Scott J. Van Pelt is a higher education professional and instructor who has held a variety of administrative and teaching positions over the past decade, including roles in the areas of academic advising, admissions, student life, instructional technology, and curriculum design. A graduate of the M.A. and Ed.M. programs in Higher and Postsecondary Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, Van Pelt’s academic interests lie at the intersection of technology and pedagogy.

Currently, Van Pelt is an associate director with the Communication Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In this role, Van Pelt designs and implements the curricula for business communication courses within the MBA core curriculum. He also teaches several courses in the program, including Management Communication and Crisis Communication.

Van Pelt is a skilled facilitator, with experience designing and delivering sessions on communication skills to audiences as varied as Wharton's Non-Profit Board Fellows Program, PhD students in the Fulbright Scholars Program, and certificate students in the Strategic Leadership in Education certificate program at Penn GSE.

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