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Rupen Shah

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Rob Shah

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Regina Singletary

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Anie Sklar

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Anie Sklar has been a Champlain College Online Adjunct Faculty since 2008. Anie’s classrooms emphasize self-reflection and applying topics to real life experiences. Some of Anie’s favorite comments from students are times when students’ real life personal and professional relationships improved because of what they learned in class. And students saying they appreciate Anie’s active engagement in class discussions resulting in them feeling heard, getting valuable feedback and resources, and saying they feel cared about which makes students want to care too. Anie’s teaching is always evolving including finding ways to incorporate appreciative inquiry strategies into her classroom. Increasing student engagement and identifying ways to help students thrive, excel and enable them to flourish.

Anie Sklar is a Vermont licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Therapist. For more information checkout her website at https://ottercreekcounseling.com/ There are similarities between Anie’s positive psychology approach with clients and the appreciative inquiry approach at Champlain College. Both focus on people’s strengths and successes.

Anie has been teaching bachelor level college classes since 2003. Courses include Introduction to Psychology and Interpersonal Communication.

Distinctions & Awards

Anie Sklar was the first Adjunct Faculty featured in the Champlain Online Faculty Newsletter. She has also been nominated multiple times for her Teaching Excellence at Vermont State Colleges.

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Aubrian Smith

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Elaine St. Jean

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Elaine holds a Master of Science in Leadership and a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Development and has worked in the training and talent development field for over 25 years. She is passionate about developing innovative and effective learning opportunities which utilize adult learning theory, brain science, and proven training methodologies. She enjoys sailing, kayaking, hiking, and is involved in community theater.

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Holly Steeves

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Holly Steeves worked for more than twenty-six years as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before retiring at the end of 2021. She began her career in the Los Angeles Division working multi-million-dollar financial crimes, before transferring to the Boston Division where she began her journey into the work of cybercriminal activity. Working cybercrime launched her focus into digital forensics and lead to her obtaining FBI Digital Forensic Certification(s) (as well as numerous others) and the title of Special Agent ““ (Digital) Forensic Examiner. She spent the last fifteen years of her career in this role as well as the role of Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) Coordinator, responsible for running a small computer forensic laboratory. She now works as a Digital Forensics Consultant and teaches for a forensic software company.

Distinctions & Awards

The United State Attorney Director’s Award for Superior Performance

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Laura Stevens

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Dr. Laura L. Stevens has been active in higher education for over 20 years and has developed content for traditional, blended/hybrid, weekend, and online courses for the Social Sciences/Humanities. Her areas of focus include Humanities (Intro), Communications, Fine Arts, World Religions/Global Mythologies, and Art History. She has developed curriculum and assessments (as well as faculty training) with publishers to create e-Content and textbook support materials.

Her personal philosophy is “Success is measured by the quality of experience that makes you the person of your fullest potential.”

Distinctions & Awards

• F.A.T.E. Conference 2015
• Tablets to Twitter, Pearson Publishing Inc. New York, 2013
• Developing Outcomes, Praxis Conference, Argosy University, Tampa, 2012
• Faculty Perceptions of Online Rating Systems, Argosy University, 2011
• Vietnam Veteran War Memorial, “The Wall that Heals” exhibit, 2010

Publications & Abstracts

Faculty Front Door

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

• IACBE
• Quality Matters

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis
• The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
• The Trotula, ed. Monica Green

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David Stever

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David Stever is a mission-led business leader and brand-builder. For over 25 years at the senior executive level, he has continuously driven growth in the consumer-packaged goods sector, culminating in his role as CEO of Ben & Jerry’s. As both a CEO and long-serving CMO, David led the global organization through transformative growth while expanding the brands impact. This growth was driven through meticulous attention to product innovation, commitment to brand reinvention, and a focus on maintaining the unique organizational culture of one of the most iconic, beloved, and counter-cultural brands in the world.

Prior to becoming CEO, David served as CMO of Ben & Jerry’s. Under his leadership, Ben & Jerry’s became the #1 brand in its category for brand power, digital commerce, and Gen Z affinity. He scaled global marketing, innovation, digital engagement, and public relations, creating breakthrough campaigns that earned 17B impressions in 2022 and “Genius” status in Gartner’s L2 Digital IQ index. In 2020, David received the Social Responsibility Award from the CMO Club.

A defining characteristic of David’s leadership has been a steadfast focus on organizational culture and mission. The successes noted here come from a commitment to creating a powerful team: to nurture creativity, encourage entrepreneurial spirit, and drive innovation while striving for ways to create real impact. This work bridging commercial success and values-led stewardship positions him uniquely to serve companies at the intersection of profit and purpose. He holds a Master of Science in Administration from Saint Michael’s College and a BA from the University of Vermont.

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Todd Strunce

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Todd Strunce is a dynamic Information Security Professional with 30+ years solid experience in Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, eDiscovery, Vulnerability Assessments, Security Orchestration Automation Response (SOAR) and customer service with a strong expansive security skill set who aims to respond to new challenges within the security enterprise. As an adjunct professor he enjoys teaching classes related to Cyber Security and Information Technology for the graduate level to give back to the next generation of students to become successful in their careers.

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Rebecca Swem

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Becky earned her BS in English and Psychology from SUNY Plattsburgh and an MST from SUNY Potsdam. After teaching middle school for three years, Becky returned to SUNY Plattsburgh to earn her MS in Higher Education and Student Affairs Counseling. Becky then worked at a university LGBTQ center providing student support, training, and event programming. Joining CCO in 2019, Becky first served as an academic advisor before moving into admissions. She is committed to helping students with their education goals, and providing support. In her free time, Becky enjoys hiking, reading, and spending time with family and friends.

What are your hobbies?

Hiking, reading, petting dogs

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Helen Tanona

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Tiffany Taves

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Tiffany has spent 30++ years in the field of education, establishing academic programs, institutional policy, and procedure, designing curriculum, faculty development, and instructing classes. In that time, she has worked to help institutions and organizations understand strategies to continue growth and expansion. She has extensive leadership experience in relationship and team building; hiring professional, sales and technical staff; strategic planning; change management, systems, and policy; implementing budget performance and accountability systems; and creating effective professional development programs.
In her time teaching at the college level, she has had the pleasure of teaching at Quincy College, Massasoit Community College and the Boston Architectural College where she taught Writing 1 (Expository Writing), Writing 2 (Research Writing), Introduction to Literature, American Literature, British Literature, Western Civilization, Shakespeare, and the first-year seminar for entering architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture students. At Champlain College Online, she has taught: CREW I (Writing 1), CREW II (Writing 2), Writing in the Workplace, Introduction to Literature, Shakespeare, Introduction to Fiction, Rhetoric: Using Evidence from Sources, The Writing Process, and Survey of Fiction. She has also been a subject matter expert (SME) for several courses where she created curriculum based on learning objectives, collaborated with other faculty and content administrators to ensure the best implementation of the product, and created engaging and integrative curricula or assessment to keep students engaged and improve student outcomes.

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MaryEllen Tedesco

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Trellany ThomasEvans

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