Roxanna S. Dewey

Biography

Roxanna S. Dewey is Residential English Faculty at Glendale Community College. She received a B.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Spanish from Miami University of Ohio in 1999. Both her M.Ed. with an emphasis in English (2001) and a portion of her doctoral coursework in Higher Educational Leadership were completed at NAU. She is currently a student in the Ed.D. in Adult Education program at Capella University. In her 25th year as an educator of diverse student populations, she teaches and has taught developmental education, college-level composition and research, and literature courses in varying modalities (face-to-face, online, hybrid, live online, and hyflex) and lengths (8 week, 12 week, 14 week, 16 week) to include: ENG091, ENG101, ENG102, ENH112, ENH241, ENH295, and ENH110.

Some of her endeavors at GCC include serving as an Assistant Chair of Composition, creating the One2One Mentoring Program, serving on multiple departmental and campus-wide committees, and presenting at local and national conferences. As a Maricopa Certified Developmental Educator, she served as the Lead Faculty for Dev. Ed. ENG Assessment. She currently serves on the Curriculum Committee, as the English Faculty Representative for Guided Pathways Applied Technology Field of Interest, and as a Scholarship Reviewer for the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation. As a member of TYCA and NCTE, she worked on a national task force to study the impact of 2020 on two-year college English and currently serves as a scholarship reviewer and as a rationale reviewer. She was selected as a Fellow with the Maricopa Institute for Learning Research Fellowship for 2022-23, with her research focusing on perceptions of autism in the community college. In Spring of 2023, she was awarded a Gaucho Globe Award for Valuing Diversity, and in July of 2023, she began volunteering as a Parent Leader with Raising Special Kids.

Her passion for teaching and student success drives her career. As a determined advocate for her students and their success, Roxanna's interests include the connections between literature and students' lives, formative assessment, executive function, understanding learning differences in adult populations, service learning, how to best serve neurodivergent students, and the relationship between the affective domain and the writing process in the community college classroom. She integrates a multitude of student-centered, active learning strategies and multimodal instruction to optimize student retention and persistence.

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