Faculty
Education
Dr. Sergio D. Garza
"This degree can provide you with upward mobility in a central office position or in other agencies that promote English language learners."
Dr. Puneet Gill
"My advice to a student pursuing an online program is to stay organized, take advantage of online opportunities to communicate with your professor and other students in your classes, and to maximize your learning potential."
Dr. Tonya Huber
"Globalization has created a complex world that demands critically conscious, global citizen-educators."
Dr. Gilda Y. Martinez
"A master's degree in bilingual education will prepare students to meet the needs and demands of the English learner population as a teacher, curriculum developer, instructional coordinator and/or school administrator."
Dr. Bernice Sanchez
"Online instruction is very much like face-to-face instruction: Students must be actively engaged regularly."
Dr. Maria de Lourdes Viloria
"I strongly believe that a successful Education Administration candidate would be an individual that is committed to work as a team member within an organization whose purpose is to prepare well-educated, productive citizens."
Healthcare
Dr. Renae Authement
"You won't find a better place to earn your MSN. TAMIU provides a top-notch Nursing Administration program with qualified, caring instructors who support you throughout your journey."
Dr. Britt Cusack
"Texas A&M is an internationally acclaimed university and is a leader in nursing thought. Your education is something that accompanies you forever. Choose your program wisely."
Chantilly Mae C. Demasiado
"This degree will convey relevant facts on the constantly evolving health care delivery system as well as changes related to nursing roles, responsibilities and scope of practice in response to current evidence-based studies."
Habiba Harris
"This degree will allow you stability in so many facets of your career."
Dr. Heidi Landry
"The MSN – Nursing Administration degree will help leaders and managers meet today's challenges in the health care setting."
Dr. Michael Landry
"The most important part of learning is learning to ask the right questions."
Deborah Bruner Laughon
"Nursing offers many career paths. This degree provides a solid platform to support career options today and tomorrow. Nursing is so much more than a career. It is a lifelong commitment to serve."
Dr. Francesca Losito
"Look for preceptors in advance, and chose early on what is of interest and/or inspires you as it relates related your practicum(s)/capstone."
Dr. Karen S. Migl
"Healthcare is constantly changing, and this degree will help the student face the challenges of the future."
Amanda Peña
"Obtaining your BSN will open new opportunities overall in any nursing area you might choose; it will set you to be a leader within your community."
Monika L. Perez, MSN, RN
"My personal objective is for students to feel empowered with the concepts learned in class and go into the world and improve the nursing profession."
Criminal Justice
Frances Bernat
"Students should expect to work consistently on their courses from the first day. A 7-week course is intensive and requires extensive reading, writing and engagement."
Dr. Marcus Carey
"Speaking personally, earning my MSCJ has opened my career options tremendously and has helped me to study, work and travel all over the country for the past decade. The degree is tremendously versatile, and I hope that my students reap the same kinds of benefits from earning it that I have."
Brittany Hood
"The Master of Science in Criminal Justice online program covers a variety of timely and historical topics, including theoretical explanations that are applicable for a career in the field of criminal justice."
Deborah Laufersweiler-Dwyer
"Understanding the reasons why people do what they do is important in creating mechanisms to help people be their best."
Dr. Fei Luo
"Education is the ladder to your dream and success. Believe in yourself; you can do it, you will succeed."
Daniel Scott
"If you are committed, have a desire to learn and/or want to advance your career, this is the program for you."
Jascha Wagner
"To shape public policy in response to contemporary issues in the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems, you must be able to conceptualize, analyze and evaluate scholarly discourse and participate in informed and thoughtful discussions."
Business
Dr. Mortoza Abdullah
"Students in my classes learn both theories and practical implementations. They learn how to use classroom concepts in real-world environments. The objective is to acquire knowledge and skills with practical values."
Homero Aguirre-Milling
"Most of the students know my mission is to provide help to students in many regards."
Steven Shu-Hsiu Chen
"My broader research interests are in empirical asset pricing, especially related to international finance and foreign exchange markets."
Yong Chen
"I want students in my courses to gain hand-on experiences in managing information systems for businesses. The learning objective in my courses is to enable students to gain the skills required in their future jobs."
Oscar Cisneros
"My goal is to bridge the gap between the academic side as well as the practical side so that students can see, understand, and apply the concepts learned during the class to real-life examples."
George Clarke
"The more you put into the program, the more you will get out of it. Think hard about how the concepts and methods you learn in each class complement what you are learning in the others."
Dr. Heriberto Garcia
"The programs at TAMIU will allow you to see and learn the best practices, and you are going to learn from different industries."
Dr. Rodrigo Hernandez
"Graduates of the MBA program will be able to formulate an actionable business strategy that is grounded in theory and practice from multiple business disciplines, conduct data-driven analyses to identify significant business problems, recommend feasible solutions to the problems, and justify a course of action."
Dr. Geoffrey Hubona
"Technology is ubiquitous. An M.S. in Information Science is valuable in many professional occupations today."
Dr. Kathy Ma
"Employers value students with online MBAs, not only for what they learned in classes but also for the independence and self-motivation they showed in the process."
Dr. Efrain Medina
"My teaching philosophies emphasize student engagement, experiential learning and open-mindedness."
Dr. Jyotsna Mukherji
"An MBA will help students get jobs and keep them. It will also make them lifelong learners."
Dr. Abhijit M. Patwardhan
"In these online courses, you will experience similar levels of rigor and learning that you would have experienced inside a classroom."
Ángel Arturo Pachec Paredes
"We prepare our students not only for success in the profession of accounting but for success in addressing the dynamics of business in the 21st century."
Dr. Antonio Rodriguez
"An MBA enhances personal and professional growth and generates newer opportunities."
Dr. Richard Rodriguez
"A degree in business management will be broad enough to allow the student to seek various employment positions and to deal with a plethora of industries that are of interest to the student."
Michael Rogers
"I want students to analyze and understand how to navigate the business environment from the initial interview through promotions and professional growth."
Rolando Peña Sánchez
"The MBA program at TAMIU is among the best program of its kind with many characteristics of flexibility and support."
Dr. Debra Touhey
"I feel that I've learned a lot and have been very blessed in the financial world. I want to give something back to tomorrow's leaders."
Haibo Wang
"After 10 years of IT experience as a consultant, I wanted to share my experience in the classroom and prepare students with the skills that match employers' expectations."
