Angela Provitera McGlynn

Author of:

Successful Beginnings for College Teaching: Engaging Your Students from the First Day

Teaching Today's College Students: Widening the Circle of Success


Angela Provitera McGlynn is a retired Professor of Psychology at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor, New Jersey, where she taught more than 13,000 students over a career spanning 35 years. She is the author of Successful Beginnings for College Teaching: Engaging Your Students from the First Day and Teaching Today's College Students: Widening the Circle of Success as well as three other books on college teaching.

Recently, she contributed to NISOD’s Innovation Abstracts (Vol. XXX, No. 23) with a piece entitled "College Classrooms Today: What is a Professor to do?" She has also written numerous journal articles, presented workshops across the United States, and appeared on radio and national television programs.

Angela is also the recipient of several teaching awards, most recently, the NISOD (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development )
teaching award in May, 2002.

Currently, Angela is writing and speaking on strategies for working with millennial students and on enhancing skills to foster a learning community within classrooms.