Augusta University - Languages
Higher Education Leader / French Literature Professor with passion for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Higher Education
E. Nicole
MEYER, Ph.D.
United States
Hello, I’m Dr. Meyer, and I am pleased to share my extensive experience in curriculum development and student success in Higher Education. I’ve helped my colleges and universities streamline administrative processes, create strategic budgeting plans, and lead campus wide efforts to increase student engagement and enrollment.
During my career, I’ve also developed a passion for ensuring organizational success by leading cross-functional teams to increase departmental efficiency, retention, and degree-attainment.
In addition to the work I’ve done as a Professor of French Literature, and as Department Chair for English and Foreign Languages, I’ve had a proven history in:
• Budget Management
• Student Recruiting and Advising
• Community Outreach and Engagement
• Faculty Hiring & Mentoring
• Conference Presentations
• Editing & Assessments
I truly enjoy developing effective ways to solve problems and big picture planning, especially surrounding student success. My passion is in observing and executing appropriate, relevant opportunities to increase student outcomes, while leading teams to new levels of achievement.
National Roles: Editor, Rocky Mountain Review; nominated Vice-President, Women in French, Chair, National Commission of French for Specific Purposes, American Association of Teachers of French; Invited member, American Association of Teachers of French National French Standards Task Force
Interests: French and Francophone Contemporary Women's Autobiographies, French for Specific Purposes (French for Health and Medical Professions, Business French), Interdisciplinary Humanities: Fractured Families, Questions of Race and Ethnicity, Israeli Post-1950 Life Writing; National Standards Assessment, Course Development, Process Improvement.
Languages: French and English - Reading knowledge: German, Italian, and Russian
Professor of French, Humanistic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies
Encouraged student learning, retention, and development through effective course planning, course scheduling, and the selection of educational resources, for French department. Instrumental in the design of entire French department curriculum, oversaw the periodic review of course materials and syllabi for French and for the Modern Languages as required.
Coordinator and Advisor, French
Worked closely with students to ensure academic success through proper course selection and encouraging campus involvement. Served as French Club advisor and arranging of French cultural programming (concerts, theater events, etc.).
Department Chair, Modern Languages
Promoted growth and importance of department faculty to remain active in their fields by attending regional, national, and international conferences; searching for grants and fellowships, presenting their research before their peers, and assisting them as needed in bringing their research to published form.
Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies
Teach courses in undergraduate program in Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; most recently taught cross-listed French and Women's and Gender Studies courses, French for Health and Medical Professions, French language courses, and an Inquiry course on the Multicultural Aspects of Food. Direct and promote student engagement in local and global communities and its infusion into learning, research, and vision across the university.
University Service
Augusta University Faculty Senate Dispute Resolution and Grievance Committee, 2018-2021
Augusta University Faculty Senate Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee, 2018-2021
Curriculum Mapping Team, Foreign Languages, 2016-present
Faculty Research and Development Committee, EFL, Augusta University, 2019-present
Invited Evaluator, Scholars of Teaching and Learning Fellows, Augusta University, Fall 2017-present
Co-advisor, French Club, Le Cercle Français, Augusta University.
Lyceum Planning Committee, Maxwell Theatre, Fall 2014 – present
Department Chair, English and Foreign Languages (EFL)
Partnered closely with Dean of Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in the overall management, planning and daily operations of a multidisciplinary academic department with a budget of $2.45M. Supervised diverse team of 35 full-time faculty members, 10 part-time faculty members and 3 full-time administrative assistants. Collaborated with faculty to create approved course material that includes targeted course objectives and learning outcomes.
Key Contributions
Directed evaluations of tenured and non-tenured faculty members, including the pre-tenure review and the Third-year tenure review, including drafting required departmental assessment reports and documentation.
Submitted requests to hire tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as full-time adjuncts, including reviewing and suggesting grant and fellowship opportunities for interested research faculty.
Ph.D.
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
M. A.
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Business Administration and Management, General
Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies
Teach courses in undergraduate program in Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; most recently taught cross-listed French and Women's and Gender Studies courses, French for Health and Medical Professions, French language courses, and an Inquiry course on the Multicultural Aspects of Food. Direct and promote student engagement in local and global communities and its infusion into learning, research, and vision across the university.
University Service
Augusta University Faculty Senate Dispute Resolution and Grievance Committee, 2018-2021
Augusta University Faculty Senate Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee, 2018-2021
Curriculum Mapping Team, Foreign Languages, 2016-present
Faculty Research and Development Committee, EFL, Augusta University, 2019-present
Invited Evaluator, Scholars of Teaching and Learning Fellows, Augusta University, Fall 2017-present
Co-advisor, French Club, Le Cercle Français, Augusta University.
Lyceum Planning Committee, Maxwell Theatre, Fall 2014 – present
Department Chair, English and Foreign Languages (EFL)
Partnered closely with Dean of Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in the overall management, planning and daily operations of a multidisciplinary academic department with a budget of $2.45M. Supervised diverse team of 35 full-time faculty members, 10 part-time faculty members and 3 full-time administrative assistants. Collaborated with faculty to create approved course material that includes targeted course objectives and learning outcomes.
Key Contributions
Directed evaluations of tenured and non-tenured faculty members, including the pre-tenure review and the Third-year tenure review, including drafting required departmental assessment reports and documentation.
Submitted requests to hire tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as full-time adjuncts, including reviewing and suggesting grant and fellowship opportunities for interested research faculty.
Routledge
This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Focusing on how women writing in French are changing the face of French Studies, opening the canon to not only new approaches to gender but to genre, expanding interdisciplinary studies and aiding scholars to rethink the teaching of literature, each chapter provides concrete strategies useful to a wide variety of classrooms and institutional contexts. Essays address how to bring French Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies into the 21st century through intersections of autobiography, gender issues and technology; ways to introduce beginning and intermediate students to the rich diversity of women writing in French; strategies for teaching postcolonial writing and literary theory; and interdisciplinary approaches to expand our student audiences in the United States, Canada, or abroad. In short, revisiting how we teach, why we teach and what we teach through the prism of women’s texts and lives while raising issues that affect cisgender women of the Hexagon, queer and other-gendered women, immigrants and residents of the postcolony attracts more openly diverse students. Whether new to the profession or seasoned educators, faculty will find new ideas to invigorate and diversify their pedagogical approaches. Available for pre-order ! https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-the-French-Classroom-New-Approaches-to-Teaching-Contemporary/Meyer-Johnston/p/book/9780367023461 978-1-13-836993-1. 978-0-36702346-1
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