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Susan Albertine

	Susan Albertine

Susan Albertine is the senior director of LEAP State Initiatives at AAC&U. In her role as senior director, Albertine provides proactive intellectual and practical leadership for the overall program of LEAP partner state initiatives.  She serves as the key liaison with multiple project contacts in the field, including policy, campus, business, pre K-16, and community leaders. Albertine received her BA in English from Cornell University, her MA in English from SUNY Cortland, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago.

Albertine was active in AAC&U before becoming senior director, serving as co-leader of the Educated Citizen and Public Health Initiative, a collaborative project co-sponsored by AAC&U, the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), and other organizations, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was dean of the School of Culture and Society and professor of English at the College of New Jersey from 2002-2008. Previously, she served as vice provost for undergraduate studies, Temple University, and assistant to the provost, University of Pennsylvania. She has held faculty positions at the University of North Florida, St. Olaf College, and Susquehanna University, where she was chair of the Department of English. Her scholarship in American literature of the late 19th century led to research and an array of publications on women’s work in print culture and on businesswomen’s careers (in fiction and history) during the growth phase of industrialization in the U.S.

A former public school teacher, Albertine has been nationally active in pre-school through college alignment projects, working with the Education Trust on a sponsored project called Quality in Undergraduate Education and with the American Diploma Project as a member of the New Jersey team and also as consultant to the English language arts national team. She has served on several boards, including: the board of directors at Camden Academy Charter High School in Camden, New Jersey; the Advisory Board for the Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity—Faculty Study, University of Delaware (funded by Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education); and the board for the Art Sanctuary, an African-American arts and letters organization based in Philadelphia. Albertine was also elected to the CCAS board in 2004 and became President-Elect of CCAS in November 2007.