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Monday, February 28, 2011

201. Unstack the Odds--About the Blogger

Unstack the Odds: Help All Kids Access College—and Graduate!
by
Joe Rottenborn
Executive Director, Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP)

About the Blogger


Joe Rottenborn graduated from Salem (OH) High School in the Class of 1966. He earned an A.B. cum laude in government at Boston University in 1970, and he received the Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown in 1972. He was awarded the Master of Science in Educational Administration in 1990 from Youngstown State University and the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership at YSU in 1998.

Dr. Rottenborn worked for 30 years as a public educator in Ohio. He taught social studies at Boardman High for thirteen years, was an Assistant Principal at Salem High School, Assistant Superintendent of Canfield Local and Chagrin Falls Schools, and became Superintendent at Columbiana Exempted Village in 1994.

Since retiring as Columbiana's Superintendent at the end of December 2001, he has been Executive Director of the Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP), which provides free advising on college admissions and financial aid to students from Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana Counties in northeast Ohio. In its first ten years after startup, the MVCAP has advised over 9,000 high school students and parents, raised more than $1,100,000, and awarded over 160 Last-Dollar Scholarships—most for $1,000.

Dr. Rottenborn has served on the boards of the Kent State University College Tech Prep Consortium, Salem City Schools, and the Ohio College Access Network (OCAN). He has been married for 39 years to another SHS Class of ’66 graduate, Cindy, a senior library assistant at Kent State University Salem campus; Dr. Rottenborn is also an adjunct instructor at KSU Salem. The couple has two children--Mary (37) and Bo (30), both graduates of the University of Notre Dame. Joe and Cindy also have one grandchild--Luke Michael Kozlowski, born on 11/17/10.

Dr. Rottenborn's publications include the following:
  • with Joseph A. Shivers, "Friends and colleagues," in Sheryl Boris-Schacter, ed. The Changing Relationship Between Principal and Superintendent: Shifting Roles in an Era of Educational Reform, in New Directions for School Leadership, No. 10, Winter 1998, pp. 53-59.
  • Economics lesson plan, in Richard T. Vacca and JoAnne L. Vacca, Content Area Reading (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986), pp. 357-360.


Joe Rottenborn invites you to access these websites, which he manages:

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