Cheryl M. Buecker, representing associate degree programs, is a professor of early childhood education at Edison Community College in Piqua, Ohio. She has been at Edison for the last 20 years and her earlier teaching experiences include first grade, second grade, Kindergarten, and early childhood vocational education in the Piqua City Schools, the Princeton School District, and Upper Valley Joint Vocational School.

She teaches early childhood education courses at the college and coordinates the AAS early childhood education and AS and AA education transfer programs. She has been active for eight years as the chair of the Edison Community College Curriculum Committee, serves on the grants committee for the college, and is the faculty liaison to the Edison Child Development Center. She has been instrumental and successful in leading both the Child Development Center and the ECE college program through NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) accreditation programs.

Cheryl holds a Bachelor's Degree in Education from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; a Master's in Educational Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; and a Master's Degree in Education, Early Childhood, from Wright State University, Fairborn, Ohio.

She is a member and past chair of the Ohio Coalition of Associate Degree Teacher Licensure Programs, a member of the Early Childhood Advisory Council to Ohio Governor's Early Childhood Cabinet, and a member of the Ohio Board of Regents Early Childhood Articulation Committee.

She is active in her community serving as chair of the board of the Council on Rural Services that oversees Head Start programs in nine counties in Ohio; member and past chair of the Miami County Children's Services Board, member and past chair of the Parents and Teachers program that serves the Piqua City School District, and member and past chair of Overfield Early Learning Programs (a private independent school) in Troy, Ohio.

She has been received the Teaching Excellence Award from NISOD (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development), Austin Texas; and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Consortium for Community College Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan.