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• Associate Professor of Management

Academic Background        

• University of Massachusetts, Isenberg School of Management, Amherst, MA - Ph. D. in  Management, 1986
• Clark University, Graduate School of Management, Worcester, MA - MBA, 1980
• Southern Illinois University, Department of Higher Education, Carbondale, IL - M.S. in Higher Education Administration, 1973 
• Carthage College, Kenosha, WI - BA in Sociology, 1971

Sample Courses Taught at Providence College

• Organizational Theory
• Organizational Behavior
• Managing Workplace Diversity
• Comparative Management
• International Human Resource Management.

Teaching Philosophy

A rich learning environment should afford students the opportunity to explore complex ideas and tools that they can build upon in their future academic pursuits and continue to use in their professional and personal lives. The students in my courses are future businesswomen and men, health care professionals, teachers, lawyers, scientists, politicians and others who will shape our future. It is essential to provide those students with a combination of theoretical foundations and real life situational experiences. Therefore, participation is a way of life in my courses. This is accomplished by creating learning environments where students, working individually and in teams, are actively engaged in their learning through case studies, simulations, negotiations, role-plays, field investigations and scholarly research.

My research bridges many fields. Research activities focus on: organizational development and change in both academic and corporate settings; pedagogy and technology; faculty development practices; and collaborative learning. Research in teaching and learning is concerned with programs and initiatives that improve learning environments.  

• Founding Director of the Providence College Center for Teaching Excellence,1994-1997
• Invited Faculty, College of Worcester Consortium Certificate in College Teaching program, Fall 2004 and Summer 2005
• Visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Shipboard Education, Semester at Sea Program, Summer 2001.
• Visiting Scholar (Sabbatical), Escuela de Postgrado en Administration de Empresas (ESPAE) of Escuela Superior Politechnica del Literal in Guayaquil, Equador. Fall, 1998.
• New England  Faculty Development Consortium Board Member, 1998-2006

Grants:

• Providence College, Committee on Aid to Faculty Research Grant – 2006-07.  Title: "Student-Faculty Collaborative Research in Business Programs: Best Practices and Future Opportunities."
• Providence College, Davis Instructional Technology Project Grant – 2004-05. Title: "Incorporating New Technologies in Comparative Management."
• Providence College, Committee on Aid to Faculty Research Grant – 2001-02. Title: "Exploring the Development and Management of Corporate Universities in a Rapidly Changing Education Environment." A year-long joint student research project.
  

Publication Highlights

• Sherer, P. (forthcoming, 2008). "Diversity Challenges in Tomorrow's Organizations."  In C. Harvey and J. Allard (Eds.) Understanding Diversity: Readings, Cases, and Exercises, 4th edition, Prentice-Hall.
• Sherer, P. & Miller, J. (2007).  "Regrading: A Manageable Approach for Maximizing Learning from Grading." Journal of Student Centered Learning, 3 (3), 157-162.
• Sherer, P.D., and Shea, T.P. (2005). "Keeping up with the Corporate University : Resources for HRM Faculty and Practitioners." In T. Torres-Coronas & M. Arias-Oliva (Eds.), e-Human Resource Management: Managing Knowledge People, 144 - 170, Idea Group: USA
• Jervis, K.J., and Sherer, P.D. (2005) "The Course Development Process for an Integrated Nonprofit Management Course Concentration: Business Competencies Needed for Nonprofit Careers" The Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, 4, 16, 249-275.
• Sherer, P.D. (2005). "The Aging Population: Exploring Workplace Issues." In C. Harvey and J. Allard (Eds.), Understanding Diversity: Readings , Cases and Exercises, 3rd edition, 138-140, Prentice-Hall.
• Harvey, C. and Sherer, P.D.  (2005). "Innovative Work Models for Older Workers." In C. Harvey and J. Allard (Eds.), Understanding Diversity: Readings, Cases and Exercises, 3rd edition, 141-145, Prentice-Hall.
• Pasquale, S., Sherer, P. and Shea T.P. (2004). "A Planning Framework to Aid Faculty in Developing Effective Online Teaching," The Creative College Teaching Journal, 8-22.
• Sherer, P.D., Shea, T.P. and Kristensen, E. (Spring, 2003)  "Online Communities of Practice: A Catalyst for Faculty Development," The Journal of Innovative Higher Education, 27, 3, 183-194.
• Sherer, P.D., and Shea, T.P. (2002). "Designing Courses Outside the Classroom: New Opportunities with the Electronic Delivery Toolkit," College Teaching, 50, 1, 15-20.
• Sherer, P.D., and Thibodeau, S.J.  (2001). "Rubric-Guided Assessment: Impact on Teaching, Learning & the Classroom Environment," The Journal on the Art of Teaching, 1-17.

• Sherer, P. & Shea, T. (2007). "Undergraduate Student-Faculty Collaborative Research: Creating a Win-Win for Students, Faculty and Business Schools."  To be presented at the AACSB Undergraduate Programs Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 15-17.
• Sherer, P., Shea, T., & Kristensen, E., (2007).  "ePortfolios as a Personal Knowledge Management System: Supporting Student Learning in Undergraduate Research Programs," American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) - The Student as Scholar: Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice. Long Beach, California, April 19-21.
• Sherer, P., Shea, T., & Kristensen, E., (2006).  "Enhanced Learning in Undergraduate Research Programs through Knowledge Management, Communities of Practice and Web Portals," Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Annual Conference: Knowledge and its Communities, June 14-17, Toronto, ON.
• Sherer, P., Shea, T., & Kristensen, E., (2006). "Making Undergraduate Student-Faculty Collaborative Research in Professional Schools a Front-burner Issue," American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Conference on Learning and Technology, April 19-22, Seattle, WA.
• Sherer, P., (2005).  "What's on Their Minds? Student Generated Discussion Questions in a Managing Workplace Diversity Course," New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC) Annual Conference, November 4, Westford, MA.
• Sherer, P.D., (2005).   “Designing and Assessing Assignments that Foster Engagement and Learning,” American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference:  Pedagogies of Engagement: Deepening Learning in and Across the Disciplines, April 14-16, Bethesda, MD.
• Sherer, P.D., (2005).  “Effectively Incorporating Technology Tools in Designing Written Assignments,” 16^th Annual Conference on College Teaching and Learning, March 31-April 2, Jacksonville, FL.
• Sherer, P.D., (2004). “An Example: A Student-Designed and Led Course Review,” New England  Faculty Development 2004 Conference, November 12, Westford, MA. 
• Sherer, P.D., Shea, T.P., and Kristensen, E. (2003).  “Instigating Faculty Learning Communities and Maximizing Faculty Development through Technology,” American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference, April 9-12, Phoenix, AZ.

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