Will Morgan is a national instructor for the High School of Business program and a retired Army Warrant Officer who specialized in budget management and managed a culturally diverse workforce of military and civilian employees all while being deployed to 4 different combat zones. Military highlights include winning the US Army Supply Excellency Award as unit supply sergeant and winning the same award for a Battalion size unit as a Warrant Officer. After the Army, Will worked in manufacturing at a Coca Cola bottling plant specializing in supply chain management, special projects operations, budget management and staffing large complex departments. Will later entered the world of academia as an instructor at Eastern High School (KY) and a part-time collegiate undergraduate and graduate level instructor with University of Phoenix and Spalding University. Will has instructed courses ranging from web design, German language, critical thinking, finance and marketing, to action research. Will utilizes his educational background which includes a bachelor's, master’s and doctoral work in management, seeking personal and professional improvement while sharing with others.
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Jeffrey C. Sun is Professor of Higher Education, Affiliate Professor of Law, Department Chair, and Project Director & Principal Investigator for the U.S. Department of Education’s Perkins funded project through the Kentucky Department of Education on Career & Technical Education, the U.S. Department of the Army’s Master Educator Course (formerly Cadre & Faculty Development Course), the U.S. Department of Labor Veterans Accelerated Learning for Licensed Occupations with the Kentucky Science and Technology Center.
At Louisville, Dr. Sun established the university’s first competency based education program, obtained more than $11 million in federally sourced grants and contracts, advanced new initiatives for career and technical education teachers, established a partnership with the U.S. Army on cadre/faculty development and NCO leadership development, and led projects that expanded his department enrollments over 25% within 3 years. He also serves as a member of the “Forward50”, which is a national thought-leadership group to advise Congress on the Higher Education Act.
Dr. Sun teaches and researches primarily in the areas of higher education law and policy. Dr. Sun’s research examines the extent to which policy instruments or other legal actions (e.g., government mandates, judicial decisions, and legally binding, negotiated agreements) advance or inhibit the academic operations through college teaching, learning, and knowledge creation. This stream rests heavily on concepts of civil rights and civil liberties and has been published in venues such as Cardoza Law Review, Education Law Reporter (Westlaw), Journal of College & University Law, Review of Higher Education, Teachers College Record, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Constitutional Law. In addition, Dr. Sun has four books.
Dr. Sun taught previously at the University of North Dakota, Teachers College of Columbia University, and New York University. Also, while at Teachers College, he served as the Director of Academic Administration.
Today, Dr. Sun serves on the Executive Committee for the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Finance/Budget Committee. Dr. Sun received a BBA and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University, a law degree (J.D.) from the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, and an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Jodi Adams
Through a partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, Jodi currently serves as the New Teacher Institute Director for Occupation-based Career and Technical Education teachers transitioning from business and industry to pursue teacher certification, as well as a Clinical Instructor for the University of Louisville. Prior to joining the university, Jodi worked as Career Pathways Branch Manager for the Kentucky Department of Education in the College and Career Readiness Division of the Office of Career and Technical Education, providing support and direction for the Career Pathway Program Consultants.
Jodi taught in Jefferson County Public Schools as a business education teacher at Eastern High School for seven years, gaining Business/Marketing 5-12 teacher certification through UofL’s Master of Arts in Teaching Alternative Certification program. Already a Card First, this experience solidified her love of the university and rooted her pedagogical classroom approach in ethical, reflective, scholarly instruction. While at Eastern, Jodi started the state’s first High School of Business™ program, where she was instrumental in developing dual credit opportunities and work based learning experiences for students. Prior to teaching, Jodi served as a School Administrative Manager at Jeffersontown Elementary for two years, giving her a fundamental understanding of education through the lens of a school administrator.
Her experiences prior to secondary education were rooted in higher education, working in recruitment and admissions efforts for adult education programs for five years, giving her the opportunity to teach as an adjunct instructor for Indiana Wesleyan University, IvyTech Community College and the University of Louisville, which created a desire to pursue education as a career. In her twenties, Jodi owned and operated a mail services franchise for eight years, learning the ins and outs of running a business, managing people and working with the general public in a retail setting.
As an educator, Jodi has offered over 100 presentations on a broad range of topics including teacher preparation, effective school based enterprises, creating dual credit opportunities for students, project management, micro-credentials, assignment choice, project-based learning, end of course assessments, instructional sequencing, building enrollment in a CTE program, and learning management systems. She is currently serving as a 2019 ECMC Foundation Postsecondary CTE Research Fellow through NC State University, where she is investigating nursing educator retention by examining nursing educator attributes, education, and performance as predictors to retention and differences that may exist between secondary and postsecondary educators. As she work towards the completion of her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development, she is humbled to be counted as a faculty member with the esteemed members of the College of Education and Human Development.
Norma Andrade
Certification Consultant
Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB)
Kentucky Department of Education
Michelle Jackson
Graduate Assistant and Doctoral Student
Department of Educational Leadership and Organizational Development
University of Louisville