Chair : Rosalyn M. King, Northern Virginia Community College

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#9999CC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04e105a1ezuabz.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Verdana" >ECCSSA</FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ECCSSA"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CCCCE4" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04dd2182ecggew.gif"> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Officers Board of Trustees"><U><B><U>Officers & Board of Trustees</U></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Chair :  Rosalyn M. King, Northern Virginia Community College</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vice Chair: John Hutchinson, Community C"><U>Vice Chair: John Hutchinson, Community College of Baltimore County-Essex</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Secretary: David Lipton, Adjunct Profess"><U>Secretary: David Lipton, Adjunct Professor of History </U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Treasurer: Ramezan Dowlati, Northern Vir"><U>Treasurer: Ramezan Dowlati, Northern Virginia Community College</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Carolyn Coulter, Atlantic Cape Community"><U>Carolyn Coulter, Atlantic Cape Community College</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Maureen Dadekian Eckel, Northern Essex C"><U>Maureen Dadekian Eckel, Northern Essex Community College</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Michael H. Parsons, Hagerstown Community"><U>Michael H. 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King, Northern Virginia Community College</B></div> <div> <B>Loudoun Campus, 1000 Harry Flood Byrd Highway, Sterling Virginia 20164, (703) 450-2629</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="1c33cf80.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="248" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Professor of Psychology & Chair, Center for Teaching Excellence</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>E-Mail: </B><A HREF="mailto:roking@nvcc.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:roking@nvcc.edu"><U><B>roking@nvcc.edu</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.psyking.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.psyking.net"><U><B>Personal and Course Web Site</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nvcc.edu/loudoun/cte" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nvcc.edu/loudoun/cte"><U><B>CTE Web Site</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nvcc.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nvcc.edu"><U><B>College Web Site</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>______</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Dr. Rosalyn M. King </B></I>is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the</div> <div> Center for Teaching Excellence for the Northern Virginia Region.  </div> <div> She has an interdisciplinary background in psychology, education, </div> <div> anthropology, and sociology, administration, planning and social policy. </div> <div> Her areas of specialty are in psychology, learning environments, counseling, research design and methodology and process and impact evaluation.  </div> <div> King is an educational (cognitive developmental) and research psychologist by training.</div> <bR> <div> She received her doctoral training at Harvard University and did special </div> <div> study in the Harvard Law School and the School of Design.  King has studied </div> <div> intellectual property laws through online courses at the Harvard Law School's </div> <div> Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Most recently, King was selected to </div> <div> present a paper at the Oxford Roundtable on the Psychology of the Child at </div> <div> Oxford University, Oxford, England in July 2006. In June 2008, she studied at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan on Contemporary and Popular Japanese Cultures and Societies from a historical perspective.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> King has a wide and varied range of experiences which includes grass roots,</div> <div> clinical, policy formulation, and higher education -- in program development,</div> <div> research & evaluation, college counseling & therapy,  and teaching and </div> <div> administration. She has worked in such settings as community-based </div> <div> organizations, federal, state and local government, consulting firms, </div> <div> and colleges and universities. </div> <bR> <div> Her research experiences have included serving as director of research</div> <div> for several national large-scale studies mandated by the Congress, </div> <div> the federal government and private foundations. Her academic and professional research interests include a wide variety of topics including the psychology of teaching and learning, innovation and experimentation in educational programs and methods of delivery, and  study of national and international cultures, life and behavior, with cross-cultural comparative perspectives.</div> <bR> <div> She has taught at several colleges and universities in an adjunct or visiting</div> <div> professor capacity, including the University of North Florida,Clark-Atlanta </div> <div> University, University of Maryland at College Park, Mary Washington College,</div> <div> George Mason University, Catonsville Campus of the Community College of </div> <div> Baltimore County, and Prince George's Community College.</div> <bR> <div> Dr. King has been at NVCC on the Loudoun campus for the past 10 years, </div> <div> where she teaches courses in psychology, including  introduction, educational psychology, lifespan human development, research methods, and theories of </div> <div> personality (honors option). She is an advocate of community engagement</div> <div> and service learning as important instructional tools.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to serving on the ECCSSA Board, she has served on the Education</div> <div> Advisory Board for the University of Virginia's Northern Virginia Center, along</div> <div> with serving on the Planning Committee of the National Assessment of </div> <div> Educational Progress, 2011 Writing Framework for the nation. </div> <bR> <div> She also serves on various committees at her institution including chair of</div> <div> the College's Psychology Review Committe; and, for the Virginia Community</div> <div> College System, is a member of the Professional Development Committee. </div> <div> She  has been a monitor for the Smithsonian Institution's Resident Associates</div> <div> Program for 11 years and provides 50-150 hours of service per year to the Institution. </div> <bR> <div> King is a trained artist specializing in watercolors and soft pastels, and enjoys </div> <div> playing the flute, recorders, piccolo, piano, and her newest hobby, the </div> <div> electronic keyboard. Please visit her website above for more detailed information </div> <div> on her work, a listing of her publications, and to view selections from her art.</div> <bR> <div> Each year, King leads study abroad tours with students.  She has toured the </div> <div> countries of France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Tetouan, Morocco, Canada, Jamaica, </div> <div> Greece, Turkey, England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Japan. Her 2008 study tour was to Central Europe.</div> <bR> <div> She is author of a recent publication, <B>Enriching the Lives of Children </B><I>(Cambridge Scholars Publishing).</I><B> </B>More information on her book can be found on her website (address above).</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>