Jennifer Willcut

Jennifer is happy to be part of the Reading faculty here at ARCC.  She has been on the ARCC faculty since spring of 2009 and has taught Preparing for College Reading, Reading II, and How to Study at ARCC.

Before coming to Anoka Ramsey, she taught reading and study skills courses at Inver Hills Community College, as well as undergraduate and graduate educational psychology courses at the University of Minnesota.  She earned a B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota.  She completed her graduate training in reading research at the University of Minnesota in 2008, where she studied the reading strategies of students who overcame their reading struggles to successfully complete college coursework.

Her scholarly interests include literacy instruction methods, reading fluency, reading comprehension, critical reading, paraphrasing, learning English as a foreign language, dyslexia, metacognition, linguistics, oral language, and communication in online courses.  She is a member of the Minnesota Association for Developmental Education (MNADE), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), International Reading Association (IRA), and the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). 

 Jennifer enjoys reading fun fiction, gardening in her backyard, listening to music and trying new restaurants.