Meet the CCCOnline Social Sciences Team

This week, we're pleased to introduce CCCOnline's Social Sciences Team. Have a nice Labor Day weekend, everyone!

Karen Kaemmerling, Associate Dean of Social Sciences
Karen’s leadership has been an important asset to the CCCOnline team. Since 2005, Karen has served CCCOnline variously as Arts and Humanities Chair, Social Sciences Chair, and Director of Training and Professional Development. In addition, she has been teaching US History for CCCOnline for eight years. As a result of learner-centered innovations to her Civil War to Present History course, she was awarded the Blackboard Exemplary Course Award in 2008. She also earned CCCOnline’s Academic Leader of the Year Award in 2006 and 2010.

Karen lives in Parker, Colorado, and enjoys playing with her two daughters, horseback riding, mountain biking, hiking, and walking her dogs. She says, “I really enjoy the online education experience and feel that it offers wonderful opportunities for students and educators.”

Carrie Garman, Human Sciences Chair
Carrie has been teaching online for about seven years; prior to her current appointment at CCCOnline, she served as our Program Chair for Behavioral Sciences. She is a clinical therapist and does contract work for El Paso County. She works mostly with families whose abused children have been placed in foster care, and has been working for Kids Crossing, a child placement agency, for about 12 years.

About her work, Carrie says “It is my passion and I love it”; about teaching, she comments “The best thing is that I can teach students who are interested in this field real-life applications of theory and provide them with a wealth of resources. It makes being a teacher even better!”

John Ragan, Cultural Sciences Chair
John has taught History for CCCOnline for almost five years, and his career accomplishments include serving as Assistant Dean of Admissions at the University of Denver, Department Manager at the Federal Reserve Bank, and director of a large agency of City and County of Denver government. In his spare time, John plays guitar with the Colorado surf band, the Royal Aces. (He's at right in the photo.)

He has a question for everyone: “Most, if not all, of you have 9 to 5 jobs, and/or you teach for other online programs. With all of the time that is required for those endeavors, do you find it difficult to remain up to date on scholarly developments and research in your field?”