Experience

Gainesville/Gainesville State College

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• President Emeritus

  • Jul 1998 - Present

  Named President Emeritus by action of the Georgia Board of Regents



Kennesaw State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor/Executive in Residence

  • Aug 2004 - Jun 2007

  As assigned by President Betty Siegel and Dean Yiping Wan, I served as a professor of educational leadership and held various interim positions as Director of the Teacher Center, head of the Educational Leadership Department, and Associate Dean for Graduate Study. As Associate Dean, I coordinated the development of KSU's first doctoral program entitled "Leadership for Learning"--an umbrella degree that provided doctoral study options across the academic area in the college of education.



East Georgia College

• United States

• Interim President

  • Jul 2002 - Jul 2004



The University of Alabama at Birmingham

• Higher Education

• Professor Educational Leadership/Higher Education

  • Aug 1998 - Jun 2002

  Taught graduate courses, directed doctoral dissertations, served on doctoral committees, coordinated the Administrative Internship Program and continued to direct the development of off-campus locations. (Continued my service with doctoral students until 2010 from subsequent positions in Georgia and taught blended graduate courses on the emerging technologies).

• Assistant Provost for Two-Year Colleges and Professor of Educational Leadership/HIgher Education

  • Apr 1997 - Jul 1998

  Coordinated UAB's relationships with area two-year/community colleges and directed the development of off-campus graduate locations in north central Alabama (Cullman and Jasper)



UAB Walker College

• President

  • Apr 1997 - Aug 1998

  Served as president and guided UAB away from its intentions to be the first major university in Alabama to absorb a two-year college as the first step in a plan being developed by the major universities to combat the growing influence and political strength of the Alabama Community College System.

• President/President Emeritus

  • Jul 1983 - Apr 1997

  Served as president for almost 14 years before retiring and returning to be president of UAB Walker College in Alabama. Named President Emeritus by Georgia Board of Regents.