Serving

I have served to mentor and encourage others both in the professional departments where I have worked and in areas outside academia. The following describe several of these service commitments.

Recent Active Committees and Activities

Bush School Assessment Liaison

Spring 2015-present. Responsibility: co-facilitate the assessment cycle, which includes identifying and reporting outcomes, measures, targets, and action plans for formal institutional review. Also participated in the evaluation of institutional assessment options, including attending vendor demos and providing feedback to the TAMU assessment team to select a new assessment management tool to replace WEAVE Online. Work along side OIEE to transition to new online platform (AEFIS) for assessment reporting.

Center for Teaching Excellence FacultyAdvisory Board

Fall 2016-present. Responsibility: represent the Bush School as teaching and student learning advocate and board advisor.

Bush School Distance Education Oversight and Planning Committees

Spring 2018-present. Responsibility: make recommendations on Bush School Distance Education initiatives and provide options to executive leadership.

Fulfilled Committee Commitments or Service Activities

Faculty Advisor to Student Group

Spring 2014-2020. Responsibility: advise Aggie Sisters for Christ, a university-recognized organization for women, committed to service, fellowship, and personal growth in Jesus Christ.

Aggies Celebrate Teaching! Award Review Committee

Spring 2019-20. Responsibility: reviewed essays submitted for CTE teaching award and recommended finalists.

Transformational Teaching and Learning Conference Steering Committee

Fall 2018-2020. Responsibility: reviewed proposals and recommended presentations to be included in the final list of conference presentations. Served as needed during the conference May 1-2, 2019.

Bush School Co-Representative to Transformational Education (TAMU 2030 initiative)

Fall 2018. Responsibility: Identify and define the 2030 transformational learning and education goals for TAMU.

McGrew Award Review Committee

Spring 2018. Responsibility: reviewed 5 capstone projects for award selection and recommended first- and second-place award winners.

Bush School Representative to Aggies Commit to Learning for a Lifetime (TAMU QEP)

Summer 2016 to 2019. Responsibility: identify and report to the committee the high-impact experiences and assessment plans for both Bush School departments.

Bush School Curriculum Committee

Spring 2017. Responsibility: serve on focus group charged with recommending action plans for curriculum improvements.

Co-Led Merge Group

Spring 2017 and 2020. Responsibility: with my spouse, provide pre-marital counseling to engaged and seriously dating couples through Grace Bible Church.

Presentation Moderator

Spring 2012, 2013. Responsibility: served as moderator for multiple presentations at the Annual Texas A&M University Assessment Conference.

CTE Faculty Mentor to new Teaching Assistants

August 2011, 2012. Responsibility: served as a faculty member to new TAs with full teaching responsibility. Provided support to lead TAs responsible for training new TAs during teaching workshops.

University E-folio Committee

Fall 2011. Responsibility: served on the university e-portfolio committee to select the next software tool for use by TAMU students, faculty, and administrators for career and program assessment purposes.

Other service activities

Hosted International Dinner for Qatar Guests

At my home in early May 2011 I hosted about 30 guests from the Texas A&M Qatar campus to welcome them to Aggieland and to the U.S. Guests included students, professors, and industry sponsors from Celanese. Event preparations included arranging for a "Texas-style" barbeque AND a Hilal meal.

American Cancer Society Relay for Life in Second Life co-captain

As an Aggie Relay-for-Life team captain, I helped with setting up our Aggie campsite on the cyberspace walk-a-thon and cheered for the participants in the event the weekend of July 17-18, 2010. Relay for Life in SL is a volunteer-driven effort to hold an American Cancer Society ® Relay For Life ® event in the Second Life® world. It's a walk-a-thon in cyberspace, where SL residents gather, camp out, dance, donate money and of course walk the custom-built track that encompasses the 96-acre park. We raise money for cancer research using Second Life ® as the place to hold the online fundraising event. This year we raised over $225,000. For more information about this service activity, please see my blog post "How Do I Use Virtual World Technologies?" July 14, 2010.

Faculty Mentor to University Scholars

I was selected to serve in this position to supervise honors scholarship recipients in a special topics honors seminar. The special topics seminar investigated how technical communication played a role in the collapse of the 1999 Bonfire, resulting in the loss of 12 Aggie students, and the elimination of future on-campus bonfires.

DEIC (District Educational Instructional Committee), advisory panel member to CSISD's school board

I served on this committee several years providing recommendations on issues ranging from policy implementation, mission statement review, and the academic school calendar.

Volunteer Bible Study Leader

I served as the leaders’ coach for evening Bible study leaders at Grace Bible Church, facilitated discussion during pastor-lead teaching and training of small group leaders, helped problem solving and strategizing to meet small group goals. Led Bible studies at my local church (Grace Bible Church) and participated in leadership development workshops, leader meetings, and service projects.

Discovering Grace co-leader

I co-led a class for newcomers at our church with the purpose of describing the church mission and vision, programs, ministry opportunities, and church membership requirements.

Grade Appeals Panelist

In this position I reviewed student work submitted by students were formally disputing their Technical Writing course grades. The tasks involved reviewing the course requirements, instructor expectations, and assignment guidelines (and all relevant materials associated with the case); reviewing the student work and instructor assessment of the work (including the grades), deciding to uphold the original course grade or recommend a change, and writing a short report on my recommendation.

GAT mentor

This responsibility includes advising a GAT each semester on his/her teaching, which means visiting and evaluating a class meeting, evaluating grading procedures and final marks, advising on pedagogical or class management issues, and writing a formal evaluation the GATs teaching performance.