Leadership & Grants
From Classroom to Institution to Community
Betty's leadership extends well beyond her courses — spanning academic governance, funded workforce development initiatives, accreditation support, and regional community engagement.
Overview
Building Institutions and Communities
Academic leadership, in Betty's view, is not administrative obligation — it is an extension of the scholar-practitioner's responsibility to the institutions and communities they inhabit. She has led engagement initiatives, secured grants, supported accreditation, and built partnerships that connect the university to the world beyond it.
This page presents the major leadership and impact contributions that sit alongside Betty's teaching and research. A complete record of service and institutional contributions is available in the downloadable CV.
Governance & Service
Academic Leadership
Academy of International Business (AIB)
Active member and service leader within the Academy of International Business, contributing to annual conference, Teaching & Learning section committees, and peer review activities. Committed to the discipline's development through institutional participation.
Faculty Development
Contributed to faculty development programming — including pedagogical workshops, curriculum design support, and mentoring early-career faculty on teaching methods and scholarly identity.
Program and Committee Leadership
Served on and led multiple faculty committees responsible for curriculum development, academic standards, and program review. Brought a cross-disciplinary perspective to institutional decision-making.
Editorial & Reviewer Service
Serves as reviewer for leading journals in international business, management education, and organizational behavior — contributing to the quality and development of the field's published scholarship.
Funded Initiatives
Grants & Funded Research
Betty has secured and contributed to multiple funded projects spanning AI education, workforce development, and applied community research.
SUNY AI for Public Good Fellowship
A competitive fellowship supporting curriculum development at the intersection of AI and public benefit. Betty's fellowship work focuses on integrting AI literacy frameworks across desciplines with emphasis on information literacy and critical thinking, and ensure responsible AI adoption in educational and research contexts.
Offshore Wind Workforce Education Partnership
Partnership-based initiative to develop curriculum and educational programming supporting workforce development for the offshore wind industry in the Long Island and New York region — focusing on foundamental sustainable business and offshore wind technology.
Green Workforce Development and AI Readiness Program
Integrate business and entreprenuership into engineering education to support green workforce development and delivered through both credit-bearing courses and non-credit professional workshops.
Sustainability and Supply Chain Localization Research
Research grant supporting an empirical study of sustainability management practices when localize supply chains — examining how local stakeholders engage and shape the localization outcomes.
Accreditation & Quality
AACSB Accreditation & Assessment
Betty has played an active role in her institution's AACSB accreditation and continuous improvement processes — bringing both analytical rigor and a faculty member's perspective to assurance of learning and societal impact reporting.
AACSB accreditation represents a commitment to quality in business education — and the assurance of learning process is its evidence base. Betty has contributed to the design of learning goals, assessment instruments, and closing-the-loop initiatives that demonstrate how education is measured and improved over time.
Assurance of Learning
Contributed to the design and implementation of assurance of learning frameworks — including learning goal mapping, assessment rubric development, and faculty norming processes.
Societal Impact Reporting
Supported documentation of the school's societal impact contributions — including community partnerships, sustainability initiatives, and workforce development activities.
Continuous Improvement
Participated in curriculum review and "closing the loop" processes designed to improve academic programming based on assessment evidence.
Student Ecosystem
Innovation & Student Ecosystem
Innovation Challenge
Betty leads the Innovation Challenge — a signature program in which student teams tackle real business and societal problems using design thinking and entrepreneurial methods, presenting their work to panels of practitioners and academic judges.
Business Competition Preparation
Betty mentors student teams through regional and national business competitions — providing strategic, analytical, and presentation coaching throughout the full preparation cycle.
Entrepreneurship Development
Contributes to the institution's entrepreneurship ecosystem through workshops, mentoring, and curriculum contributions that prepare students to launch and evaluate new ventures.
Regional Partnerships
Community & Regional Engagement
Betty maintains active partnerships with organizations across Long Island and the broader New York region — connecting her scholarship and teaching to community needs and regional economic development.
Long Island Workforce Development
Partnered with Long Island workforce organizations to design and deliver professional education programs for adult learners navigating economic transition — including career changers, re-entry workers, and underrepresented groups.
Offshore Wind and Clean Energy
Faculty contributor to regional green workforce development initiatives — bringing expertise in organizational management, cross-sector partnership, and workforce education design.
MWBE and Economic Inclusion
Engaged with minority- and women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) development initiatives — connecting academic resources and expertise to the practical challenges of underrepresented entrepreneurs.
Sustainability and Regional Economy
Contributing to regional sustainability initiatives through research partnerships, public engagement, and curriculum that connects students to the sustainability challenges facing Long Island communities.