Professor, English, Co-Director, First-Year Experience at HCC

Professor, Linda Wiley

Office: DH - 236
Phone: 410-772-4951
email: lwiley@howardcc.edu

After teaching at West Chester University and Maryland’s House of Correction, Linda began her adjunct career at HCC teaching Introduction to Literature in 1981.  In 1991, she joined the full-time faculty, teaching a variety of courses and coordinating the reading lab.  In 2001, her teaching life was transformed while attending a summer workshop at the University of South Carolina which immersed participants in “first-year experience” philosophy and practice.  Since that time, her focus has been incorporating first-year success strategies in her classes as well as in building a strong First-Year Experience (FYE) team to share ideas about successfully acculturating and transitioning our incoming first-year students to college life.  Presently, she co-directs HCC’s First-Year Experience Program with Margaret Garroway, Associate Director of Academic Support.  In this role she facilitates the Faculty Learning Community, serves as secretary to the FYE Advisory Board, and facilitates faculty development sessions throughout the year.  The FYE team has also presented at national and international conferences, sharing HCC’s faculty development-based program model.  In past years, Linda has served on the Diversity Committee, the Sabbatical Leave Committee, the committee that designed the current evaluation system for faculty, numerous search committees, and mentored several full-time and adjunct faculty members.  Presently, she serves on the Developmental Education Committee, the Retention Committee, the ENGL 097 Alignment Committee, the Book Connection Committee, the Stories Committee, is Vice-President of Faculty Forum, and serves as a Step-Up Coach. 

When she is not attending committee meetings or coaching, her passion is teaching first-year students, showing them “how to do college” by creating welcoming, collaborative, student-centered learning environments.  To enrich and internationalize her composition classes, she has also pioneered a partnering of ESL and native speaking students for writing assignments and peer editing experiences.  As another option to encourage her native speaking students to talk with and learn from international students, she has co-created a successful Conversation Partnership Program, in collaboration with Calvin Lee of the English Language Institute, Carol Parreco, director of Service Learning, and colleague Amelia Young.  The key to Linda’s strengths both inside and outside the classroom is collaboration.

Courses Taught: 

• ENGL 093
• ENGL 096 
• ENGL 097
• ENGL 121
• ENGL 205 
• ENGL 210

Education and Certifications:

• B.S. English with a concentration in Social Sciences, Towson University
• M. Ed. English, West Chester University

Awards

• Outstanding Teacher, English/World Languages Division, 2006