Bergen Community College Professor Earns International Recognition

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English Professor Dorothy Altman Wins NISOD Excellence Award

With nearly 400 full-time members who earn honors from many organizations each year, the teaching faculty at Bergen Community College is regarded as one of the most decorated and accomplished in the community college sector.

Joining past Bergen honorees, Associate Professor of English Dorothy Altman, of Upper Saddle River, has secured a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Award, a prestigious honor for collegiate faculty, staff and administrators. The award recognizes college personnel from throughout the world for their contributions to teaching, leadership and learning. Altman was recognized during the NISOD International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence last month in Austin, T.X.

Altman teaches courses in literature, composition and creative writing and co-directs the College�s Honors Program. She is also active in extracurricular activities at the College, including serving as co-adviser of the Bergen Honors Club and co-advisor of Labyrinth, Bergen�s literary magazine. Additionally, Altman maintains membership in Bergen Faculty Senate and steering committees of the Beacon Conference for Scholars at Two-Year Colleges and the New Jersey Writing Alliance.

Among her previous accomplishments, Altman chaired the development of The Research Paper Project, an online resource now used in colleges and high schools across the U.S. A member of The Modern Language Association, the National Collegiate Honors Council, the International Women�s Writing Guild and the National Council of Teachers of English, she remains an active presenter at academic conferences and has published her own creative and scholarly work.

Altman earned a B.A. in English from the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY-Albany), an M.A. in English literature from Hunter College and a Ph.D. in English literature from SUNY-Albany.

Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling more than 15,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs and certificate programs. More than 10,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack, and Bergen at the Meadowlands, located at 1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst. Information about the College is available at www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at (201) 447-7200.


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