Faculty Advisor Program
The MyPoliSciLab Faculty Advisor Program is a peer-to-peer mentoring program that partners experienced MyPoliSciLab users with new and potential users to further enhance their knowledge, skill and understanding of how to successfully integrate MyPoliSciLab in the classroom. Our Faculty Advisors (FAs) are committed to advancing the support for online learning and sharing their best practices with the MyPoliSciLab community.
Meet Our Faculty Advisors
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- Jim Hissong
- Adjunct Instructor of Political Science
Western Wyoming Community College and Northern Wyoming Community College
MyPoliSciLab - I have an M.A. in American Politics/Public Administration from the University of Utah. My thesis is entitled “Abandonment of the Tenth Amendment: Dysfunctional Federalism in American Politics”. If you understand the title, you have a clue to my decidedly libertarian nature. I have a second M.A. in American History. My expertise is the Founding Period and the Civil War. I have 25 years classroom experience at the high school level and have been an adjunct instructor for Western Wyoming Community College for 23 years and four years for Northern Wyoming Community College District. I have been an online facilitator for twelve years and have a Certification as Online Instructor and Developer of Online Curriculum. I also have a Quality Matters certification and am a peer reviewer of online courses nationwide. I am a James Madison Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. I have represented numerous interest groups as a lobbyist in the Wyoming legislature.I am an unabashed, passionate lover of the American political system at national, state, and local levels.
- Many students come to American and Wyoming Government with preconceived notions and a large dollop of cynicism about politics and politicians. I accept the challenge to convince them to suspend their political attitudes long enough to become both knowledgeable about the political culture that is the foundation of our republic/state and analytical about the resulting system of governance.
- I live in Mountain View, Wyoming with my wife, Susan and our golden retriever, Bo. Our two sons are finishing their educations at the University of Wyoming. My boys and I often find ourselves practicing our religion whipping the waters with a WF5F line terminated by a dry fly seeking to rip the lips of a big trout.
- Courses taught: American and Wyoming Government
- Course format: Online
- Book in use: O’Connor, Sabato, and Yanus, Essentials of American Government: Roots and Reform
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- Mitchel Sollenberger
- Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Michigan-Dearborn
MyPoliSciLab - Courses taught: Introduction to American Government
- Course format: Traditional
- Book in use: Shea, Green, and Smith, Living Democracy, Brief National Edition
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- Jeremy Walling
- Associate Professor of Political Science
Southeast Missouri State University, MO
MyPoliSciLab - U.S. Political Systems is one of many courses undergoing redesign at
our university. We chose to use MyPoliSciLab because it was the best
product available to fit our needs. - › Read Jeremy's full Success Story profile (PDF)
- Courses taught: United States Political Systems
- Course format: Traditional; Fully Online
- Book in use: Understanding American Politics and Government by Coleman
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- Laura Wood
- Professor of History and Government
Tarrant County College, Northwest
MyPoliSciLab, MyHistoryLab - As an award-winning instructor at Tarrant County College for over 20 years, I teach four different courses each semester in three different formats in a total of seven classes: on campus, dual-credit two-way interactive television, and online, and I incorporate technology extensively into my classrooms.
- My courses include World Civilizations I and II, United States History to 1876, United States History Since 1877, and U.S. Government. In the past I have team taught an Honors Western Civilizations I course, developed a course focusing upon America and World War II, and team taught a World Civilizations/Interpersonal Communications travel course to the Salzburg Global Seminar. I have taught in the Honors Program and developed year-long projects for our students, such as directing the construction of an on-campus war memorial. With my background in European history, International Relations and Military History, I teach American history and politics in a global context.
- I also work as a developer of various teaching pedagogy for textbook publishers, write online interactive historical simulations, and train other faculty how to successfully incorporate technology into their teaching styles. Also, I use new technologies to create innovative assignments that foster student interest in history, historical analysis, and global perspectives.
- In 2001 I was awarded my district's Chancellor's Award for Exemplary Teaching as well as chosen as a Minnie Stevens' Piper Professor for the State of Texas. I have also been a nominee for the U.S. Professor of the Year, named to Who's Who Among American College Professors for twelve years, and served for twelve years as department chair.
- As part of my research and teaching, I have participated in the Salzburg Global Seminar, been chosen as a Freeman Fellow, and participated in the NEH Summer Seminar in Rome. In 2010 I received an NEH Teaching Development Fellowship to create an online interactive teaching website and database that incorporates world history, war memorials and military cemeteries to teach about public memory and commemorations across time and place.
- Courses taught: U.S. Government (at this time)
- Course format: Traditional, Online and Hybrid
- Book in use: O'Connor & Sabato, U.S. Government Roots and Reform
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