UTICA, N.Y. — Mohawk Valley Community College’s (MVCC) board of trustees recently appointed Jessica Wilkie as dean of the School of Humanities.
As dean, Wilkie is responsible for setting the standard for intellectual engagement, academic integrity, and accomplishment by providing strategic vision and operational leadership that aligns with the college’s strategic plan, the college said.
Prior to joining MVCC, Wilkie served as assistant director of undergraduate advising at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. She also previously was director of guided pathways for the Community College of Rhode Island and as a guided pathways coach for SUNY. Wilkie led Monroe Community College in SUNY’s first guided pathways implementation and was MVCC’s first guided pathways coach.
She has 24 years of teaching experience including middle and high school English language arts and college composition, literature, humanities, film studies, and women’s studies, and has received numerous honors in recognition of her work.
Wilkie holds a master’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities from the University at Buffalo and a bachelor’s degree in English literature, secondary education, and women’s students from Nazareth College in Rochester.
