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Jean Mach

Jean Mach, Professor of English at College of San Mateo (CSM) and Lead Advisor for the college’s Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, finds great intellectual thrill in involvement with high-impact practices in community colleges. She has worked with the California Bay Area’s Regional Learning Communities Consortium, the Integrative Learning Project (sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and AAC&U), the CASTL Institutional Leadership Program, California’s Digital Teaching and Learning Consortium, and AAC&U’s VALUE project.

She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for AAC&U’s Roadmap Project, a member of the Consulting Board for College Teaching, and a member of the Review Board for IJeP: The International Journal of ePortfolio. In past years, as Coordinator of CSM’s Learning Communities, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Scholar programs, she introduced the use of ePortfolios for assessment. She has seen, through all these endeavors, that integrative learning (i.e., fostering connections of all kinds in students’ experiences) helps students find purpose in their education and in their lives.  

She earned her M.A. in English literature and creative writing from the University of California, Berkeley; her M.A.T. in English and Single Subject Teaching Credential from the College of Notre Dame; and her B.A. in English from the University of Washington.  A published writer and poet, she is the recipient of the first Inside English Article of the Year Award and the Jack London Writing Conference Poetry Award.