RCC Adds 3 New Faculty Members

Rockland Community College as appointed three faculty members to tenure-track positions effective for the Fall 2010 semester.

Maureen Kroning of Ringwood, N.J., has been appointed to the tenure-track position of Instructor of Nursing.

Since 2008, Kroning has been a full-time Lecturer at RCC  teaching Nursing Fundamentals and Introduction to Pharmacology.  She is also Nursing Supervisor at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern and recently authored the book "Fundamental Nursing Skills Made Simple," (Kendall Hunt, 2010).

Kroning is working toward a doctorate in Education; has a master's degree in Nursing Leadership Management from Walden University in Baltimore, M.D.; a B.S. in Nursing from SUNY New Paltz; and an associate's degree in Nursing from Rockland Community College. Her mother graduated from RCC in Nursing and her daughter took nursing prerequisites at RCC.

Kevin Barrett of Ridgefield Park, N.J., has been appointed to the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice.

Since Spring 2010, Barrett has taught Juvenile Justice at RCC as an adjunct while also teaching at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J., where he developed the course, Analysis of Serial Killers. Barrett has a Doctorate of Philosophy, a Master of Philosophy, and a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J.

Katherine Lynch of Manhattan has been appointed to the tenure-track position of Instructor of English.

She will also direct the Writing Center at RCC. Since 2009, Lynch was the Teaching Assistant Assistant Director at The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center in Wisconsin and was an instructor there since 2006. Lynch earned her B.A. in English and History at Dartmouth College and an M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she also just earned her Ph.D. (May '10) with her dissertation, "Satan Bound: the Devil and the Imagery of Physical Confinement in Early Medieval England."