{"id":37,"date":"2018-09-07T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hfcc.mycareerfocus.org\/fall-2018-volume-9-issue-2\/alumna-returns-to-hfc-to-teach-mathematics-paying-it-back-and-paying-it-forward-at-the-same-time\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:46:01","slug":"math-major-multiplies-her-success-for-current-hfc-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hfcc.mycareerfocus.org\/fall-2018-volume-9-issue-2\/math-major-multiplies-her-success-for-current-hfc-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Math major multiplies her success for current HFC students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">hanna Simpson-Singleton is back at HFC to teach mathematics, 13 years after her journey at HFC opened her mind and her future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cI like the climate at HFC,\u201d says the 2005 HFC alumna. \u201cMy eldest son, Zechariah, was in the childcare center while I attended class. The teachers made a difference in my life. I want to pay it back, and pay it forward at the same time,\u201d said Simpson-Singleton, who earned her associate degree from HFC in general studies, with a concentration in mathematics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">A graduate of Cass Technical High School in Detroit, she transferred to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti after completing her HFC degree. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from EMU in 2010 in mathematics with a minor in computer science. Three years later, she earned her master\u2019s degree in mathematics from EMU. She is currently a doctoral candidate at EMU, studying educational technology and information assurance. She and her husband, Derek, live in Taylor with their three children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">She has a heart for underrepresented students. \u201cMy graduate research has shown me how to increase the pass rates and degree completion rates for minority women, low-income students, and first-generation college students,\u201d she said. \u201cI met all those categories, and it always come back to HFC, because the people here invested in me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\"><b>Math Maniac<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">At HFC, Simpson-Singleton didn\u2019t shy away from taking several math classes at a time. In a single semester, she took Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Calculus III. As a student, she was active in the Math Club and Phi Theta Kappa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cIt\u2019s very surreal that my teachers from when I was a student here \u2013 Scott Barnett, Jeff Morford, Larry Smyrski, and Janice Gilliland \u2013 are now my colleagues,\u201d said Simpson-Singleton. \u201cI used to go to their office hours religiously. In fact, I staked them out. I\u2019d be waiting for them in the morning as they\u2019d come into work,\u201d she added, laughing. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for them, I don\u2019t know where I would have ended up. They took the time to get to know me, and that left an impression on me to this day. They believed in me more than I believed in myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cShanna represents the best of what community colleges offer the community,\u201d said Morford. \u201cAfter her time here, Shanna trained as a mathematician and educator. She has returned to the College to serve students who also want to complete a degree. Through her work with Gateways to Completion and math courses, she aims to make that path to a degree more straightforward for the students who follow her. I have worked with her in the math co-requisite project, and it\u2019s clear to me that she expects a lot of her students, and that she supports them to meet her expectations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\"><em>She Does Math!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">When Simpson-Singleton was an HFC student, Dr. Thomas Kelly, a now-retired HFC mathematics professor, gave her a classroom resource book,\u00a0<em>She Does Math!<\/em> by Marla Parker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cWhenever I\u2019m upset, I look at this book,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a reminder of what I can do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Gilliland and Barnett have praised their former student.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cShanna has been an outstanding contributor to HFC as a student, student worker, adjunct faculty member, and now is serving on the steering committee for the Gateways to Completion project. I am happy to have her back at HFC and am proud of her achievements,\u201d said Gilliland, who is now the Dean of the HFC School of STEM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Added Barnett: \u201cI recognized Shanna\u2019s name immediately when going through applications to teach part-time in the math department. It\u2019s been great to have a former student return as a colleague.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Upon earning her doctorate from EMU, Simpson-Singleton plans to continue teaching at HFC. She hopes to eventually teach full-time. \u201cI want to teach at HFC and gave back to the students. There\u2019s a family-like feeling here,\u201d she said. \u201cHFC helped me the most; it molded me into the professional I am today.\u201d\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanna Simpson-Singleton is back at HFC to teach mathematics, 13 years after her journey at HFC opened her mind and her future. \u201cI like the climate at HFC,\u201d says the 2005 HFC alumna. \u201cMy eldest son, Zechariah, was in the childcare center while I attended class. The teachers made a difference in my life. 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