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FACULTY RECOGNITION

KIM JOHNSON, assistant professor of nursing, wrote “Understanding Children’s Health Insurance Pro-
gram (CHIP) in Today’s Changing Marketplace: A Case Study” as a contributing author for the textbook
Health Policy Management: A Case Approach. She wrote “Exploration of Creative Ways of Teaching and
Learning in the Large Classroom” as the Chair of the SOHS Faculty Development Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning Committee. She served on the white paper task force for the MGA Center for Teaching and
Learning. She served as a presentation peer reviewer for the University System of Georgia Teaching and
Learning Conference. She participated in the panel presentation “SOTL Communities of Practice for Re-
search on Teaching and Learning” at the 2018 University System of Georgia Scholarship for Teaching and
Learning Conference.
DR. MELISSA JORDAN, assistant professor of health services administration, completed the dissertation
“Experiences of African American Female Completers and African American Female Exiters of an Under-
graduate Health Care Program While Attending a Historically Black College.” She contributed the chapter
“A Methodological Consideration and Methodological Design Suitable to Examine Teenage Pregnancy” to
Socio-Cultural Influences on Teenage Pregnancy and Contemporary Prevention Measures.
DR. SHEREE’ KEITH, professor of communication studies, wrote “Biography of Katherine Koch, 1874-1952”
and “Biography of H. August Howard, 1865-1934” for Women and Social Movements in the United States
1600-2000 from Alexander Street Press. She presented “Technology, wisdom, and the devil: A look at the
disdain for technology from Plato to Norman Mailer” and served as a session moderator at the Norman
Mailer Society Conference in 2018.
DR. CHRISTOPHER N. LAWRENCE, associate professor of political science and chair of the political sci-
ence department, coauthored “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adopting Open Educational Resources in
an Introductory American Government Course” with Julie Lester which was published in the Journal of
Political Science Education.
DR. JULIE LESTER, professor of political science, presented “A Not So ‘Quiet Crisis’—The Trump Admin-
istration and America’s Public Lands” at the 2019 symposium “Wallace Stegner and the Changing Amer-
ican West: Reimagining Place, Region, Nation, and Globe in an Era of Instability.” She also coauthored
“Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adopting Open Educational Resources in an Introductory American
Government Course” with Christopher Lawrence which was published in the Journal of Political Science
Education.
DR. GERALD LUCAS, professor of English, co-edited the book Norman Mailer: Works & Days.

DR. DEBRA H MATTHEWS,
professor of English and
associate dean for under-
graduate studies, pre-
sented “Making LEAP a
Reality at a Multi-Campus
Institution” along with Don
Brown, Derrilyn Morrison
and Kimberly Pickens at
the 2019 meeting of the
Association of American
Colleges and Universities.
This same group of MGA
professors presented “Our
Campus LEAP Vision: Next
Steps” at the 2019 Teach-
ing & Learning Confer-
ence.
DR. MARY MEARS, associate professor of English, co-chaired the Africa Lecture Series sponsored by the
Africa Council of the University System of Georgia.

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