Honors
2016 - ACBSP Teaching Excellence Award. The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, named one of 10 regional recipients recognized for teaching excellence in the classroom and a finalist for the International Teaching Excellence Award.
2016 - J.L. Zwingle Award - Most Outstanding Faculty Member as voted by the student body. Park University. The students of Park University are proud to pay tribute to an outstanding faculty member who exhibits the qualities they most appreciate in a teacher. Park has an enrollment of more than 10,000 students at 40 campus centers throughout the U.S.
2014 - The Park Chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi. Faculty Excellence in Service to Students Award.
2013 - University of Kansas Medical Center Auxiliary. $1,895 grant from the KUMC Auxiliary to support GIS Mapping Projects in the department of Health Policy and Management.
2013 - Park University Faculty Development Endowment Fund Award. $1,000 grant to fund research with the purchase of specialized GIS Mapping software – MapInfo Professional.
2013 - “Best of Region” -- ACBSP Midwest Region “Engaged Learning in the Digital Age” – Competition. Oral Presentation The Summer Business Academy: A tool to engage “at risk” and first generation to college high school students in the prospect of a business school education in our E-Millennia. October 2013. Omaha, Nebraska.
2013 - 3rd Place Award – Kansas Public Health Association Research Poster Competition. Strategic Alliances and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): A renewed opportunity for a cohesive health system in the U.S. KPHA: Fall Conference - 2013, Wichita, Kansas.
2012 - University of Kansas Graduate Tuition Grant.
2012 - Sigma Beta Delta, International Honor Society in Business, Management, and Administration. Honor Initiate, as Charter Member and President for the Chapter at Park University.
2011 - Park University “Grow Your Own” Doctoral Fellowship. The program awards a full-time faculty member with partial financial assistance to defray the costs associated with tuition for the completion of a terminal degree. This award will be used in the Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management Program at the University of Kansas.
2010 - Outstanding Program Coordinator of the Year. Recognized for exemplary work with fulltime and adjunct faculty in the development and approval of syllabi, textbook approval, and the management of course development; program coordinator for undergraduate marketing at Park University, 2009-10.
2010 - The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Instructional Innovation Grant Award. Park University CETL Faculty Advisory Council, comprised of nine faculty (one representative from each of the schools), engaged a blind peer review of each proposal. The Advisory Council noted that among the strengths of my application was its emphasis on applied and experiential learning. The Council also noted that the potential for expansion of the model for use at other Campus Centers.
1996 - Arthur Mag Ph.D. Fellowship. The highest academic honor awarded to an outstanding graduate student in the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration who has Public Affairs and Administration as his or her coordinating discipline. The highest level of academic achievement is required. Personality, good citizenship, commitment to community service, and potential to contribute to programs in the Kansas City area are considered in the selection process. After nomination by the dean, a committee of community leaders makes the final selection.
1995 - Marjorie Powell Allen Fellowship in Urban and Community Affairs. The first recipient of the graduate fellowship as an outstanding student in the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Graduate research assistant to the Mid-America Regional Council and the Metropolitan Development Forum.
2016 - J.L. Zwingle Award - Most Outstanding Faculty Member as voted by the student body. Park University. The students of Park University are proud to pay tribute to an outstanding faculty member who exhibits the qualities they most appreciate in a teacher. Park has an enrollment of more than 10,000 students at 40 campus centers throughout the U.S.
2014 - The Park Chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi. Faculty Excellence in Service to Students Award.
2013 - University of Kansas Medical Center Auxiliary. $1,895 grant from the KUMC Auxiliary to support GIS Mapping Projects in the department of Health Policy and Management.
2013 - Park University Faculty Development Endowment Fund Award. $1,000 grant to fund research with the purchase of specialized GIS Mapping software – MapInfo Professional.
2013 - “Best of Region” -- ACBSP Midwest Region “Engaged Learning in the Digital Age” – Competition. Oral Presentation The Summer Business Academy: A tool to engage “at risk” and first generation to college high school students in the prospect of a business school education in our E-Millennia. October 2013. Omaha, Nebraska.
2013 - 3rd Place Award – Kansas Public Health Association Research Poster Competition. Strategic Alliances and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): A renewed opportunity for a cohesive health system in the U.S. KPHA: Fall Conference - 2013, Wichita, Kansas.
2012 - University of Kansas Graduate Tuition Grant.
2012 - Sigma Beta Delta, International Honor Society in Business, Management, and Administration. Honor Initiate, as Charter Member and President for the Chapter at Park University.
2011 - Park University “Grow Your Own” Doctoral Fellowship. The program awards a full-time faculty member with partial financial assistance to defray the costs associated with tuition for the completion of a terminal degree. This award will be used in the Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management Program at the University of Kansas.
2010 - Outstanding Program Coordinator of the Year. Recognized for exemplary work with fulltime and adjunct faculty in the development and approval of syllabi, textbook approval, and the management of course development; program coordinator for undergraduate marketing at Park University, 2009-10.
2010 - The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Instructional Innovation Grant Award. Park University CETL Faculty Advisory Council, comprised of nine faculty (one representative from each of the schools), engaged a blind peer review of each proposal. The Advisory Council noted that among the strengths of my application was its emphasis on applied and experiential learning. The Council also noted that the potential for expansion of the model for use at other Campus Centers.
1996 - Arthur Mag Ph.D. Fellowship. The highest academic honor awarded to an outstanding graduate student in the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration who has Public Affairs and Administration as his or her coordinating discipline. The highest level of academic achievement is required. Personality, good citizenship, commitment to community service, and potential to contribute to programs in the Kansas City area are considered in the selection process. After nomination by the dean, a committee of community leaders makes the final selection.
1995 - Marjorie Powell Allen Fellowship in Urban and Community Affairs. The first recipient of the graduate fellowship as an outstanding student in the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Graduate research assistant to the Mid-America Regional Council and the Metropolitan Development Forum.