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2005 Promotion and Tenure
Nineteen ULM faculty members were promoted in academic rank in 2005, and were honored on September 28, 2005 at the 11th Annual Faculty Promotion and Tenure Honors Reception organized and sponsored by the TLRC and Academic Affairs.
Listing of Promotions and Tenure
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Business Administration
College of Education and Human Development
College of Health Sciences
Division of Academic Affairs
College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Trent Smith, Agriculture - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Smith, a faculty member in the Department of Agriculture for the last six years, received his B.S. and M.S. from Mississippi State University and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. His training is in Animal Science with an emphasis in Animal Breeding and Genetics. His research interests include the evaluation of carcass and performance traits in beef cattle from which he has published several papers. He is currently serving as President of the Ouachita Parish Cattleman’s Association, Vice-President of District VI for the Louisiana Cattleman’s Association, and sits on the board for the North Louisiana Agribusiness Council. He has most recently been awarded the Mayme and Tom Scott Professorship in Agriculture
Dr. Ann M. Findley, Biology - promoted to Professor
Dr. Findley earned her B.S. degree in Biology from St. John’s University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physiology from Louisiana State University. Prior to joining the ULM faculty, she taught at Henderson State University, New York University, and Louisiana State University. She has directed 10 M.S. theses and over 20 undergraduate research projects. She has held the Tom and Mayme Scott Professorship for Teaching Excellence, and her publications include over 25 papers in refereed journals, a research monograph and a curriculum guide. Her research interests include cellular and molecular aspects of host-parasite relationships involving bacterial and protozoan systems. She has received funding to support her teaching and research efforts from the Board of Regents Support Fund (Enhancement and Research Competitiveness Programs), NSF, NIH-sponsored LBRN initiative, and the ULM-HHMI Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program.
Dr. W. Lloyd Grafton, Criminal Justice - promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Grafton received his B.A. from Louisiana Tech, did graduate work at Florida State University and completed his Masters and Doctorate at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is Director of the Criminal Justice Job Fair held each year at ULM. He is involved with the North Delta Police Academy and works as an expert witness in police issues. He has sponsored the Criminal Justice Fraternity and organized the annual Angola State Penitentiary field trip. Dr. Grafton has worked as Safe School Consultant and held many training sessions for teachers in managing crises in schools. He has a passion for teaching and police training.
Dr. Julia Guernsey-Shaw, English - awarded Tenure
Dr. Guernsey-Shaw received her B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) from Millsaps College and her MFA and Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. Before joining the faculty at ULM, she taught at Auburn University. Her publications include a book entitled The Pulse of Praise: Form as a Second Self in the Poetry of George Herbert, published by the University of Delaware and Associated University Presses, a book review in The Milton Quarterly, and an article in an on-line journal called PayArt called “The Royal We; the Divine I: Narcissistic Imbalance in the Worlds of King Lear and Paradise Lost.” In addition, she has published poems in a number of small journals.
Dr. LaRue Love Sloan, English - promoted to Professor
Dr. Sloan received her Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University and her M.A. and B.A. degrees from East Texas State University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Shakespeare and scientific writing, the occasional honors course, and sophomore surveys of English, American, and world literature. Her research, which centers on the representation of women in Shakespeare’s works, has been published by Routledge (The Shakespeare Criticism Series), Ashgate (forthcoming), and Early Modern Literary Studies. Her article on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew recently won the first Chadwyck-Healey Literature Online Prize, awarded annually for the best article published in EMLS in the preceding twelve months.
Dr. Gordon Harvey, History and Government - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Harvey holds the L.M. McKneely Professorship in Humanities and has served as the History M.A. Graduate Program Coordinator since 2002. A graduate of Auburn University, he published A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976, in 2002, and is currently writing a political biography of former Florida governor Reubin Askew for the University of Georgia Press. He has also published numerous articles, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he is co-editor of and contributor to a collection of essays on southern history in honor of his mentor, Hope and History in the Heart of Dixie: Essays in Honor of J. Wayne Flynt, to be published in 2006. Gordon is also completing an illustrated history of Ouachita Parish and has started research on a synthetic study of the American South in the 1970s. His awards at ULM include the SGA’s "Outstanding Faculty" award, the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society’s “Top Ten” professor, and Phi Mu’s “Professor of the Month.” This year, he was named an Outstanding Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Annela Kelly, Math and Physics - promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Kelly received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Tartu, Estonia, and Master’s and Doctorate degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has led seven undergraduate research projects, including three Emerging Scholars projects, and has created two new classes for ULM. She received the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society’s award for excellence in teaching. Her research interests, abstract harmonic analysis and combinatorial games, have produced publications, a book entitled The Nature of Mathematics, and presentations at national and international conferences. She is the organizer of the departmental High School Days and Sonia Kovalevsky Days for high school students. She is also the liaison for the MAA and a member of the TLRC Faculty Advisory Committee and the University Curriculum Committee.
Dr. Azime Serpil Saydam, Math and Physics - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Saydam, who received her Bachelor's degree from Ege University, Turkey, and Master's and Doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, joined the ULM faculty in 1999. Her research areas are commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, commutative rings, and computational algebra. Dr. Saydam has published research papers in refereed journals and given presentations at national and international conferences. She has served on several committees, chaired the Honors Program, directed a freshman mathematics major’s undergraduate research project, and been the recipient of the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society’s award for excellence in teaching. She has been actively engaged in the educational development of students as the faculty advisor of the Mathematics Honor Society - Kappa Mu Epsilon for the past five years. In addition, Dr. Saydam is a member of the University Curriculum Committee, A&S Curriculum Committee, and the Honors Council.
Dr. James Goodman, Visual and Performing Arts, Division of Music - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Goodman, Coordinator of Music Graduate Studies, teaches elementary, secondary and graduate music education; graduate foundations; and graduate research. He is an active clinician in music education, specifically teacher preparation and the Orff approach to classroom music who has presented at the Kennedy Center Arts Education Institutes in New Orleans and taught recorder for Orff Schulwerk certification throughout the Midwest. The sponsor of the ULM Collegiate MENC chapter, and the Louisiana Music Educators Association Collegiate Chair, he also serves as Chair of the Louisiana John Lennon/BMI Composition competition held through the Music Educator’s National Conference. Author of an article on preschool music in General Music Today, he has also completed work as Curriculum Designer for the ARTS to the Delta Project, bringing music education to at-risk students via the Internet, a joint project of the Technology Opportunities Program, National Telecommunications & Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, the Monroe Chamber of Commerce, the Division of Music and the Division of Math, Physics and Computer Science at the University, as well as three public and two private school districts in Louisiana.
College of Business Administration
Dr. Melissa Melancon, Finance - awarded Tenure
Dr. Melancon received her Bachelor of Science degree from Nicholls State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Finance from Louisiana Tech University. A Certified Management Accountant, Certified Financial Manager, and Notary, she taught high school, at Grambling State University, and at Louisiana Tech before joining ULM’s Department of Economics and Finance. Her research interests include corporate finance, finance education, agency theory, and efficient market theory. She has authored or co-authored articles in professional publications such as the Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, and presented papers at professional meetings, such as those of the Association of Business Information Systems and the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute. She is currently serving her college on the Graduate Council. Her committee work also includes the United Way Council and the TLRC Faculty Advisory Committee, which she currently chairs. In addition, she is active in Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society, FMA, FMO, and Decision Sciences. Dr. Melancon has been married 29 years and has one child and one grandchild.
College of Education and Human Development
Dr. Sherlyn Ezell Powell, Curriculum and Instruction - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Powell received a Doctorate in Special Education at the University of Alabama with an emphasis in mild/moderate disabilities, mental retardation, and behavior/emotional disorders of children. She was the first ULM liaison for the New Teacher Project Recruitment Training Partnership sponsored by the Louisiana Board of Regents and has served on the Louisiana Board of Examinees for the Louisiana Standards partnership with NCATE from 2000 to the present. She has also made 6 international/national presentations and 16 regional/state presentations. She holds membership in a number of professional organizations, including several divisions of the Council for Exceptional Children, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Alpha Delta Kappa, and is listed as an expert in higher education with significant experience in the public policy area in the Louisiana Public Policy Guide. She has also served as a consultant and expert witness on interpreting Special Education state and federal laws and regulations for a law firm. In addition, she serves on 2 Louisiana Department of Education committees, 2 University committees (chairing one), 1 College committee, and 3 Curriculum and Instruction committees. Moreover, Dr. Powell is the Department of Instructional Leadership and Counseling’s Assistive Technology Specialist.
Dr. Jerrilene Washington, Curriculum and Instruction - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Washington received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana Tech University, her Master’s of Education degree from Louisiana State University, and her Doctor of Education degree from The Johns Hopkins University. Prior to coming to ULM, she was a State Finalist for the Louisiana Teacher of the Year Award. After a career as a teacher, supervisor, and administrator in Maryland; Washington, D. C.; and North and South Louisiana, she joined the ULM faculty. She is an active member of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Washington has received awards in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the America Reads Challenge Program by the State Superintendent of Education, for her professional development school service by the ULM PK–16+ Advisory Council, and for her outstanding leadership to the United Way of Northeast Louisiana campaign by the chairman. Her greatest satisfaction, she says, is touching the lives of K-12 students, by teaching and supervising their instructors.
Dr. Glenda Holland, Educational Leadership and Counseling - promoted to Professor
Dr. Holland is Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Certification in the College of Education and Human Development. In that position she is dedicated to assisting candidates, particularly mid-career professionals and recent college graduates, in becoming educators. Dr. Holland has received funding for several grants, including a US Department of Education Transition to Teaching grant for over $2.4 million. She has nine publications, eleven international and national presentations, and twenty-four regional and state presentations.
Dr. Lisa Colvin, Kinesiology - awarded Tenure
Dr. Colvin, a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, received her B.S. in Health and Physical Education and M.Ed. in Physical Education at ULM and a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology at The University of Southern Mississippi. Active in the field of childhood obesity and overweightness research, Lisa is an adjunct professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, where she is co-investigator for the USDA and NIH-funded LA Health project, and the Primary Investigator for the LA Health TEACH grant. She is one of the leading researchers in her field nationally, often invited to lecture and share her grant experience across the globe. She is the Department of Kinesiology Exercise Science Pre-Physical Therapy majors’ advisee coordinator and coordinator of the Graduate Exercise Science program. Very active with the Emerging Scholar’s program, Dr. Colvin has mentored 5 students, each presenting projects at the ULM Research Symposium. Their work in the childhood obesity area has garnered praise state-wide. A graduate of the TLRC Academy for Teaching Excellence, she is a top-rated teacher and advisor. She is also a mainstay at ULM recruiting and retention events. Recently, Dr. Colvin agreed to serve as the 2005 ULM Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow. She is married to former ULM graduate Robert Lane Colvin, the Assistant Hospital Administrator at the Medical Center of South Arkansas.
Dr. Jean Cottingham, Psychology - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Cottingham is a Licensed and Nationally Certified School Psychologist who has been a full-time faculty member in the School Psychology program since 1999. Her educational background reflects cross training in education and psychology with a Bachelor’s in secondary education from Louisiana State University, Master’s in special education from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Master’s in Psychology & Doctorate in School Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has worked as a practicing school psychologist and an Assessment Teacher and taught in general and special education settings. ULM teaching assignments include graduate and undergraduate coursework related to her fields of experience and interest. She serves as faculty secretary for the ULM chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa and co-sponsors the Psychology Club.
Dr. Rick Stevens, Psychology - promoted to Associate Professor, awarded Tenure
Dr. Stevens, a member of the Psychology Department for eight years, received his Bachelor’s Degree from Phillips University and his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1990. He is the faculty advisor for Psi Chi, the psychology honor society, and he helps organize the Chautauqua Nexus, a lecture series on campus. His research interests include long-term memory, and lately it has also addressed the changes in teaching technology and the effects of that technology on recall. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of the Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation.
College of
Health
Sciences
Dr. Linda Bryan, Communicative Disorders - promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Bryan has been teaching in the Department of Communicative Disorders since 1998. She is also a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in December, 2004. Currently, her areas of interest and teaching include child language and literacy and supervision of graduate students in the Speech and Hearing Clinic. She also holds the Endowed Professorship in Communicative Disorders, through which, over the past several semesters, she has directed a literacy clinic for elementary-aged children. She also serves as a faculty advisor for the ULM College of Health Sciences Student Council.
Division of Academic Affairs
Dr. Jo K. Galle, Office of Assessment and Evaluation - promoted to Professor
Dr. Galle teaches Southern literature and Advanced Composition. She has received such teaching distinctions as Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (twice), the Alpha Lambda Delta Favorite Professor award (twice), and the Outstanding Honors Faculty teaching award (twice). Her focus is on modern Southern women writers, and most recently she presented a paper on author Ellen Gilchrist and the New South at the Southern Writers Symposium in Fayetteville, N.C. Currently, Dr. Galle serves as the new Director of Assessment and Evaluation. Her work in the Provost’s office as faculty intern provided preparation for this position. She has also served the university on various committees on the departmental, college, and university levels, including chairing the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and co-chairing the University Library Committee. This December she will co-present a concurrent session at the national SACS Conference in Atlanta.
Dr. Rhonda A. Jones, Office of Continuing Education - promoted to Professor
Dr. Jones, Director of the Division of Continuing Education, received her Ed.D. from the University of Georgia in 1990. That same year, she started her ULM career in the Department of Mathematics and later expanded her duties through a joint appointment between Mathematics and Curriculum and Instruction. From 1999 – 2003, Dr. Jones served as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Resource Center. During her tenure at ULM, Dr. Jones has secured grant funds totaling $1,984,878. These funds have targeted mathematical reform efforts for K-12 and university populations, and they have supported the training of university faculty for the development and delivery of online courses.
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