Email: ekroll@kvcc.edu

Phone: 269.488.4350

Office: 7434 TTC


Current Position:


Teacher

 

 

Education:


Ph.D.  English
Michigan State University (1996)

M.A. English
University of California, Riverside (1986)

B.A. English
University of California, Davis (1981)

A.A. General Studies
Mt. San Antonio College (1978)
 

 

 

Teaching Experience:

Kalamazoo Valley CC

Univ. of California
Riverside, CA
 

1986-

1984-86

Administrative Experience:

Chair, New School

English 110 Coordinator

Chair, English Dept. ACC
 

2006-07

2000-01

1995-98

Professional Service:

Consulting Reader,
TETYC/CCR
Executive Committee,
MLA Discussion Group
North Central
Accreditation
NCTE College Section
Nominating Committee
Program Chair, TYCA
Midwest
Executive Board TYCA
Midwest
 

1994-2004, 2006-

1994-97

1994-95

1994-95

1993

1990-93

 

Awards:

NEH Summer Workshop

2007 Diana Hacker TYCA Outstanding
Programs in English Award

Faculty Sabbatical, KVCC

Council of North Central
Two-Year Colleges
Research Grant

NEH Advancing the
Humanities Grant
 

2008

2007


1992-93, 1999-2000

1993



1990-92

Professional Memberships:

Conference on College
Composition and
Communication

NCTE

TYCA, Midwest

Popular Culture
Association

 


 

 Selected Publications

Books

Co-Editor with Barry Alford. The Politics of Writing in the Two-
     Year College. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2001.
 

Editor. Maintaining Faculty Excellence. New Directions for Community

Colleges. Vol. 79. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
 


Articles and Book Chapters

 

With Barry Alford. "Introduction." In The Politics of Writing in the Two-

Year College. 2001. v-viii.

 

With Barry Alford. "Scholarship, Tenure, and Composition Studies in

the Two-Year College." In Academic Advancement in Composition Studies. Ed. Richard C. Gephardt and Barbara Genelle Smith Gephardt. New Jersey: Lawrence EarlBaum, 1997. 57-70.

 

"The Practitioner as Classroom Researcher." Literacy Network: A

Journal of Literacy Networks 1.2 (May 1995): 55-67.

 

"A Profile of Community College English Faculty and Curriculum."

Community College Review 22.3 (December 1994): 37-54.

 

"(Re)Viewing Faculty Training and Development." In Two-Year College

Students: Essays for a New Century. Ed. Mark J. Reynolds. Urbana: NCTE, 1994. 196-211.

  

"Empowering Faculty as Teacher-Researchers." In Fostering a Climate

for Faculty Scholarship in Community, Technical, and Junior Colleges. Ed. George B. Vaughan and James C. Palmer. Washington, DC, AACJC, 1992. 23-37.

 

"Building Communities: Joining the Community of Professional Writing

Teachers." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 17 (May

1990): 103-08.