Administration
I began my university administrative experience in 1997 as the course director for two of our multi-section general education courses (COM 252 Interpersonal Communication and COM 281 Small Group Communication).
From 2005-2009 I served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in Communication where I was responsible for all facets of administering the M.A. and Ph.D. programs.
From 2011-2014 I served as the first Academic Director of the Innovation Network for Entrepreneurial Thinking (iNET).
In 2012 I was asked to serve as Associate Dean for Administrative and Academic Affairs.
I became the Senior Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs in 2013 where a large majority of my responsibilities were associated with data analytics. I served as Senior Associate Dean until January 1, 2020.
I served as Interim Dean for the College of Communication and Information from August 2018 until August 2019. Although I have over 20 years of experience in administration, I am excited to return to my academic career as a full-time researcher and teacher in the Department of Communication beginning January 1, 2020.
Senior Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs
I served as Senior Associate Dean from 2013-2020 where I was responsible for: 1) generating reports (e.g., Analytics, College Self Study) for the Dean based on custom Tableau Dashboards and Workbooks I have designed, 2) supervising college technology personnel and special initiatives (e.g, CI Co-Lab, Social Media Listening Lab), and 3) managing on other administrative challenges as they arose (ODA). More information is provided below.
Visit the CI Drupal page with links to dashboards providing details about CI student success, majors, course enrollment, and employees.
Tableau Handout with links to useful resources and a glossary that seeks to clarify the alphabet soup associated with University metrics.
The college is continuing the process of completing our College Self Study using dynamic data available through Tableau and the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan.
CI Co-Lab
Over the past several years we've worked in our college to develop a Usability Lab. Initially, we called it the "CI Collective" and described it as a "an adaptive and flexible center supporting interdisciplinary research on human-computer interaction and related areas in understanding how people use communication technology and learn from information systems."
It was covered in a UKNOW story and featured in a Widlcat Insights program.
Beginning in May 2017, the CI Collective was re-branded as the CI Co-Lab and thanks to the generousity of the Director of the School of Information Science, was moved to LCLI 301N. It has the same mission and is equipped with Salesforce Social Studio/Radian 6 social media listening technology, Pupil eyetracking technology, HTC Vive Virtual Reality technology, Suitable Technologies BEAM mobile virtual presence technology and cyber attack monitoring technology.
We partnered with University of Kentucky Information Technology Services to retrofit the CI Co-Lab with ergonomic furniture, an interactive display and a video wall to support the Social Media Listening Lab.
Dean Greer
Dr. Jennifer Greer became the new dean (Chief Academic Officer) for the College of Communication and Information in August 2019
I continued my duties as Senior Associate Dean during the first semester of the new Dean's transition, but now I am excited to return to my academic career as a researcher and teacher. I very much enjoyed probem-solving and working as an administrator in the college for the past twenty+ years. It was especially rewarding to develop innovative low-cost (or no-cost) solutions for challenges as they arose--especially when the creative problem-solving fell under the category of "other duties as assigned (ODA)!"
