Chairing

Currently serving as Division Director of Sciences at USF summer 2021 - present.

  • Oversaw the hiring of six faculty positions and served on a search committee for two staff positions and several adjuncts.

  • In charge of course scheduling, budgets, faculty evaluation, assessment, curriculum changes.

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Served as Chair or Co-chair of Biology and Environmental Science Department at USF 2015-2018.

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  • Oversaw the hiring of four faculty positions and several adjuncts.

 

  • Served on core team for building a new and renovated science building.

 

  • Oversaw the staffing and set-up for a new satellite campus in Biology, Lafayette, Indiana.

 

  • Put in place three new curricula within Environmental Science (Conservation Biology, Sustainable Food Systems, Environmental Health and Safety).

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Photo: Members of the Zoo Teen Club restoring an eroded bank at the Southwest Conservation Club, by Helen Weber-McReynolds

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Served as Chair of Environmental Studies Department at Warren Wilson College 2000-2010.

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  • Oversaw the largest major at WWC, carrying 25+ percent of student body each year, while enrollment for college grew by 50 percent.

 

  • Served on 22 faculty or staff search committees, chair of nine of those, developer of one new faculty line.

 

  • Oversaw six concentrations within Environmental Studies.

 

  • Authored four departmental reviews, two alumni surveys, two major grant applications.

Photo: USF students compiling field data, by Lou Weber