Concord University - English
Visiting Instructor of Developmental English
Engl101L: Composition 1 (ALP)
Adjunct English Instructor
ENGL 98: Basic Grammar and Reading
ENGL101L: ALP Composition 1
Online Instructional Specialist
Responsibilities include:
-Providing Blackboard/Moodle support and training to faculty and students.
-Troubleshooting student and faculty issues in the online environment.
-Creating Blackboard classes and copying content for instructors.
-Running and uploading Argos reports to batch create individual usernames in Blackboard.
-Running and uploading Argos reports to batch enroll Blackboard students and faculty.
-Adjusting purged and dropped students' availability settings.
-Generating usable test banks for faculty (Blackboard/Respondus).
-MyLab training, course creation, and LMS integration.
-Troubleshooting Turnitin/Safe Assign related issues.
-Peer mentoring new instructors.
-Assisting with the organization of the 3rd Biennial Regional Technology Conference.
Currently training on Moodle and video editing.
Adjunct English Instructor
ENGL101C: Grammar, Composition, and Rhetoric
Adjunct English Instructor
ENGL 1013: Introduction to the Writing Process
ENGL 1023: Argumentative and Analytical Writing
Assistant Professor of English
Adrian worked at Bluefield College as a Assistant Professor of English
Visiting Instructor of Developmental English
College Activities
- Course development
- Course assessment
- Recorder for the Transformation of Developmental Education Subcommittee
- Recorder for the Quality Matters Subcommittee
- Leader for the Online/Hybrid group (within the Distance Education Oversight Committee)
- Adjunct Appreciation Committee
- Criterion III Subcommittee
- Criterion IV Subcommittee
- International Committee
- Values Committee
- Faculty Adviser for the Model United Nations Club
- Book Club
- Awards Banquet Committee
- Presenter in Learning Community Workshops
- Presenter at 2 Faculty Institutes
- One of 3 faculty members that started/presented a grassroots “Early Intervention” project to reach out to at-risk students, improve retention rates, and bridge the gap in interdepartmental communication,
- Composed the common final Developmental Writing Rubric and Prompts (2012)
- Organized common course assessment measures in Developmental English (2012)
- Piloted the first Pearson MyLab courses on campus
- Piloted the first Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) in English (with another instructor)
- Piloted the first online developmental classes: Integrated Reading/Writing and ALP English
- Copies of my classes are being used by others, and I’ve helped train many instructors on the software.
Professional Meetings and Conferences
- NMUN Conference- New York, April 2012
- WVADE- Stonewall Jackson Resort, Oct. 24-25 2012
- National Model United Nations Conference Oct. 26-28 2012- Washington DC
- WVADE- Tamarack, Nov. 2012
- National Model United Nations Conference 2013- Charlotte NC
- Session Chair- Faculty Academy, May 2013
- Developmental Education Summit, Stonewall Jackson Resort, June 5-7, 2013
- Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education, Baltimore, MD, June 12-14, 2013
- Complete College America- Morgantown WV Jan 9-10, 2014
- SCALE Training-Ghent, WV June 2014
- HLC Assessment Academy: Results Forum- Chicago, IL, June 2015
Writing Tutor
Adrian worked at Brainfuse as a Writing Tutor
High School
Business/Nursing
Master’s Degree
Humanities/Humanistic Studies
Concentration in Literature/Cultural Studies
Bachelor’s Degree
Social Sciences
Concentration in Psychology
Visiting Instructor of Developmental English
Engl101L: Composition 1 (ALP)
Adjunct English Instructor
ENGL 98: Basic Grammar and Reading
ENGL101L: ALP Composition 1
Online Instructional Specialist
Responsibilities include:
-Providing Blackboard/Moodle support and training to faculty and students.
-Troubleshooting student and faculty issues in the online environment.
-Creating Blackboard classes and copying content for instructors.
-Running and uploading Argos reports to batch create individual usernames in Blackboard.
-Running and uploading Argos reports to batch enroll Blackboard students and faculty.
-Adjusting purged and dropped students' availability settings.
-Generating usable test banks for faculty (Blackboard/Respondus).
-MyLab training, course creation, and LMS integration.
-Troubleshooting Turnitin/Safe Assign related issues.
-Peer mentoring new instructors.
-Assisting with the organization of the 3rd Biennial Regional Technology Conference.
Currently training on Moodle and video editing.
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