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Vanessa Crump
MSTeams; 478-274-7806
Associate Professor of Spanish
| Office Hours: | Fall 2025 Monday and Wednesday. 10AM-12 PM Tuesday and Thursday 9 AM -11 AM (online Friday Meetings and Others by appointments Others by appointment Any changes to hours or days will be placed in the Announcement Section of your D2L course. |
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| Biography: | Mrs. Vanessa “Paige” Crump is an Associate Professor of Spanish. She teaches a variety of classes including SPAN 1001, SPAN 1002, SPAN 2001, SPAN 2002, HUMN 2151, and HUMN 1009. She teaches both face-to-face courses as well as online course. She attended Berry College, Georgia Southern University, and Valdosta State University. She holds a BSED and MED in Spanish Education from Georgia Southern University and an ESOL (English as a Second Language) endorsement from Valdosta State University. She also holds an Ed.S. degree in Teaching and Learning with an emphasis in Spanish from Georgia Southern University. She has 25+ years of teaching experience that ranges from K-5 and 9-12 Spanish and ESOL, adult literacy, college-level Spanish and ESOL, online Spanish, and even Immigration Spanish for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. She has studied in San José, Costa Rica and Segovia, Spain, while completing her Bachelor's, Master's and Specialist's Degrees. She is member of multiple organizations including the Foreign Language Association of Georgia, GATESOL, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Lambda Theta, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Delta Pi, ACTFL, and many others. She has presented at multiple conferences for FLAG, the GERA conference, and GATESOL conferences over the years. She works closely with the Foreign Language Workshop that is hosted at MGA each February, and she has built an applied learning relationship with the Gifted Students at Wheeler Country Middle School by writing and publishing bi-lingual books with SPAN 2001. In 2014, she was awarded the “Outstanding Student Researcher Award” by GERA for her Ed.S. thesis entitled “A Comparison of Student Achievement in Second Language Acquisition in both Total Online and Traditional Classrooms.” |
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| Teaching and Research Interests: | Spanish Culture International Travel and Study Professional Based Spanish Programs Exchanging ideas and training others in Language Education Fields |
| Courses: | SPAN 1001, SPAN 1001 online, SPAN 1002, SPAN 1002 online, SPAN 2001,SPAN 2001 online, SPAN 2002 online, SPAN 3002, HUMN 1009 online, HUMN 1009, HUMN 2151 online |
| Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned) | BSED in Spanish Education- Georgia Southern University MED in Spanish Education- Georgia Southern University ESOL Endorsement- Valdosta State University EdS in Teaching and Learning, Foreign Language, Spanish- Georgia Southern University |
| Professional Experience: | Middle Georgia State University Middle Georgia State College Middle Georgia College General Dynamics Information Technology Contractor to FLETC for ICE/DRO Sumter County Board of Education Darton College Crisp County Board of Education South Georgia Technical College Brewton Parker College Emanuel County School System |
| Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years) | I have served on and chaired multiple MGA committees. I have also served on the Faculty Senate. These committees have accomplished a variety of tasks necessary for shared governance of the university. I have given workshops and/or presentations for a variety of conferences for Foreign Language Association of Georgia, Georgia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages; Georgia Educational Research Association; USG Teaching and Learning; D2L; and International Symposium on Teaching, Education, and Learning. I have also provided workshops of the Albany Chamber of Commerce Literacy Programs, MGA's Foreign Language Outreach Workshop, and MGA's School of Arts and Letters. |
| Professional Affiliations: | Foreign Language Association of Georgia (FLAG) and list serve Georgia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (GATESOL) Phi Kappa Phi Pi Lambda Theta FLTEACH ACTFL Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society Multiple Facebook Groups on Language Instruction and Pedagogy |
| Awards and Honors: | Outstanding Student Researcher Award (EdS Thesis) from Georgia Educational Research Association- 2014 Foreign Language Association of Georgia 2023 Post-Seconday Professor of the Year |
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