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Five inducted into CSU Education & Health Professions Hall of Fame

March 17, 2023

College of Education and Health Professions logo | HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Columbus State University’s College of Education and Health Professions has added
five new inductees to the college’s Hall of Fame during a ceremony on March 2.

2022 Education Inductees

Christine HullChristine Hull ’05, ’12 of Columbus is a two-time Columbus State alumna and Muscogee County School District’s
executive director of pre-K-12 curriculum and instruction. During her two decades
with MCSD, she has served in a variety of teaching and administrative roles, including
assistant principal, principal and director of advanced learning and teaching programs.
After earning a bachelor’s in secondary English education from Georgia Southern University,
she enrolled in CSU and completed a master’s in secondary English education in 2005
and an educational specialist in educational leadership in 2012. She was a top-10
finalist for Georgia’s Teacher of the Year in 2011 and MCSD’s Teacher of the Year
in 2009.

Dr. Susan Elder ’11, ’12, ’17 of Columbus holds three degrees from Columbus State and, since 2009, has served as
a special education teacher in the Muscogee County School District. She transitioned
from a 13-year journalism career in 2003 to the teaching profession, serving as a
paraprofessional in two school systems before her current roles, which include teaching
part-time in the College of Education & Health Professions. She earned a bachelor’s
in journalism from the University of Tennessee before attending CSU, where she completed
a master’s in special education, an educational specialist in special education and
a doctorate in curriculum and teaching with a leadership add-on. She is a recipient
of CSU’s Excellence in Teaching Award and was among MCSD’s top 10 Teachers of the
Year in 2018.

Jacqueline FlakesDr. Jacqueline Flakes ’94, ’96 of Midland, Georgia, is a two-time Columbus College alumna and principal of Key Elementary
School in Columbus, where she has served since 2015. She began her 27-year education
career as one of the first employees of CSU’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center, where
she was the coordinator of educational services. While serving at CCSSC, she spent
two summers training at Harvard University’s Center for Astrophysics. Since 2003,
she served several different school districts in a variety of teaching, administrative
and principal roles. After earning a bachelor’s and master’s in middle grades education
in 1994 and 1996, respectively, she earned a doctorate in educational leadership from
Valdosta State University.

2022 Health Professions Inductees

Lt. Col. Brandy Clayton, RN, Ph.D. ’06 of Puyallup, Washington, has devoted her 23-year nursing career to serving soldiers
and their families in the U.S. Army. As her education broadened, so did her contributions
to educating future nurses and strengthening the future nursing workforce. In addition
to her bachelor of science in nursing degree she earned from Columbus State in 2006,
she completed a master of nursing degree in nursing education from Grantham University.
She is scheduled to receive her doctorate in nursing education from Liberty University
in May 2023.

Dell MillerDr. Dell Miller, DNP, RN, FNP, EMTP, CEN ’75, ’91 of Opelika, Alabama, is a two-time Columbus College alumna and RN staff nurse with
the Alabama Department of Public Health. Her 48-year medical career includes a variety
of emergency medicine, teaching, clinical and administrative hospital-based roles.
For eight years, she served on the CSU School of Nursing faculty and as the school’s
assistant director of the undergraduate nursing program. In addition to her associate
degree in nursing (1971) and bachelor of science in nursing (1991) from Columbus State,
she holds a master’s of science in nursing from Troy University, and a family nurse
practitioner, an MSN in acute care nurse practitioner and a doctorate in nursing—all
from the University of South Alabama.

To date, more than 55 education, nursing and other health professions graduates of
Columbus State University have been inducted into the college’s Hall of Fame. The
Hall of Fame was established in 2005 to honor Columbus State’s education graduates;
it expanded in 2018 to include health professions graduates with the merger of education,
nursing, kinesiology and related disciplines into the College of Education & Health
Professions hold a degree or certification endorsement from CSU; have been active
in their chosen field for a minimum of 15 years; and have made extraordinary contributions
to their chosen profession as demonstrated by their nomination packet. Awards can
be bestowed on honorees posthumously. 

The nomination process is an open one and remains open throughout the year. Nominations
can be submitted online through the CSU Alumni Association. Nominations are reviewed by a committee of current
and former college faculty and community leaders.

Media contact:
Michael Tullier, APR, Executive Director of Strategic Communication + Marketing, 706.507.8729,
mtullier@columbusstate.edu  

PREVIOUS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

  • Dr. Susan Andrews, 2007 (Education)
  • Matt Bell, 2017 (Education)
  • Jeff Branham, 2015 (Education)
  • Jessica Burnett, 2019 (Education)
  • Stacey M. Carlisle, 2021 (Education)
  • Pamela Carter, 2013 (Education)
  • Kim Cason, 2013 (Education)
  • Rebecca Claiborne, 2011 (Education)
  • Ronie Collins, 2010 (Education)
  • Dr. Dorothy Lee Coverson, 2020 (Health Professions)
  • Emory Christopher Cox, 2015 (Education)
  • Dr. Marvin J. Crumbs Sr., 2019 (Education)
  • Beverly M. Davis, 2009 (Education)
  • Lucy Davis, 2009 (Education)
  • Owen Ditchfield, 2008 (Education)
  • Dr. Michael Edmondson, 2013
  • Craig Jackson Fitts, 2017
  • Dr. Spencer Garrard, 2012
  • Coy Richard Green, 2020 (Education)
  • Dr. Deirdre C. Greer, 2014
  • Dr. Paul T. Hackett, 2006 (Education)
  • Aleta Cochrane Henderson, 2018 (Health Professions)
  • Elizabeth Holmes, 2007 (Education)
  • Peggy Jan Hyatt, 2006 (Education)
  • Carla Ingalls Hubbard, 2016 (Education)
  • Dr. Terry Irvin, 2012 (Education)
  • Jessie Dawn Jenkins, 2017 (Education)
  • Dr. Wendi Jenkins, 2021 (Education)
  • Tina Jones, 2010 (Education)
  • Margaret Beusse Koger, 2015
  • Dr. Tommy Lee, 2012 (Education)
  • Adele Lindsey, 2014 (Education)
  • Ann R. McDuffie, 2008 (Education)
  • Dr. Dell W. McMullen, 2005 (Education)
  • Tom Meltzer, 2009 (Education)
  • Nancy E. Mims, 2020 (Education)
  • Sheri Reynolds Noviello, 2019, Health Professions
  • Hope E. Phillips, 2020 (Education)
  • Mike Regnier, 2011 (Education)
  • Marty Richburg, 2021 (Education)
  • Leslie Robertson, 2006 (Education)
  • Dr. Carole Rutland, 2011 (Education)
  • Dr. Kimberly M. Scott, 2019 (Education)
  • Keith M. Seifert, 2016 (Education)
  • Deana Singletary, 2021 (Health Professions)
  • Dr. Cheryl Mixon Smith, 2020 (Health Professions)
  • Raymechia Smith, 2005 (Education)
  • Dr. James Sparrow, 2018 (Education)
  • J. Mike Stephens, 2016 (Education)
  • Penny L. Thornton, 2014 (Education)
  • Louise Tolbert, 2007 (Education)
  • Dan Trotter, 2008 (Education)
  • Dr. Carol VanderGheynst, 2010 (Education)
  • Debby Whatley, 2018 (Education)
  • James Wilson, 2018 (Education)

College of Education and Health Professions Promotes Deans, Department Heads

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Paul Calleja, Matthew Ganio, Michelle Grey, Michael Hevel and Kristin Higgins.

The College of Schooling and Well being Professions‘ dean prolonged five-year appointments to three interim associate deans and two department heads, powerful March 1.

Dean Kate Mamiseishvili announced the new management roles in a month to month e mail to faculty and staff members previously this 7 days. “All 5 of these directors have shown remarkable management and motivation to the results of our higher education, and I am outside of grateful and thrilled that they have accepted these vital leadership positions,” she reported. “Every has been instrumental in advancing the college’s new WE Treatment initiative, and we’re all committed to bettering wellness and instruction across Arkansas and further than.” 

Paul Calleja was named affiliate dean for administration and manages the college’s human sources, financial affairs, amenities and know-how products and services. Calleja assumed the interim associate dean job following it was vacated by Lewatis McNeal. Calleja joined the higher education in 2003 as the education and learning outreach director for the Microelectronics Photonics Department. He previously served as the assistant head of the Department of Overall health, Human Functionality and Recreation. Calleja is a teaching professor of bodily instruction and serves as the president of the Training Academy.

Matthew Ganio, who joined the college’s college in 2011, was named affiliate dean of tutorial and student affairs. His function contains facilitating alterations and additions to diploma options, accreditation and assessments. He also supervises the Boyer Middle for Scholar Solutions and the Business office for Instructor Instruction. Ganio assists departments and faculty in analysis, promotion and tenure insurance policies. Ganio, a professor of workout science, earlier served as head of the Section of Wellbeing, Human Functionality and Recreation.

Michelle Grey was promoted to head of the Section of Wellness, Human Overall performance and Recreation. She’s a professor of physical exercise science whose analysis centers all around age-connected conditions to boost the excellent of existence amid older older people. Gray formerly served as director of the Physical exercise Science Research Heart. The department offers diploma packages in exercise science, general public wellbeing, recreation and sport administration, athletic schooling and teaching K-12 bodily schooling and health and fitness.

Mamiseishvili named Michael Hevel to affiliate dean for study, strategy and outreach. He potential customers the college’s strategic initiatives and offers support and way for individuals places. An associate professor of increased training and a faculty member in the school since 2012, Hevel previously served as head of the Office of Rehabilitation, Human Means and Communication Disorders commencing in 2017.

Kristin Higgins was named head of the college’s Department of Rehabilitation, Human Assets and Communication Diseases. Higgins, an affiliate professor of counselor education and learning and supervision, joined the school in 2006. She has served as a plan coordinator because 2016. The RHRC department homes 6 undergraduate and graduate applications, together with adult and lifelong finding out, conversation sciences and ailments, counselor instruction and supervision, educational data and study approaches, better education and learning, and human resource and workforce progress.

Mamiseishvili and her leadership workforce launched the WE Care initiative in the summer of 2022. WE Treatment stands for Wellness and Education and learning Dedication to Arkansas Excellence and its priorities revolve close to tangible techniques faculty and employees can collaborate in just the university and across the point out to address intricate issues in schooling and health and fitness.

The University of Schooling and Health Professions enrolls extra than 6,200 learners and has about 400 whole-time college and staff. The school delivers more than 50 diploma courses, which includes 17 bachelor’s packages and 34 master’s and doctoral courses.