Sarah Wakefield

Experience

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  Prairie View A&M University

  Aug 2002 - Jul 2016

  Scheduled 60+ courses per term for 12-15 instructors, oversaw assessment for the core curriculum and English B.A., and advised English majors / minors on course selection and career planning. Taught freshman composition, technical writing, British literature, literary theory, and writing for electronic media at the B.A. level and pedagogy and literature at the M.A. level. Specialist in eLearning.

  • English Program Coordinator

    Jun 2009 - Jul 2016

  • Associate Professor of English

    Aug 2008 - Jul 2016

  • Assistant Professor of English

    Aug 2002 - Aug 2008
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  Renton Technical College

  Jul 2016 - now

  Dean of Business, General Education, and Transfer

  Effective 1 July 2023, I coordinate the following at Renton Technical College:* all general education offerings at RTC for associate degree and BAS completion;* transfer degrees in business, pre-nursing, and computer science;* RTC's five career training programs in Business Management: accounting, contemporary business, construction management, legal assistant, and office assistant; and* first-term college success classes, placement reform, and program mapping.I also work on college assessment and Guided Pathways.Prior duties include...* supervision of accounting and business administration programs, July 2016 to June 2021* supervision of office assistant and medical office (coding) programs, July 2018 to June 2021* preparation for the 2021 NWCCU Year 7 re-accreditation visit, primarily in writing the self-evaluation report, June 2019 to April 2021* supervision of computer science and computer networking programs, with management of an NSF grant for the BAS in Network Architecture, July 2016 to August 2019 Show less