Professor
of
Computer Information Systems

Department of Management & Information Sciences

I am a Professor of CIS and have been at USI since the early 1990s. I completed my bachelor degree (in CIS) at Western KY University, and I completed my doctorate (DBA) in Business Administration - with a major in MIS (management information systems) at University of Southern Illinois - Carbondale. I continue to live in rural Webster County Kentucky where my husband, Dale, and I have lived all our lives.

Dale and I are "empty nesters" as our 3 daughters are grown. Our oldest daughter is in San Francisco, our middle daughter here in Evansville, and the youngest lives near Kentucky Lake. For a large part of the last 10 years we have shared our home with elderly family members, but at the moment it is just Dale, our Malti-Shu, Miss Priss, Kitty Black, 5 ducks, a donkey, some cattle, and me. Dale is a Cumberland Presbyterian Minister, an Electrician and Deputy Coroner of Webster County. We have two precious grandsons and spend much of our free time with our family and/or our church family.

I am quite social and love to talk! I love to meet new people with different stories to tell. I love to plant and play in my flower beds in the spring and summer, and I really enjoy swimming. Reading is definitely a passion of mine, and I am most happy with a novel. I love to discuss politics and religion – even though I know these are “touchy” subjects for many!

I love teaching. I teach because I love to meet people and I love to share with others. I hope I can have a positive impact on your life. I know education can and will change your life --- “rock your world!” I want to be a part of that! I learn so much from my students and every day I teach is exciting.

I believe that whatever we do in life should be fun. I expect my students to enjoy my classes – I certainly will! My desire is to provoke you to think and to motivate you to learn. I promise to do this in an environment that is fun and open and in an environment where your ideas will always be heard and respected.