Service to the Institution

Department Assignments

Chair

• 2016-2017: Economics and Finance Personnel Committee
• 2012-2013: Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee

Member

• 2013-2014: Accounting Department 2-year Tenure Review Committee
• 2011-2012: Economics and Finance Faculty Search Committee
  

College Assignments

Assurance of Learning - Institutional Service

• 2014-2015: Graduate Programs Committee
• 2014-2015: General Business Program Committee

Chair

• 2019-2020: Student-Faculty Relations (Co-Chair)
• 2018-2019: College of Business Student/Faculty Relations Committee
• 2018-2019: College of Business Scholarship Committee
• 2015-2016 – 2017-2018: Student-Faculty Relations Committee (Co-Chair)
• 2015-2016: College of Business Grade Appeal Hearing, Chair
• 2012-2013 – 2014-2015: Student-Faculty Relations Committee Lamar University
• 2012-2013 – 2014-2015: COB Student-Faculty Relations Committee

Member

• 2018-2019: COB Commencement Committee
• 2017-2018: ad-hoc committee to develop the LU2023 proposal (M.S. in MIS)
• 2015-2016: Personnel Committee
• 2015-2016: College of Business Strategic Planning Committee
• 2014-2015: Thesis Committee – Md Ismail Haidar
• 2014-2015: Search Committee; Assistant Director of M.B.A. Program
• 2014-2015: General Business Program Committee
• 2014-2015: M.B.A. Program Committee Lamar University
• 2014-2015: Administrative Review Committee – ISA Department Chair
• 2014-2015: M.B.A. Program Committee
• 2013-2014: COB University Professor/Merit Award Committee
• 2013-2014 – 2014-2015: COB General Business Program Committee
• 2013-2014 – 2014-2015: COB Personnel Committee
• 2013-2014 – 2014-2015: Personnel Committee Lamar University
• 2012-2013: General Business Program Committee
• 2012-2013 – 2014-2015: General Business Program Committee Lamar University
• 2012-2013: COB Scholarship Committee
• 2011-2012: Student-Faculty Relations Committee Lamar University

University Assignments

• 2000-2001 – 2010-2011: Director, Office of Institutional Research and Reporting

• 2020-2021: Lamar University Personnel Committee
• 2015-2016: Lamar University Grade Appeal Hearing
• 2014-2015 – 2015-2016: Lamar University Grade Appeal Committee
• 2011-2012: University Grade Review Committee

• 2000-2001 – 2010-2011: Academic Master Planning Steering Committee
• 2010-2011: Ad Hoc Committee on Selection of HB 51 Programs of Excellence
• 2014-2015: Administrative Review Committee -- COB Dean
• 2012-2013: Salary Equity Committee
• 2011-2012: University Student Faculty Relations Committee
• 2008-2009 – 2010-2011: Advising and Retention Council
• 2000-2001 – 2009-2010: Budget Development Committee
• 2000-2001 – 2007-2008: Lamar University Academic Council
• 2007-2008 – 2010-2011: Lamar University Academic Council
• 2018-2019: Lamar University Scholarship Committee
• 2016-2017 – 2017-2018 – 2018-2019: Lamar University Personnel Committee
• 2006-2007 – 2009-2010: Long Range Planning Committee
• 2001-2002 – 2005-2006: NSSE Conference
• 2000-2001 – 2010-2011: Registration Advisory Committee
• 2001-2002 – 2008-2009: University Salary Equity Committee

State-wide Assignments

• 2005-2006 – 2007-2008: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Accountability Group
• 2001-2002 – 2007-2008: Texas Association of Institutional Research Conference
• 2006-2007: SETA Regional Conference

Service to the Profession

• 2018: Southwestern Society of Economists, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Discussed paper entitled "Dynamic Optimization of Fertilizer Management in Agriculture" by Na Lu of the University of New Mexico
• 2017: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 36th ANNUAL MEETING, Little Rock, Arkansas.
• 2015: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 2004 Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas.
• 2014: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 2004 Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas. Discussant in Microeconomics Session on March 13, 2014

• 2019: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 2004 Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
• 2017: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 36th ANNUAL MEETING, Little Rock, Arkansas. Chair, Industrial Studies and Firm Performance session
• 2016: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Chair of the Economics of Social Issues session

• 2020: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 2004 Annual Meeting, San Antonio. SSE Program Committee

• 2013: Public Finance Review. Reviewed a manuscript entitled "The importance of high jackpot drawings in estimating demand for lottery gambling: new evidence from Lotto Texas.."
• 2012: Southwestern Society of Economists. "Qualified but Not Enrolled: Coloradoans and Medicaid" by Mariya Burdina
• 2012: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE). Spatial Income Inequality and Crime by Noel E. Metz

• 1991 – 1993: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE).
• 1988 – 1989: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE).

• 2019: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 2004 Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
• Program Committee for 2019 SSE Meeting in Houston
• 2018: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE)/Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) 2004 Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas. Served on Nominating Committee for Outstanding Educator Award given by Southwestern Society of Economists 

• 2001 – 2012: Lamar University Director of Office of Institutional Research and Reporting.
• 1996: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE). President
• 1994: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE). President-Elect and Program Chair 

• 2016: Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

Service to the Community

• 2015: Community Outreach Committee, Cardinal Club
• 2008 – 2011: Cardinal Club Board Member

• 2016 – 2018: Cardinal Club Board