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ACE Faculty 

 

NAME: Marcia Johnson

COLLEGE: Delaware County Community College

TITLE: Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT: Business/CIS

EMAIL: mjohnso2@dcc.edu

WEBSITE: http://faculty.dccc.edu/~mjohnson2/index.htm

INVOLVED WITH ACE SINCE: Spring 2010

 

ACE COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING:
Foundation Course
Team-Self Management 1

 

REASON FOR BECOMING INVOLVED WITH ACE
I was not going to attend college when I graduated from high school.  I was the oldest of 5 children with parents living just above the poverty level.  I was a first generation college student for my family, and my parents ran a very small family farm in Illinois.  I knew they could not possibly afford to send me to college, so I thought college was not an option for me.  I was going to become a secretary! 

I thank God every single night that a high school counselor and a teacher talked me into going to college and helped my parents to wade through the paperwork.  It totally changed my life and my earning potential to have a college degree and advanced education.

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
I taught junior high and high school business and keyboarding classes in Illinois for five years upon graduation from college. 

When we were transferred to the Pittsburgh area, I was an office manager for a furniture store for a year or so.

When we transferred to eastern Pennsylvania (where we have lived for quite a while), I worked in the human resources area for about a year. 

I then became a corporate trainer for Online Consulting and taught a wide variety of computer classes.  This lead to a job offer from one of the people I trained, and I went to work for Chubb Insurance Company as a corporate trainer/training manager.  I taught business, accounting, computers, and communications courses. 

Chubb later educated me to become a trainer for network engineering classes and I got my CNE and MCSE certifications.  I got the full-time job at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania, based on my network engineering background.  I have been a full-time faculty member at DCCC now for 11 years.

After a faculty member in the Business Department passed away, (and since I had the business background), I started teaching in the Human Resources/Business classes in the daytime.  

I decided to begin teaching business instead of network engineering due to the fact that our dean changed all network engineering classes to evenings and weekends only.  This was going to make it a very long day to be in for the required committee meetings that met at 11 a.m. two or three days a week and teach from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. five nights a week.

I noticed in the business classes how students were having problems (especially first generation ones), and I worked with others to start a mentoring program.  As chairperson, I also saw a need for students to have help with textbooks.  We worked with the college and the library to offer textbooks that students could check out for the semester.  Both of these components are now part of the student success program at the college.

I became involved in the Achieving the Dream Core Committee which has lead to my applying for the ACE training.