{"id":10315,"date":"2024-02-26T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=10315"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:10:53","slug":"2024ambassador-wicka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2024ambassador-wicka\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2024: Genesee &#8211; Karen Wicka"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10316\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10316\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/KWicka_Genesee_photo_350.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Wicka Genesee Community College\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/KWicka_Genesee_photo_350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/KWicka_Genesee_photo_350-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/KWicka_Genesee_photo_350-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Wicka<br \/>Genesee Community College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Karen Wicka<\/strong>\u00a0is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Genesee Community College (GCC) and has been a full-time faculty member for fifteen years. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from SUNY Potsdam College and a Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School. \u00a0\u00a0She has over 23 years in the criminal justice field.\u00a0 Her primary area of concentration includes Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure Law.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Wicka has been designing curriculum for in person, hyflex and online courses for many years. Ms. Wicka has been teaching online since 2009 and using the hyflex format since 2019. Like her traditional classes, her focus in both the online classes and hyflex classes is to create a learner centered, interactive, collaborative learning environment that motivates students to dive deeper into critical thinking and teamwork.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Wicka is the co-advisor of GCC\u2019s Criminal Justice Club, where she works closely with students to organize activities that promote academic exploration, fun and social engagement. Ms. Wicka is also a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Wicka\u00a0is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Genesee Community College (GCC) and has been a full-time faculty member for fifteen years. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from SUNY Potsdam College and a Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School. \u00a0\u00a0She has over 23 years in the criminal justice field.\u00a0 Her primary area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":2473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10315\/revisions\/10317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}