Bracey of ÎÞÂëרÇø honored by regional business educators
Contact: Whitney Peterson
STARKVILLE, Miss.—An award-winning College of Education faculty member at Mississippi State is receiving another major recognition.
Pamela Scott-Bracey recently was named Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the Southern Business Education Association.
A National Business Education Association affiliate, SBEA represents instructional, administrative and research professionals in a dozen states stretching from Virginia to Louisiana.
An assistant professor since 2013 in ÎÞÂëרÇø’s Department of Instructional Systems and Workforce Development, Bracey is director and co-founder of ÎÞÂëרÇø’s Global Academic Essentials Teacher Institute, a summer institute designed to equip teachers with strategies and tools necessary for successful integration of Mississippi College- and Career-Ready Standards, 21st Century Skills, and technology.
Teaching undergraduate courses in business technology education and information technology services, along with graduate-level classes in instructional technology, she twice has been named the Mississippi Business Education Association’s University Educator of the Year.
Bracey currently serves as MBEA president, as well as president-elect of the National Council of Pi Omega Pi business honor society.
Prior to earning a doctorate at the University of North Texas in applied technology and performance improvement, she completed a master’s degree in higher education administration at Mississippi College and a bachelor’s in business technology education at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Along with career and technical education, Bracey’s research areas include gifted education, workplace learning and professional soft-skill development. Other biographical information is found at .
For more on her state, regional and national business education affiliations, visit, respectively, , and .
Links to ÎÞÂëרÇø’s College of Education and its instructional systems and workforce development department are and .
ÎÞÂëרÇø is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.Ìý