Member, four Ph.D., five Masters Committees, Speech Communication Department, University of Maryland at College Park
Member, President's Commission on Women of Color, University of Maryland at College Park
Doctoral Student/Candidate
Howard University Washington D.C., 1986 - 1991
Achievement Award Outstanding participation in Leadership Summit, American InterContinental University
Achievement Award, Outstanding participation in The Teaching Roundtable Howard University, 1997
Mentor of the Year Award, University of Maryland at College Park, 1994
Instructional Award, University of Maryland at College Park, 1993
Organization of American States, Scholar, 1986-1989
Scholarship Award, University of the West Indies, 1984- and 1986
Graduate Scholarship Awards, Howard University 1989, 1990, 1991
Active Member, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS)- National Decanal body for sharing best practices- Appointed to serve on the Board for the 2002 term-was not able to serve)
Member, Liberal Arts Commission, Council of Colleges of Arts and Social
Sciences (CCAS)
Active Member, World Wide Forum for Culture and Education-Rome, Italy
Active Member- ATINER- Association of International Education and Research, Athens, Greece
Advisor: College Student Retention Committee with emphasis on First Year Students' completion and graduation
Publications, Scholarly Activities, and Professional Experience
Key Note Speaker- 2011- “Straight to the Heart of the Matter: Citizenship, Connectivity and
Democracy; World Wide Forum on Culture and Education, Rome, Italy
Paper presented 2010' The Photo Speaks; Rhetoric in equalizing the tension of social power across gender and race in the film "Something New"-World Wide Forum on Culture and Education
Paper presented-2009- to World Wide Forum on Education and Culture: One step, two step, Three, step, Four: Leadership Higher Education across Gender, Colour, and Accented Speech, Rome, Italy-