If you are not able to teach due to illness, family emergency, bad weather, or a scheduling conflict...don't cancel that class, use a substitute.

Substitute Class Topics

Dean of Students Office Community Service
Diversity and Inclusion Counseling Services
Athletics Academic Support Services
Coach Scott McKenzie's life in Business Residential Life
Campus Ministries The Office of Public Safety
Career Services Student Activities
Financial Literacy  

Dean of Students Office:

  • Why People Lie:  The Challenge of Restoring Truthfulness
  • Perceptions, Norms and Behaviors
  • Millennial College Students and Millennial Parents
  • History of Higher Education in America
  • Drug & Alcohol Use (Core Survey Results)
  • First Year Students: Challenges and Opportunities 
  • The JC Judicial System 
  • Social Movements: for example, Peace and Environmental Movements of the 20th Century Environmental Conflict Management
  • General discussions regarding politics, sociology, elections, etc.  
  • Assessing Attrition: Understand the Real Reasons Students Leave
  • An Overview of ND 298 Transitions

Diversity and Inclusion:

  • Genetics of Homosexuality
  • Race as a powerful illusion
  • Privilege (White, Christian, Male, etc)
  • Intercultural Communication
  • What makes us laugh (i.e. how to push the envelope with out crossing the line)
  • American Identity Intersections: Who am I and what is it to you
  • Diversity as good business sense
  • Diversity for elementary school classrooms

Athletics:

  • NCAA policies and regulations – ex. Proposition 48, drug testing, Title IX issues
  • Managing Leadership 
  • Team Building 
  • Peak performance under maximum stress (toughness training) in any environment. 

Coach Scott McKenzie from his previous life in Business:

  • Physical Distribution and Logistics
  • Marketing
  • Sales and Sales Management
  • Labor Negotiations
  • Interview preparation and practice interviews

Campus Ministries:

  • History of the Church of the Brethren
  • Listening Skills
  • Personality Style Differences and Conflict
  • Communications for Peace
  • Faith & Peacemaking or Faith & War
  • Faith & (series) – for example Faith & Creation
  • TIPS training (3hr. class training for intervention Procedures)
  • Leadership & Teambuilding Exercises

Career Services:

  • Internships 
  • Resume Writing 
  • Interview Skills 
  • The Job Search 
  • Selecting a Career Direction 
  • Networking 
  • Selecting & Applying to Graduate/Professional School 
  • MBTI and _______ 
  • Careers, leadership, organizational development.

Community Service & Volunteer Programs:

  • Americorps as a post-graduate opportunity
  • Service vs. social action
  • Barriers to active citizenship
  • Sustaining commitment to the common good

Counseling Services:

  • College Life & Stress Management:  Finding a Balance
  • Relationships
  • Mental Health Topics (depression, anxiety, self-harm, eating disorders)
  • Drug & Alcohol Topics 
  • Helping Others
  • Careers in Counseling/Social Work

Academic Support Services:

  • Academic Integrity and Its’ Role in School, Life and Work
  • Listening Skills (also the role of silence in listening)
  • Personality Types & Learning Styles
  • The Role of Failure in Learning
  • How to Maximize your Advising Relationships
  • The Temple MSW program at Juniata College
  • Working with Children of Incarcerated Individuals

Residential Life:

  • Peace Corps Volunteer, TEFL and Community Development – Sibiu, Romania
  • Fulbright Fellow and Immigrant Youth Program Coordinator – University of Essen, Germany
  • Bullet-Point Guide to Community Education on Muslims and Arabs in the Chicago Area: Religion and Understanding
  • Multicultural Competencies in Student Affairs
  • Effective Strategies for Recruiting Students of Color

Public Safety:

  • Law Enforcement 
  • Emergency Management
  • Verbal Judo

Student Activities:

  • Leadership Theories
  • Identity Development

Financial Literacy:

  • How to make informed decisions about the use and management of your money!