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

AWARDS

• 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

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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-