Service to the Department

3. Department committee memberships, leadership positions, or administrative duties

Graduate Program Coordinator for Master of Science in Instructional Technology, Fall 1999-present. The following highlights my duties:

• Coordinate the course offering for the MIT program and assist with scheduling courses.
• Coordinate program sub-committees and oversee the committees’ decisions and operations.
• Coordinate program development and revisions.
  Identify program resource needs and assist the department chair in planning for finding ways to fill the needs.
• Develop program planning sheets and other related forms.
• Conduct annual program evaluation, analyze the results and share the results with the department chair and MIT faculty for program review and revision.
• Process student admission at the program level by forming and chairing admission committee and reviewing applications in a timely manner every semester.
• Organize and chair regular program meetings.
• Respond to all inquires about the MIT program in a timely manner and meet with interested applicants when requested.
• Find appropriate internship sites and visit sites or meet with responsible individuals to establish a relationship.
• Present the program in meetings or events.
• Coordinate MIT student organization.
• Coordinate student orientation.
• Advise students within the program and oversee MIT faculty advising.
• Manage, develop, and maintain MIT Web site.

Chair of the Core Committee for EDN 301, Instructional Design and Classroom Evaluation 1994-2001. The following highlights my duties:

• Coordinated the multi-sections EDN 301 Instructional Design and Classroom Evaluation course. In that capacity, I coordinated the review of the course content, course syllabus and assignments to assure similar expectations across sections and between the course and methods courses. I also served as resource person for full time and part-time faculty who teach the course.
• Worked with new part-time faculty providing them with the resources and mentoring they need to be successful in the classroom. In that capacity, I help them with the content of the course and assignments and assist them in evaluating assignments, understanding the importance of EDN 301 as a core course and the needs of the student.
• Worked with the methods faculty (Department of Curricular Studies) to make sure that EDN 301 requirements are aligned with their methods courses. In addition, I shared some resource material for the EDN 301 with the methods instructors to improve the linkage between EDN 301, as a core course, and methods courses.
• Initiated and prepared a departmental guide for part-time faculty.

Chair, Search committee for Instructional Design Position. The search resulted in hiring two new faculty members (Dr. Murdock and Dr. Summerville), 2002-2003.

Member, Core Committee for EDN 301, 2001-present.

Chair, Online Course Evaluation Committee, 2000-2001. As the chair, my duties were:

• to review online learning environments (at the time this was new idea) around the country and share the results with the committee,
• to assist the committee in exploring issues related to instructional, technical, and administrative support for online learning environments,
• to lead the discussion on standards for online course, and finally
• to generate a document for Watson School of Education Procedural Handbook summarizing the committee’s discussions on the above-mentioned issues.

Member, Core Committee for EDN 303, 1999-2000.

Member, Master of School Administration Program Committee, 1995-1999.

Member, Core Review Committee, 1997-1998.

Coordinator, Five Year Plan Core Committee for EDN 301, 1996-1997.

Member, Five Year Plan for Establishing the Instructional Technology Master's Program, 1996-1997.

Chair, Instructional Technology Masters Program Committee (principle writer of Plan for Establishing the Instructional Technology Program), 1997-1998.

Chair, Instructional Technology Writing Committee (responsible for researching, writing and then revising Plan for Authorization of the program), 1995-1997.

Coordinator, Curriculum Articulation Committee, 1996-1997.

Co-chair, Search Committee for hiring a faculty member for MSA Program, 1996-1997.

Member, Search Committee for hiring the second position in MSA Program, 1996-1997.

Chair, Curriculum Review Committee. The committee was charged to review core curriculum and recommend proper changes, 1994-1995.

Member, NCATE committee. The committee was responsible for writing reports for NCATE visitation, 1994-1995.

Chair, Committee for Honors Program. The committee was responsible for reviewing WSE proposals for Honors Program, 1993-1994.

Member, Multicultural Education Committee, 1993-1994.

Member, Department Search Committee for Science Position, 1993-1994.

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