BRITTANY L ADAMS-POPE Home Work 2810 Wareham Road Harry Frazier Hall, W112 Louisville, KY 40242 College of Business, Louisville, KY 40292 706.714.1227 502.852.7072 Bladams12@gmail.com brittany.adamspope@louisville.edu EDUCATION The, Gainesville, Florida Doctorate of Philosophy 2013 Major: Agricultural Education and Communication Specialization: Leadership Development Dissertation Title: Using horses to teach authentic leadership skills to at-risk youth The University of Georgia, Athens, GA Master of Science in Agricultural Leadership Development 2010 The University of Georgia, Athens, GA Bachelor of Science in Psychology 2007 The University of Georgia, Athens, GA Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in Animal Science 2007 Specialization: Equine Management PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor Equine Industry Program College of Business University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 2013-Present Post-Doctoral Researcher Fall 2013 Doctoral Teaching/Research Assistant, Gainesville, Florida 2010 2013 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Equine Management, EQIN 101 Brittany L Adams-Pope, Curriculum Vita 1
Introduction to the Equine Industry, EQIN 202 Industry Speaker Series, EQIN 206 (co-instructor), Gainesville, FL Effective Oral Communication, AEC 3030C Soft Skills Seminar, AEC 4905 (co-instructor) CALS Honors Orientation, ALS 3923 Teaching Assistant Leadership Development, AEC 3414 Effective Oral Communication, AEC 3030C Leadership Development, AEC 3414 (Distance) Leading Personal and Organizational Change, AEC 4417 University of Georgia, Athens, GA Teaching Assistant Pleasure Horse Management, ADSC 2630 Horse Production and Management, ADSC 3630 GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING Tommie Welcher, New Admit, MBA Program SUMMARY OF TEACHING EVALUATIONS University of Louisville Course Term # of Students Required Instructor Department College Instructor Course Instructor Instructor EQIN 101 F 14 16/39 YES & NO 4.25 4.44 4.54 4.36 EQIN 206 F 14 8/20 NO 4.63 4.50 4.52 4.33 Course Term # of Students Required Instructor Department College Instructor Course Instructor Instructor ALS 3923 F 10 20/22 YES 4.64 4.78 4.54 4.36 S 11 17/20 YES 4.12 4.18 4.41 4.41 F 11 11/16 YES 4.73 4.73 4.52 4.29 AEC 3030C Su 12 4/9 YES 4.33 4.58 4.52 4.33 F 12 147/201 YES 4.75 4.75 4.59 4.30 S 13 67/165 YES 4.57 4.57 4.48 4.30 Brittany L Adams-Pope, Curriculum Vita 2
GUEST LECTURES Effective Oral Communication-AEC 3030C Summer 2012 Leadership and Communication Leading Personal and Organizational Change-AEC 4417 Spring 2012 Social Change Model Research and Business Writing-AEC 3033 Summer 2011 Leadership and Writing, Finding your Style Leadership Development-AEC 3414 Fall 2010 Effective Teambuilding REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Adams-Pope, B. L. and Stedman, N. L. P. (2014). Horses and at-risk youth: An equine facilitated learning program focusing on authentic leadership skill development. Journal of Youth Development, 9 (4), pp.89-100. Stedman, N. L. P. and Adams, B. L. (2014). Getting it to click: Self-perceived critical thinking style and perceptions of critical instruction in face-to-face and online course delivery. NACTA Journal, 58 (3), pp. 236-243. Adams, B. L., Cain, H.R., & Stedman, N. L. P. (2012). Leadership, motivation, and teamwork behaviors of principal Investigator s in interdisciplinary teams: A synthesis of research. Journal of Leadership Education, 11(2), pp. 176-191. Cain, H. R., Giraud, V., Stedman, N. L. P., & Adams, B. L. (2012). Critical thinking skills evidenced in graduate students blogs. Journal of Leadership Education, 11(2), pp. 72-87. Stedman, N. L. P. and Adams, B. L. (2012) Identifying faculty s knowledge of critical thinking concepts and perceptions of critical thinking instruction in higher education. NACTA Journal, 56(2), pp. 9-14. REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Stedman, N., Adams-Pope, B.L. (July, 2013). You got the grant, now what? Understanding differences in leadership style and perceptions of teamwork by principle investigators. Proceedings of the 2013 Association of Leadership Educators Conference, New Orleans, LA. Stedman, N., Adams, B.L., and Kelly, H. (May, 2013). Getting it to click: Students self-perceived critical thinking style and perceptions of critical thinking instruction in face-to-face and online course delivery. Proceedings of the 2013 National American Association of Agricultural Education Conference, Columbus, OH. Stedman, N., Kelly, H., and Adams, B.L. (October, 2012). Critical thinking instruction: A comparison of face to face and online delivery. Proceedings of the 2012 Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, FL. Brittany L Adams-Pope, Curriculum Vita 3
Stedman, N. and Adams, B.L. (July, 2012). Are professors being critical? Student critical thinking style and perception of professor s critical thinking. Proceedings of the 2012 Association of Leadership Educators Annual Conference, Key West, FL. Stedman, N. and Adams, B.L. (July, 2011). Un-clouding reflection: Using word clouds as a method of reflection. Proceedings of the 2011 Association of Leadership Educators Annual Conference, Denver, CO. Adams, B.L., Fuhrman, N., Duncan, D.W., and Turner, K. (June 2011). Student achievement in an equine animal science class: The distractor factor in experiential learning-based labs. Paper presented at the 2011 NACTA Conference, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Stedman, N.L. and Adams, B.L. (June, 2011). Identifying faculty s knowledge of critical thinking concepts and perceptions of critical thinking instruction in higher education. Paper presented at the 2011 NACTA Conference, Edmonton, AB, Canada REFEREED POSTERS Adams, B.L., Stedman, N.L.P., and Barnett, R. (2012, July). The STABLE program: Strategies for teaching authenticity and building leadership through equines. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2012 Association of Leadership Educators Annual Conference, Key West, FL. Adams, B.L. and Stedman, N.L.P. (2012, February). Destination critical thinking: Differences in critical thinking in pre and reflection exercises from international travel. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2012 American Association of Agricultural Education Southern Region Annual Research Conference, Birmingham, AL. Bush, S., Smith, M.W., Adams, B. and Stedman, N.P. (2012, February). Universities going soft? Soft skill development in undergraduates. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2012 American Association of Agricultural Education Southern Region Annual Research Conference, Birmingham, AL. AWARDS & RECOGNITION Jack Everly Journal Award, North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture April 2013 Stedman, N. and Adams, B. (2012) Identifying faculty s knowledge of critical thinking concepts and perceptions of critical thinking instruction in higher education. Newbern Scholarship, January 2013 Grinter Fellowship, August 2010 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Faculty Advisement Committee University of Louisville, College of Business 2014-Present Board Member-Coordinator of Social Marketing 2013-2014 Association of Leadership Educators & Journal of Leadership Education Brittany L Adams-Pope, Curriculum Vita 4
Facilitator, Gainesville, Florida Spring 2013, Leadership and the Morrill Act A case study based activity bringing together the Military, Engineers and Agricultural and Life Science undergraduates Facilitator, Gainesville, Florida Spring 2013 -Agricultural Communicators and Leaders of Tomorrow Leadership and communication workshop for undergraduate and graduate ACLT members Facilitator, Ocala, Florida Fall 2012 Florida Master Gardener Program-Leadership School Leadership and teambuilding for the Florida Master Gardener Program Facilitator, Gainesville, Florida Fall 2012 -Agricultural Communicators and Leaders of Tomorrow Created and administered a leadership and communication workshop for undergraduate and graduate ACLT members Co-Creator of Soft Skills Seminar, Gainesville, Florida Summer 2012 Facilitated a focus group with undergraduates to determine the need for seminar Worked with Dr. Nicole Stedman to develop a fully functioning course on soft skill development Collaborated with Department Chair, Associate Dean, and Dean to implement course Assistant to Conference Coordinator, Denver, Colorado Summer 2011 Association of Leadership Educators Co-Facilitator, Tallahassee, Florida Spring 2011 Florida Department of Education Assisted in conducting leadership, curriculum, and team building workshop for participants from the Florida Department of Education Facilitator, Lake Butler, Florida Spring 2011 Lake Butler Middle School-Beta Club Developed and administered an after-school workshop on leadership, teambuilding, and critical thinking for the Beta club Facilitator, Gainesville, Florida Spring 2011 -Agricultural Communicators and Leaders of Tomorrow Created and administered a leadership and communication workshop for undergraduate and graduate ACLT members Facilitator, Gainesville, Florida Fall 2010 -CALS Ambassadors Created a leadership/teamwork workshop for College Ambassadors Developed three unique activities (IWeb, ISlide, ICelebrity) to teach Ambassadors about leadership and teamwork Brittany L Adams-Pope, Curriculum Vita 5
Facilitated discussion on leadership and teamwork during debriefing of activities Co-Creator of Imagine Project, Gainesville, Florida Fall 2010, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Collaborated with colleagues to develop program aimed at freshman with undecided degree paths Developed marketing and implementation tools Facilitated discussion with undergraduates about choosing a major Facilitator, Gainesville, Florida Fall 2010, Leadership Facilitation-AEC 5454 Developed Equine Assisted Educational Activity for graduate students in a Facilitation course Created activities to teach experiential teaching tools to graduate students using horses as an educational tool INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE Study Abroad, Australia May 2005 University of Queensland, University of Georgia Five days in the Australia outback-canarvon Gorge Four days on the Great Barrier Reef-Lady Elliot Island Three days in the Australian rainforest-binnaburra State Park Fifteen days studying at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia Learned about indigenous populations both human and animal Developed small programs for other learning communities while studying Learned how to interact with locals and the local habitat TECHNICAL SKILLS Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe Photoshop E-learning tools (Sakai, Web-CT, Blackboard, Moodle) Horizon Wimba Microsoft Office Prezi Qualitrics SPSS SurveyMonkey WordPress PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Association of Agricultural Education American Psychological Association American Society for Training and Development Association of Leadership Educators International Leadership Association Brittany L Adams-Pope, Curriculum Vita 6
National Association of Equine Affiliated Academics National Educators Association North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture United States Equestrian Federation Brittany L Adams-Pope, Curriculum Vita 7