Dorothy Rudy, an adjunct professor of Spanish at SSU, this summer read thousands of Advanced Placement Spanish exams.

It’s a duty she has enjoyed for a quarter century.

“I get together with so many of my colleagues once a year. We talk about what we are teaching, we talk about what is going on,” she said. “For me personally, it’s something to unite me with my colleagues all over the United States.”

Rudy, who lives in Healdsburg, spent 12 days in Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Convention Center reading thousands of advanced placement students’ essays and works in Spanish language and Spanish literature.

About 60 percent of the readers were college professors and the other 40 percent were high school teachers, Rudy said.

The Advanced Placement program is sponsored by the College Board.

More than 2.9 million exams in more than 30 courses were evaluated by more than 10,000 readers this year, according to the College Board.