Meralee Silverman
Contact Information
Phone: 914-606-6678
Fax: 914-606-6668
Office location: AAB – Room 523
Email: meralee.silverman@sunywcc.edu
Title(s): Professor/Co-Chair
Department/Division: English, ESL, Reading Department/Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Division
Degree Information:
- MA in Educational Psychology: Reading and Learning Disabilities, New York University;
- BA in English, Queens College of the City University of New York
Courses Taught:
- Foundations of College Reading
- Analytical Reading
- College Success
Honors and Awards:
- Nominee for Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate in the University of South Carolina and Houghton Mifflin Annual Campaign
- Joseph and Sophia Abeles Endowed Chair in Developmental Education
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Women’s Registry: A Who’s Who of Women in Westchester
- Pi Lambda Theta, National Honor and Professional Society in Education
- Faculty incentive Grant from Center for Faculty: “Introducing Global Literature into the Curriculum”
Publications and Presentations:
- Action and Reaction: Writing and Reading in the Technologies and Other Vocational Curricula. Written as a member of a Consortium of SUNY/CUNY Colleges sponsored by a VEA Grant and Queensborough College, 1986.
- Textbook: Study Skills for Successful Students, Collegium Book Publishers, 1979.
Institution Service or Academic Service:
- Department Chairperson of former Reading & Study Skills Department; Co-Chair of English, ESL, and Reading Department
- Chair, Planning Committee for College Success Awards Ceremony
- Past Chairperson and Current Member of the DEAC (Developmental Education Advisory Committee)
- Past Chairperson and Current Member of the Common Read Committee
- Member of PRESS: Engagement Subcommittee
- First-Year Experience (FoE) Implementation Committee
- Co-Chair “All Students Dimension” Committee of FoE