2017 Teaching Initiative Award Winner

Tina Thompson, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Florida State University (2013)
Assistant Professor, College of Business

Teaching Philosophy

One cannot separate the cognitive, the emotional, and the spiritual components of the person and so it is with teaching.

My motivation to become a college professor

Having exceptional professors and not-so-exceptional professors helped me to realize the academic community needs people who will work tirelessly to excel at their job performance, who care genuinely about the well-being of their students, and who seek to improve the reputation of their institutions.

I want to continue to improve my teaching in the following ways

I want to continue to encourage my students to participate in class by helping them to understand that doing so is practice for participating in business meetings.

The most rewarding aspect of teaching for me

The most rewarding aspect of teaching is seeing my students grow. I love to see a student who rarely spoke become a student who is confident with sharing his/her ideas.

photo of Tina Thompson — “I love to see a student who rarely spoke in my class become a student who is confident with sharing his/her ideas.”