Our mission: The Office of Instructional Success exists to support, inspire, and connect faculty by creating meaningful opportunities for professional growth, collaboration, and innovation. Through evidence-based faculty development, recognition programs, and relationship-centered faculty development experiences, the Office cultivates a welcoming community where educators feel valued, supported, and empowered to enhance student success. 

Our Guiding Principles

• Faculty deserve the same engaging learning experiences we hope they create for students.

• Professional growth flourishes through collaboration, reflection, and meaningful relationships.

• Faculty who feel valued, connected, and supported are better equipped to foster student success. 

• Recognition and belonging are essential components of a thriving academic community.

• Listening to faculty drives continuous improvement and meaningful innovation.

Our Vision

To cultivate a college community where every faculty member feels connected, supported, recognized, and empowered to thrive—creating a culture in which continuous learning, collaboration, and instructional excellence define the Harcum experience.

Assistant Vice President of Instructional Success

Dr. Joanne Ricevuto is the Assistant Vice President of Instructional Success, and created the Office of Instructional Success at Harcum College. She is also responsible for all of the faculty programming, which includes providing and presenting a multitude of professional workshops to the faculty on current topics in higher education, writing the bi-monthly newsletter, maintaining website, etc.  She has been in higher education for 20+ years and is a professor of early childhood education, as well as the program director of the department. 

She is coauthor on virtual teaching and learning articles: Virtual Instruction Support for Faculty, Assessments in a Virtual Environment: You Won't Need that Lockdown Browser!, Faculty Must Bend to Students' Needs in Virtual Learning as well as a with Stylus Publishing entitled Engaging Virtual Environments. Three of her most recent publications include an article in The Scholarly Teacher entitled: Incorporating Virtual Instructional Strategies that Increase Student Engagement, as well as on Fierce Education website an article entitled: End of the Semester Tips: How to Get Students to Love Your Course, and in Faculty Focus: Benefits to Beginning Class with a Visible Agenda.

Reach Dr. Ricevuto at: jricevuto@harcum.edu