Ms. Melanie Wong Assistant Professor Associate Dean, USMAPS USMAPS melanie.wongdodge [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Ms. Melanie Wong is the Associate Dean at the United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS). She graduated from Pepperdine University at the age of 19, with a double major in Communication and Foreign Languages, and spent a semester studying in Heidelberg, Germany. Ms. Wong holds a master’s degree in international management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and is currently a doctoral candidate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University.While accompanying her military spouse, Ms. Wong leveraged her learning agility to create a protean career with roles spanning different job functions across the entertainment, IT, and education sectors. While stationed in South Korea, she worked as an overseas production manager for a U.S. animated television series. In the D.C. area, she served as an IT program manager for TRW (now Northrup Grumman) and a Sr. Brand Manager for a web professional services firm. After moving to West Point, Ms. Wong taught business and communication courses at Mount Saint Mary’s College and developed business curricula for Cengage. Ms. Wong also taught Organizational Behavior at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University.Ms. Wong joined the faculty of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in 2007, where she taught courses such as Psychology for Leaders and Human Resource Management. Her teaching was recognized with the department’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2008, and she completed USMA’s Master Teacher Program, eventually being promoted to Assistant Professor in 2009. In 2013, she transitioned to her current role at USMAPS.Her research interests focus on adult and organizational learning and development. Ed.D. Candidate (ABD) in Adult Learning and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University M.B.A. in International Management, Middlebury Institute of International StudiesB.A. in Communication and Foreign Languages, Pepperdine University Selected Publications PublicationsWong Dodge, M., Dobbs, J., Crockett, C., & Winfield, T. (2019). A different kind of gap year: Program development and assessment at the United States Service Academy Preparatory Schools. Journal of Character and Leadership Development, 6(2).United States Military Academy (2018) Developing leaders of character: The West Point leadership development system. West Point, NY. Writing team: Kelly, D.; Kobylski, G.; Judd, T.; Peterson, J.; Ryan, D.; Spain, E.; West, H.; & Wong-Dodge, M. PresentationsAcademic engagement and leadership development: A POGIL-based approach to chemistry education in a post-secondary military preparatory schoolhttps://www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/spring.htmlMarch 2024Jones, M., Owens, A., Payne, A., MacEwan, G., & Wong Dodge, M. (2024). Academic engagement and leadership development: A POGIL-based approach to chemistry education in a post-secondary military preparatory school. Oral presentation. American Chemical Society Spring 2024, New Orleans, LA.Test self-correction: Learning or liability?https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED534556.pdfMarch 2012Grim, A. and Wong Dodge, M. (2012, March). Test self-correction: Learning or liability? Oral presentation at the 26th Annual Conference on the Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology, Farmingdale State College Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, Tarrytown, NY.Fostering transformative and transformational learning at the United States Military Academyhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1PoeLtPGuiVzri6H_Naz5QqLRkfF9P_43/viewMay 2011Wong Dodge, M. and Deekens, V. (2011, May). Fostering transformative and transformational learning at the United States Military Academy. Roundtable at the 9th International Conference on Transformative Learning, Athens, Greece.Self-correcting exams: Making the summative formativehttps://nitop.org/January 2009Ryan, D and Wong Dodge, M. (2009, January). Self-correcting exams: Making the summative formative. Poster presented at the 31st Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL.