{"id":81,"date":"2022-07-18T05:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:56:11","slug":"success-story-mary-ann-reeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/success-stories\/success-story-mary-ann-reeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Story: Mary Ann Reeley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cInvest in yourself\u201d…<\/strong><\/h2>\n

That\u2019s the advice Mary Ann Reeley wants to give other online teaching professionals and students alike. A professor at Eastern Gateway Community College, Reeley has been working in the online space since earning her MBA at Strayer University almost a decade ago. About 90% of her work toward that degree, she estimates, was completed online. It was an experience that has been invaluable to her teaching and her students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can relate to my students,\u201d she said. \u201cI still receive so many emails from students who say \u2018I have no support, my husband or my parents think this is a huge waste of time,\u2019 and they are so grateful that someone gets them and understands that studying is a great challenge with a huge pay off. I think that understanding, and the faith in themselves that it inspires has a ripple effect on their children and on their nieces and nephews.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to understanding her students, there are few people more aware of the challenges faculty who teach online are facing. Part of an academic couple, Mary Ann Reeley is married to Professor Stan Reeley and has collaborated on much of his research into the health and mental health conditions experienced by online faculty. Their work has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals. The massive competition for jobs, the work it requires and the mental toll of searching for even short assignments, has not missed her notice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talk to colleagues who tell me they\u2019ve received over three hundred applications for a tiny little instructor-grader position,\u201d she said in a recent online interview. \u201cYou know no one is going to read all of those applications. You know it\u2019s all about key words and algorithms and machine reading.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Mary Ann Reeley and Stan Reeley have worked with The Babb Group to support their job searches over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey helped me craft my CV and design my cover letter. The Babb Group has the ability to find my strengths and they helped me to phrase my information in a way that would draw attention to my real world experience and describe how it is relevant to a teaching environment,\u201d Reeley said. \u201cWhether you\u2019ve been doing volunteer work, or working in a call center, or whatever, these are the experiences that help to expand your view and they enhance whatever you are doing now. All these things increase your ability to relate to students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many online instructors, Mary Ann Reeley brings a lot of real world and professional experience to her teaching. After earning her Bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry and biology, she went on to become a medical technician before joining her family in the insurance business. In both of those positions, client education was a skill she had to develop and its influence eventually led to her current career. It\u2019s a career Mary Ann Reeley has no intention of ever retiring from.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see online teaching as a way to conserve our dollars, contribute to our broader community and to keep our mental health faculties sharp,\u201d Mary Ann Reeley explained. \u201cI have no intention of ever stopping!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cInvest in yourself\u201d… That\u2019s the advice Mary Ann Reeley wants to give other online teaching professionals and students alike. A professor at Eastern Gateway Community College, Reeley has been working in the online space since earning her MBA at Strayer University almost a decade ago. About 90% of her work toward that degree, she estimates,… Continue reading Success Story: Mary Ann Reeley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-success-stories","entry"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}