Dr. Joseph Busch - jbusch827@gmail.com
Dr. Suzanne Gilmour - gilmour@oswego.edu
Dr. Glenn F. Wachter - wachter@oswego.edu

Dr. Joseph Busch
 
Professor and Department Chair, Educational Administration; BS, SUNY Geneseo; MS, Syracuse University; Ph.D., Syracuse University. Appointed 2000.

Joseph Busch recently retired from the position of District Superintendent of the Broome-Delaware-Tioga supervisory district in the southern tier of New York.  In this position he served as the regional representative of the New York State Commissioner of Education and as the chief executive officer of the Board of Cooperative Educational Services, serving 16 school districts and approximately 37,000 students.  Formerly, he served as superintendent of the South New Berlin and Harpursville Central School Districts in Central New York for a total of 18 years.  He has 34 years of experience in public education and has held positions as a secondary classroom teacher, principal, and director of Special Education programs and services.

Dr. Busch received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton.  He earned a certificate of advanced studies in educational administration from the State University College at Cortland, New York, where he has served as an adjunct professor.  Dr. Busch was trained as a Curriculum Management Auditor in Chicago, Illinois in 1993 and has served on curriculum management audit teams in over 25 districts in fourteen states.

Dr. Suzanne Gilmour

Dr. Suzanne Gilmour is the Chair of the Educational Administration Department. She received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University and was a principal and Director of Special Projects in the Westhill School District for eighteen years. In addition to the building principal role, her responsibilities have included designing and implementing staff development and curriculum development district wide. Prior to her administrative positions, Dr. Gilmour was a teacher for students with disabilities.

Dr. Gilmour provides staff development nationally on various topics including leadership development women in leadership, mentoring programs, conflict resolution, thinking skills, culture and literacy, peer coaching and shared decision making. She also conducts district reorganization studies, management studies, program evaluations, and statewide superintendent searches. She has written professional articles on topics including shared decision making and leadership. Dr. Gilmour is the Executive Director of the New York State Association for Women in Administration.  Co-Author of Succedding as a Female Superintendent, Rowman and Littlefield 2009.

Dr. Glenn F. Wachter
Associate Professor, Educational Administration; BS, Mansfield University, MS, University of Scranton, Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.  Appointed 2003

Dr. Glenn Wachter received his Ph.D. from SUNY Albany.  He was a Superintendent of Schools in the West Irondequoit Central School District for seven years.  During his Superintendency, the district had received many national awards, including being cited three times as having one of the "Top 100 High Schools in the Nation" for academic rigor.  Prior to the superintendency, Dr. Wachter was an assistant superintendent for instruction, an assistant superintendent for administration, a middle school principal, and a jr.-sr. high school social studies teacher.

Dr. Wachter's research interests center on the study of organizational designs in support of improved student learning and achievement. He also is engaged with the state-wide Superintendent Development Program, and is working as a consultant to the School Administrators Association of New York state in implementing a state wide new administrator mentoring program