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Suzanne Bartels

Director of Hege Library and Learning Technologies


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Hege Library-L12
+1 (336) 3162046
bartelssm@guilford.edu

Biography


EDUCATION
Post Graduate
SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, New Haven,
Summer 1998
             
School of Library Science and Instructional Technology
LSC599: Special Topics – Readers’ Advisory
             
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, Storrs, CT – Fall 1993
Graduate Studies, Department of Music
MUSI 300:  Investigation of Special Topics
Independent study focusing on music reference tools and research methodology.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana-Champaign, IL – May 1992
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
L.I.S. 433:  Music Librarianship and Bibliography
Dr. Donald W. Krummel
 

M.L.S. SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT –
August 1986 School of Library Science and Instructional Technology
 

B.S.  SKIDMORE COLLEGE, Saratoga Springs, NY – May 1975
Cum Laude
Major:  Music History, Minor:  Piano
 

Undergraduate 
SCHILLER COLLEGE, Berlin, [West] Germany- 1973-1974
Course work
             
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION  
Harvard University LIBRARY LEADERSHIP IN A DIGITAL AGE, Leadership Institute, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Boston, Massachusetts, March 20-22, 2014


Frye Institute  FRYE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, Atlanta, Georgia – June 4 – 18, 2006
Graduate Fellow; full scholarship awarded by Mellon Foundation
 

Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) LEARNING SPACES AND TECHNOLOGY, Memphis, TN – February 17-19, 2006
Grant funded workshop

Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) TRANSFORMATION OF THE COLLEGE LIBRARY, Minneapolis, MN – June 3-5, 2004
Grant funded workshop

EDUCAUSE Institute LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, Boulder, CO) – June 27-July 1, 2004

HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, APPOINTMENTS

Guilford College tenure:
NOTE: Significant grant writing and fundraising initiatives highlighted.

Triad Academic Library Association (TALA) Library Directors, 2013-present.  North Carolina Council of Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) Library Directors, 2013-present. Faculty Development Committee, 2013- 2016; Chair, AY 2014/15.  Guilford College Strategic Long Range Planning Committee, 2013-2015.  Led successful library strategic planning initiative, AY 2013/14.  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – developed the successful grant proposal, Digital Directions for the Arts and Humanities; award: $100,000.00; Principal Investigator, 2014-2017. North Carolina Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), – led a successful planning grant proposal for the development of a comprehensive technology plan to support the vision for the library as academic commons; award: $29,920.00; 2015-2016. Liberal Arts General Education Committee Revision (LAGER) Committee, 20152018.  SACS-COC Quality Enhancement Plan Committee, 2015-2018 present.  SACS-COC Reaffirmation Leadership Team, 2015-2017. Successful fundraising initiative for construction of new Teaching, Learning, and Research Collaboratory; donor funded at $275,000.00, 2015. Faculty Assessment Committee, 2016-2020. Learning Technologies Advisory Committee, Co-Chair, 2016-2022.  North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) appointment as Chair of the NC LIVE Outreach, Promotions, and Partnership Advisory Committee (OPPAC), 2018-2022.  North Carolina Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) – $48,158.00 to advance The Mobile Edge, an initiative reimagining and expanding digital media services for supporting enhanced mobility and digital inclusion, 2019-2020. US Department of Education (DOE) Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP) Title III Grant:

Revitalizing Enrollment, Retention, and Degree Completion at Guilford College, $2,211,101.00, 2020-2025; proposal development lead, October 2018 through July 2020; Interim Title III Co-Director, October 2020-2021; member Title III Steering Committee, 2021-present. Guilford College Academic Affairs Structure Committee, Academic Affairs representative, 2021-2022. Guilford College Facilities Planning and Management Committee, 2021-present. North Carolina Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) - $16,471.00 to advance Visual Edge: Sustaining Art as Special Collection, an initiative for envisioning a sustainable future for visual arts inclusive of an increasingly diverse campus community, 20222023. North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) appointment as NCICU representative to the NC LIVE Executive Committee, 2022-present. Guilford College Technology Governance and Prioritization: Co-Chair, Academic and Institutional Technology Council; Ex-Officio, Academic Technology Advisory Committee; Ex-Officio, Institutional Technology Advisory Committee, 2022-present. Cannon Foundation grant award - $130,000.00 to support the renovation and transformation of the College’s Leak Room from a static, fixed seating, tiered classroom into a technology enriched active and collaborative learning space, 2022.