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Dr. Michael Mills is the Associate Senior Vice President of Equitable Access and Student Success. He has been with Montgomery College since 2009. Dr. Mills oversees faculty and staff professional development as well as the distance education program and libraries. His focus is providing faculty and staff with the professional development necessary to positively impact student success, and on using open educational resources to reduce the cost of education for students.
Prior to joining Montgomery College, Dr. Michael Mills had 18 years of experience at the Delaware Technical and Community College. He served as DTCC’s Director of Distance Learning beginning in 2001. Before that, Dr. Mills was a full-time Education Technology faculty member and the Communications Department Chair. He began teaching online in 1998.
Dr. Mills holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Technology and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Adult Education from the University of Delaware. He also has a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.
Email: sharmini.azeez@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-2000
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 342J
Email: shinta.hernandez@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-2374
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 330A
Email: sonia.pruneda-hernandez@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-7296
Office Location: Rockville Campus, MK 342H
Email: suzette.spencer@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-2340
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Macklin Tower (MT) 303J
Bio
Suzette Spencer is the Director of Library and Information Services at Montgomery College. Her 25-year career in public and academic libraries has been dedicated to serving students, faculty, and staff, with a committed focus to lifelong learning opportunities for community users. She provides vision and direction for the Montgomery College Library’s three-campus library system, as well as our virtual presence. Prior to Montgomery College, Ms. Spencer served as Associate Dean of Library Services and Interim Associate Dean of Library Access and Discovery at Broward College in south Florida. Ms. Spencer and the library team are proud to be a teaching and learning partner with college peers, the academic departments, and external community stakeholders.
Ms. Spencer earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management and Finance
from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her Master’s degree in Information
and Library Science from Pratt Institute in New York City, New York.
For more information about the library services and resources, please visit https://library.montgomerycollege.edu/
Email: nghi.nguyen@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-1953
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 342G
Bio
Nghi Nguyen is a seasoned Digital Media Manager with over 17 years of experience at Montgomery College, where he creates and manages digital content for the Office of EASS and supports various departments, units, and programs across the College. He specializes in creating engaging web materials aligned with institutional standards, ensuring ADA compliance, and efficiently overseeing multiple projects simultaneously.Nghi brings extensive expertise in web design, multimedia project management, and strategic communication across diverse digital platforms. He holds a Master’s degree in Distance Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication-Journalism from the University of Maryland Global Campus.
His technical proficiencies include Adobe Creative Suite, HTML, and JavaScript, and he is fluent in both English and Vietnamese.
Nghi is also a member of the Montgomery College Rising Professionals Associationnew window, Staff Enrichment Day Planning Committeenew window, and MC Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage Planning Committee.new window
Meet the Team
Previously, Dr. Hernandez served as the department chair of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice and professor of sociology at MC. She also served on the leadership team of the Achieving the Dream (ATD) Student Success Network. She is the co-founder and co-developer of two MC faculty fellowships centered on online education and open education, including the global award-winning United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship, which has grown to 13 institutional partners across North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Asia. She also has experience in external leadership roles with the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC), MarylandOnline Leadership Institute (MOLLI), and the Maryland Chief Officers of Online Learning (COOL).
Dr. Hernandez received her B.A. in Psychology from Brandeis University, M.P.P. in Social Policy from Georgetown University, and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland College Park. She was recently awarded the Diversity in Business Award by the Washington Business Journal (2024) and by Women We Admire as Top 50 Women Leaders in Maryland (2022). She was also awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and Advising from MC in 2017 and the Excellence Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) in 2018.
Email: fariha.alam@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-5257
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 325A
Email: Tia.Roebuck@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-7291
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 330D
Email: paul.miller@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-2002
Office Location: Rockville Campus, MK 325J
Bio
Paul D. Miller has extensive experience in STEM instruction; K-12 curriculum development;
instructional design and teaching methodologies; project evaluation; inclusive professional
learning/development; instructional technology integration; instructional systems
development; program implementation fidelity and evaluation; and over $34 million
in federal and state grant facilitation and management. He has worked with school
systems in 28 states and presented internationally at conferences on cooperative learning
models, scaling programs for enhanced math achievement, effective leadership coaching
practices, professional development, competency-based learning, and technology integration
to support teaching and learning.
Meet the CTL Team
Email: robin.cook@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-6003
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 342E
Email: tracey.little@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 204-567-6002
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 342K
Meet the Team
Dr. Pruneda-Hernandez began her career at Montgomery College in 2005 as an adjunct professor, becoming a full-time faculty member in 2008. In 2017, she was appointed as the coordinator of the early childhood program, becoming the collegewide senior director for early childhood education programs in 2020 and Acting Dean of Education and Social Sciences in 2022.
Through her work in early childhood education, she increased enrollment through extensive outreach, wrote successful grants (which raised $2 million) supporting students at no cost to them, and developed the fully online applied science degree, reducing the time to a degree significantly for students. She collaborated and supported WDCE with developing courses and curriculum review to add grant and other programmatic needs, ensuring quality and facilitating the integration of credit and noncredit content and flow. Dr. Pruneda-Hernandez has developed strong relationships with the community and provides leadership coordinating the regional early childhood education professional continuing education and community engagements events, including the Regional Early Childhood Education Summit, Statewide Early Childhood Education Symposium, and countywide early childhood education events.
Dr. Pruneda-Hernandez has served on numerous collegewide committees, including co-chairing one of the standards for Middle States accreditation and participating in the 2022 cohort of the American Association for Women in Community Colleges LEADERS Institute. Dr. Pruneda-Hernandez was awarded the MC Faculty Outstanding Service Award in 2015 and the NISOD of Excellence Award in 2016. Dr. Pruneda-Hernandez was also the recipient of the American Association of Community College Dale P. Parnell Distinguished Faculty designation for 2018 and was awarded the Association of Community College Trustee (ACCT) 2019 Northeast Region Faculty Member Award.
Dr. Pruneda-Hernandez earned a doctorate of education from Walden University, a master of science in education from Nova Southeastern University, and a bachelor of arts in Spanish from the University of North Florida.
Email: christine.crefton@montgomerycollege.edu
Phone: 240-567-7252
Office Location: Rockville Campus, Mannakee (MK) 325D
Bio
Christine Crefton began her journey at Montgomery College in January 2009 serving as the Faculty Outreach Librarian before becoming the Campus Library Manager at the Rockville campus library; instituting changes that focused on student needs, staff morale, relationship building, and the overall culture of the campus library.Currently serving as a resource and support person for projects and programs at the college including M.O.S.T. Commons, Microcredentials, Pressbooks, UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship, and facilitating various Professional Development opportunities such as the 2020-2021 Presidential Innovation Leadership Institute. With many years of experience working in the private sector, government, and in academic and public library settings, she brings her passion for transformational leadership, courageous visioning, and identifying the strengths and motivations of individuals to maximize employee engagement and help lead teams through change to her position in the Office of E-learning, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence.
Christine is a Doctor of Education, earning the degree from Drexel University’s Educational Leadership and Management program with a concentration in Organization Development and Adult Learning. She has a Master’s degree in Library Science and Information Systems from Drexel and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Villanova University in Philadelphia, PA majoring in Political Science with a minor in Communications.
Location: 900 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 | Phone: 240-567-6000 | Email: mconline@montgomerycollege.edu