Ken Wade

Ken Wade is currently Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary CORE Division with additional duties in the ITS (Information Technology Services) Division. He also teaches Web Page Design, Contemporary World History and numerous online Internet classes. Ken's co-curricular interests include languages, theater and the arts, and music.

Prior to traveling to Mumbai for the summer of 2005, Ken spent over three summers teaching for Champlain College in Israel. As part of Champlain's international program, selected business and technology degrees are offered on-site in Mumbai, and Ken is the second Champlain professor to teach at this overseas campus.

Dr. Gary Scudder

Dr. Gary Scudder, Professor of History and Director of the Global Modules Program at Champlain College, traveled to India in June of 2004 for the summer semester and was the first Champlain professor to teach at the Champlain College Mumbai campus.

In addition to teaching history courses and working with faculty in Mumbai, Scudder also set up the mechanics for future student and faculty exchanges. He also further developed plans to share class projects between Burlington and international students using Champlain’s online capabilities. Since 2003, Scudder has facilitated online class discussions between students at different international universities – by spring 2008 semester the program had grown to include over ten countries and a thousand students.  Professors at the Mumbai campus have played a key role since the program’s inception.

Jim Ellefson

Jim Ellefson has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Before coming to Champlain, he taught writing and literature at Shanghai International Studies University and the Universidade Dos Acores. Jim was the “Poet-In-Residence” on the Mumbai campus in 2006. He regaled the graduation ceremony with a reading of his Dog Benediction.

He has well over one hundred poems published throughout the United States, and others in Canada, Great Britain, France, and Japan. He has also published short fiction, reviews and a chapter of a children’s novel. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he received an International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review for his poem “Walt Whitman Shows Up for Dinner.”

K.P. Anuradha

K.P. Anuradha likes to simply be called “Anuradha.”  She is the Hospitality Program director on the Mumbai campus and has been so for the past three years. She holds a M.Sc. in International Hotel Management from the University of Buckingham (no, she didn’t live in the palace) and a B.SC in nutrition, food service management and dietetics from Queen Mary’s College (and no, she didn’t sail on the ship). She also earned a post-graduate diploma in Public Relations. She is certified by the AH&LA as a hospitality educator. Anuradha also has solid industry experience with 3 and 4 star hotels in India.

Anuradha spent the fall semester on the Burlington campus where she taught both Hospitality and Management courses as part of our India campus faculty exchange. She ran the Boardroom Cafe while there and delighted staff and students alike with such Indian favorites as batata vada and dal.

When asked what advice she would give a potential exchange student, she offered: “Experience a new world, culture, and people. This will help you to adjust better to the corporate world.”