Biography

Sabrina Caine graduated from the University at Buffalo with her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature in 1993, gaining employment as an adjunct instructor at SUNY Erie Community College that fall – and she never left.  She is currently the Department Chair of English at the City Campus, a role she has served in intermittently since 2007, overseeing a number of curriculum changes including the development of an English major and a number of significant revisions to the composition series extending over the course of a decade and culminating in work done under the auspices of a Title III Grant.  Currently, she is serving as one of the primary investigators for the college's Teagle Cornerstone: Learning as Living Grant, seeking to increase student success and engagement in Composition and General Education courses. She has also been appointed as one of SUNY's Academic Momentum Fellows.

She also serves the college as the Coordinator of the Honors Concentration, a continuation of  her commitment to student excellence and engagement.  Another interest is assessment: she is the chair of the college's Academic Assessment Committee, is a member of the General Education committee, and has assisted in the development of Institutional Learning Outcomes.  She is active in shared governance, being a College Senator since that body's inauguration in 2011 and is currently a member of its Executive Committee.

Education History