Katie MacDonald Sprute

Katie Sprute is Faculty Chair and Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Grand Canyon University. As a Faculty Chair Katie leads a team of talented and effective faculty. Katie identifies with a servant leadership style and aims to ensure the members of her team are structurally empowered and feel a strong sense of community. Katie is passionate about advocating for and fostering positive relationships among all GCU full-time and adjunct faculty. She has presented at National conferences and published articles on effective teaching practices, use of video feedback, humor in the classroom, and strategies to support online adjunct faculty. Katie is ABD in her PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The focus of her dissertation is The Predictive Relationship of Structural Empowerment on the Job Embeddedness Across Generations of Online Faculty Teaching in Institutions of Higher Education.

Publications

Structural Empowerment: The Next Step for University Support of Online Adjunct Faculty
Structural Empowerment: The Next Step for University Support of Online Adjunct Faculty
Katie MacDonald Sprute, Kimber O. Underdown. © 2024. 17 pages.
Higher education has been transformed by access to online degree programs, with millions of students across various academic levels taking courses online. The increase in online...
Becoming One Faculty in Pursuit of Student Success
Becoming One Faculty in Pursuit of Student Success
Katie MacDonald Sprute, Marjaneh Gilpatrick. © 2021. 15 pages.
Online adjunct faculty at an institute of higher education (IHE) in the Southwestern United States reside all around the world. Training, supporting, and fostering a sense of...