Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Sandra K. Gates Accounting Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2006) Arizona State University
Fa 2005 – Sp 2009 Fa 2009 – Sp 2012 Fa 2012 – Present
University of Texas-Tyler Texas Wesleyan University
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Assistant Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Dr. Sandra K. Gates’ area of expertise is in the field of accounting. With eight publications in refereed journals, two publications in practitioner journals, one published proceeding, and three presentations, Dr. Gates continues to expand her research and scholarly activities. She is the recipient of several awards including the Alpha Xi Outstanding Faculty Award, and holds membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and American Accounting Association.
Dr. Gates teaches a wide variety of advanced managerial courses, including cost management, financial statement analysis and fraud examination. Her university service includes participating in the Teaching and Learning Committee, Graduate Advisory Committee, Faculty Development Leave Committee, Tenure and Promotion Committee and as chair of the Accounting Faculty Search Committee, among others.
Dr. Kishor Kumar Guru- Gharana
Economics and Finance Associate Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (1987) Southern Methodist University
Fa 1981 – Sp 2001 Fa 2003 – Sp 2009 Fa 2009 – Present
Tribhuvan University McNeese State University
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Associate Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor
Dr. Kishor Kumar Guru-Gharana is a recognized researcher in the area of economics. His research includes nine refereed articles, four working papers, six publications in refereed journals, and two refereed proceedings. Dr. Guru-Gharana has presented at the state, national and international levels.
He teaches online and face-to-face graduate and undergraduate courses. He received numerous honors and awards including the Teaching Excellence Award at A&M-Commerce, the Research Award, the JP Morgan Chase Business Faculty Excellence Award and the Powell Group Faculty Excellence Award. His university service includes membership in the Faculty Senate, Graduate Council, College Scholarship Committee, and Strategic Planning Committee.
COLLEGE OFEDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Julia Ballenger Educational Leadership Associate Professor 09/01/15
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Ph.D. (1996) The University of Texas Fa 2001 – Sp 2011
Fa 2011 – Sp 2012 Fa 2012 – Present
Stephen F. Austin
Texas Wesleyan University
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Assistant Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor
Dr. Julia Ballenger’s area of expertise is in educational leadership. Her scholarly activities include authoring six books, 12 book chapters, a book review, a special guest issue in a review journal, an instructional model (peer-reviewed), and 22 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Ballenger is an active presenter at the international, national, regional and state levels. She received several awards, including the Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administrators’ Advocacy Award.
During her academic career, Dr. Ballenger chaired and served on several dissertation committees as well as departmental, college, and university committees, including the Faculty Senate, Quality Enhancement Plan Team, Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects, and Faculty Development Leave Committee.
Dr. Arthur J. Borgemenke
Educational Leadership Assistant Professor 09/01/15
Ed.D (2001) University of Texas at El Paso Fa 2006 – Sp 2008
Sp 2009 – Present
Chadron State College
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Dr. Arthur J. Borgemenke’s area of expertise is in educational leadership and graduate advising where he developed and implemented an advanced advising model for graduate students to accommodate non-traditional student needs. He serves as a consultant and facilitator for an ongoing funded grant process between educational leaders at the University of Texas at El Paso, the El Paso Community College, and Canutillo Independent School District, and is responsible for state textbook adoption contracts in New Mexico and El Paso County. He published 16 scholarly articles, one book chapter and a book review. Dr. Borgemenke chaired six doctoral dissertations and is the recipient of the Academic Partnerships Research Grant and the Vision 2011 Grant Award.
Dr. Beth A. Jones Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education
Assistant Professor 09/01/15
Ph.D. (2006) Louisiana State University
Fa 2009 – Present Texas A&M University-Commerce Assistant Professor
Dr. Beth A. Jones’ areas of expertise are special education policies and procedures, visual impairments, assistive technologies, and consultation. Her scholarship includes 18 manuscripts, seven international presentations, four national presentations, two regional presentations and eight state/local presentations. Dr. Jones is the recipient of an International Faculty Development Grant and has submitted two grant proposals. She is affiliated with the Council for Learning Disabilities (international and state chapters), the Council for Exceptional Children (international chapter), and the National Association of School Psychologists.
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Her professional interests include collaboration, instructional methodologies/visual impairments, assistive technology, and behavior management. Dr. Jones serves on university, college, and department committees, including Faculty Senate, Virtual College of Education and Human Services Advisory Committee and the Scholarship Subcommittee.
Dr. Lacy E. Krueger Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education
Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2009) University of Virginia
Fa 2009 – Present Texas A&M University-Commerce Assistant Professor
Dr. Lacy E. Krueger’s areas of expertise are in applied personality and social psychology, gender and lifespan development with an emphasis on cognition and memory. She authored 14 articles for national professional refereed journals, and has several international, national and regional refereed presentations, as well as state and local refereed poster presentations.
Dr. Krueger teaches online graduate and undergraduate courses. She is involved in several professional development activities, including serving as a conference reviewer for the Southwestern Psychological Association and ad hoc reviewer for journal submissions by graduate students and faculty members.
Dr. Stephen Reysen Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education
Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2009) University of Kansas
Fa 2009 – Present Texas A&M University-Commerce Assistant Professor
Dr. Stephen Reysen’s research examines issues concerning personal and social identity including collective emotions and threats to the group, global citizenship, fanship and fandom, and interpersonal threats to public identity. He has 41 peer-reviewed journal articles, three peer- reviewed book chapters, seven refereed book reviews, seven manuscripts in preparation and more than 100 conference presentations. Since 2010 he has served as editor of Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis and also served as president of the Council for the Study of Global Learning. He received numerous awards including Texas A&M University- Commerce’s Outstanding Researcher of the Year.
Dr. Reysen’s university service includes serving on and chairing department, college and university committees, as well as directing dissertations and theses. Service to his profession includes serving as a reviewer and editor for discipline-related journals.
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ARTS
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Tabetha Adkins Literature and Languages Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2009) University of Louisville
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Dr. Tabetha Adkins’ areas of teaching and research are in literacy and social justice, cultural rhetoric, writing studies, and pedagogy. She authored three textbooks, 13 refereed publications and has numerous presentations. Dr. Adkins led a collaborative effort with other members of the faculty in the application for and receipt of a Comprehensive Student Success Program College Access Challenge Grant in the amount of $279,305.
In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Adkins serves as Director of First-Year Writing and as an intern to the Dean of the University College. She received numerous awards, including Professor of the Year, Junior Faculty Award, and the Maier Writing Award. Dr. Adkins is very active in department, college and university committees, as well as service to her discipline. Dr. Randall L. Hooper Music Assistant Professor 09/01/15 D.M.A. (2006) Louisiana State University
Fa 2009 – Present Texas A&M University-Commerce Assistant Professor
Dr. Randall L. Hooper is Texas A&M University-Commerce’s Director of Vocal Activities in the Department of Music. He authored 12 publications, made 16 presentations, and has both published and unpublished editions and compositions. Dr. Hooper frequently serves as a guest conductor with many invitational performances.
Dr. Hooper teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Music department, but his main focus is conducting. He received many honors and recognitions, including the Texas Choral Directors Association’s Glenda Casey Scholarship and the Phi Mu Alpha Composition Award. He serves as vice president of the Texas Choral Directors Association College and Community Choirs. He serves on several university committees.
Dr. William F. Kuracina History Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2008) Syracuse University
Fa 2009 – Present Texas A&M University-Commerce Assistant Professor
Dr. William F. Kuracina’s specialty is on modern India and the history of the British Empire. His research investigates Congress socialism and its relationship to the Congress-inspired nationalist movement. Dr. Kuracina prepared two manuscripts that reexamine the Congress Socialist Party and its interactions with the Congress. He authored five publications, has five publications in progress, and 11 presentations. His professional affiliations include the American Historical Association, European Association for South Asian Studies, and British Association for South Asian Studies.
Dr. Kuracina received a 2014-15 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award. His university service includes membership in the Faculty Senate, Honors Council, Clery Act Reporting Committee, Budget Review and Development Council and as an intern to the Associate Provost in spring 2014.
Dr. Filip M. Wiecko Sociology and Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2009) Washington State University
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Dr. Filip M. Wiecko specializes in Criminology and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Sociology and Criminal Justice. His research interests include criminology, integrated theory, research methods, quantitative methods, public opinion, drug policy, and corrections. He is the author of nine publications, with three works in progress, and has 10 conference presentations. Dr. Wiecko received the H.M. Lafferty Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He serves on the Institutional Review Board for Research, Internal Review Board, Sociology and Criminal Justice Society Committee, and is a reviewer for several professional journals, including Justice Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, Social Science Journal, The Sociological Quarterly, and Journal of Criminal Justice.
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Mutlu Mete Computer Science and
Information Systems
Assistant Professor 09/01/15
Ph.D. (2008) University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Fa 2009 – Present Texas A&M University-Commerce Assistant Professor
Dr. Mutlu Mete’s area of research is in data mining, computer vision, bioinformatics, complex networks and grid computing. His scholarship activities include authoring three book chapters, 11 refereed journal articles, 25 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and five presentations. Dr. Mete received numerous grants including “Delineation of Skin Cancer and Lesions by Filters Supported Active Contour” sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce and “Fast Microvessel Detection in Virtual Slides of Solid Tumors” sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Dr. Mete teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems. Dr. Mete is very involved in college level committees, as well as serving on numerous masters’ thesis committees and co-chairing the Computer Science Curriculum Development Committee.
Dr. Thomas P. West Chemistry Professor Upon Approval
by the Board and Faculty Arrival Ph.D. (1980) Texas A&M University
Fa 1983 –Fa 1987 Sp 1988 – Sp 1993 Fa 1993 – Present
University of Southern Mississippi
South Dakota State University South Dakota State University
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor (with tenure) Professor (with tenure)
Dr. Thomas P. West’s area of research is in microbial biochemistry with a focus on biomass- based specialty chemical production by microorganisms and the regulation of pyrimidine metabolism. His research/scholarship includes more than 100 publications, book reviews, and close to 200 abstracts of professional meetings/presentations. He is a member of the American
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Society for Microbiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, Society for Industrial Microbiology, and Society for the Sigma Xi.
He has an extensive record of teaching, research and service in the disciplines of biology and chemistry. In addition, he serves as a program panelist for the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program, is on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the U. S. Department of Agriculture Competitive Grants Program, National Science Foundation, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Agenda Item No. AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING Submitted by: Dan R. Jones, President
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Subject: Granting of Faculty Development Leave for FY 2016, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Proposed Board Action:
Authorize faculty development leave for FY 2016at Texas A&M University-Commerce (A&M- Commerce).
Background Information:
System Policy 31.03, Leaves of Absence, and System Regulation 12.99.01, Faculty Development Leave, require that a recommendation for faculty development leave be submitted by the university president to the chancellor for recommendation to the Board of Regents for approval. At A&M-Commerce, the application is submitted with support of the academic department, college dean, university development leave committee (elected by the general faculty), provost and vice president for academic affairs, and president.
As shown in the exhibit, A&M-Commerce requests approval for faculty development leave for three (3) faculty members for FY 2016.
A&M-Commerce is in compliance with the statutory requirement that no more than six percent of eligible faculty be on development leave at any time.
A&M System Funding or Other Financial Implications:
No additional funding is required. Department faculty members are assuming the recommended faculty members’ teaching loads by adjusting course offerings the next academic year.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-COMMERCE Office of the President
February 17, 2015 Members, Board of Regents
The Texas A&M University System
Subject: Granting of Faculty Development Leave for FY 2016, Texas A&M University-Commerce
I recommend adoption of the following minute order:
“The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System, in accordance with System Policy 31.03, System Regulation 12.99.01 and Sections 51.101-108 of the Texas Education Code, authorizes faculty development leave to the faculty members as shown in Exhibit , Faculty Development Leave List FY 2016, Texas A&M University-Commerce.”
Respectfully submitted,
Dan R. Jones, President
Approval Recommended: Approved for Legal Sufficiency:
John Sharp Ray Bonilla
Chancellor General Counsel
Billy Hamilton
Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer
James R. Hallmark, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT LEAVE LIST FY 2016
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-COMMERCE
Name/ Title/ Department Years of Texas A&M University- Commerce Tenured, Tenure- Track
Service Semester of Leave Location and Brief Description of Leave COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Yelin Ou Associate Professor Mathematics
8 Fall 2015 Leave will be spent completing a series of research papers related to biharmonic maps from surfaces and biharmonic conformal immersions as well as to plan and draft chapters of a book on the geometry of biharmonic maps. The development leave will contribute to long-range professional growth and provide a concentrated period to conduct research and the opportunity to work with professionals from other universities around the world. Travel included in this leave involves work with leading expert B. Y. Chen at Michigan State University, collaboration with mathematicians at International Mathematical Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and work with a noted professor in Japan. Development leave will enhance and add new knowledge, skills and more experience from current frontier research to teaching and advising students in learning mathematics and in the completion of a competitive grant proposal for the National Science Foundation.
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ARTS