Heather Swenddal

Teaching Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Academic Director of Management Major

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4008 Business Instructional Facility

515 Gregory Dr

Champaign, IL 61820

Ph.D., Management (Organizational Behavior), RMIT University at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2020
M.A., Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, San Francisco State University, 2012
B.A., Journalism, Sacramento State University, 2005

Academic Director of Management Major, Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024 to present
Teaching Assistant Professor, Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022 to present
Chair of International Business, Nichols College, 2021-2022
Assistant Professor of Management, Nichols College, 2020-2022
Chair of General Business, Nichols College, 2020-2021
Lecturer, Bryant University, 2019-2020
Lecturer, Northeastern University, 2019-2020
Senior Educator, RMIT University Vietnam, 2012-2015

Swenddal, H., Nkhoma, M., & Gumbley, S., Deborah Lock, Andrea Caputo, Dieu Hack-Polay, Paul Igwe (Ed.) (2022). Belongingness challenges of repatriate academics at international university campuses. Borderlands: Internationalization of Higher Education Teaching Practices ( pp. 79-89). UK: Springer International Publishing.
Swenddal, H., Nkhoma, M., & Gumbley, S. (2022). Global integration barriers at international branch campuses: the IBC Othering Loop. International Journal of Education Management, Emerald Publishing, 36 (4), 593-605.
Swenddal, H., Gumbley, S., & Nkhoma, M., Joyce S. Osland, B. Sebastian Reiche, Betina Szkudlarek, Mark E. Mendenhall (Ed.) (2022). Reinforcing “we”: organizational identity custodianship in global leaders’ boundary-spanning. Advances in Global Leadership ( vol. 14, pp. 125-140). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Swenddal, H. (2019). Locally-hired IBC lecturers as global university representatives: Assumptions, challenges and solutions. Center for International Higher Education Perspectives.

Swenddal, H., Nkhoma, M., & Gumbley, S. (2021). “The mother campus is far, far better than here”: Managing equivalence issues in global university branch campuses. 34th Annual ANZAM Conference: Innovative Management in Turbulent Times: Australian-New Zealand Academy of Management.
Swenddal, H., Nkhoma, M., & Gumbley, S. (2018). You need to sell the university”: International-branch campus lecturers’ orientations toward supporting marketing activities. 32nd Annual ANZAM Conference: Managing the Many Faces of Sustainable Work: Australian-New Zealand Academy of Management.
Swenddal, H., Nkhoma, M., & Gumbley, S. (2017). Cultural representatives: Staff identity at international branch campuses. International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Social Sciences (ICEPS.

Swenddal, H., Keating, K., & Kim, H. (2023). Exploring Client Orientations in Client-Based Experiential-Learning Projects. Teaching & Learning Conference at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
Bednar, M., Kurtz, J., Noonan, J., & Swenddal, H. (2023). Unschooling students to think beyond the A: Fostering meaningful student engagement in client-based projects. Leaders of Experiential Project-Based Education (LEPE.
Swenddal, H. (2022). Bridging temporal modalities for sustained student engagement. Teaching & Learning Conference at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management.
Swenddal, H. (2022). Navigating inclusivity challenges at offshore international branch campuses. International Conference on Global Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education, Clarion University.
Swenddal, H., Nkhoma, M., & Gumbley, S. (2021). Responsible cross-border higher-education management: Re-imagining the course coordinator’s role. 58th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, Eastern Academy of Management.
Swenddal, H., & Lopez, U. (2016). Reinvigorating a teaching culture following significant change. English Australia Conference, English Australia.

Strategic Human Res Management (BADM 313) Studies concepts and methods used by the staff personnel unit in building and maintaining an effective work force in an industrial organization; development of ability to design the personnel subsystem within the firm and to deal effectively with problems encountered in such areas as recruitment, selection, training, and wage and salary administration; and considerable emphasis on case analysis, role playing, and research.
Business in Action (BUS 301) Introduces students to the complexities of business by working on a real organizational problem with an actual client. Students will work with a client to identify, analyze, and present recommendations to solve an organizational problem. Requires students to apply problem-solving skills to uncertain situations as well as build and manage a professional team.

4008 Business Instructional Facility

515 Gregory Dr

Champaign, IL 61820