Complex sentence: She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Albany in 1978 and was a professor in the Fine Arts Department at Kutztown University from 1991 until retiring in 2014.
Split into simpler sentences: She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Albany in 1978. She was a professor in the Fine Arts Department at Kutztown University from 1991 until retiring in 2014.