Years Experience College

Location:

Birmingham, AL

Posted:

October 11, 2012

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Resume:

Susan K. Hagen

Box ******, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL 35254 . 205-***-**** .

******@***.***

Profile:

Over 30 years experience in undergraduate teaching and curricular development; over 10

years experience in administration on department, division, and institutional levels,

including candidate searches and budgeting. Additional experience in peer review,

consulting, and grant writing and administration. Proven record of publication and public

presentations. Strategist in assessment planning and consensus building.

Education:

Ph.D. in English Medieval Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia,

1976

M.A. in English Medieval Literature, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1972

A.B. in English, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg,

Pennsylvania, 1969

Record of Employment:

Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama 35254 -- 1976-present

Director of the Honors Program 2002-present

Associate Dean of the College 1998-2004

Responsible for academic assessment, curricular development, faculty development

Helped construct and direct faculty passage of new general education curriculum

Overseeing three-year implementation of new general education program, including

significant new course development (20 new courses for 2001-2002)

Co-wrote and directed $100,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for

innovative general education curriculum development; resulted in over 30 new courses

Instituted assessment audit for academic program that became basis on accreditation study

Broadened new faculty mentor program and created first new-faculty handbook

College Coordinator of Teaching Technology -- 1996-98

Responsible for training faculty in teaching technologies

Co-founded College's first webteam; helped initiate and design website

Initiated faculty training workshops in information technology and development of online

course materials and innovative student assessments; over 158 courses now on Blackboard,

Course Info.

Served on Associated Colleges of the South s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant review

committee 1996-2000; currently serve on coordinating committee for Mellon information

fluency grant

Chair of the Division of Humanities --

1994-2000

Responsible for six budget lines, hiring, faculty evaluation, and course scheduling

Initiated first standardized third-year review process for untenured faculty

Significantly improved working relationship between division and administration

Helped organize first coordinating council for the Birmingham Area Consortium of Higher

Education (BACHE)

Tutor, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, British Studies at Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford,

England, summers 1994, 1990, 1986, 1982

Mary Collett Munger Professor of English -- 1988-present

Wrote proposal and oversaw English faculty s participation in MLA-FIPSE Curriculum Review

Project,

1991-1994

Coordinator for the Faculty of English -- 1983-89

Responsible for scheduling and hiring adjuncts

Chaired Curriculum and Standards Committee and brokered addition of foreign language

requirement to the 1978 general education curriculum

Led faculty passage of +/- grading system and institution of minors

Associate Professor of English -- 1982

Assistant Professor of English -- 1976

Served on committee that outlined the general education curriculum in place from 1978

until Fall 2001

Organized and founded Sigma Tau Delta national English honorary chapter on campus

Professional Societies and Honoraries:

Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1969, Gettysburg College; South Central District Senator 2006-

2012

New Chaucer Society

Southeastern Medieval Association (Executive Committee 1991-1994, 2005-2008)

Community Service:

Alabama Humanities Foundation (Executive Board 1997-2000)

Emmet O Neal Library Creative Writing Contest (Judge 1993-present)

Gettyburg College Commission on the Future (Commission Member 1997-99)

Birmingham Family Violence Center (Founding Board Member 1978-81)

Peer Reviews and Consultancy:

SACS Reaffirmation Committee, Converse College 19-22 March 2007.

Chair

SACS Reaffirmation Committee, Catawba College 4-6 April 2005.