In 1974, Jackson began teaching courses in women’s studies at the University of Southern Maine. She went on to teach for 10 years at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine, and later for 20 years at the University of Maine at Augusta.
Since 2016, Dr. Cushman has been serving as the chancellor of Pennsylvania State University-Beaver in Monaca. Before that, she was campus dean at Ohio University at Zanesville. Earlier. Dr. Cushman spent seven years as the dean of international education at Juniata College in Huntingdon Pennsylvania.
