DIRECTORY LISTING

Biography

Dermot Foley is the Acting Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Lehman College. He came to Lehman in 2022 after being at Hunter College for eleven years, where he held positions in the Department of Instructional Computing and Information Technology, the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, and the School of Education. At Hunter, Dermot worked with hundreds of faculty members on further integrating technology into their pedagogy via the purposeful deployment of learning/assessment management platforms, conferencing tools, blogs, e-portfolios, and wikis in both synchronous and asynchronous blended and hybrid learning models. Prior to working at CUNY, Dermot taught as an adjunct professor in the school of education at Long Island University and as a guest lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University and served as a field supervisor at both teaching master’s candidates in special education at NYC DOE elementary schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He is a former elementary and middle school teacher in special education, writing, and technology. Born in the Bronx, he holds a BA from Colgate University in Philosophy and Religion, a MS from the College of New Rochelle in Special Education, and an Ed.D. (ABD) at Teachers College, Columbia University in Curriculum and Teaching. Dermot loves spending time taking long walks and enjoying nature with his wife Fiona and two children, Martin and Ryan.