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Dr. Vernon C. Smith is Dean of Instruction at Rio Salado College. He has an extensive background in organizational effectiveness including strategic planning and change. He served fifteen years as Chair for Foreign Languages and as Faculty Senate President from 1999-2002. He developed distance learning courses and programs as a pioneer in online language learning. He created Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic courses and programs that are considered best practices for online language acquisition. Smith earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Latin American Studies and Spanish at Brigham Young University (Magna Cum Laude), a Master of Organizational Behavior from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Organization and Administration of Higher Education from the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The University of Arizona. In addition to accountability, teaching and learning, his research interests include academic capitalism, adjunct faculty issues, the future of higher education, and the unbundling and rebundling of the faculty role in online courses.
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