New York, NY (Top40 Charts) SAE Institute's Nashville campus has appointed Ty Landers to the new role of General Education Faculty Chair. In this role, Landers oversees the design, implementation, and presentation of general education coursework for students in SAE's
Music Business and Audio Technology Associate Degree programs.
"One of the most important aspects of my job is to understand the needs of our student population," says Landers, who also teaches English composition, history, and speech communications at SAE Nashville. "I need to make sure that we're doing everything we can to integrate as much traditional curriculum into our students' audio engineering and music business training as possible."
A native of Alabama, Landers graduated from Kate Duncan Smith DAR High School in Grant,
Alabama in 1997. That same year, Landers enrolled in Middle Tennessee
State University, graduating with a double major in History and Political Science and a double minor in Mass Communication/Journalism and Sociology in 2003.
After graduation, Landers began his career at the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters. He later worked as a Licensing Executive at Broadcast
Music Incorporated (BMI), where he dealt with bars, hotels, restaurants, and casinos in the area of licensing compliance for the public performance of music written by BMI's songwriters. In 2005, he returned to
Alabama as an advisor in the Upward Bound Program at Snead
State Community College. He then went back to school to pursue a master's degree in Education at MTSU, and graduated in 2011. After a job at nationally ranked Ravenwood High School in Brentwood, TN teaching U.S. history, government, and world history, he was tapped by SAE Nashville's Campus
Director Lynn Dorton to teach world history at the college. He transitioned to General Education Faculty Chair in early 2015.
"When we saw how successful Ty was as our part-time history instructor, we wanted to connect him with more of our students," says Dorton. "With his impressive credentials, we realized he would be the perfect fit to lead our General Education courses. Ty's diverse background in both education and the entertainment industry enables him to fully understand the passion that drives our creative media students, as well as relate to them on a level that they respect."
In his spare time, Landers writes fiction, and has been published by UK-based literary magazine Popshot. He's currently completing a new article for arts review journal Fjords, and is also working on his first novel, which is set in South Carolina's Lowcountry.
"SAE Nashville's curriculum is outstanding and the faculty and staff are incredible," says Landers. "When you combine all the school's cool gear and great classrooms with instructors who know how to use it and care about their students, you produce audio and music business professionals who are skilled, disciplined, and passionate about their craft. This unique mix of talents makes our grads highly qualified and very attractive to employers."
