Dr. Sederick Charles Rice Email & Phone Number

A confident, adaptable, highly-motivated and results-oriented educator with over fifteen years of experience in skills development, research, teaching, and mentoring on the secondary and post-secondary levels. Broad skillsets in developing STEM career pathways using evidence-based frameworks and managing early pipeline STEM workforce initiatives. Core values include a commitment to STEM education and research, innovation within learning, knowledge transfer, community/stakeholder collaborations and partnerships, strategic faculty and staff professional development, outreach, and above all student success. Strong technical and applications’ background, which relies on analytics, data evaluation, and internal and structured partnerships to support faculty, staff, and students. Experience conducting formative and summative assessments, using innovative technology, and collecting and analyzing demographic data with a focus on faculty professional development and training, student learning, retention, student success outcomes, curriculum mastery, diploma achievement, graduation, and STEM job placement. As director of a STEM Center, secured $365,100 to support personnel and K-12 science and math teachers in local and regional LEAs. Ability to build coalitions with industry and educational and workforce development agencies to better prepare K9-12 and undergraduate and graduate students for productive employment in local, regional, and national STEM industries. Given praise for transparency, diplomacy, an ability to accept and give constructive criticism. Strong interpersonal skills, resilience, and applied knowledge from training to handle stressful and delicate academic and personnel issues which often directly impact students’ enrollment and success, faculty and staff morale, as well as community support.