Seminar Leader
Ken Demers
Seminar Participants
Ross Hall
Susan Murgo Hall
Rebecca Shipman Hurst
Ed Krasnow
Rose Yesu
Ken Demers
has been teaching at Massasoit Community College since 1982. He
received a BA from Boston University with majors in mathematics and
physics, and an MS in Physics from Brown University. He has enjoyed
studying and working in a number of countries, which has helped form
his ideas on diversity and inclusion. He served for two years in
Ecuador as a Peace Corps volunteer at the Polytechnic University of the
Coast in Guayaquil. He spent a semester of additional study at Philips
University in Marburg, Germany. He also was a participant in a
Fulbright Program, which brought a group of faculty to China for six
weeks of study and travel after substantial cultural and language
training. He experiences linguistic diversity on a daily basis in his
bilingual (English-German) family. In addition to physics, Ken teaches
mathematics, astronomy, music history, and the Science of Music, which
he developed as a physics course for students interested in music. He
has served as President of the Academic Senate, as well as department
chair and chairperson of a number of governance and accreditation
committees. For several years he was a Faculty Coordinator for a Title
III grant activity, which had as a goal the improvement of teaching and
learning at Massasoit. This work included coordinating groups of
faculty in classroom research, outcomes-based learning, and
cross-curriculum competency projects. In his spare time, Ken plays the
piano, listens to music, tries to get some exercise, and reads.