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Chad Rohrbacher, M.F.A., Assistant Professor
Course Coordinator
cmrohrba@nat.edu
C.
Rohrbacher has published poetry, interviews, and book reviews in
periodicals and journals nationwide including Spillway, Faultline, Sunstone, New York Quarterly,
Amelia, and
others. He has won a Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant, the Tony Bill
Award for Screenwriting, the Louise Gluck Award for Poetry, and an Ohio
Arts Council Fellowship for poetry. He was also a finalist for Bowling
Green State University's Master Teacher in 2006. Currently he is
completing a book-length manuscript The Stories Neighbors Tell and working on a new screenplay.
Philip F.
Rubio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
pfrubio@ncat.edu
Philip F.
Rubio, Ph.D., is a historian currently teaching The Contemporary World (UNST
120) in the University Studies program at North Carolina A&T State
University. Dr. Rubio is a former factory worker, hospital worker,
postal worker, labor organizer, and jazz musician. He completed his
doctorate in history at Duke University in May 2006 with a dissertation
entitled "'There's Always Work at the Post Office': African Americans
Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality at the United States Post Office,
1940-1971." His book manuscript is currently under consideration by the
University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Rubio taught oral history
courses from 2003-2007 as an adjunct instructor at the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University; was Visiting Assistant Professor
in the Department of History at North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
during 2006-2207 where he taught U.S., Latin American, Caribbean and
World Societies survey courses, besides having taught there part-time
since 2001; and in addition taught the Civil Rights Movement seminar at
North Carolina State University (NCSU) in the Summer 2006. Dr. Rubio's
revised 1998 NCCU master's thesis became a book entitled "A History of
Affirmative Action, 1619-2000." Published by the University Press of
Mississippi in 2001, it won the 2002 Outstanding Book Award from the
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in
Boston. He has also delivered a number of papers on oral history, labor
struggles, and the black freedom movement in the United States.
John R. Slade Jr., Ed.D.,
Assistant Professor
jrslade1@ncat.edu
John Slade is a member of the Critical Writing
Team with a secondary assignment with the African American
Experience Team. He earned the bachelor’s degree in English and
education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the
master’s in English and education with a concentration in African
American literature from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical
State University, and the doctorate in education from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Slade’s professional
experiences include teaching composition, literature, oral
communications, and the freshmen seminar. In addition to teaching,
he has held several administrative positions, including dean of arts
and sciences at Forsyth Technical Community College and vice
president and chief academic officer at Central Carolina Community
College. He also worked as a reporter and assistant editor for an
award-winning weekly newspaper; his efforts there earned a
first-place writing award from the North Carolina Press Association.
He has also been recognized for excellence in teaching and
outstanding advocacy for freshmen students. Dr. Slade’s academic
interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning
(especially the clinical aspects of teaching writing), assessment
techniques, and accreditation principles and practices. Other
interests include reading (almost anything), movies, and golf. He
and his wife, Pam, have a “forced” interest in NASCAR, by way of
their son, JC. The Slades live in Winston-Salem.
Ronald Steed, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
rcsteed@nat.edu
Dr. Ron Steed is a
Greensboro, NC, native and is a graduate of what is now Grimsley
High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical
Engineering from Duke University in 1964 and was awarded a National
Science Foundation grant to continue his education at the University
of Florida. Specializing in cryogenic heat transfer, he earned both
a Master of Engineering degree (1966) and a Ph.D. (1968) in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. His career in
industry included more than 20 years with General Electric Company
(GE) as both a development engineer and a technical manager in the
lighting systems and power transformer businesses. Subsequent to GE
he managed engineering and manufacturing operations in the power
transformer, industrial diamond, and web processing machinery
industries. He taught mathematics at Andrews High School in High
Point, NC, for two years prior to joining the University Studies
team in August, 2006.
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