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The Center for Faculty Support and Teaching Innovation

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The Faculty Center seeks to envision and operationalize the evolving needs of teaching and learning as well as supporting faculty from onboarding through promotion and retirement.  To fulfill this mission, the Center hosts workshops and conversations, organizes mentoring and demonstrates a commitment to faculty success. For questions about the Center activities or to make suggestions for programming and services please contact the Director, Dr. Stacey Floyd at facultycenter@tiffin.edu

Meet the Director

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Dr. Stacey Floyd

Center for Faculty Support, School of Arts, Education and Humanities
Dean of the School of Arts, Education, and Humanities
Professor of English
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Degrees & Certificates

Ph.D. in English, University of Kentucky

Stacey Floyd is a Professor of English. Her Ph.D in English is from the University of Kentucky and she has Masters and Bachelors degrees in both Education and English. She has published a chapter in Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-first Century (2017) and in MLA’s Options for Teaching Laboring-Class Literature (2018). She has also published  “The Specter of Class: Revision, Hybrid Identity, and Passing in Great Expectations” in Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Identity (2012) in addition to New Woman Writers, Authority and the Body (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) with Melissa Purdue and a selection on working-class literature for Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism in 2011. Her research and teaching interests include representations of the working class in the long nineteenth century as well as High Impact Practices in teaching and learning and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The Faculty Center seeks to envision and operationalize the evolving needs of teaching and learning as well as supporting faculty from onboarding through promotion and retirement. To fulfill this mission, the Center hosts workshops and conversations, organizes mentoring and demonstrates a commitment to faculty success. For questions about the Center activities or to make suggestions for programming and services please contact the Director, Dr. Stacey Floyd at facultycenter@tiffin.edu.

Location: 117 Franks, First Floor

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Michael Goodnough, Ph.D.

Center for Faculty Support, School of Arts, Education and Humanities
Director, The Center for Faculty Support and Teaching Innovation
Associate Professor of History
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Degrees & Certificates

Ph.D., in Cultural and Intellectual History, Kent State University
M.A., Kent State University
B.A., History, Bowling Green State University

Dr. Michael Daniel Goodnough is Associate Professor of History in the School of Arts, Education, and Humanities. He started at Tiffin University as a part-time instructor in 2017 before joining full-time as Instructor of History in the fall of 2018. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Goodnough received his B.A. from Bowling Green State University in 2011 and completed his M.A. (2013) and Ph.D. (2019) in cultural and intellectual history from Kent State University.

Professor Goodnough’s teaching interests are wide-ranging. At TU, he teaches the majority of the history courses. He specializes in teaching U.S. history from colonization to globalization, World History, and sub-Saharan African history. Dr. Goodnough uses the lens of cultural history to teach how culture can provide insight into a plethora of historical themes. While at TU, he also worked to develop the new Digital Storytelling track within the Digital Media Major major, which merges the field of history with the University’s mission of linking knowledge to professional practice. He also serves as the program chair for the Digital Media program.