For immediate release May 2, 2008

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Professor Bernadette Flynn Low named Outstanding College Teacher of the Year
by the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce

Baltimore County, Md. – Bernadette Flynn Low, Ph.D., professor of English in the School of Liberal Arts at the Community College of Baltimore County, was honored as the Outstanding College Teacher of the Year by the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce at ceremonies held at Martin’s Eastwind, Thursday, April 24.

Low, who has been on the faculty at CCBC since 1973, was recognized for her contributions to the college and the community, specifically her work on the Middle States five-year report as well as her her work on online education and service learning. Low has written and seen publication of many articles directed to students and general readers on subjects from children’s literature to seventeenth century poets in literary reference books published by Salem Press.

She is currently serving as local arrangements chair for the upcoming Community College Humanities Association 2008 Regional Conference. The conference will be held at the Sheraton Inner Harbor in Baltimore the last weekend of October. Low, a published poet and reviewer, lives in Darlington, Md. in Harford County with her husband, former CCBC English department chairman and faculty member, Professor John Low.

Last January, Low, along with Catonsville professor Michael Sanow, developed a winter service learning experience, The New Orleans project. Fifteen students and five faculty members spent a week working in New Orleans in projects to help that community recover from effects of Katrina. They developed this trip to support the CCBC’s Community Book Connection’s study of Michael Eric Dyson’s controversial book, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina, the Color of Disaster.