I have served on numerous committees and as advisor for a number of student organizations.\u00a0 The following serves as a list of my service experience.<\/p>\n
Support of Virtuous Sisterhood (Advisor – 2008 to 2012) – mentoring minority women students in all disciplines.\u00a0 Co-advisor with Dr. Jeanene Reese and others in prior years.<\/p>\n
AIS Student Chapter – charter Information Systems mentor and advisor (2010 to 2014, and again 2017 to present)<\/p>\n
Faculty senate representative for Management Sciences and SITC (2009 to 2012; 2014 to 2017 for MS)<\/p>\n
ACIMCO\u00a0faculty representative\u00a0(2009 to 2012)<\/p>\n
Audit Committee faculty representative (2014 to 2017)<\/p>\n
Provost search committee\u00a0member (December 2011 to April 2012)<\/p>\n
Undergraduate research committee and UG Research festival committee involvement (2010 to 2103)<\/p>\n
General Education Revision Committee (2014 to 2015)<\/p>\n
Faculty Senate Constitution Revision Committee (2011)<\/p>\n
Faculty Senate Committee on Committees (2009 to 2012)<\/p>\n
Disciplinary Review Board (2010 to 2013)<\/p>\n
SITC Mentoring Committee (chair) (2010-2011)<\/p>\n
ABE Research Committee (COBA) (2011 to present)<\/p>\n
COBA Study Abroad Committee (2013 to 2014)<\/p>\n
AQ\/PQ Committee (COBA) – (2011 to present)<\/p>\n
African-American\u00a0Faculty\/Staff Mentoring Group (2009 to 2011)<\/p>\n
Facilitated \u201cFollow Me to Freedom\u201d reading group (3 sessions)<\/p>\n
OME (Office of Multicultural Enrichment) Advising Committee (2011)<\/p>\n
Writing Institute Group (2009, 2011)<\/p>\n
Intercultural Effectiveness Team participation (mostly applicant interviews) (2011 to 2014)<\/p>\n
University Seminar\/Cornerstone\/CORE teaching and CORE curriculum development (2011 to 2012)<\/p>\n
Speaker – Women Honors program (2009, 2010); Department Chapels<\/p>\n
LMS evaluation committee, faculty senate representative\u00a0(2012 to 2013)<\/p>\n
Our family\u00a0also provides financial support to a variety of activities across campus. \u00a0We completed\u00a0funding the Everlena\u00a0and Rennie Gray\u00a0Endowed Scholarship <\/a>established to honor my mother and father’s vision for student education and were able to obtain additional funding in 2015, 2016 and 2017. \u00a0We also annually support both COBA and ACU as part of the President’s Circle, have funded spring break campaigns<\/a>, 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are a number of requests that randomly occur to support the operations at ACU.\u00a0Last minute meeting requests from\u00a0faculty and students, speaking engagements, sitting\u00a0in on classes, proctoring exams,\u00a0visits to review opportunities for strategic investments at ACU, lunch meetings with local business leaders,\u00a0and more.\u00a0 They are actually too numerous to account for.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 However, I would like to provide one example of a request outside of my normal activities that I was able to support.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I was asked to write a short devotional for the University’s “Come to the Quiet” series.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to attend a solitude retreat in 2011 that made a significant difference in my focus and priority setting.\u00a0 When this request was made, I took it as a request from God to “make a difference in the world” – 21st Century vision.\u00a0 The link to the devotional I shared can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0I am honored to serve as part of the ACU community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have served on numerous committees and as advisor for a number of student organizations.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Co-advisor with Dr. Jeanene Reese and others in prior years. AIS Student Chapter … <\/p>\n