Teaching
Preparing students to become thoughtful stewards of public and nonprofit institutions
A student may one day manage public funds, write a grant, advise a board, or shape an essential service. I organize my teaching around the analytical judgment, professional application, and accountability those responsibilities require.
Teaching framework
Three goals that build on one another
Students first develop analytical foundations, then use evidence to make professional decisions, and finally explain and defend those choices with others.
Build analytical foundations
Give students a strong command of institutions, concepts, and evidence before asking them to evaluate public and nonprofit decisions.
Apply knowledge to professional judgment
Use staged projects, data workshops, cases, and presentations so students practice making and defending evidence-based choices.
Cultivate ownership and accountability
Create clear expectations, meaningful flexibility, collaborative work, and space for students to ask questions and take responsibility for learning.
Instructor-of-record experience
Courses taught
My classroom experience combines independent course responsibility with deliberate revision based on student work, feedback, and learning objectives.
PA 3306: Advanced Research and Writing for the Policy Sciences
Spring 2025, Spring 2026
Theory, research design, evidence-based writing, descriptive analysis, presentations, posters, and independent policy research.
View syllabusPA 3310 / PSCI 3310: Managing Government Organizations
Fall 2025
Public administration, organizational behavior, ethics, leadership, public finance, performance, and program evaluation.
View syllabusEvidence of effectiveness
Student evaluations and course improvement
I use evaluations, pre-course surveys, midsemester feedback, student work, colleague observation, and my own assessment of course pacing to revise instruction.
Spring 2026
Advanced Research and Writing for the Policy Sciences
6/6 responses (100%)
Fall 2025
Managing Government Organizations
23/34 responses (68%)
Teaching range
Courses I am prepared to teach
My research and teaching background support nonprofit management and finance, public budgeting, program evaluation, and methods instruction.
Nonprofit Leadership and Financial Resilience
Students interpret Form 990s, identify financial warning signs, assess revenue and program choices, and advise leaders and boards when organizations become vulnerable.
Responsible AI for Public and Nonprofit Management
Examines innovation, efficiency, equity, bias, privacy, procurement, transparency, accountability, and human oversight through organizational cases.
Selected guest lectures
- Research Design in the Social and Policy Sciences - quantitative foundations, data preparation, and descriptive statistics
- Grant Writing and Management - responsible use of generative AI and LLMs in nonprofit grant writing
- Leadership, Democracy, and Ethics - ethical leadership, moral reasoning, and decision-making under pressure
Mentoring
From a first question to a professional milestone
At the graduate level, I want to help MPA and doctoral students develop independent projects into papers, posters, conference presentations, manuscripts, or practitioner reports.
I treat a first manuscript or conference presentation as a formative professional milestone. Students can contribute to data construction, survey design, interview coding, and collaborative research when their interests and contributions align, with coauthorship when warranted.
Public Affairs Playbook
Interactive learning tools
Small, optional games translate nonprofit finance, budgeting, and research concepts into quick learning challenges.