Biographical Information
SUZANNE KATHLEEN CRAWFORD
Assistant
Professor of English, mother of two wonderful sons, writer, and
artist.
(My boys "then")
Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
English Department, Assistant Professor. Duties have included: August 2007 to Present: Writing Center Coordinator. June 2007 through June 2008, Vice President of Fulltime Faculty for the Cerritos College Faculty Federation. August 2004 to Present teaching courses: English 20 (including English 20 First Year Experience and English 20 EOPS Summer Bridge), English 52 (including English 52 learning community with Child Development), English 100 (online), English 102, English 103, English 234.
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Language Arts and Literature Division, Adjunct
Faculty. January 1990 to May 2004. Teaching experience:
·
English
051, How to Survive in College (study skills such as note taking and test taking
as well as some basic writing skills).
·
English
098, English Skills (sentence-to-paragraph level skills).
·
English
099, Fundamentals of Composition (paragraph-to-essay level skills).
·
English
100, Freshman Composition (on-line hybrid course, spring 2003).
·
English
101, Critical Reasoning, Reading, and Writing Through Literature (critical
thinking and writing about literature).
·
One-to-one
assistance to students in the Writing Center and the Tutorial Center.
Service at this institution also included a one-year, temporary, full-time position as a sabbatical leave replacement with accompanying office hours, meetings, committee membership, and other duties.
Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
Liberal Arts Division, Associate Faculty. January 1996 to May 2004. Teaching experience:
·
English
289, Special Topics: Basic Effective Writing (a learning community offering
linked with Applied Psychology 140 and Library 189).
·
English
300, Beginning Writing (sentence-to-paragraph level skills).
·
English
200, Fundamentals of Composition (paragraph-to-essay level skills).
·
English
1A, Principles of Composition I.
·
English
1B, Principles of Composition II (critical thinking, longer expository and
persuasive essays, research paper).
·
One-to-one
assistance to students in Extended Opportunities Programs and Services (EOPS/CARE).
Both the English 300 and the English 289 classes taught in computer labs. Grammar and writing software programs available include Daedalus, English Skills, Practical Grammar and Composition, MSWord and others. The learning community project, CONNECT!, was a Partnership For Excellence project which attempted to pioneer a program similar to the Freshman Experience Program or PUENTE Project.
Cypress
College, Cypress, CA
·
English
095, Business Writing.
Coastline Community College, Fountain Valley, CA
Telecourse Division, Faculty Advisor. February 1999 to February 2000. Advisor for a KOCE
telecourse version of Becoming a Master
Student, the popular study skills text by David Ellis.
This position included reviewing the academic
integrity of the scripts and videos of the lessons for this distance learning
adaptation of the materials as well as designing distant learning assignments,
developing a test bank for faculty, and writing the Faculty Manual to accompany
the telecourse.
English and Humanities Division, Adjunct
Faculty. October 1992 to May
1998. Teaching experience:
·
English
102, Critical Thinking and Composition.
·
English
100, Freshman Composition.
·
English
099, Developmental Writing.
·
English
098, Basic Communication Skills.
·
English
104, Mastering College Skills (study skills such as note taking and test taking
as well as some basic writing skills).
English 104 was taught both as a traditional classroom course as well as a distance learning class over live, cable television. Other duties at this institution included designing the first course outline for Coastline's English 098 course, a class in basic writing skills for those students needing two preparatory courses prior to taking Freshman Composition, and revising course outlines for English 102 and English 104.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
English and Foreign Languages Department, Lecturer.
Up through March 1988. Responsible for teaching developmental writing
through second quarter Freshman Composition (English 095, 096, 097, 104, 105).
Quarterly appointments at this Cal State school ranged from 50% to 80% of
full time and included office hours, department meetings, and other duties.
EDUCATION
Doctoral Degree in Education: anticipated August 2011
Currently a student in the Doctorate of Education program with a specialty in Higher Education and Adult Learning from Walden University.
Courses completed: Foundations: Higher Education and Adult Learning (fall 2008)
Course Taking: How Adults Learn: Theory and Research
Master of Arts Degree in English
Includes a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition
& Twentieth Century American Literature.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.
California
State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA. (magna
cum laude).
Reading, Writing, and Study Skills Specialist. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA. Educational Opportunity Program (EOP).
Responsible for coordinating an academic support program that provided EOP students with one-to-one assistance in reading, writing, and study skills. Recruited, trained, hired, and supervised student assistants who provided tutoring to EOP students. Other duties included teaching CPU 102, Fundamental Principles of Learning Skills, a course in college survival techniques including reading improvement, note taking, time management, exam strategies, and memory improvement. This position was concurrent with the part-time faculty position in the English department.
Writing Center and Tutorial
Center Coordinator. California
State University, Los Angeles, CA.
Special Services Project.
Under a special, federally-funded grant, developed, implemented, and coordinated a campus-wide tutorial program for low‑income, limited English speaking or culturally/educationally disadvantaged college students. This program began as a writing center adjacent to and affiliated with a learning laboratory where students supplemented their writing tutoring with individualized, self-paced programs. Duties included meeting with university writing instructors, training tutors, and assessing student needs.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Recent
Publications:
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, Winter 2009: "Leaving Students out of the Equation" and "A Modest Proposal for Reconstituting Faculty Workload"
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, Fall 2008: "Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After: My Transition from Part-time to Full-time."
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, Spring 2008: "Mercy, Mercy Me: Things STILL Ain't What They Used To Be [A Brief History of Earth Day]."
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, Summer 2007: "I, Me, Mine on Steroids--Are Today's College Students and Young People More Narcissistic?" and "The Middle Path."
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, Spring 2007: "Basic Skills and the New Millennium: a Post-'3Rs' Brave New World?"
.
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, Winter 2007: "Not LOL @ Nu Wrtng: Lamenting Text Lingo" and "The New Standards for Math and English: Good? Bad? Who Knows?"
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, Fall 2006: "Empowering Students with dis-Abilities: A Celebration of Learning and Teaching."
FACCCTS, the Journal of the Faculty Association of the
California Community Colleges, Spring/Summer 2006: "The 60%
Law: Keep It, Abolish It, or Change It?"
FACCCTS,
the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges,
Winter 2006 issue: "Student Learning Outcomes: Enhancers of Learning or
Spoilers of Magic?"
FACCCTs,
the Journal of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges,
Fall 2005 issue: "Baby Boomer Faculty: Over the Hill? No Way!"
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”; “Unsung Heros?”; and “Panel Discussion” articles for CPFA News, Fall 2003 (Volume 6, Number 1).
letter in inside english, fall 1995.
Panel Speaker at the FACCC Educational Institute Part-time Faculty Symposium, October 25, 2008.
Chair of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges' (FACCC) Communication Committee.
Participant in the Carnegie Institute funded project Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in the Community Colleges (SPECC) Windows on Learning project. Stanford location, Palo Alto. July 28-30 2007.
Participant at Latino Students: Promoting Access and Success. San Diego, March 2006.
Presenter at the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges' (FACCC) fall conference workshop on part-time issues October 2005.
Participant at Skip Downing On Course Training, Long Beach, October 2004.
Part-Time Faculty Representative to the South Orange County Community College District Faculty Association for Saddleback College 2002-2004; recipient of the local chapter's We Honor Ours (W.H.O.) Award 2004.
Vice President of Part-time Faculty, 2002-2004, for the Coast Faculty Union, AFT local 1911.
Director
of Administration and Communication
for the California
Part-Time Faculty Association (CPFA) 2002-2004.
Member of the Part-Time Faculty Issues Committee for the
Community College Association (CCA) part of the California Teachers’
Association (CTA) 2002-2003.
Member
of the Part-Time Faculty Issues Committee of the Faculty Association of the
California Community Colleges (FACCC) 2002-2004.
Participant at
the 1999 Becoming a Master Student,
Student Success Conference, June 26-29, 1999, San Francisco, California.
Participant at Flex Day presentation of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, February 5, 1999, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California.
Presenter at the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Teaching Excellence & (NISOD). May 21-24, 1995, Austin, Texas.
Presenter at the Fourth Annual Chancellor's Office Conference: California Community Colleges: Valuing Opportunities and Innovation: Distance Learning, April 4-7, 1995, Doubletree Hotel, LAX.
Presenter at the Fourth Annual Chancellor's Office Conference: California Community Colleges:
Valuing Opportunities and Innovation: Distance Learning, April 4-7, 1995, Doubletree Hotel, LAX.
Presenter:
Flex Day Workshop—Techniques to Improve Study Skills in the Classroom,
February 3, 1995, Coastline Community College.
Participant
at First On-ramp to the Information Superhighway: Two-Way Interactive
Video Distance Learning Workshop, June 1-3, 1994, CSU, Dominguez Hills.
Awarded
Student Advisory Council of Coastline Community College SAC Choice Faculty
Recognition 1992-1993.