Art is the Executive Director, Office of Professional Acceleration and Microcredentials, College of Professional Studies, Syracuse University (SU). He started teaching at SU in 2001, becoming a full-time Professor of Practice in 2009. Since 2012, Art has directed the iConsult Collaborative at Syracuse University, an experiential learning program where university students are engaged with client organizations in a diverse portfolio of information-related projects. He is also the Faculty Sponsor for Nanhi Kali Syracuse University, a registered student group that raises funds to send underprivileged girls to school in India. This student group regularly sponsors more than 50 girls annually so they can attend a local school. Prior to his current role, Art had been the Associate Dean for Career Services and Experiential Learning at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (the iSchool), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the Director of the Master’s Degree programs in Information Management (IM) and Telecommunications and Network Management (TNM), all at the iSchool. From 2010-2013, he was also the Director of the Upstate Health Research Network (UHRN), a consortium of universities coordinated through Syracuse University to establish statistical methods for nationwide out-of-network health insurance reimbursement benchmarks. Before 2010, Art served on the SU/J.P. Morgan Partnership Curriculum Project Team.Positions on the IT side of his multifaceted career have ranged from Programmer to Chief Information Officer, and on the Education side, from Trainer to Chief Learning Officer. With more than 30 years of added consulting experience in Manufacturing, Finance, Education and Government, his contracts have taken him from the USA to Europe and the Middle East, where he led two projects for the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman. As CEO of IT Consultancy Counterpoint Holdings, L.L.C., he also assisted more than 20 public school districts with strategic IT transformation throughout Central New York State. A lifelong advocate for diversity and inclusion strategies, he is Chairman of the National Board of Directors of Gliding Stars, a charity operating in upstate New York that provides differently-abled people of all ages recreational opportunities through lessons in adaptive ice skating.Specialties: Executive Ed, Project Management, IT Management, Network Infrastructure, Instructional Design, Curriculum Management, Training, Microcredentials