ROLAND BLANCHETTE

89 West High Street

Avon, MA 02322

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


 

Professor, Liberal Arts Division, Massasoit Community College, January 1980 - present.

 

Courses Taught:  January 1980 - present.

 

Intro to Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Intro to World Religions
History of Western Civilization
U. S. History
Modern Times
World Regional Geography
Film and Society
Liberal Arts Seminar

Principles of Sociology
Sociology of Deviance
Social Problems
Criminology
American National Government
Human Geography
Workplace of the 21st Century
Seminar on the Millennium

 

Committee Work:  January 1980 - present.      


            Professional Development Coordinator.  Charged with maintaining a budget and developing
            programs for faculty development.  September 1995 - September 1998.

 

Chair, Academic Development Committee.  Charged with professional development programs; established travel stipends, mini-grants, speaker's bureau, and faculty lecture series. September 1993 - September 1995.

 

Curriculum Committee.  Charged with reviewing changes, at additions, and deletions to courses and programs and making recommendations to the President of the College.  September 1985 - May 1988.

 
   
         Chair, Courses Subcommittee.  Charged with curriculum reform, created a Core Curriculum.
           
Presented to the general faculty and approved.  May 1986 - December 1987.

 

            Chair, Core Implementation Group.  Charged with installing the new Core Curriculum:  Troubleshoot problems, establish policy, write new section for the college catalog.  Presentation to the Board of Regents.  January 1988 - September 1988.

 

            Chair, Core Analysis Subcommittee.  Charged with assessing impact of the Core on programs.  Measure the effectiveness of a competency‑based core curriculum.  September 1988 - May 1990. 

 

Adjunct Faculty, Stonehill College, January 1985 - June 1998.

            Cultural Anthropology

 

Adjunct Faculty,  Mass College of Pharmacy and Applied Health Sciences, September 1995. 

            Cultural Anthropology

 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, January - December, 1979. 

            Prehistory of Man                         Physical Anthropology

            Language and Culture

 

Head Softball Coach, Massasoit Community College, September, 1987 - June, 1999.

 

Town Moderator, Town of Avon, May, 2000 - present.

 

Chair, Finance Committee, Town of Avon, September, 1990 - May, 2000.

 

Veteran, United States Air Force, October, 1968 - August, 1972.  Honorable Discharge.

 

 

EDUCATION


 

Master of Arts

University of Florida, December 1979, major:  Anthropology.

 

Bachelor of Arts with Highest Honors

University of Florida, June 1976, major: Comparative Religion.

 

 

Academic History

 

Graduate:         Bridgewater State College, September 1982 - July 1985.

 

                         University of Florida, September 1977 - December 1979.

 

Under-             University of Florida, September 1973 - June 1976.

graduate:

                         Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands,  September 1975 - June 1976.

 

                        Okaloosa-Walton Junior College, Florida, August 1971 - December 1972.

 

Massasoit Community College, Massachusetts, September 1966 - June 1968.

 

 

Research:         Field research and computer utilization for the Rural Communications Project: analysis of rural farmers for the Alachua County Farm Agent, Gainesville, Florida, March - September, 1979.

 

                        Evaluation of a Gainesville neighborhood, for the Gainesville Housing Authority, Gainesville, Florida, March - December, 1979.

 

Evaluation of Downtown Gainesville, for the City Commission, Gainesville, Florida, March - June, 1978.

 

 

Publications:     "Rolly, Dick, and Dave's Excellent Adventure:  A Report of the National Association of Scholars' Annual Meeting." Teaching and Learning, November, 1994.  Journal article.

 

Report of the Core Implementation Group of Massasoit Community College to the Office of the Chancellor, Board of Regents of Higher Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. July 1988.  A monograph on Massasoit's comprehensive curriculum reform.

 

The Communication of Information among Farmers and Gardeners in Alachua County.  September, 1981.  A monograph prepared for the Center for Community and Rural Development, Gainesville, Florida.

 

High Rise Society and Neighborhood Change.  December, 1979. A monograph prepared for the Gainesville Housing Authority.

 

"Ranking, A Study of Verbal Insult." The Florida Journal of Anthropology, 1979,
                        vol 4, no 1.

 

Downtown Gainesville, A Planning and Research Assessment.  July, 1978.  
A monograph prepared for the Gainesville City Commission.