Michael Flaster has taught a variety undergraduate and graduate classes in media production, management and programming while an adjunct faculty member at Kent State University and San Diego State University. He has been a guest lecturer at New York University and the University of California, San Diego and was a visiting Scholar in at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Executive in Residence at the State University of New York College at Cortland. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the State University of New York College at Cortland and a Master of Arts Degree in from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University.