{"id":418,"date":"2026-02-19T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:07:22","slug":"susan-tashjian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/susan-tashjian\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Tashjian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>OEGlobal26 roles: <\/em><\/strong><em>Steering Committee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sue Tashjian is Academic Innovations Programs Manager at <a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/\">Northern Essex Community College<\/a>, where she leads NECC&#8217;s Open Education and Adopt Open initiatives. A strong advocate for funding to support OER projects that both remove financial barriers for students and improve teaching and learning, Sue serves as Co-PI for the <a href=\"https:\/\/carotelproject.org\/\">CA-ROTEL<\/a> (Career and AI Readiness while Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens) U.S. Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot grant project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the state and regional level, Sue co-chairs the statewide Open &amp; Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council and serves on the New England Board of Higher Education&#8217;s OER Advisory Board. She was a founding member of the core planning team for the <a href=\"https:\/\/neoer.umasscreate.net\/\">Northeast OER Summit<\/a>. Nationally, she has served as co-president of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. Through these roles, she has strengthened collaborative networks and worked to build a sustainable infrastructure for OER adoption in Massachusetts and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-bdc84b83-91cb-409f-8795-2491454eeea0\"><strong>Connect:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-14a3d758-d4dd-45e2-9797-98b28df6fb1c\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/\">Professional organization<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/12\/18\/19408\/\">Recent Article<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sue-tashjian-75555017\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OEGlobal26 roles: Steering Committee Sue Tashjian is Academic Innovations Programs Manager at Northern Essex Community College, where she leads NECC&#8217;s Open Education and Adopt Open initiatives. A strong advocate for funding to support OER projects that both remove financial barriers for students and improve teaching and learning, Sue serves as Co-PI for the CA-ROTEL (Career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":217,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-person-bio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-418","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeglobal.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}