FOCUS on College and Career Success

About Constance StaleySteve Staley

Constance Staley is a professor of communication and acting dean of the Graduate School at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs where she directed the First-Year Seminar Program for nearly 25 years. An award-winning teacher Dr. Staley designs and teaches online courses (Professional Presentations) hybrid courses (Communication Training and Consulting) and face-to-face courses (Conflict Management). Her works include a faculty training package TEACHING COLLEGE SUCCESS as well as the groundbreaking resource manual 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LECTERN. She also is the author of FOCUS ON COLLEGE SUCCESS and the co-author of FOCUS ON COLLEGE AND CAREER SUCCESS with Steve Staley. A well-known name in FYE circles Dr. Staley is a leader in faculty development nationwide. During a three-year leave from the University of Colorado she joined an East Coast Fortune 500 company to design and deliver its management and supervisory training. In addition she represented the university as a Fulbright Scholar teaching in the former Soviet Union. She earned a B.S. in education an M.A. in linguistics and a Ph.D. in communication. Dr. Steve Staley is Professor of English and Humanities at Colorado Technical University where in 2001 he originated taught and directed CTU's College Success course. Dr. Staley graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado. As Assistant Dean of Faculty and Professor of English at the U.S. Air Force Academy Dr. Staley administered the Academy's successful Rhodes Scholarship program directed faculty development developed the First-Year Seminar Interdisciplinary Education at the Academy (IDEA) program and originated a critically acclaimed course in Physics and Literature. As a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College he also served as a Research Fellow with the United Nations International Peace Academy authoring The United Nations and Naval Peacekeeping and co-authoring with Dr. Constance Staley Communicating in Business and The Professions: The Inside Word. As Director of Advising at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Dr. Staley helped develop the school's new First-Year Seminar program. Following a one-year Fulbright Fellowship teaching in Kyrgyzstan he has served CTU for over 20 years as Dean of Academics Director of Faculty Development and Director of General Education.