Chair: Rosalyn M. King, Northern Virginia Community College | John Hutchinson, Community College of Baltimore County-Essex | Carolyn Coulter, Atlantic Cape Community College-New Jersey | Barbara Crain, Northern Virginia Community College | Satarupa Das, Montgomery College-Maryland | Gene Grabiner, Erie Community College-New York | Michael H. Parsons, Hagerstown Community College-Maryland | Emeritus: Frank J. Cavaioli, Professor Emeritus, Farmingdale State, SUNY-NY | Emeritus: Gerard Morin, Northern Essex Community College-Mass. | Emeritus: George Skau, Professor Emeritus, Bergen Community College-NJ | Emeritus: Elizabeth Wilcoxson, Northern Essex Community College-Mass. | Emeritus: Paul Zigo, Brookdale Community College-New Jersey
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Chair: Rosalyn M. King, Northern Virginia Community College
Loudoun Campus, 1000 Harry Flood Byrd Highway, Sterling Virginia 20164, (703) 450-2629
Professor of Psychology & Chair, Center for Teaching Excellence
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Dr. Rosalyn M. King is Professor of Psychology at Northern Virginia Community College and Chair of the VCCS Center for Teaching Excellence for the Northern Virginia Region. She has an interdisciplinary background in psychology, education, anthropology, and sociology; and, administration, planning and social policy. Her areas of specialty are in psychology, learning environments, counseling, research design and methodology and process and impact evaluation. King is an educational (cognitive developmental) and research psychologist by training.
She received her doctoral training at Harvard University in Learning Environments, Administration, Planning and Social Policy and did special study in the Harvard Law School (Constitutional Law and Minority Issues) and the School of Design (Youth in the Urban American Environment).
As part of post graduate studies, King has studied intellectual property laws through four online courses at the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In 2008, King studied with Dr. Michael Sandel, Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University in an online course: Justice Online: A Journey in Moral Reasoning, through the Harvard University Alumni Association. In 2009, also through the Alumni Association she studied with Dr. Maria Tatar, John Loeb professor of Germanic Languages and Literature in an online course: Through the Looking Glass-The History, Philosophy and Literature of Childhood.
King was selected to present a paper at the Oxford Roundtable on the Psychology of the Child at Oxford University, Oxford, England in July 2006. The title of her presentation is the same as her book in its second printing on Enriching the Lives of Children. In June 2008, she studied at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan on Contemporary and Popular Japanese Cultures and Societies from a historical perspective. In 2009, she presented a paper for the second invitation to the Oxford Round Table on The Three Cultures: Humanities-Literature, Religion and Science. Her paper and presentation Psychology's Use and Representation of the Three Cultures in Understanding Human Nature: History, Perspectives and Portraits is scheduled for book publication in 2011.
King has a wide and varied range of experiences which includes grass roots, clinical, policy formulation, and higher education -- in program development, research & evaluation, postsecondary and college counseling & therapy, and teaching and administration. She has worked in such settings as community-based organizations, federal, state and local government, consulting firms, and colleges and universities.
Her research experiences include serving as director of research for several national large-scale studies mandated by the Congress, 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.
She has taught at several colleges and universities in an adjunct or visiting professor capacity, including the University of North Florida, Clark-Atlanta University, University of Maryland at College Park, Mary Washington College, George Mason University, Catonsville Campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, and Prince George's Community College.
Dr. King has been at NVCC on the Loudoun campus for the past 14 years, where she teaches courses in psychology, including introduction (honors option), educational psychology, lifespan human development, research methods, and theories of personality (honors option). She uses constructivist instructional strategies in the class. She is an advocate of community engagement and service learning as important instructional tools.
Professional service includes: Chair of Board, Eastern Community College Social Science Association (ECCSSA); Former member, Education Advisory Board for the University of
Virginia's Northern Virginia Center; and, Former member, Planning Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Writing Framework and Assessment for the nation. King currently is a monitor for the Smithsonian Institution's Resident Associates Program and has been for nearly 15 years and provides 50-150 hours of service per year to the Institution.
She serves on various committees at her institution: chair of the College's Psychology Review Committee; member, Student Development Review Committee and faculty member on the Honors Committee. For the Virginia Community College System, she is a member of the
state-wide Professional Development Committee.
Each year, King leads study abroad tours with students, faculty and community. She has toured
the countries of France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Tetouan, Morocco, Canada, Jamaica, Greece, Turkey, England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Japan and Central Europe--Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Brattislavia, Slovakia, Hungary, England and France. Her 2010 study tour was to Israel and Jordan. Her 2011 tour will study the education system at all levels in China with an excursion to Hong Kong.
King is a trained artist specializing in watercolors, soft pastels and mixed media. She enjoys playing the flute, recorders, piccolo, piano, and her newest hobby, the electronic keyboard. Please visit her website above for more detailed information on her work, a listing of her publications, and to view selections from her art.
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