Celebrating Our January OA: CD Faculty Cohort!

Whether teaching asynchronously, in a hybrid format, or in-person, faculty apply Backward Design and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to design engaging, high-quality learning experiences. Now in its fifth year, this program has been consistently updated to reflect best practices.

Offered twice a year, during the January Intercession and over summer, OA:CD features daily assignments, live optional workshops, and collaborative small group cohorts led by FCPE Instructional Designers. Participants who achieve an 85% or higher earn a certificate backed by Accredible, demonstrating their commitment to excellence in course design.

Today, we celebrate four outstanding faculty members who successfully completed OA:CD in January. Let’s meet them and learn about their research, teaching experiences, and why they chose to take part in the Online Academy.

Christopher Davis

Assistant Professor of History | African, Black and Caribbean Studies | College of Arts and Sciences 

Dr. Davis earned his doctorate in Atlantic History from Florida International University in Miami, FL, in 2018. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he also received his Bachelor’s in History from CUNY-Hunter College in 2012, where he was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and a Mellon Mays Fellow. Dr. Davis has previously been a visiting instructor at Florida Atlantic University and an adjunct lecturer at St. Elizabeth University. Davis’s research focuses on Race, Identity, Migration, Citizenship, Eugenics, and Intellectual Circuits within American, African American, Caribbean, and Immigration histories. His primary research project examines the spread of racial science in the Anglophone Atlantic World, analyzing how eugenic ideas originating from America and England sought to disrupt the anti-colonial movement in the British Caribbean. Recent courses taught by Dr. Davis include African American Studies, Black History in the US to 1865, Black History in the US from 1865 to the Present, The Civil Rights Movement, Elements of Black Culture, the History of the African Diaspora, and the History of Racial Science. Dr. Davis consistently seeks to innovate and implement new methods to collaborate effectively with faculty, students, and staff to enhance research, teaching, and university programming.

Patricia Donohue-Porter

Director of the PhD in Nursing Program | Vera Bender Professor of Nursing | College of Nursing and Public Health

Dr. Donohue-Porter is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Nursing. The courses she teaches include Philosophical Foundations of Nursing Science as well as several higher education leadership and research courses in the nursing education concentration of the PhD program. Donohue-Porter serves as PhD dissertation chair to PhD candidates and her research interests and publications include the humanities’ influence on caring in nursing, courage and compassion, as well as patient safety. Because the PhD in Nursing program prepares future nursing faculty, best practices in remote education through the Online Academy of the FCPE are important, not only as the teaching modality of PhD classes but in preparing future nursing faculty in excellence in remote pedagogy.

Yue Han

Associate Professor | Decision Sciences and Marketing Department | Robert B. Willumstad School of Business

Dr. Han teaches analytical and statistical modeling, applied machine learning, and text analytics. Dr. Han’s main research areas include crowdsourcing, knowledge reuse for innovation, and information diffusion in social media. She also studies the implementation of business intelligence and artificial intelligence. Dr. Han has published papers in prestigious journals and conferences, such as Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Information Systems Frontiers, International Conference on Information Systems, and ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. The OA session provided Dr. Han with a systematic view of online course design and helped her better develop her courses. 

Stavroula Kyriakakis

Professor | School of Social Work

Dr. Kyriakakis, with expertise in gender-based violence and global social work, most recently conducted a research study evaluating a domestic violence agency network that assists Jewish survivors of domestic violence in New York City. At Adelphi’s School of Social Work, Dr. Kyriakakis teaches in the MSW and PhD Programs. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer in the International Social Work Program at Fulda University of Applied Sciences in Germany. During her sabbatical last year, Dr. Kyriakakis designed and taught a course for this program, International Perspective on Gender Based Violence, and has been invited to teach the course again, this time fully online.  Dr. Kyriakakis attended the Online Academy in January to assist her in adapting this course to a fully online format.  With her newly acquired Online Academy training, she looks forward to teaching regularly in the OMSW program at Adelphi next year.    

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