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Brandon Conlon (he/him)
Assistant Director for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Professional Development
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Brandon completed his undergraduate education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in linguistics and philosophy, and while working as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool’s joint-venture university partnership with Xi’an-Jiaotong University in China, completed his MA in applied linguistics. Brandon served last year as Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation at D’Youville University in Buffalo, New York, an historically women’s college that is now a university specialized in applied health sciences. Prior to that, he was the head of the English for Academic Purposes Program and a senior lecturer at New York University’s joint-venture university campus, NYU Shanghai, a partnership with East China Normal University and the Shanghai Municipal Government. He started at NYU Shanghai as a founding faculty member in 2013. He has nearly 20 years of rich teaching experiences in international higher education environments.
Brandon holds an EdD in higher education from the University of Liverpool, where he researched the Chinese students' conceptualization of liberal arts education at NYU Shanghai. His interests in professional development start with an eye to the way different stakeholders, while pursuing their own personal development, contribute to the overall learning of the organization, especially organizational identity dynamics in relation to organizational mission and values. He is also the founding editor of the website Liberal Arts Global Lens, which is currently in a partnership with the Pacific Alliance of Liberal Arts Colleges. Brandon is a member of the Professional and Organizational Development Network, Human Development and Capabilities Association, and the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence.
At OIST, Brandon will be working alongside the director to review professional development needs of faculty and postdocs, developing training curricula and providing consultations to meet these identified needs.
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