Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University Responsible for academic and student affairs within the college, providing leadership in the areas of academic curriculum and program development, academic advising, student learning assessment and retention, general education, and instructional technology.

Acting Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University Responsible for the largest college consisting of 17 departments with approximately 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including a new African/African-American Studies Program; with 285 line faculty, plus approximately 200 additional adjunct faculty that produces nearly 200,000 student credit hours per year; having a budget of $20 million.

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University Responsible for oversight of all student services within the college; management of all curricular changes coming from the college through the university approval system; prioritization and distribution of college capital equipment funds; chaired college Faculty Development Committee and served as administrator for direct reports from Science Learning Resources Center, Chemical Storage Facility and Chemical Safety Officer. The position of associate dean is also responsible for oversight of the university wide General Education Program.

Beginning July 1, 1999, the College of Arts & Sciences was restructured from three existing colleges (Arts & Humanities, Natural & Mathematical Sciences and Social & Behavioral Sciences). The process of creating one unified college from three was overseen by the dean and associate dean.

Chaired (for three years) an ad hoc general education committee charged by the President to create a new general education program for Eastern Kentucky University.

Chair, Department of Geology, Eastern Kentucky University (Department was renamed Earth Sciences after merger with another department in 1994.) Responsible for a small- to medium-sized department of 8-10 faculty members with two undergraduate and one masters degree program in geology and an earth science teaching degree program. The 1994 merger added a very active general education science effort in the department.

Acting Chair, Department of Geology, Eastern Kentucky University

Professor of Geology, Eastern Kentucky University

Associate Professor of Geology, Eastern Kentucky University

Assistant Professor of Geology, Eastern Kentucky University

Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Florida

Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Louisville

Instructor of Geology, University of Louisville

President

Eastern Vice President

Chairman

Secretary

Treasurer, combined Annual Meeting, Southeastern and North-Central Sections, Geological Society of America

Outstanding Alumnus, Phi Kappa Phi, Morehead State University

Outstanding Geology Alumnus, Mu Gamma Sigma, Morehead State University

Outstanding Senior, Geoscience Department, Morehead State University

Provost’s Council
Council on Academic Affairs
Facilities Committee

University Information Technology Committee

General Education Committee (Chair & Co-Chair)

University Assessment Committee

Ad Hoc General Education Committee (Chair)

Institutional Planning Analysis Committee

Graduate Council

College of Arts & Sciences
CAS Curriculum Committee (Chair)
CAS Faculty Development Committee (Chair)
Science Learning Resource Center Committee (Co-Chair)

College of Natural & Mathematical Sciences
NMS Administrative Council
NMS Promotion & Tenure Committee
NMS Curriculum Committee

Promotion & Tenure Committee (Ex-Officio)
Curriculum Committee (Ex-Officio)
Academic Practices Committee (Chair)

CCAS Seminar for Fiscal Issues, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, New Orleans, LA.

CCAS Seminar for New Deans, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Williamsburg, VA.

Local Principle Investigator, EKU Subcontract, Appalachian Math – Science Partnership, National Science Foundation, ($280,662 for first two years of a five-year project)

Participating Member, Integrating for Excellence: Linking Science and Humanities Honors Courses, National Endowment for the Humanities ($178,000)

Participating Member, Cosmos and Evolution: An Exploration of Nature, Course and Curriculum Development Program, National Science Foundation ($120,000)

Co-Principal Investigators: S.M. Rimmer and J.C. Cobb, Burial and Coalification Histories for the Central Appalachian and Eastern Interior Basins: Implications for Energy Resources in Kentucky, Kentucky EPSCoR Program, $1,700,000 (not funded)

An Initial Petrographic Analysis of Synsedimentary and Diagenetic Features of the High Bridge Group (Middle Ordovician) in the Subsurface, Fayette County, Kentucky, Amoco, $2,500 (not funded)

Administrator, Support for five graduate student fellowships through Domestic Mining & Mineral Fuel Conservation Program, U.S. Department of Education ($84,000)

Dolomitization of the Oregon Formation in Central Kentucky, Research Grant, Eastern Kentucky University ($1,355)

Silicification in the Ocala Group in North-Central Florida, Seed Money Grant, University of Florida, $3,500 (not funded)

Carbonate Microfacies of the Platteville Group (Middle Ordovician), Lee And LaSalle Counties, Illinois, Penrose Research Grant, Geological Society of America ($400)