Presenter, Leadership Theory: Equipping Future Leaders With the Tools For Success, General Electric Student Leadership Conference, Tuskegee University, March 1996.

Presenter, Student Mentoring: A Tool of Success in Developmental Education, ALADE State Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, October 1994.

PROFESSIONAL, UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENTAL, and COMMUNITY SERVICE

University Service at Western Illinois University

Strategic Planning Committee, 2017 to present.

Centennial Honors College Council, 2017 to present.

Centennial Honors Scholarship Committee, 2017 to present.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Scholarship Committee, 2017 to present.

United States Constitution Day Committee and Moderator, 2017.

Chair Thurgood Marshall Lecture Committee, 2017.

Advisor Student Honors association, 2017.

Advisor Golden Key Honour Society, 2017.

African American Studies Black History Month Committee, 2014-2016.

College of Arts and Sciences Multicultural General Education Committee, 2015.

College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Sub Committee, 2013.

Gwendolyn Brooks Center Black History Month Committee, 2012-2013.

Service on Doctoral Dissertation Committees Georgia Southern University College of Education

Consuela Ward, Ed. D., Purgatory's Place in the South: A Black Woman's Journey to the Promised Land. April 2011.

Lawanda P. Gillis, Ed. D., Courageous Conversations: Rural South Georgia Teachers Moving Toward Developing a Strategy for Eliminating the Achievement Gap. June 2009.

Angela Pope, Ed. D., An Assessment of the Criteria Used to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Different Types of Alternative Education Programs in Georgia. March 2007.

Linda Clark, Ed. D., Strategies and Techniques Use By Exemplary Georgia Middle School Principals to Influence the Achievements of Students with Disabilities and Meet Adequate Yearly Progress Goals. March 2007.

Lisa Herring, Ed. D., The Journey to the Superintendency: How Female Educators Move From Power to Empowerment. March 2007.

Georj Lewis, Ed. D., African American Male Senior Administrators at Predominately White Institutions: A Study on Resilience, March 2007.

Zack Phillips, Ed. D., Elementary Principals' Perceptions of the Effects of Partial Involvement on Students Achievement in Georgia Title I Schools. April 2006.

Zheadric Barbra, Ed. D., An Evaluation of Facilities at Elementary Schools in Georgia Title I Schools. April 2006.

Robert Minter, Ed. D., Strategies Georgia Middle School Principals Use to Improve Test Scores of Students Whose Achievement on Standardized Tests Are Not Consistent With Classroom Achievement. March 2006.

Clara Taylor, Ed. D., Reading Through Brown Eyes: A Study of Cognitive Learning Styles and Reading Curriculum for African American Males. December 2005.

Service of Thesis Committees Georgia Southern University Master of Social Sciences Department of Sociology Marlaina Dreher, Black Female Characterization in Films: A Content Analysis of Change Across Time, January 2013.

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