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Faculty Biography
Regina A. Rochford

Title:        Assistant Professor
                Deputy Chairperson

Degrees:
Doctorate in Education, St. John’s University, New York
M.S. Ed., Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages, Queens College, CUNY
M.P.A., Baruch College, CUNY
B.A., Spanish, Baruch College, CUNY

Specialization:

  • English as a Second Language (ESL) Writing and Reading
  • The use of learning styles to prepare underachieving students
  • ACT Reading and Writing test preparation

Publications:

Books

  • Test Taking Tips for the ACT Reading Compass Exam and Practice Reading Passages. Rochford and Pantaleo (2008). Pearson
  • Getting Your Act Together Second Edition: A Guidebook Second Edition.  Rochford, Regina (2004). Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque. Iowa.
  • Getting Your Act Together: A Guidebook. Rochford, Regina (2002). Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque. Iowa.
  • Getting Your Act Together: A Guidebook Revised Edition.  Rochford, Regina (2003). Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque. Iowa.
  • An Inductive Approach to English Grammar and Composition for ESL Students. Rochford, Regina (2000). Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque. Iowa.
  • An Inductive Approach to English Grammar for ESL Students. Rochford, Regina (1998). Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque. Iowa.

Professional Journal Articles

  • Rochford, Regina, A. (in press) Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Getting Through College. (in press) Insights Journal.
  • Rochford, Regina, A. and Tai, Emily (February, 2007) It’s about Time: Getting down to Basics in Western Civilization. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 31(2).
  • Rochford, Regina, A. (Fall, 2006). Enhancing Standardized Assessment Scores and Academic Performance through Learning Styles. Journal of Applied Research in the Community College-JARCC, 14(1),29-38.
  • Rochford, Regina, A. (Spring, 2006) Are We Teaching the Way our Students Learn? Radical Pedagogy, 8(1), 1-21.
  • Rochford, Regina, A. (Fall, 2005). Understanding Business Majors’ Learning Styles to Improve College Business Programs. Community College Enterprise, 11(2), 21-31.
  • Rochford, Regina, A. (Fall, 2004). Improving Academic Performance and Retention among Remedial Students. Community College Enterprise, 10(2), 23-37.
  • Rochford, Regina, A. (2004). Helping ESL Students Get Their Acts Together: Preparing Students for the ACT Writing Skills Test. Community Review Journal CUNY (Winter 2004) Volume XVIII
  • Rochford, Regina, A. (2004). Improving Academic Performance and Retention among Remedial Students. Fall 2004, Community College Enterprise
  • Rochford, Regina. A. (2003, September). Assessing learning styles to improve the quality of performance of students in developmental writing programs at an urban community college. Community College Journal of Research and Practice Volume 27 Number 8 pp 665-678

Creative Articles

  • A Couple Truly Wedded in Death.  In Cape Cod Times Lifestyle/Arts Section, April 30, 1998
  • Moving Beyond the Sudden Death of a Child.  in The SIDS Survival Guide:  Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends and Professionals Who Seek to Help Them, SIDS Educational Services, Hyatsville, MD. 1997
  • Airline Tragedy Strikes a Personal Chord. In Village Herald Newspaper, January 1997.
  • A Gift From Mom in Her New Career. In  New York Times, May 12, 1996

Awards:

  • 2004 National Association of Developmental Educations Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Recipient of Saint John University’s Academic Excellence Award 2002

Special Projects

  • Developed special learning styles responsive materials for our department’s Learning Center to assist our students in passing the ACT writing and reading tests.
  • Active participant in Queensborough Community College’s Circle of Writers.
  • Assist doctoral candidates in writing their dissertation manuscripts.

Special Courses

  • Since 1999, have taught the ESL Express, a course during which students take BE-203 and BE-205 in one semester. Participated in a learning community with Dr. Emily Tai that linked BE205 (ESL advanced composition) with BE-226 (ESL advanced reading) and History 111 (medieval history). 
  • Learning Community that linked ESL Reading and Writing to History 111.

Community Service

  • Participates in doctoral candidates’ mock oral dissertation presentations at St. John’s University.
  • Acts as a member of doctoral committees at St. John’s University
  • Assists doctoral students in the design and development of their dissertations and presentations at St John’s University.

Favorite quotes

  • Anything worth having is worth working for.
  • Working hard builds character.

 
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