Residential Faculty, Exercise Science
Mesa Community College · Higher-education teaching since 2003 · Professional fitness experience since 1997
Mesa Community CollegeHealth Sciences Department · Mesa, Arizona
Download CVResidential Faculty in Exercise Science at Mesa Community College, with prior faculty appointments and administrative experience at Arizona State University.
Michelle L. Jung teaches Exercise Science in the Health Sciences Department at Mesa Community College. She has taught in higher education since 2003 and at MCC since 2013, becoming Residential Faculty in August 2022. Her current work includes applied labs and clinics, accessible course materials, digital learning tools, faculty development, and inquiry into how students transfer knowledge across courses.
Earlier positions include Faculty Associate appointments in Dance, Recreation and Tourism Management, Kinesiology, and Physical Education at Arizona State University, as well as fitness and wellness administration culminating in service as Assistant Director of Fitness and Wellness.
Courses, teaching practices, and selected digital learning and operational projects.
Instruction is grouped by subject and activity.
Public and internal tools developed for courses, laboratory operations, and student-led clinics.
Designed a growing collection of interactive learning and laboratory tools for introductory exercise science, including energy systems, energy expenditure, nutrition, cardiac output, fitness assessment, and human performance testing.
Explore the interactivesDeveloping a collection of practical interactives that help learners explore personal and community health decisions through clear comparisons, realistic scenarios, and accessible design.
Explore the interactivesDesigned a centralized workflow for faculty requests, recurring lab operations, employee projects, tutoring documentation, and student-employee professional development. The internal system is not publicly linked.
Designed an integrated booking, waitlist, reminder, check-in, practitioner-assignment, evaluation, and feedback workflow supporting student-led recovery and stretching clinics. The operational system is not publicly linked.
Selected presentations, workshops, panels, and facilitated sessions.
Presentation on competency-based assessment in EXS215 and EXS217 for the 2026 Fall Community of Practice, Teaching in the Age of the Passive Student: Adapting Instruction for Today’s Learning Environment, Mesa Community College, November 9, 2026.
The Learning Ideas Conference, New York, June 11, 2026.
Interactive workshop, The Learning Ideas Conference, New York, June 11, 2026.
Planning committee member, presenter on human-AI workflows, and faculty panelist, May 2026.
Presentation on AI and teaching practice, April 2025.
Faculty panelist, January 2025.
Literacy Partners Project panel member, October 2024.
Collaborative planetarium presentation connecting human movement and exercise science, Mesa Community College, March 2024.
Workshop presenter, Mesa Community College Wellness Fair, November 2023.
Presenter at two institutional events addressing faculty and community audiences.
Presenter at the NIRSA National Conference, NIRSA Fitness and Wellness Institute Conference, and AZIRSA.
Current faculty work, scholarship, research, and prior appointments.
Investigating how students transfer knowledge and skills across courses in an exercise science program and into subsequent academic study.
Member of the Mesa Community College team developing a collaborative, human-centered framework for faculty and student AI preparedness.
Group moderator supporting institutional dialogue and change at Mesa Community College.
Participated in open-pedagogy work connecting course learning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Faculty participant in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Extended programs in transparent assignment design, assessment for learning, standards-based grading, learner-centered teaching, and effective assessment, 2024–2026.
Let’s Get Accessible, Summer Accessibility Lab, neurodivergent student support, and accessible Canvas design, 2025–2026.
AI literacy, generative AI for teaching and learning, AI in math and science, and assessment in the age of AI, 2024–2026.
Four-part Rethinking the Role of Reading series focused on disciplinary reading, annotation, journaling, engagement, and accountability, 2025.
Semester-long faculty development group supporting implementation of high-impact experiential and community-based learning, 2026.
Ringenbach, S. D. R., Mulvey, G. M., Chen, C.-C. J. J., & Jung, M. L. (2012). Unimanual and bimanual continuous movements benefit from visual instructions in persons with Down syndrome. Journal of Motor Behavior, 44(4), 233–239.
PubMed recordMulvey, G. M., Ringenbach, S. D. R., & Jung, M. L. (2011). Reversal of handedness effects on bimanual coordination in adults with Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 55(10), 998–1007.
DOI recordRingenbach, S. D. R., Allen, H., Chung, S., & Jung, M. L. (2006). Specific instructions are important for continuous bimanual drumming in adults with Down syndrome. Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 11(1), 29–36.
PubMed recordJung, M. L., Ringenbach, S. D. R., & Lantero, D. A. (2003). Some coordination patterns reduce postural stability. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 25, S77–S78.
The Relationship Between Bimanual Coordination and Postural Stability
Master of Kinesiology, Arizona State University, 2004.
Graduate Research Assistant, Motor Development and Learning Research Lab
Arizona State University, June 2003–December 2006
Conducted research in motor control, learning, and development across the lifespan and among special populations; coordinated data collection and analysis; and supervised undergraduate interns and visiting researchers.
Began by teaching one course and later held adjunct and one-year-only appointments. Developed and taught Exercise Science and related courses while supporting student advising, internships, honors work, and department initiatives.
Supervised staff and an undergraduate intern; coordinated fitness and wellness programming; supported risk management, accessibility, and long-range facility planning.
Designed and taught physical education courses, interactive online lectures, workouts, and laboratory activities in motor learning and exercise physiology.
Directed recreation, fitness, and wellness programming; supervised professional staff, interns, student instructors, trainers, and contractors; managed risk, budgets, staff development, and large-scale programming. Also provided cardio, flexibility, and fitness instruction for collegiate athletes, including ASU football, basketball, swim and dive, women's gymnastics, women's tennis, and other teams.
Developed and taught kinesiology courses across Tempe and Downtown Phoenix campuses, including online and hybrid curricula.
Hired, trained, evaluated, and supervised student employees and interns; implemented fitness-testing protocols; and managed schedules, payroll, events, and continuing education.
Hired, trained, evaluated, and supervised group exercise instructors; designed and taught an eight-week instructor-training program; supported schedules, payroll, events, marketing, employee wellness, and professional certification workshops.
Developed and taught undergraduate coursework in fitness, nutrition, and health.
Developed and taught undergraduate activity courses and undergraduate/graduate yoga and Pilates coursework for students with varied experience levels.
Michelle began working professionally in the fitness industry in 1997. Her instruction included group fitness, strength, cardio, flexibility, yoga, Pilates, cycling, step, HIIT, TRX, and other formats. She also instructed collegiate athletes from ASU football, basketball, swim and dive, women's gymnastics, women's tennis, and additional teams.
Institutional, professional, and community service.
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