Conference Presentations

Refereed Conference Presentations:      

Pandemic-Paved Pathways for Women's Leadership Advancement in the Academy, International Leadership Association 6th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, International, Accepted.      

High-Impact Faculty Success Practices That Advance Student Success Outcomes, American Association of Colleges & Universities, New Orleans, LA, International, Accepted.      

Working Girl to Wonder Woman: Navigating the Covid Shift as a Mother Working in Higher Education, Georgia Association for Women in Higher Education (Affiliate of the American Council on Education Women’s Network, Brunswick, GA, Regional, Accepted.      

Lessons from reflective practice in higher education: Learning from failure in community-engaged leaders, International Leadership Association's 21st Annual Global Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 24-27, 2019, International.      

That’s a wrap: Closing campus-community partnerships. Engagement Scholarship Consortium Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 6-9, 2019, International.      

Boundary spanners in higher education: An exploration of roles, expectations, and professional development, International Leadership Association's 20th Annual Global Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, October 24-27, 2018, International.      

Embracing one’s FAILURE to go about transforming higher education through engaged scholarship, 2018 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 30-October 3, 2018, International.      

Roles, Expectations, and Professional Development: A Pilot Study of Boundary Spanners in Higher Education, 2018 International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 18-20, 2018, International.      

Saying No to Best Practices, Distance Learning Administrators Conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia, June 2018, Fishbowl Discussion, Regional.      

Faculty Development in a Post-Consolidated World, 18th Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, September 26-27, 2017, Research Paper, International.       

Extending Our Conceptualization of Boundary-Spanning Leadership for Community Engagement, 2017 International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, NUI, Galway, Ireland, September 14-16, 2017, Research Paper, International.       

Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Driving Questions and Considerations for Leadership Education Program (re)Design, Association for Leadership Educators, Charleston, South Carolina, July 9-12, 2017, Roundtable, National.      

Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment through peer observations, Distance Learning Administrators Conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia, June 18-21, 2017, Paper, Regional.      

E-service-learning: Integrating community-engaged pedagogies in the virtual classroom, Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15-17, 2016, Discovery Session, International.      

The first 168 hours: Collecting useful learner data during the first week of class, Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15-17, 2016, Education Session, International      

Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment: Online teaching observations, Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15-17, 2016, Discovery Session, International      

Ten years of the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: Alumni perspectives, 17th Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 11-12, 2016, Panel, International.      

Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment: Online teaching observations in leadership education, Association for Leadership Educators, Sacramento, California, July 10-13, 2016, Roundtable, National.      

Collective leadership for community engagement: Empowering community partners as co-creators and co-educators, Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, Savannah, Georgia, April 13-15, 2016, Workshop, Regional.      

Developing capacity for community engagement: Communication strategies for crossing organizational, community, and geographic boundaries, Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, Savannah, Georgia, April 13-15, 2016, Workshop, Regional.      

Exercising civic leadership across boundaries: Public narrative and emergent models of community governance, 17th Annual Global Conference, International Leadership Association, Barcelona, Spain, October 14-17, 2015, Panel, International.      

Communication across organizational, community, and geographical boundaries. 15th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Penn State, Pennsylvania, September 28- 30, 2015, Workshop, International.      

Connecting graduate student to concepts and resources to do community-engaged research II, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, November 5-8, 2014, Workshop, International.     

 Community engaged scholarship in the doctoral dissertation: Perspectives from the field, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Canada, October 8, 2014, Panel, International.      

Lessons from the EESW: Turning community engagement into faculty scholarship, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Canada, October 7, 2014, Panel, International.      

The Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: Engaging graduate students for change, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Canada, October 7, 2014, Panel, International.      

Design Lab: Building 21st century workforce skills through service, Conference on Volunteering and Service, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-18, 2014, Workshop, National.     

 Creating cultures of assessment: New directions for research and practice, Gulf-South Summit: Creating Capacity Collaboratively: Connecting Learning and Civic Outcomes, Auburn University, March 26-28, 2014, Paper, Regional.      

Collaborative action inquiry as a means of capacity building for community engagement, Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference: Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23-25, 2013, Paper, Regional.      

Creating cultures of assessment, Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference: Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23-25, 2013, Paper, Regional.      

Collaborative action inquiry as a method of institutionalizing community engagement, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, November 5-8, 2013, Paper, International.      

Leveraging internal boundary spanners for the institutionalization of engagement, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Lubbock, Texas, October 7-10, 2013, Paper, International.     

Increasing our capacity for engagement: How we collaborate for success, National Outreach Scholarship Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 30-October 3, 2012, Paper, International.      

Connecting graduate students to concepts and resources to do community-engaged research, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, September 23-25, 2012, Workshop, International.      

The role of collaborative inquiry in developing engaged faculty, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, September 23-25, 2012, Paper, International.      

Integrating service-learning into your curriculum, Georgia Highlands College In-Service, Rome, Georgia, July 19, 2010, Workshop, Institutional.      

Economizing the core: Justification for required first year seminar in Area B, Core Matters Conference (Valdosta State University), Valdosta, Georgia, April 10, 2010, Lecture, Regional      

Invited Presentations:      

Integrating Theory and Practice through Community-Engaged Research, Doctoral Colloquium, Staley School of Leadership Studies, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, October 13, 2021, Institutional      

Introduction to Leadership Theory and Practice, Foundational Session for the 2021-2022 KSU Provost’s Leadership Fellows, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, September 7, 2021, Institutional.       

Working girl to wonder woman: Mothering and meaning making as professors and researchers during COVID-19, Women’s History Month event sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the Presidential Commission on Gender and Work Life, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, April 1, 2021, Institutional.      

Make the connection: Spanning boundaries, solving problems, and building a legacy through community-engaged research, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, October 4, 2018, Conference Opening Keynote, Regional.      

Writing for publication as a graduate student, University of Georgia, Lawrenceville, GA, February 27, 2015, Workshop, Regional.      

The engaged university: Redefining higher education leadership for the 21st century, Faculdade Guararapes, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil, November 26, 2014, Lecture, International.      

The engaged university: Redefining higher education leadership for the 21st Century, UNIFACS, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, November 25, 2014, Lecture, International.      

Community engagement special topics: Working with students, Campus Compact’s Diving-In: Institute for New Community-Service Learning Professionals, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, June 3, 2014, Workshop, National.