Steven M. Schneider

Steven M. Schneider (born March 29, 1960) is a professor in the Department of Communication and Humanities at the State University of New York Institute of Technology. He is a former president of the Board of Education of the Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School District in Cherry Valley, New York.
Early life
Professor Schneider was born and grew up in Lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Secondary education
Schneider attended Temple University during his senior year of high school, and then continued on to undergrad at George Washington University, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Communications in 1981. His thesis was "The Impact of Instant Analysis on Television Viewers Perceptions of Presidential Debates." During his time as an undergraduate, he interned for Representative Peter Kostmayer. He also interned for the assistant to the deputy of the assistant of President Jimmy Carter, and the United States Department of Energy, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Solar Energy.
Schneider studied Communications at the University of Pennsylvania at the Annenberg School of Communications and graduated with his Masters Degree in 1988. His masters thesis was entitled "The Infancy of Telegraphy: Congressional Politics and Policy, 1837- 1845." He then continued at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to earn his PhD in political communications, American politics, and research methods in 1997. His doctoral thesis, "Expanding the Public Sphere through Computer Mediated Communication," was a political discussion about abortion in a Usenet newsgroup.
Early career
Schneider worked at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania as a research assistant from 1981 to 1983. He also worked as a research assistant at MIT. He was an adjunct instructor at Wellesley College in 1991, and was shortly thereafter hired at SUNYIT as an associate professor. He became a full time professor there in 2006 and still teaches there currently. He was a post doctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 to 2001 and also taught at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute as both a research associate and a visiting associate professor.
Professor at SUNYIT
From 2006 to 2007, Schneider was the director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. He was the founding director of the center which "focused on encouraging the use of instructional technology, developing a robust program of service-based learning, and working to improve pedagogy."
From 2007 to 2010 Schneider served as the Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.
In 2010, he was the coordinator of the Office of Student & Faculty Services.

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