MELITA FOGLE

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• TESOL Certificate (March 2002, GPA 3.6)
• Recipient of the 2011-2012 SCCC Internship for the Development of Minority Faculty
• SOL (SUNY Online Learning – Summit 2013)
• SUNY CIT (Conference on Instruction and Technology – 2013)
• SUNY Learning Network Instructional Designers Group (Listerv and webinars – 2012, 2013)
• Passed U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT – October 2014)
• English Language Enrichment Instructor in joint program with African Union Commission and Peace Corps Ethiopia; Public Speaking and group discussion facilitation (October 2016)
• Peace Corps TEFL certification training: “Pronunciation/Speaking Error Repair”; in-service trainer (November 2017)
• “Yes, We Can!” Village Teacher Association teacher training; 20 teachers completed three week course based on university semester course; Moroni, Grand Comore, Comoros (February 2018)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• Capital District Educational Technology Group (CDETG – Albany, NY 2012, 2013)
• SUNY Directors of Online and Distance Learning Environments (DOODLE – 2013)
• SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology (FACT2* Campus Representative – 2013) [*FACT2 was one of SUNY former Chancellor, Nancy Zimpher’s, educational technology initiatives.]
• SCCC Faculty Association (interim secretary – Fall 2013)
• SCCC Academic Senate (2012, 2013)
• Yes! We Can Village Teacher Association teacher trainer; Moroni, Grand Comore, Comoros (2017-2018)

PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES:

• SCCC Instructional Design Workgroup (College-wide committee on educational technology/faculty support – 2013)
• SCCC Library & Technology Advisory Committee (members/representatives included local colleges, universities, academic and public libraries, and para-educational institutions such as NYS Education Department – 2012, 2013)
• Campus Search Committees:

o Chabot College Academic Librarian (2007)

o SCCC Chief Information Officer, Office of the President (2012)

o SCCC Theater Arts/Drama Instructor, Liberal Arts (2013)

o SCCC Public Relations, Office of the President (2013)

• Community of Practice Workgroup, Peace Corps Ethiopia; Addis Ababa (2015-2017)

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

• “Instructional Design and Technology.” Faculty Institute Week (Spring): Workshops, sponsored by Academic Affairs Division at Schenectady County Community College, January 2014.
• “Cloud Technologies for Student Instruction and Faculty Development [w/ Instructor Alicia Richardson].” Schenectady County Community College: Capital District Educational Technology Group Fall Meeting, sponsored by CDETG in Schenectady, New York October 2013.
• “Instructional Design and Technology.” Faculty Institute Week (Fall): Workshops, sponsored by Academic Affairs Division at Schenectady County Community College, August 2013.
• “Assessing (Instructional) Technology in Community Colleges.” Glen Sanders Mansion: Northeastern Association of Two-Year Colleges, sponsored by NATYC, Inc. in Schenectady, New York April 2013.
• “The Flipped Classroom [w/ Terry Metz and Dr. Molly E. Smith].” Faculty Institute Week (Spring): Seminar, sponsored by Academic Affairs Division at Schenectady County Community College, January 2013.
• “On the Road: A Modern History of Columbia Pike” Arlington County Central Library: Columbia Pike Documentary Project Oral History Presentations, co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and George Mason University Field School for Cultural Documentation in Arlington, Virginia 2012. [Field School for Cultural Documentation, July-August 2012 Joint venture of the Library of Congress Folklife Center and George Mason University Columbia Pike Documentary Project Oral History collection (CPDP) of the Northern Virginia Folklife Archive; Research: Columbia Pike revitalization through conveyances (see Presentations) GPA: 4.00]
• “Ethics Matter” Teachers’ Conference seminar. Groupe de Service Voluntaire’s annual teachers’ meeting; Moroni, Grand Comore, Comoros (May 2018).
• “Town Hall on Diversity and Inclusion.” Addressing systemic racism in staffing, recruitment, and in the field. How has the Peace Corps handled racial injustice concerns? How does NPCA and the Peace Corps community ensure better equity and justice? How can we build a more diverse and inclusive community? Speaker at Town Hall online public forum sponsored by the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), 16 July 2019. [Event Bio: Melita Fogle is an accomplished professional with a background in civil rights investigation and interviewing, higher education teaching, teacher training, and instructional design. She is currently employed as a federal investigator at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. From 2017-18, she was a Peace Corps Response Volunteer, English Language Advisor, at the University of Comoros and from 2015-17 served as a Peace Corps Volunteer, English Language Facilitator, in Oromia, Ethiopia. She has an M.A. in English and a B.A. in English Language and Literature, both from California State University - East Bay.]

ACADEMIC HONORS ORGANIZATIONS:

• CSUEB University Honors Association* (Secretary 2007)
• Alumni CSUEB University Honors Program* (2006-2007)
• Golden Key International Honor Society (2005-2009)

*Honors Association and Honors Program were separate entities

ACADEMIC HONORS, AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS:

• University Honors Program alumni address “Gracefully Winning is as Important As Gracefully Losing” (Honors Banquet May 2008)
• 22nd Annual CSU Student Research Competition - 2nd Place Graduate Humanities & Letters Division for “What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine: Zora Neale Hurston’s Response to White Patronage.” (May 2008)
• Graduate Equity Fellowship (2007-2008; 2008-2009)
• Dean’s List 2006-2007; 2007-2008

ACADEMIC PAPERS PRESENTED:

• “I See You: On Whiteness, Passing, and Multiraciality in James Cameron’s Avatar” Conferences: Significations Session: “Representing Race,” sponsored by the Department of English at CSU Los Angeles, 2010; (dis)junctions – States of Crisis Session: “Speculative Fiction I,” sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, et al at UC Riverside, 2010.
• “An Unbreakable Grip: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Greenleaf’ as an Allegory on Predestination.” Conference: Significations; Session: "Literature and Religion," sponsored by the Department of English at CSU Los Angeles, 2009.
• “What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine: Zora Neale Hurston’s Response to White Patronage.” Conference: Significations; Session: "Art and Authority in African American Literature," sponsored by the Department of English at CSU Los Angeles, 2008.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

• “I See You: On Whiteness, Passing, and Multiraciality in James Cameron’s Avatar” Significations 2010 (Significations is a graduate student journal published by CSU Los Angeles) 2010.
• “An Unbreakable Grip: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Greenleaf’ as an Allegory on Predestination.” Significations 2009; 2009.
• “What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine: Zora Neale Hurston’s Response to White Patronage.” Significations 2008; 2008.
• Project managed editing Wikipedia page for “The Lariat” by Jaime de Angulo for a 20th Century American Literature graduate student project; edited content of student submissions for “The Lariat” page; self-published the material via Wikipedia account, 2007.
• “Honor For a Job Well Done.” Commentary. The Pioneer newspaper; Thursday, May 17, 2007. http://pioneer.csuhayward.edu/PioneerWeb/PioneerNews5-17-07/PioneerNews5-17-07-Page4.pdf

EVENT PLANNING + PROJECT MANAGEMENT/COORDINATION:

Private Memorial Service – Saugerties, NY

2014, April

~12hrs/Week; 4 Weeks

No salary

Project managed memorial service for former United States Golf Association Executive Director, Frank Hannigan. Ninety-person international memorial (included the wife of British golf commentator Peter Alliss) and private dinner following at Cantine’s Island Co-housing Community; Saturday, April 26, 2014. Widow, Janet Carter, was neighbor.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS:

• Writing Courses: “Write-In” Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Brooklyn August 2013; “Character Development” Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Manhattan November 2011; “Humor” Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Manhattan July 2011

Book: Black Americans - A Brief Look at Our History and Culture created for use in my Peace Corps Ethiopian community. www.bookemon.com/book-profile/black-americans/502583