About Dr. Slowinski

Mary Slowinski, Ph.D. is an educator, researcher, and consultant specializing in collaborative learning and program development in support of workforce education. She is PI for the Working Partners Workshops, an NSF-ATE funded special project, which provide tools and support to educators and institutions seeking to cultivate and sustain robust industry relationships, and co-PI for the Working Partners Research Project which studies such partnerships and has produced vetted partnership models and tools for their enhancement.

Mary received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Learning Science and Human Cognition and is tenured faculty and former program chair of the Digital Media Arts program at Bellevue College in Washington State, where she also served as Director of Curriculum Design Services for several years.

As a consultant, Mary has provided a broad range of services for grant-funded initiatives often from conception to completion. Examples include developmental lead for a biotech educator community of practice, learning coordinator for three renewable energy international faculty projects, and design lead for incorporating problem-based learning into advanced manufacturing curricula. As a national DACUM-certified facilitator, she frequently coordinates, facilitates and analyzes the results of industry focus groups for programs seeking to improve their alignment with regional workforce needs.