New Faculty at YC

York College welcomed five new faculty to campus this fall in the areas of education, psychology, science, and academic IT support.

Dr. Cheryl Couch

Dr. Cheryl Couch, Director of the Master of Education Program and E-Learning Specialist, comes to York from Barclay College in Haviland, Kans., where she has chaired the teacher education unit and elementary education program since 2012. She served as the early childhood education Couch coordinator and instructor at Barton Community College in Great Bend, Kans., from 2009-2012, and prior to that, she taught elementary and special education for twelve years.

Couch completed her doctoral studies in Educational Leadership with a dual emphasis in Teacher Leadership and Higher Education at Southwestern College in 2020. She received her EdS in educational leadership: Teacher Leadership from Southwestern in 2017, her MSE in early childhood special education from Wichita State University in 2007, and her BSE from Oklahoma Christian University in 1986 with a double major in elementary education and early childhood education. Couch has three grown faithful daughters and ten grand blessings.

Mr. Jeff Hill

Jeff Hill joins YC's department of psychology. He holds two masters degrees: an MS in counseling from Concordia University - Wisconsin (2014) and an M.Div. in transformational leadership focus from Bethel Seminary (2008). He earned his bachelor of religious education at Rochester University (2001) and received his ministry and missions certification from Sunset School of Preaching in 1991.

Since 2014, Hill has been a licensed professional counselor at New Life Resources, and for the last fifteen years has been the pulpit minister at Southside Church of Christ in Milwaukee, Wis. Over the past five years he has lead grief support groups for people who have lost loved ones to overdose. Hill is a frequent speaker at retreats and volunteers at Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp each summer.

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Dr. Mark Phillips ’78

Dr. Mark Phillips also joins the psychology faculty and is returning to York where he was an enrollment counselor from 1980-82 and an assistant professor of psychology and the associate dean of students from 1985-87. Phillips completed his doctorate in ministry with an emphasis in counseling at Ambridge University, in 1999. He also holds two masters degrees: an MAR in biblical studies from Lipscomb University (1993) and an MS in psychology from Pittsburg State University (1984). For the last nine years he has Phillips served as the pulpit minister for the Groesbeck Church of Christ in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, pastoral counseling, and community mental health centers. He has also been a case manager and coordinator of foster care and adoption for MidWestern Children's Home in Pleasant Plain, Ohio. Mark and Bonnie have two grown children, Seth and Hannah.

Mrs. Meghan (Boyle ’08) Salsbury

Meghan Salsbury has been named the information commons director at York College. Salsbury, who worked in financial aid from 2009-13 and was an adjunct instructor for YC during that time, earned a master's of library science from the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University. This led to her employment at the University of Nebraska Omaha library as their Salsbury online learning librarian, and more recently at Montana State University as their instructional technology librarian. Meghan and Marty (’11) have two children Ciaran (4) and Adalynn (2).

Dr. Josephine Schamp

Dr. Josephine Schamp joins the division of science and mathematics this fall as an assistant professor of chemistry. She comes to York from the University of Iowa where she has been doing postdoctoral research since 2017 in psychiatry and neurology. Schamp completed her doctoral Schamp studies in Medicinal & Natural Products Chemistry at the University of Iowa in 2017. She also completed a MS at the University in translational biomedicine in 2019. Schamp did her undergraduate work at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kans., earning a BS in biology and chemistry in 2011. In addition to graduating summa cum laude, Schamp was a multi-year recipient of the NAIA Daktronics Scholar Athlete Award in volleyball as well as track and field while at Bethany. n