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Jennie E. Atkins

18 Friday Nov 2016

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Title: Director of the Centre for Executive and Professional Education

Company: University of Windsor

Location: Windsor, ON

 

 

As the director of the Centre for Executive and Professional Education at the University of Windsor, Jennie Atkins was inspired by her parents, who are both successful in their careers. Her father is an educator at the university, and her mother’s tenacity and perseverance enabled her to become a nurse. They have always been supportive of her choices and encouraged her to rise to her greatest level of success. She took on the position of director of the academic writing center, which offered a summer English as a second language (ESL) program. Over her tenure at the university, she turned the ESL program into a full-fledged recruitment pathway program for the university which now operates out of two campus sites.

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Marilou Erb

31 Wednesday Aug 2016

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Title: Investigative Psychologist, Attorney, College Professor, Consultant, Forensic Psychologist

Company: York College of Pennsylvania

Location: Hanover, PA, United States

Hanover, PA, United States, August 24, 2016, Marilou Erb, Investigative Psychologist, Attorney, College Professor, Consultant, Forensic Psychologist of York College of Pennsylvania, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in higher education.

Recognized for a successful career as a prosecutor, Ms. Erb was called by York College to teach law classes at the university. After accepting the position, she discovered her love of the teaching profession and has been with the university for 16 years. She continued providing services in the legal field up until two years ago and made the decision to devote her entire time to education. Not only did Ms. Erb contribute to the law field as a prosecutor, but also as an investigative psychologist and forensic psychologist. Continue reading →

Diana E. Hoffman

16 Tuesday Feb 2016

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Title: 1) President 2) Singer 3) Professor

Company: 1) Management Consulting 2) Diana Hoffman Sings 3) University of Nevada, Reno

Location: Sparks, NV

Sparks, NV, January 29, 2016, Diana E. Hoffman, President of Management Consulting, Singer at Diana Hoffman Sings and Professor at University of Nevada at Reno, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide for dedication, achievement and leadership in consulting, entertainment and higher education.

With more than three decades of experience, Ms. Hoffman has a lot to offer her three professions. At Management Consulting, she handles business development and strategic planning, and utilizes alliances to achieve the goals and objectives of the company. Ms. Hoffman is also teaching an upper division class entitled “Legal Environment in Business” to undergraduate business majors at the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition, Ms. Hoffman is very passionate about her side career in opera. She has been singing since she was 5 years old, and performed with The Metropolitan Opera in Europe. Ms. Hoffman created Diana Hoffman Sings to allow her to continue to do what she loves. She sings at events such as banquets, birthday parties, conventions, theaters, sporting events and weddings. Continue reading →

Carla L. Hill

02 Tuesday Feb 2016

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Title: Teaching Associate
Company: Marist College
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY United States

Poughkeepsie, NY, January 22, 2016, Carla L. Hill, Teaching Associate at Marist College, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide for dedication, achievement and leadership in higher education.

Ms. Hill’s success stems from her open-mindedness and love for working with young people. For the past nine years, she has been teaching statistics and information technology, and proudly serving as an educational tool at Marist College. In her current position, Ms. Hill is responsible for developing curriculum’s for students in statistical mathematical courses, conducting evaluation in all phases of information technology usage, implementing overall evaluations of quality assurance standards for meeting criteria, and utilizing and implementing technology as methodology of enhanced values for the development of educational tools for students. The most rewarding aspect of Ms. Hill’s career is interacting with colleagues and students. Having the students return and tell her how her teaching abilities made a positive impact in their lives makes everything she does worth it.t

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Carolyn L. Kessler, SP, Ph.D.

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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Title: Professor Emeritus-Linguistics
Company: University of Texas at San Antonio
Location: San Antonio, TX United States

San Antonio, TX, January 18, 2016, Carolyn L. Kessler, SP, PhD, Professor Emeritus in Linguistics, Division of Bicultural Bilingual Studies, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide for dedication, achievement and leadership in linguistics and English as a Second Language (ESL) education.

Dr. Kessler has known since high school that she wanted to be a teacher, but didn’t discover linguistics until a former professor suggested she would be good at this field of the science of language since it combined both her interests in French and chemistry, which she had taught at the high school level for eleven years. She graduated with a BA in French from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, Indiana, after which she entered the Sisters of Providence there, celebrating 60 years as a member in 2014. Dr. Kessler became an expert in linguistics and second language acquisition and learning, teaching ESL at Stanford University; Immaculata College of Washington; University of Rome, Italy; and Providence University, Taiwan, among others.  She is a Member of the Founding Faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), retiring after 25 years in the Division of Bicultural Bilingual Studies where she taught in the master’s degree program for Teaching English as a Second Language. Working with students, observing their growth in a field new to them was always an inspiration for her.  She was a frequent contributor at national and international conferences and has published extensively in her field. Continue reading →

Ana M. Hnat, Ph.D.

18 Monday Jan 2016

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Hnat, Ana 1681417Title: Lead Professor for World Languages
Company: Houston Community College System
Location: Houston, TX United States

Houston, Texas, December 22, 2015, Ana M. Hnat, Ph.D., Lead Professor for World Languages at Houston Community College System, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in higher education.

For nearly four decades, Dr. Hnat has shared her passion of language with scores of eager and interested college students. She has parlayed this experience for the past 26 years as the lead professor for world languages where her responsibilities include teaching Spanish classes, hiring department staff and working with the discipline committee to formulate and construct the syllabus. Her students and colleagues benefit from her proficient knowledge of Spanish, French, grammar, linguistics and history of languages.

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Lorena E. Beeman, RN, BSN, MS, CCVT

18 Monday Jan 2016

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Beeman, Lorena 87621Title: Director, Cardiopulmonary Critical Care
and Simulation Educator

Company: Health Sciences Center,
The University of New Mexico

Location: Albuquerque, NM United States

Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 15, 2015, Lorena E. Beeman, Director, Cardiopulmonary Critical Care and Simulation Educator at Health Sciences Center, The University of New Mexico, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in higher education.

Ms. Beeman’s contributions to the University of New Mexico are the result of 23 dedicated years with the institution. With a career spanning more than three decades, she has had many successes and many of them of them in her current role. Her primary focus is on the development of educational simulations, where she contributes to textbooks, and oversees provisions in educational opportunities from novice to expert levels. For this work and the work she has dedicated over the years, she has been awarded the Excellence in Education, Research and Academia, Community Training and Simulation Center from the University of New Mexico Hospitals, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Albuquerque chapter of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

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Melanie L. Freese, MLS

11 Monday Jan 2016

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Freese, Melanie 2620Title: 1) Associate Professor of Library Services
2) Assistant Chair of Technical Services

Company: Hofstra University

Location: Hempstead, NY United States

Hempstead, NY, December 11, 2015, Melanie Freese, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of Technical Services at Hofstra University, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in library and technical services.

Demonstrating more than four decades of experience, Ms. Freese has spent the majority of her career at Hofstra University. Primarily responsible for cataloging a variety of materials for the curriculum materials center, she has stressed the importance of libraries and the ever-important role of the librarian in our society. With a world full of information that is more accessible than ever before, the role of the librarian are able to effectively navigate through the saturation of information. Ms. Freese also utilizes her 40 years in the industry to efficiently mentor and educate younger colleagues and students.

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