Biography

A lifelong Jersey Girl now happily embracing Southern hospitality, Sheri Prupis serves as the Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies for the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). In this role, she brings deep experience as an educational technology leader and consortium builder, helping to shape and implement a system-wide vision for integrating instructional technologies and learning resources across Virginia’s 23 community colleges and the system office.

Sheri is actively engaged with national organizations such as WCET, ACM SIGUCCS, EDUCAUSE’s ELI, and the Instructional Technology Council, which keeps her at the forefront of emerging trends in digital learning and innovation. She also remains closely connected to the classroom, teaching sociology and modeling the same tools and practices she supports system-wide.

Sheri holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Douglass College at Rutgers University, a master’s degree in sociology from New York University, and a graduate certificate in educational technology from Rutgers. She earned her doctorate from Old Dominion University, where her research focused on teaching and learning with technology—specifically, faculty-student relationships in asynchronous courses, LMS structure, the intrinsic value of higher education, and qualitative research methods.