What is your advising philosophy? Students are an advisor's raison d'être. Advisors are teachers, coaches, and mentors that guide students along a journey of self-discovery and awareness toward achievement of personal and initial academic and professional goals. Advisors are also heavily involved in connecting student academic interests with career field exploration, experiential learning opportunities that confirm, deny, or enhance that career interest, and exploring graduate or professional school preparation and selection. I believe a very proactive approach based on outreach, continuity, and connection is necessary to build the trust that is inherent in effective advising relationships and positive student outcomes.  

What was your path to Newnan? After some advising experiences elsewhere, I was absolutely convinced academic advising was the career field for me and UM's LSA was the place to do it.

What do you enjoy about working in Newnan? Newnan's advising model was and is a perfect fit for my approach and philosophy.

Class you loved and why? A freshman-year seminar on WWI - era literature and poetry introduced me to the work of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Hemingway, et al that illustrated the costs, horrors, and futility of warfare and the deceit of "Dulce et Decorum est". That professor's genuine passion for the course content and the timelessness of those works still resonates with me today.

Interests and hobbies: Ice hockey, tennis, reading, and my grandkids.