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February 15, 2019

Dr. Amy Kovach Featured in RBJ Fast Start Article

Roberts' Associate Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Amy Kovach, was recently highlighted in the article by Fast Start by the Rochester Business Journal entitled "Love of chemistry leads alumna to active life at Roberts Wesleyan". This article discusses Kovach's career growth and leadership at Roberts Wesleyan College. Per the article:

Kovach’s time is split between teaching and administrative work. She wears many hats at Roberts, serving as honor program director and director of academic summer in addition to her teaching role.

“Five years ago I was asked to redesign our honors programs,” explains Kovach. “In the redesign process the task force that I chair ... came up with two separate programs: one for freshmen and sophomores, which is the global honors program, and one for juniors and seniors, which focuses on academic research and leadership.”

The academic research and leadership honors program is open to any Roberts Wesleyan student who meets the GPA requirement, even if they transferred from another campus. Kovach notes that many students struggle in high school, but they come to college and figure it out and become excellent academics.

The honors program shows students that even if they were not labeled as honors
students in high school, they still have a chance to turn it around and graduate
with an honors diploma in college. Kovach also founded Roberts’ Adopt-a-School program, a national program in conjunction with the American Chemical Society. The program involves students volunteering at an inner city school once a month to teach third and fourth-graders hands-on science lessons. Due to her many other time-consuming roles, Kovach had to make the difficult decision to step away from that particular program this year to better balance her time.

As director of academic summer, Kovach oversees all of the traditional undergraduate summer classes at Roberts, as well as the high school summer camps that Roberts’ hosts. “I recognized that students on our campus weren’t taking advantage of summer classes, and our campus wasn’t as active over the summer as it could be,” she says. “I proposed that we change our summer class pricing, and we did that. We now offer all of our summer courses at community college pricing. That was a big risk because it was a drastic decrease, but this coming summer is our third summer implementing this.”

 

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