
Judith
Ehresman Appointed Dean of Arts and Communication
6-08-05

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Judith
Ehresman of Churchville, PA, has been appointed Dean of the Division
of Arts and Communication at Mercer County Community College. A
faculty member and administrator at the college since 1985, Ehresman
served as acting dean since January of 2004. The division oversees
the college’s associate degrees and certificate programs in
the visual and performing arts, radio, television and communication
programs.
During her years
at Mercer, Ehresman coordinated and expanded several college programs,
including Office Systems Technology, Medical Office Assistant, and
Microcomputer Systems Administration. After establishing the Medical
Office Assistant program, she developed a cooperative program with
the Mercer County Vocational Technical School’s Medical Assistant
program. As a result, students in this adult Vo-Tech program are
now able to earn a college credit certificate from Mercer, as well
as the diploma from the Vocational Technical School.
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Ehresman
also offered the college’s first distance learning courses
and wrote a monograph “Distance Learning: What About Instructional
Design?” which she presented at a League for Innovation national
conference. She also presented on behalf of Educational Testing
Service (ETS) at several national conferences as part of their launching
efforts for new assessment software.
In her new position
Ehresman will be taking on the leadership of the college’s
theatre and art gallery, and the off-campus ARTWORKS facility in
Trenton, where the college began offering an array of visual arts
courses last September. She plans to increase her division’s
outreach to the surrounding visual arts community and to strengthen
links with the James Kerney Campus youth groups to enlighten them
regarding educational opportunities available within the division’s
programs. She is also negotiating with four-year colleges to develop
more transfer opportunities for Mercer’s graduates.
Ehresman’s previous
experience includes serving as program administrator at the Bradford
Business Schools in Philadelphia, and as business department chairperson
at Archbishop Carroll High School, Radnor, PA. She has a B.A. in
English and Economics from Holy Family University and an M.Ed. in
Business Education from Temple University.
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