Colleen Sasso

Colleen Sasso is chair of the Manchester Community College’s Humanities and Liberal Arts Department as well as a full-time professor specializing in composition, poetry, ethics and communications classes.  She is very popular with both students and faculty for her eagerness to try new ideas and techniques and for the support and encouragement she gives to everyone at the college that she comes in contact with.  Colleen also planned, raised  money for and is currently co-running the nationally recognized UNH/CCSNH Mellon Foundation Humanities Collaborative now in its 3rd year.  Despite her devotion to education Colleen also raises a family in Manchester and like Moms everywhere has taken on the added challenges to both her professional and personal life brought about because of the pandemic we are living with.   Colleen’s spirit has been a guiding light for all who come into contact with her as she makes us understand the importance of our individual flexibility in the face of new, almost daily challenges.  In many ways these lessons she is teaching are the ultimate triumph of her educational philosophy!