative Learning Coordinator at Skagit Valley College, where we continue to have an integrative learning degree requirement for our Arts & Sciences students.\u00a0 Our institutional transition to a Guided Pathways approach in recent years has presented a number of challenges and opportunities related to integrative learning, and we are well on our way to developing the structures, policies, and procedures needed to deliver high-quality integrative learning options in the context of guided pathways.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to and overlapping with my integrative learning role, I served as Assessment Liaison, chaired an Assessment Taskforce, and was involved in the revision of our general education outcomes (including two years chairing our General Education Committee).\u00a0 I also served on our Achieving the Dream Data and Core Teams and chaired the workgroup that created the recommendation for our now-required First Quarter Experience.\u00a0 Because I apparently don’t like myself, I am now the co-lead negotiator for our faculty union (this is meant to be funny).<\/p>\n
I earned both my BA in Economics and MBA from Western Washington University, and have been teaching at Skagit Valley College since 2010. While there is little I enjoy more than spending time with my wife and our children, it is teaching and working with students on campus that motivates me to spend a significant amount of time engaging both formal and informal institutional structures to advocate for (and hopefully help facilitate) needed reforms over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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