Suzanne Cherry Email & Phone Number

Taught grades 9-12 at alternative charter school, until school closed by the state

Online

North Charleston, Sc

Recruit, train, and evaluate faculty, including preparation for new and ongoing programs from term to term, conducting and supervising the regular observation of all faculty, creating and implementing the annual in-service schedule, supervising and managing the creation of annual faculty development plans, supervising appropriate professional growth opportunities for faculty and academics staff, tracking all faculty training and HR forms, and leading program directors to recruit, train, and evaluate faculty more effectively.Ensure compliance at local, state, and national levels. Led campus to improve its internal accreditation reviews within six months; led academics department through a successful ACICS accreditation visit.Recruit, train, and evaluate academics staff (10 people).Manage budget and payroll; decreased instructional expenses while improving delivery of instructional quality. Developed strong positive relationship with controller.Manage scheduling, including improving the master scheduling creation process at the campus by implementing a shared common schedule, improved schedule turn around time while reducing error, improved schedule acceptance rate, and served on a corporation-wide task force for improving the scheduling process.Resolve problems for faculty and students, ranging from obstacles to attendance to lost books to creating emergency lesson plans and managing classroom situations. Maintain an open-door policy for all faculty, staff, and students. Encourage faculty and students to learn to identify and solve problems in a positive way.Work with all other departments and staff (enrollment, financial aid, career services, campus administration) to create a positive student experience. Ensure a positive externship experience for students. Work with career services to meet placement goals for students. Serve on committees and work groups for the campus and the corporation.

Columbia, South Carolina

Assisted Dean in all accreditation, management, and supervision activities for the campus.Recruit, train, and evaluate faculty for the General Education program.Create and manage schedule for General Education for each term.Plan, order, and manage supplies for the General Education program.Ensure the General Education program met all local, state, and federal accreditation guidelines, including accurate record keeping for the program and the campus.Serve as Manager on Duty for the campus on rotational basis.Created, implemented, and hosted in-service opportunities for faculty.Met with prospective students.Served as faculty advisor for the National Technical Honor Society chapter at the campus.Served as campus ambassador and representative at various community events.Make re-entry and attendance calls, counsel students, counsel faculty, and resolve problems with faculty, staff, and students.Assist with advisory board meetings for other chairs.Work with other chairs and members of other departments to move campus in a positive direction.

Columbia, South Carolina

Served as campus start-up Director of Academic Affairs, leading academics from before the campus had a physical location through student body of 800 students.Recruit, train, and evaluate faculty, including reviewing resumes, conducting initial interviews, hosting faculty open house, conducting and participating in demonstration lessons, planning and leading new faculty training, planning all training activities at the campus, planning and hosting in-service opportunities, maintaining records of all activities, and training campus college chairs to conduct all these activities.Supervise campus college chairs (2), academic affairs coordinator (1) and lead faculty area chairs (16) at the Columbia campus and the Greenville campus, including recruiting, training, and evaluating staff.Managed budget so that instructional expenses were consistently below goals set at the national level. Created and managed lead faculty area chair annual contracts successfully.Scheduled all faculty at least 120 days prior to the start of classes.Created work groups among faculty to support and encourage academic scholarship.Led the academics affairs department through successful annual internal audits, improving the performance of the campus yearly.Created and managed any investigations into academic dishonesty or conduct related issues for students and faculty at the campus.Worked regularly with operations and enrollment to ensure creation of schedule to maximize class size and classroom spaceHelped plan and lead commencement ceremonies.Met with prospective students.Served on the national internal audit committee for academic affairs.Served as campus ambassador and representative in various community events.Taught classes at the ground and online classes in English, Humanities, introduction studies, and graduate courses in Management.Served as mentor to new directors of academic affairs in Raleigh and Puerto Rico campuses

Florence, South Carolina

Taught various courses in English and Secondary Education; Coordinator of Secondary English Education program; supervised secondary English clinical and student teacher experiences; founding Director of the Swamp Fox Writing Project, an affiliation of the National Writing Project; created NCATE accreditation documents for the secondary English program; served on a variety of departmental and campus-wide committees and work force task groups; promoted from associate professor; tenured.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Taught various courses in Rhetoric and Composition, including introduction to linguistics, grammar, freshman composition, and technical writing. Served on several departmental committees.

Ph.D., English

Activities and Societies: English Graduate Student Association Southeastern Area Lingusitic Society of America (SALSA) National Council.

Master'S Degree, English -- Rhetoric And Composition

Activities and Societies: English Graduate Association National Council of Teachers of English

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English