My full-time career in higher education spanned almost 35 years. After over 20 years as a professor and administrator, I went to work for a regional accrediting agency (SACSCOC). As a Vice President, I worked with a portfolio of institutions within the region. That portfolio included institutions of every type and size. Over almost 14 years with SACSCOC, I staffed more than 100 peer review committees. For the last few years with the agency, I served as Senior Vice President, taking on additional responsibilities related to policy development and agency publications. I maintain a particular interest in institutional effectiveness and SACSCOC’s Quality Enhancement Plan.

My academic area is religious studies, and I hold a PhD in New Testament Studies. With additional academic work in narrative and literary criticism, I am particularly interested in the canonical Gospels. I am also an ordained minister and a church musician.

I have been singing my entire life. I have formal training in voice as an undergraduate, and I have been a choir member and soloist in various choirs and locations since high school. I have also discovered a love for various musical instruments in the last few years. I play the hammered dulcimer, the mountain dulcimer, the ukulele, and the electric bass guitar.