Marlene Blumin
Associate Professor, Reading and Language Arts
Director of University Study Skills Program
Reading and Language Arts
E-mail: mfblumin@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 212 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-5185
Education:
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1988
Marlene F. Blumin is currently the Director of the All-University Study Skills Program and Associate Professor. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Cornell University. Her professional interests are cognitive strategies, technology and curriculum in undergraduate education as well as learning models in post-secondary settings. Dr. Blumin’s teaching interests at SU include learning strategies for undergraduates, technology in strategy acquisition and utilization of undergraduate teaching assistants. On campus, Dr. Blumin teaches a college learning strategies course and supervises additional course offerings. She is also a member of the faculty in Project Advance at Syracuse University, which is a concurrent enrollment program for high school seniors. Currently she supervises the instruction of the college learning strategies course in high schools in New York and New Jersey and is developing a model for teaching learning strategies in grades 7-12. Dr. Blumin has extensive teaching and administrative experience in public schools and higher education. She was a former HeadStart, elementary and secondary teacher as well as administrator at both levels in urban and rural settings. Also, she has teaching and administrative responsibilities at a community college and university. She is the author of So This Is College Too (Kendall Hunt,1993) and It’s All About Choices (5th edition Kendall-Hunt, 2008).