Andrew N. Carpenter

About Andrew N. Carpenter

With over 30 years of teaching experience, I am an award-winning online educator and academic consultant who specializes in online education, organizational development, academic policy creation, continuous quality improvement, strategic planning, faculty development, and assessing institutions of higher learning, academic programs, and student learning. I have taught in multiple disciplines, including philosophy, business, criminal justice, education, human services, and nursing, and have received multiple awards for teaching excellence, such as the Bernard L. Turner Award and the Stephen Shank Recognition.As a contributing part-time faculty member at Walden University, I teach graduate classes and chair doctoral committees within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. I also collaborate with other subject matter experts and instructional designers to write, review, and assess competency-based course materials for Western Governors University. Additionally, I mentor aspiring and current professors at The Babb Group, Inc. and serve as an associate at Academe Group. My mission is to affirm the ideals of honesty, integrity, and the human potential for moral and intellectual growth, and to empower learners and educators to achieve their academic and professional goals.

Experience

1. Professor Mentor

   The Babb Group, Inc

   Feb 2015 — Present

   During my thirty year career in academia, I have taught in multiple disciplines including philosophy, business, criminal justice, education, human services, and nursing and have received multiple awards for teaching students from associate through doctoral levels. I have learned much about teaching and learning by working in part-time, full-time, and tenure-track faculty jobs within traditional and online institutions of higher learning. Likewise, my work as an academic leader-including chairing departments in multiple disciplines, directing a center of teaching and learning and serving as vice president of academic affairs and chief academic officer-has taught me much about academia, as has my work publishing and presenting scholarship, my work as accreditation evaluator, and my service to national and international teaching organizations and scholarly journals.As an educator, I abhor the tyranny of low expectations and embrace the power of combining high expectations with correspondingly high levels of academic support. In the classroom, I am relentlessly positive: I assume that each student can achieve sophisticated learning and can undergo significant intellectual growth, and I work hard encouraging my students in ways designed to inspire them to work harder and to learn a LOT in their classes.As a mentor, sharing my passion for high-quality online teaching and learning gives me great joy. If you are beginning to teach, I would be honored to help you to find your own “pedagogical voice” and teach you how to navigate through the thickets of academia. If you are an experienced educator seeking to “trade up” to better jobs, a full-time teaching career, or a career in higher education leadership, I would love to help you to plan how to flourish in your academic career. If you are intrigued by the idea – and idealism – of the adjunctpreneurial career path, I stand ready to provide honest and wise counsel.

Education

• University of Oxford

  B.Phil., Philosophy

  1988 — 1990

• University of California, Berkeley

  Ph.D., Philosophy

  1990 — 1998

• Amherst College

  B.A., Philosophy

  1984 — 1988

Skills

• E-Learning
• Scholarly Research
• Business Ethics
• Team Leadership
• Educational Leadership
• Environmental Ethics
• Curriculum Development
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Statistics
• Instructional Technology
• Active Learning
• Philosophy of Science
• Program Development
• Research
• Organizational Development
• Academic Writing
• Pedagogy
• Strategy
• Academia
• Training
• History of Philosophy
• Organizational Leadership
• University Teaching
• Faculty Development
• College Teaching
• Organizational Learning
• Academic Administration
• Philosophy of Religion
• Distance Learning
• Qualitative Research
• Curriculum Design
• Critical Thinking
• Medical Ethics
• Governance
• Accreditation
• Higher Education Policy
• Strategic Planning
• Leadership Development
• Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methodologies