Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
Source: English Department Gallery Photos. Private Photograph and Documents Collection. Copyright Homer B. Lusk. Digitally reprinted with permission, courtesy of Homer Lusk, Grossmont College Professor Emeritus and former English Department Chair.
Source: Grossmont College Institutional Archives. Learning Resource Center. Grossmont College, Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District. Web.
Source: Grossmont College Institutional Archives. Learning Resource Center. Grossmont College, Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District. Web.
Sue Jensen received her Bachelor of Arts diploma in May 1971 as one of 28 students that year to graduate with top honors. She enrolled in a graduate program at SDSU that fall, focusing her studies on the diagnosis and remediation of reading difficulties in college reading students; by May of 1973, she finished her Master’s degree in Education with a Secondary Education specialty and entered the San Diego work force as a new teacher.
Over the next forty years, Jensen’s classroom teaching experience would place her in middle school, high school, and university classrooms, where her repertoire would include courses in reading, composition, and literature, and where she would serve as teacher, administrator, curriculum developer, program coordinator, and innovator. During her decade-long service of teaching at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Diego, she developed the school’s first reading program, served as Department Chair, and helped to develop a variety of Title 1 reading and writing programs for the San Diego City School District, including “Project Write” (a.k.a., the “San Diego Area Writing Project”). In 1984, while an adjunct English instructor in the Writing and Rhetoric Studies Department at San Diego State University, Jensen co-chaired workshops in the San Diego Unified School District to help secondary school teachers implement reading and writing strategies across the curriculum.
As an adjunct instructor at Grossmont College, Jensen found an environment where her talents for reading instruction and program development could flourish, and, over the next eleven years, she worked closely with Mary Donnelly to create the College’s first learning communities program, Project Success, an award-winning program of linked courses designed to assist at-risk students at a variety of skill levels. Finally, in 1995, having been offered a tenured position, Jensen found a permanent niche to continue her roles in Project Success and the Reading Program. In 1997, with over ten years of prestigious service behind her, she received the coveted President’s Award for her work on Project Success, and, in 2002, when Dr. Mary Donnelly retired, Sue Jensen stepped into the role of Project Success Coordinator.
Besides launching Project Success, Sue is a founding member of the California Learning Communities Consortium, and served as Co-Chair of the Student Success Committee at Grossmont College from 2009-2010. She was a mentor for the Washington Center’s Learning Communities Summer Institute, and she has been invited nationwide to lead workshops to aid campuses in the development of their own developmental learning communities.
In 2007 she was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award, and in 2010 the campus honored her with its Distinguished Faculty award, which concluded her twenty-five years of legendary service to the District—fifteen of them as a dedicated full-time faculty member.
Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
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