Draft:Judith Summerfield

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Judith Pearl Summerfield is an American scholar. She is Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She served as University Dean for Undergraduate Education (2003-2009) at CUNY, and Dean for General Education at Queens College from 2009 until her retirement in 2015. Author or editor of ten books, she has received a number of awards for her work, notably the 1987 Modern Language Association (MLA) Mina Shaughnessy Award for the best book on pedagogy[1] and the New York State Professor of the Year award by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1998).[2] In 2018, Summerfield was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.[3]

  1. ^ Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize to Judith Summerfield and Geoffrey Summerfield for Texts and Contexts: A Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Teaching Composition. The Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern Language Association is awarded for the year’s outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language and literature, 1986.
  2. ^ Gendar, Allison (8 October 1998). "Prof of the Year Put Freshmen 1st; Picked Up on Dropout Crisis". Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Past Alumni Award Winners". University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Retrieved 1 July 2024.