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Thomas P. Mackey

Vice Provost for Academic Programs, SUNY Empire State College

Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., is Vice Provost for Academic Programs at SUNY Empire State College. He developed the metaliteracy framework with Trudi E. Jacobson and published their co-authored book: Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners (2014) and the co-edited book Metaliteracy in Practice (2016), both for Neal-Schuman/ALA Publishing. Previously, they published four co-edited books about faculty-librarian collaboration and several peer-reviewed articles. Tom and Trudi worked with colleagues from SUNY Empire State College and the University at Albany to develop three Metaliteracy-inspired MOOCs and a competency-based digital badging system. They launched an on-demand version of their Coursera MOOC entitled: Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World. Tom is a member of the Editorial team for Open Praxis, the peer-reviewed, international, open access, scholarly journal about research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). He may be contacted by e-mail at Tom.Mackey@esc.edu.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Vice Provost for Academic Programs, SUNY Empire State College
  • 2014–2015
    Interim Vice Provost , SUNY Empire State College
  • 2011–2014
    Dean, SUNY Empire State College
  • 2010–2011
    Interim Dean, SUNY Empire State College
  • 2008–2010
    Associate Dean, SUNY Empire State College

Education

  • 2001 
    The University at Albany, SUNY, Ph.D., Writing, Teaching, and Criticism
  • 1996 
    The University at Albany, SUNY, M.A., English
  • 1985 
    The University at Albany, SUNY, B.A., Communication

Publications

  • 2014
    Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners, with Trudi E. Jacobson