I have served on numerous committees and as advisor for a number of student organizations. The following serves as a list of my service experience.
Support of Virtuous Sisterhood (Advisor – 2008 to 2012) – mentoring minority women students in all disciplines. Co-advisor with Dr. Jeanene Reese and others in prior years.
AIS Student Chapter – charter Information Systems mentor and advisor (2010 to 2014, and again 2017 to present)
Faculty senate representative for Management Sciences and SITC (2009 to 2012; 2014 to 2017 for MS)
ACIMCO faculty representative (2009 to 2012)
Audit Committee faculty representative (2014 to 2017)
Provost search committee member (December 2011 to April 2012)
Undergraduate research committee and UG Research festival committee involvement (2010 to 2103)
General Education Revision Committee (2014 to 2015)
Faculty Senate Constitution Revision Committee (2011)
Faculty Senate Committee on Committees (2009 to 2012)
Disciplinary Review Board (2010 to 2013)
SITC Mentoring Committee (chair) (2010-2011)
ABE Research Committee (COBA) (2011 to present)
COBA Study Abroad Committee (2013 to 2014)
AQ/PQ Committee (COBA) – (2011 to present)
African-American Faculty/Staff Mentoring Group (2009 to 2011)
Facilitated “Follow Me to Freedom” reading group (3 sessions)
OME (Office of Multicultural Enrichment) Advising Committee (2011)
Writing Institute Group (2009, 2011)
Intercultural Effectiveness Team participation (mostly applicant interviews) (2011 to 2014)
University Seminar/Cornerstone/CORE teaching and CORE curriculum development (2011 to 2012)
Speaker – Women Honors program (2009, 2010); Department Chapels
LMS evaluation committee, faculty senate representative (2012 to 2013)
Our family also provides financial support to a variety of activities across campus. We completed funding the Everlena and Rennie Gray Endowed Scholarship established to honor my mother and father’s vision for student education and were able to obtain additional funding in 2015, 2016 and 2017. We also annually support both COBA and ACU as part of the President’s Circle, have funded spring break campaigns, provided funding for Hispanos Unidos’s annual Entra de la Plaza event, funded a retreat for Virtuous Sisterhood’s leadership retreat, supported a student in the International Justice Mission, and a number of other activities including contributions made in 2011 when we funded a portion of the awards for the Undergraduate Research Festival.
There are a number of requests that randomly occur to support the operations at ACU. Last minute meeting requests from faculty and students, speaking engagements, sitting in on classes, proctoring exams, visits to review opportunities for strategic investments at ACU, lunch meetings with local business leaders, and more. They are actually too numerous to account for. I actively support many of the requests that are made, being very cautious and selective in what I must say “no” to, to remain faithful to other commitments. However, I would like to provide one example of a request outside of my normal activities that I was able to support. Such requests are often; they are part of God’s “gentle intrusion” on the day’s activities that make being at a Christian institution of higher learning worthwhile. I was asked to write a short devotional for the University’s “Come to the Quiet” series. I had the opportunity to attend a solitude retreat in 2011 that made a significant difference in my focus and priority setting. When this request was made, I took it as a request from God to “make a difference in the world” – 21st Century vision. The link to the devotional I shared can be found here.
I know I tend to be busy, but I allow my busy-ness to be managed by One who serves and calls us to service. I am honored to serve as part of the ACU community.