Past Projects at HFCC

• Faculty Senate Chair, 1988, 1989, 1995
• Chair of the Committee for the Assessment of Student Learning (CASL)   1998-2002
• Chair of Professional Problems, 2002-2003
• Chair of Enrollment Management  Committee, 1995-1998
• Faculty Grant Writer, l992-1995
• Chair of Scholastic Policies, 1986-1988
• Chair of  English 132
• English Are Representative for Local 1650, member of Negotiating Team in l988
• Member of  all three HFCC Strategic Planning Committees,  Instructional Technology Committee,  Learning Lab Task Force, English 093.  English 131, Literature Committee, Frances Barrett Committee, etc.
• Member of Citizens Advisory Committee, Dearborn

Awards:

• 1998 National Faculty Recognition Award (One of seven faculty chosen nationally as an outstanding community college educator).

• 1997 Sabbatical on Web Resources for the Teaching of Composition

• 1996 Participant, National Institute for Leadership Development of Women

• 1993, Woman of the Year at HFCC

Most Significant Professional Accomplishment (aside from teaching)

$500, 000 in grant funding from l993-l995.

My experience as a grant writer underscored the power of the written word and of collaboration.  Despite the absence of contacts, HFCC teachers were able to obtain first-time funding from agencies such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and the National Science Foundation.   Such an accomplishment was made possible by the creativity of my colleagues. Rick Bailey, Mike Daher, Deb Zopf, Barb Near, and many others demonstrated that community colleges can compete successfully with universities.  I am most proud of the FIPSE grant --we were one of 56 projects selected from a pool of over 2700 applicants.