Jeneece Bishop's Biography

Jeneece Bishop

Jeneece Bishop, Associate Professor of English, has been employed full time at John A. Logan College since 1988. She teaches professional technical writing, expository writing, literature, and mythology. She also taught at Carbondale Community High School from 1973-1981 and for the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Jeneece has presented seminars nationally on critical thinking and Socratic questioning skills. She received an award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology in Jacksonville, Florida in 2002 in addition to an Award for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Leadership in 2006. She has been chosen Who's Who Among America's Teachers five times (1994, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005), and was inducted as International Poet of Merit in Washington, D.C. in 1996.

Jeneece serves on the Learning Resource Committee, and on the Illinois Teacher Quality Enhancement Initiative Curriculum Advisory Council. Her professional Affiliations include the National Council of Teachers of English, Phi Delta Kappa, American Association for Women in Community Colleges, Southern Illinois University Alumni Association, and several social and governmental service agencies.

Jeneece received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science from SIU-C and did post graduate study at Sonoma State University in California. She has two children, both of whom attended JALC, and three grandchildren.

Jeneece enjoys working with students and has always felt that her professional responsibility included helping students to grow socially as well as to learn academically. Based on this philosophy, she involves her students in a charitable service learning project each semester.

Jeneece says that she has been truly blessed to have both a family and career that she loves. She says that she lives by the saying, "I am sipping from my saucer/because my cup runneth over."