Temporarily assigned to Grant Campus as Interim Chair
E-Mail: williap@sunysuffolk.edu
Telephone: (631) 851-6536
Office: Sagtikos 107

Prof. Williams has been at Suffolk Community College since 1998. She has taught Introduction to Human Communication (CO11), Public Speaking (CO15), Interpersonal Communication (CO12), Group discussion (CO27) and Interviewing (CO42).

She is currently serving as Interim Chair of Academic Chair of the
Communications/Humanities at the Grant Campus

She received her Masters of Science in Speech Communication from Syracuse University.

Her teaching and research interests include designing motivational strategies, managing diversity, interviewing and conflict management.

She has co-authored a published article titled Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact. Prof. Williams has also co-authored an essay entitled African-American Discourses on Problematic Relations with Whites which appeared in the textbook Multiculturalism and Global Understanding.

In addition, she designs and develops instructional workshops and seminars. Topics include: Managing Diversity; Conflict Management; Overcome Your Fear of Speaking; Improving Your Presentation Skills; Assertiveness Training; Empowerment and Self-Discovery; Optimism; Motivation; and Interviewing. Prof. Williams taught and presented workshops on Managing Diversity and Conflict Management at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Her recent research involves designing and developing motivational instructional strategic modules that faculty and staff can use in their instruction. The designing and development of the modules took place at the Summer Institute 2003-Title III grant program.

In addition to teaching, she is the co-coordinator of the Teaching, Learning, Center (TLC) for the Selden campus. She also conducts the faculty adjunct training workshop at SCCC.

Prior to coming to Suffolk Community College, Prof. Williams taught full-time at Clemson University. She designed and developed Clemson’s Speech Studio and taught courses in Public Speaking and Introduction to Human Communication.

She has coached the 7th, 8th, and 9th graders in Suffolk Community College’s Science STEP program.

Prof. Williams worked in the credit and collections field for ten years before her academic career.

She is a native of Brooklyn, New York and is the fourth of eight children. Hobbies include paddleball, chess and traveling.