Our Faculty
Our diverse group of faculty members share one thing in common: A passion to help you succeed. At Amberton, our faculty understands specifically the adult learner. Amberton's faculty are not only knowledgable experts in their respective fields, but they are also active practitioners in those fields. We believe that powerful things happen when we can combine our experience with your drive to succeed. Together, we create personal growth and transformation that will last a lifetime!
Business Faculty
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Dr. Kyle Allison
"In my career, I am passionate about building effective business strategies in digital marketing that drive customer engagement & building brand equity. I enjoy analytics where we can take data and build a story into what has occurred with customers, and then how to make actionable plans to build unique customer experiences to drive our business. I enjoy doing this both in my career as an executive in the industry, but also teaching it as a professor to terrific university students. In my personal life, I am a devoted husband and father, whom enjoys spending time with my family doing a variety of activities. I am also passionate about my faith in God in all that I do."
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Dr. Nicholas Bowersox
"As an Educator: I’m passionate about helping adult learners achieve their educational goals. "
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Dartanian Boyette
""I am passionate about teaching and imparting knowledge to students. For me, teaching is something that is bigger than myself. That something is inspiring, developing, mentoring and coaching our future leaders and world changers. Through inspiring and developing students will ensure their success and encourage them to fulfill their highest potential.""
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Cindy Breen
"I am passionate about facilitating the learning process, for it to be a fulfilling benefit for all life-long learners."
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Dr. Paul Burton
"I'm passionate about applying best practice methods to solve real-world business problems & challenges."
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Dr. David Campbell
"My wife and children (and new grandchild on the way)"
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Dr. Ronald Darnell
"I'm passionate about enabling and coaching high-performing self-organized teams and effective adult education."
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Dr. Deborah A. Hill
"I am passionate about empowering and sharing knowledge to enable every person, who would like to learn, the exposure and opportunity to do so."
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Ms. Veronika Joseph
"Faith, family, friendships, professional development, mentorship, service, and encouraging others."
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Dr. Carol Palmer
"I am passionate about lifelong learning. It gives me great pleasure to support and empower individuals as they fulfill their personal educational goals."
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Dr. Karen Pate
""Students learning something that can be applied to their current or future workplace.""
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Mrs. Ivy Pennington
"Developing my students by providing them with real-time learning opportunities."
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Dr. Sharon Price
"I am passionate about my family and using my gifts and talents to encourage others."
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Dr. Matthew Reagan
"I'm passionate about being challenged to continually grow, both professionally and personally!"
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Dr. Jonathan Schultz
""I am passionate about learning and sharing knowledge with others.""
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Dr. Blair Stephenson
""I am passionate about providing an opportunity for my students to acquire real value in practical and profitable skills and knowledge that they can apply directly to their careers, and raising funds to fight multiple sclerosis by riding my bicycle 150 miles in the Bike MS ride every year.""
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Stephen Swiger
"I'm passionate about applying accounting principles to everyday business."
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Dr. Ben Thompson
"I am quite passionate about teaching with a pastime watching soccer."
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Dr. Steven Tidwell
"I am passionate about teaching and providing students with a quality and meaningful business education."
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Dr. Gilbert Werema
"I am passionate about student success."
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Dr. Lee Wright
""Passionate advocate for student success, engagement, access, and excellence.""
Counseling/Human Behavior Faculty
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Dr. Levi Armstrong
""I am passionate about assisting prospective professional counselors in gaining real-world knowledge and immediately applicable counseling skills as it relates to professional counseling, the integration of neuroscience in counseling, and professional counseling in collaboration with psychopharmacological intervention, clinical psychology, and psychiatry.""
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Dr. Chris Bedard
"I am passionate about helping others learn, develop, and use their gifts in the areas of counseling and therapy. "
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Dr. La'Boris Cole
"I am passionate about serving others, family, being a change agent and conduit of healing, teaching, mentoring, and empowering others. "
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Dr. Samantha Culbertson
"I am passionate about the profession of counseling and the opportunity to help others grow to fulfill their calling in life. I am passionate about my faith, my family, and my friends. "
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Dr. Kimberlee Flatt
"My family, my faith, and my work with Neurodivergent learners and creative thinkers."
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Dr. Aimee Herring
"I am passionate about teaching, counseling and coaching others as nothing is more satisfying than seeing others learn and make changes in their lives to accomplish a goal they want to achieve."
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Dr. Debra Hurbough
"I am passionate about teaching and guiding future school counselors by providing the skills and knowledge necessary to build a strong counseling program. I am passionate about the social and emotional health of youth and the role school counselors play in their academic journey. "
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Dr. Ken Johnson
"I'm passionate about helping both learners and clients realize their potential."
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Dr. Pamela Johnson
"I'm passionate about helping people to broaden their vision."
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Dr. Vicki Millican
"I am passionate about social justice activism (particularly in recovery & empowerment of incarcerated women.)"
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Ms. Carla Moffitt
"I’m passionate about my faith, my family, and my life work. I love teaching and feel very blessed to be able to go full circle in my career – from teacher to school counselor to private practice counselor and back to adjunct teaching – coming full circle from where I began. I love activities with my three grandkids and stay very busy with work, school, and family. I believe in the importance of living our best lives (in whatever design that might be) and utilizing our time to make that happen. "
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Dr. Lee Paul
"I’m passionate about my family."
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Dr. Iman Ross
"I’m passionate about affecting generational changes in families and individuals by breaking negative patterns of behavior."
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Dr. Verlene Springer
"My passion is lifetime learning and development for others and myself."
Interdisciplinary Faculty
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Dr. Paul Benson
"I'm passionate about teaching."
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Dr. Don W. Hebbard
""I’m passionate about training students to become marriage and family therapists, professional counselors and leaders in their organizations. I get excited when I see students eyes light up to new ideas.""
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Dr. David Hedgpeth
""I am passionate about teaching practical ways for students to apply course materials in daily life, in order to enhance productive, satisfactory, and successful results.""
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Dr. Jackie Johnston
"I'm passionate about the success of my students, especially the math anxious."
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Dr. Lesly F. Massey
"“I am passionate about learning, teaching, nurturing others, travel, writing, and good times with family and friends.“ "
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Ms. Varaidzo Nyamandi
"I Am Passionate About Discovering New Things!"
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Dean Ohlhausen
"I'm passionate about reading, teaching Bible classes and working on our farm."
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Dr. Stacy Page
"I'm passionate about education and committed to helping students pursue their educational goals and achieve academic success. "
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Dr. Robert Patton
"I am passionate about continually learning about nature, science, history, the Bible, old coins, the Old West, etc."
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Dr. Joe Pendleton
"I'm passionate about learning new things, seeing plans come together, meeting and working with amazing people, my family, and my faith in Christ."
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Dr. Rachael Peters
"I am passionate about human resources and equity in the workforce."
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Bob Phillips
"I'm passionate about understanding communications in a modern society."
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Dr. Skip Redd
"“I am passionate about teaching students various entities on how to be an effective communicator.”"
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Dr. Jim Richey
""I'm passionate about family, teaching, music, sports, and most of all God.""
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Dr. Douglas Richey
"I'm passionate about helping students learn."
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Dr. Robert Rupe, PhD
"I’m passionate about helping students reach their full potential."
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Dr. Di Ann Sanchez
"I'm passionate about Human Resources Leadership and I love teaching."
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Dr. Michael Trulson
"I'm passionate about classic cars and martial arts, as well as teaching, of course."
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Mr. Jerry Van Hamme
"I'm passionate about doing my bit to help people hear the Gospel."