Vincent Granito

Psychology Professor

Lorain County Community College

Dr. Vince Granito is a psychology professor at Lorain County Community College.  He has been co-leading a Faculty Learning Community on AI use in Higher Education at LCCC since September 2023, and has presented multiple workshops on AI use for faculty, staff and administrators.  His current research interests include ethical, social, and legal implications of AI, as well as human-AI interaction and collaboration. He has been awarded numerous grants for innovations in teaching and was awarded the Wayne Weiten Teaching Excellence Award from the American Psychological Association in 2013, as the top two-year college psychology professor in the country.  He also has a background in sport psychology and is the past president of the Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology division through the American Psychological Association. He has published a number of articles, including a chapter in The Teaching of Psychology in Autobiography: Perspectives from Exemplary Psychology Teachers published by Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and a chapter on the history of sport psychology in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. He also is co-founder of Smart Performance, an educational program focusing on the mental aspects of Pickleball.