Rob Jenkins, M.A. - Georgia Perimeter College
Best known for his popular “Two-Year Track” columns in The Chronicle of Higher Education—which have been compiled in the book Building a Career in America’s Community Colleges—Rob Jenkins has earned a national reputation as an advocate for community colleges and as an authority on two-year college issues. During his 23-year career at two-year schools, he has served as a part-time faculty member, a full-time faculty member, a department chair, an academic dean, and a program director. He is currently associate professor of English at Georgia Perimeter College, a large, multi-campus, urban/suburban community college in Atlanta. Rob holds a master’s degree in writing from the University of Tennessee, and his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a number of outlets, including The Clearing House, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Gwinnett Daily Post. In recent years he has addressed faculty, staff, and student groups in national conferences and on a variety of two-year and four-year college campuses around the country. Rob lives with his wife and two of their four children outside Atlanta, where he is active in his church, in the arts community, and in local youth sports programs.

Debi Moon, J.D. - Georgia Perimeter College
A graduate of the University of Tennessee and UT Law School, Debi Moon has served as the Assistant Vice President of Educational Affairs at Georgia Perimeter College, the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Director of the Center for Distance-Learning and as a Associate Professor of Business. She is the recipient of the National Teaching Excellence Award and was a Governor’s Teaching Fellow in the State of Georgia. In the last four years, her centers won the Best Practices Award for Academic Affairs from the University System of Georgia, placed in the top 10 finalists nationally for the Community Colleges Futures Assembly Bellwether Award, and she was awarded the national Wagner Award for Innovation for her work in faculty development in distance learning.

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