Biography – Dr. Charles Abasa



Dr. Charles Abasa-Nyarko has over twenty-four years of progressive professional academic and leadership experience in higher education with twelve of those years in the community college environment. His academic background includes a doctoral degree in international studies from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC in 1988, a master’s degree in political science from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1984, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from University of Ghana in 1979. Since his doctorate, his career has spanned many aspects of higher education: teaching, consulting and administration.Currently, he serves as the executive planner and project manager at Baltimore City Community College in Maryland. This position plans, organizes, and conducts planning within various areas of interest to the College’s executive and academic leadership for use in college projects, initiatives and strategies. Most recently, he worked as a consultant in Ghana. Before moving abroad, he served as vice president of academic affairs at Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to coming to BHCC, he worked at Gloucester County College in New Jersey as vice president for academic and student services and later as vice president for academic services. Also, he spent three years as dean of arts and sciences (co-chief academic officer) at Muskegon Community College in Muskegon, Michigan and more than two years at South Suburban College in Illinois as associate dean of English, library, social and behavioral sciences. Dr. Abasa-Nyarko also had professional association with Norfolk State University in Virginia as director of the center for the prevention of crime illiteracy and poverty. Before he became an administrator, he taught for eight years at Livingstone College in North Carolina as an assistant professor from 1988-93 and at Elizabeth City State University also in North Carolina as an associate professor. He really had an opportunity to get into the classroom, to teach core courses and to gain an understanding of what it means to have a heavy course load. During that time, he discovered his enjoyment of organizing, serving and administrating, which naturally led to his desire to become dean and CAO and now aspiring to become Dean of the Germantown HSSE Division. I am motivated by the desire to help faculty, students and staff teach and learn. His several years of work in higher education have given him opportunities to develop leadership skills in several areas including: teaching and learning; strategic planning and thinking; accreditation; assessment of student learning; student services; recruitment and retention (for faculty and students); working in a unionized college environment; serving a diverse student population; working in a multi-campus system; international education, budgeting and financial management; alumni relations; and governmental relations. ................
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