D&E Welcomes Four New Faculty for Spring Semester

The spring 2021 semester opened with four new faculty members. Joining the ranks are Instructor of Criminology Ronda Engstrom, Instructor of Criminology Dr. Jamie Morgan, Assistant Professor of Nursing Dr. Cheryl Schroeder and Instructor of English Sebastian Williams. Engstrom has more than 20 years of experience teaching higher education in the United States and abroad. Most recently, she instructed sociology and criminology courses at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania. She also has taught at California University of Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, Pennsylvania, and Hebei University in Baoding, China. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in

Ronda Engstrom criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Master of Arts degree in sociology from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania where she graduated magna cum laude. Engstrom also has completed additional studies in legal studies administration at California University of Pennsylvania and public administration with an emphasis in human service at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

A native of West Virginia and a first-generation college graduate, Morgan recently returned to the Mountain State after a successful and diverse career holding executive leadership positions in business, education and law in New York, Boston and Florida. Most recently, he worked as the executive director for Legends Group, Inc. in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Previously, Morgan worked as an executive director providing advisory recommendations and supervising the development and implementation of various Jamie Morgan guidelines and procedures in matters involving complex litigation for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His additional legal experience involved working for Stephen M. Zukoff, Esq. of Miami, the civil attorney for the former Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriego and other high-profile individuals. He also previously served as an adjunct instructor at D&E. Morgan earned a Juris Doctorate from the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marshall University. A veteran of the United States Navy, Schroeder has worked as an educator, nurse manager and nurse in various clinical and nonclinical settings. Most recently she provided clinical instruction at the College of Nursing and Advanced Health Professions at The Chicago School in Dallas, Texas, and served on the faculty at the Dallas Nursing Institute.

She is currently working toward certification in ancient herbal therapies and earned her

Cheryl Schroeder Doctor of Nursing Practice from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in nursing and a Master of Science in nursing from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She graduated from the Registered Nursing Program and the Licensed Practical Nursing Program at Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama, and completed Distance Learning via the U.S. Navy partnership with Drexel University.

Williams comes to D&E from Purdue University where he instructed various courses in rhetoric and composition and literature, theory and culture. As a writer, Williams’ work has appeared in several peerreviewed publications including Journal of Popular Culture, Woolf Studies Annual and Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, among others. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in English with a primary focus on literary studies at Purdue University. He also holds a Master of

Sebastian Williams Arts in English and a certificate in women’s, gender and sexuality studies from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio.

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learning disability. Students may elect to include additional course work in studying autism. This fall, students can major in product design or select from an array of new minors including art therapy, instructional technology and media production. Product design will replace the current computer science major and will seek to provide students with an education that combines technical knowledge and the opportunity to develop their creative skills. Such an education will enable students to pursue employment in a variety of management, creative and technical fields. “We think our new curriculum initiatives provide students with rigorous, multi-disciplinary options that provide them with both exposure to a number of fields and the skills and flexibility necessary to keep up with an ever-changing job market,” Phillips said.