School of Professional Studies

In a previous life I was an English professor and a director of writing programs, including a ten-year stint as co-chair of the CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors. In the late nineties, while still at Baruch College, I served Baruch College’s Executive Director of Enrichment Programs, which included presiding over high school outreach and communication-across-the-curriculum programs. A member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center (in the PhD Programs in English, Urban Education, and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy), I was co-editor of the Journal of Basic Writing from 1996-2002. In 2006, I became Academic Director of the CUNY Online Baccalaureate, CUNY’s first fully online degree and now have been kicked upstairs as the chief academic officer of the CUNY School of Professional Studies, where that Online BA has been joined by an Online BS in Business. I was recently named University Director of Academic Technology for CUNY, a modulation in the title of CUNY Director of Instructional Technology, a position I’ve held since 2001. That title reflects a lot of interests, chief among them academic technology, online and blended instruction, digital rhetoric, and computer-mediated communication.

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