Rosser Farley 
Professor of Computer Science & Reading
Montgomery College, Maryland
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Rosser is a native of the state of Maryland. He was born and raised on a farm in Carroll County, Maryland and attended high school in Baltimore County where his mother and grandmother both taught. After graduating from high school he entered the US Navy and served as an Electronics Technician for 4 years during the Vietnam War era.

After leaving the service, Rosser attended college and worked in construction trades for a number of years before taking a position as an instructor at a vocational-technical high school in Baltimore County. During his tenure at the high school he obtained a Maryland Standard Professional Teaching Certificate. Four years later he moved to Dundalk Community College in Baltimore County as the director of a technology degree program. In his 11 years of teaching at DCC, he taught in a number of technical areas including Computer Programming and Computer Applications.

His interest in teaching computer technologies led him to earn a BA degree in Information Systems Management from University of Maryland and then a Master of Engineering Science degree in Computer Science from Loyola University of Maryland. Subsequent to finishing his MES degree, he left the community college to work as a software engineer with AAI Corporation - an engineering firm in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

Rosser returned to community college teaching after a 2 year hiatus during which he worked as a software engineer and also earned certifications in Oracle database technologies. He obtained a position as a Computer Science faculty member at the Takoma Park campus of Montgomery College in January 1999 where he served at various times as the Coordinator of Computer Science and as Department Chair in the Business, Management and Information Sciences Department.

During the years 2004-2007, Rosser "retrained" to teach reading by taking graduate courses in Reading Education and ESOL at Towson University, UMBC, and the College of Notre Dame. In August 2008 he moved to the Rockville Campus where he teaches classes in Reading and the occasional computer programming course.