Elizabeth Hodge has served in a variety of academic administrative roles and faculty positions for over 26 years. Areas of teaching include finance, leadership, management, marketing, entrepreneurship, human centered design, instructional design and information technology at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Hodge serves as the Assistant Dean for Innovations and Strategic Initiatives for the College of Education where she currently leads strategic planning efforts. For the Office of Community Engagement and Research, she serves as the Director for Engaged Research where she leads several initiatives including the Engagement and Outreach Scholar Academy. She also serves as the lead administrator for the North Carolina New Teacher Support Program, which is a comprehensive, university-based induction program offering a research-based curriculum and multiple services designed to increase teacher effectiveness, enhance skills, and reduce attrition among beginning teachers. Hodge advocates for transformative instructional practices and encourages faculty and students to apply an entrepreneurial mindset to ignite and transform learning. It's about changing mindsets, changing lives, and changing the world through solving wicked problems.
Professional Development
Provided DISC leadership professional development to NC NTSP statewide team. 2022 - 2023
Council of Academic Deans from Research Education Institutions
The purpose of CADREI is the identification and consideration of questions focusing on the preparation of educators, research-based policy proposals and recommendations, and the professional development of deans and other administrative officers. 2019 - 2022
Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, Economic Prosperity
APLU'sCommission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity (CICEP)was created to help leaders of APLU member universities-including presidents and chancellors, senior research officers, provosts, other officers and their staffs-plan, assess, and communicate their institutions' work in local and regional economic development. CICEP members are concerned with the study and effective practice of university economic engagementefforts that foster innovation and entrepreneurship, talent and workforce development, and social, cultural and community development through the stewardship and development of place-all with an emphasis on collaborating withpartners from government, communities and industry. 2016 - 2021
Southern Business Education Association
The Southern Business Education Association (SBEA) is a professional organization of business educators and a regional affiliate of the National Business Education Association. SBEA serves its members involved in instruction, administration, and research in business education by providing leadership training, conferences, and publications to assist in developing competent, productive people to function in a global environment. SBEA is comprised of the following 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Southern Business Education Association is an affiliate of the National Business Education Association, headquartered in Reston, Virginia. 2016 - 2021
National President
Pi Omega Pi is the National Business Education Teacher Honor Society, which has the purpose of promoting scholarship and service in the area of business education. For over 80 years, Pi Omega Pi has provided its members with a variety of services pertaining to business education. 2016 - 2018
Business Teacher Education Journal
The Business Teacher Education Journal, formerly the NABTE Review, is a refereed journal published annually in the fall as a separate publication and in the spring as a part of the April issue of Business Education Forum by the National Association for Business Teacher Education. 2016 - 2017