Service to Institution and Community

Being a fully participating faculty member at an institution of higher learning means more than simply teaching. Among many things, it means helping to give shape to the goals and direction of an institution as well as nurturing mutually vital relationships with the surrounding community. The activities which I have engaged in demonstrate an eagerness to engage with the community and to help formulate and carry out our collective vision. My service to our institution and community affirms my place as a faculty member who participates fully at all levels and is willing to work with others to achieve a common vision.

Ongoing

STEAM Academy: Regularly participate in the SWOCC STEAM Academy since 2023. Presented topics in cryptography (2023-2025) and random phenomena (2026).
College 101: Participate in College 101 organized by the TRIO Upward Bound program at Southwestern. Have participated in all years for which it has taken place since the 2018-2019 academic year. The event gives high school juniors who are prospective college students a taste of the college experience. Instructors offer talks about a topic which makes their chosen discipline exciting and interesting; students then sign up for "courses" based upon personal interest. Gave two 40-minute talks about cryptography as an application of modular arithmetic.
SWOCC Foundation Scholarship Application Reader: Read and assess student scholarship applications according to criteria set forth by the SWOCC Foundation. Have participated every year since 2023.
Dual-Credit Curriculum Alignment: Participate in events to ensure alignment of dual-credit courses offered in district high schools with SWOCC mathematics curriculum since 2022. Meet with high school instructors to ensure alignment in course documents, structure, and assessment, while offering support and guidance in maintaining alignment. Assisted in introducing MTH 108 to the course catalog for dual-credit availability.
Dual-Credit Committee: Serving on the Dual-Credit Committee since Fall 2025.
Peer Observation Committees: Participate in multiple peer observation committees each year for fellow faculty members at SWOCC since 2018. Have chaired two of these committees.

Past Institutional Service

Assessment Professional Development Group: Participated in helping to create a customizable professional development experience for SWOCC faculty tied to assessment results in Spring of 2026.
FYE Working Group: Participated in creating innovative, interdisciplinary first-year experiences (FYEs) for incoming students during the 2024-2025 acdemic year.
Student Success Committee: Served on the student success committee from Fall 2022 to Spring 2025.
Data Team: Worked with our campus data team to gain data-driven insights into how and where our institution can better serve its students, community, and all stakeholders.
Faculty Senate: Served as a senator on Faculty Senate from 2021 to 2023.
Instructional Design Committee: Served on the Instructional Design/Technology Committee from 2018 to 2021. Served as chair during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Past Community-Related Service

Career Exploration Day: Participated in the 2023 SWOCC Career Exploration Day in Fall term. Created printed materials and information about careers in mathematics and distributed these materials to interested parties.
Shore Acres Holiday Lights Greeter: Volunteered as a greeter representing Southwestern at the 2018 and 2022 Holiday Lights events at Shore Acres.
United Way Day of Caring: Volunteered for the SWOCC work group for the Summer 2020 United Way Day of Caring. Helped with routine yardwork for local residents in need of assistance.
In-District Outreach: Participated in the recruitment outreach efforts to in-district high schools by offering pre-advising for mathematics courses.
Senior Forum: Participated in the Fall 2020 SWOCC Senior Forum which encourages high-school seniors to choose SWOCC for their lower division coursework.
Advising: Participated in mathematics advising in Spring 2019 for in-district high school seniors who were registering as incoming, first-year Southwestern students.
Course Redesign: Assisted in redesigning and outlining our second-term statistics course (MTH 244). Presented the case for adopting the new outline to the Southwestern Curriculum Committee. MTH 244 is now considered equivalent to a required OSU course for transferring Southwestern business majors.
First Generation Panel: Participated on the First-Generation College Graduate Panel and Lunch for incoming first-year TRIO students at SWOCC in the weeks prior to the Fall 2018 term.