Ken DeLong

OFFICE: Beatrice E. Doser Building, D321

OFFICE HOURS for Fall 2008:

PHONE NUMBER: (989) 328-1258

E-MAIL ADDRESS: kend@montcalm.edu

FAX NUMBER: (989) 328-2950 Attention: Kenric DeLong

MCC FACULTY MEMBER SINCE: August 1977

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Western Michigan University
Alma College

EDUCATION:

REGULAR CLASS LOAD:

American Political System
Introduction to Social Science I and II
Michigan History
Native American History (including a service learning project with Habitat for Humanity on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota)
Mr. DeLong integrates service learning and volunteerism into several of his courses.
Mr. DeLong is MCC's global education/awareness representative.
U.S. History I and II
Indian Cultures of North America and related field experiences

OTHER COURSES:

Contemporary Political Ideologies
Freshman Composition I and II
International Relations
Michigan History
Political Thought
Sex in History
Spanish
20th Century World History and Issues

PERSONAL:

Mr. DeLong received MCC's Outstanding Faculty Award in 1985 and again in 2001 and was listed in Who's Who Among American's Teachers in 1998 and Strathmore's Who's Who Millenium Edition (2000-2001). He is active in community theater with MCC Fine Arts Department, the Flat River Community Players and the Bottom's Dream Theater. He is active as an actor and as a director. He raises & trains hunting dogs and both competes in and judges in bird dog field trials. He is President of the Montcalm Adult Reading Council's Board of Directors as well as being both a tutor and tutor trainer. Mr. DeLong lived for four years in Argentina and has traveled to Mexico, Ecudor, Chile and the Czech Republic. He enjoys back packing and camping, fishing and grouse and woodcock hunting. He volunteers as a youth soccer coach, a literacy tutor and with Habitat for Humanity.