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Ina Midkiff
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EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
I earned an MBA in Finance and
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION
Professor of
In my current position, as a Professor of Marketing, I teach a broad range of Marketing classes. I also coordinate the open campus Marketing and Advertising courses, I provide students with advising services, participate in instructional program development, assist with registration, serve on college committees, participate in professional development, mentor new faculty, and train them in teaching techniques. As the Assistant Department Head, I provide leadership in developing, evaluating and maintaining a curriculum that responds to local workforce and community needs.
Why do I teach? As a teacher my task is to help students discover and develop their own talents. There must be a proper balance between education for both quality and quantity of life. I accomplish this by preparing my students to work in professions in which technical knowledge is increasing at an exponential rate and thinking skills are as important as technical ones. It is never my intention to make my students feel as though I have power over them, rather power with them. We have a partnership. The students' success is my success therefore; I am in a unique position of succeeding many times over through each of my student's successes.
PAST ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION
Division Chair Business/Technology at the Northridge Campus of
My leadership and managerial responsibilities were numerous: budget authority for approximately 3.5 million dollars, served as the administrative officer of the division, approved teaching assignments, assisted in grant projects, wrote division technology plan, helped maintain/develop/evaluate course curricula, reviewed task force/advisory committees, maintained appropriate records, assisted in development of articulation agreements, implemented academic policies, supervised full and part-time faculty, and planned facilities and space needs for future needs.
For the workforce areas our customers were the community, businesses, and individual students. Continuous improvement was an integral part of our day-to-day operations.
PAST POSITIONS
I was an Associate Professor of Management and Economics Amarillo College
before moving to Austin in 1988. I taught at Cisco Jr. College in 1976-1977. I worked
in the private sector and I also had a consulting company specializing in small
business management and organizational restructuring as well as providing
seminars on motivation and managerial topics.
PERSONAL RECOGNITION
In August of 2008 I received the Business Division “Outstanding
Professor for 2008” award. I received the ACC Teaching Excellence Award for the
outstanding full-time faculty member (2004-2005) of the year in May 2005. I was
the 2002 Piper Professor Nominee from Austin Community College. The
Teaching Awards Committee that is made up entirely by full-time faculty selected
me for this award. This organization identifies and honors effective and
dedicated teachers. In the spring, 1998, I was nominated for the ACC Teaching
Excellence Award. I was one of the first Recipients (1991) of the NISOD
Teaching Excellence Award at ACC. This was the first year ACC
participated. I was selected by the President (Roland Smith) to train in the
Leaders program for community college female administrators under the direction
of Carolyn DesJarjines. I have been nominated 6 times
as the outstanding full-time instructor at ACC by the Phi Theta Kappa student
association. I was a Faculty Senate Officer in 1993-94.
INDUSTRY ADVISORY COMMITTEES
I serve on the
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Southwestern Federation of Administrative Disciplines in College Management = SWFAD is the organization for my discipline, management, and finance.
- Texas Community College Teachers Association = TCCTA is the organization that represents community colleges in Texas.
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