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TITLE: Professor,
Academic Advisor to Men's Basketball
DEPARTMENT: English
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED & DEGREES EARNED:
Ph.D.
1996 University of Pittsburgh
English
M.A.
1985 University of Pittsburgh
English
B.A.
1973 Grove City College
English
PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATION:
Director of College Writing; Co-Chair, Performing Arts
SCHOLARLY AWARDS
2002 Outstanding Staff Service Award, La Roche Student Government
1999 Class Marshal
1998 Brother Gregory Nugent, E.S.C. Award for Teacher Excellence, La Roche College
RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
“Reading the Gaps: High School-College Alignment and the Humanities,” Humanities Symposium 2007, February 27, Columbia University, New York City.
Consultant to Pennsylvania Department of Education, PSSA/Placement Exams Alignment Project. 2004-6.
Governor's Commission on College and Career Success, PA Department of Education. Work Group Member, Fall 2005 to December 2006.
RECENT ARTICLE: “Evidence-Based Education Policies: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road,” with Lucretia “Penny” Pence, in Blurring Boundaries: Developing Writers, Researchers, and Teachers. A Tribute to William L. Smith. Ed. Peggy O'Neill. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006.
CURRENT PROJECTS: Working on a mystery novel set in Pittsburgh ; revising an article for publication (“Reading the Gaps: High School-College Alignment and the Humanities.” a paper given at the Humanities Symposium 2007, Columbia University)
RECENT FAVORITES : The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbably Dynasty, by Adrian Wojnarowski ; Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir, by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith; Dairy Queen , by Catherine Murdock; Countdown with Keith Olbermann; Reaper; Bleak House with Gillian Anderson.
JOINED LA ROCHE: 1995
HOMETOWN: Pittsburgh and Parker, PA
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