The other side of a professor
Imagine that each window represents a meeting, a committee or board at the university. Administration, and involvement in discussing and creating new policies, are important jobs of a professor.
There you have the chance to design the future of higher education!
Here is my list with my activities... and it will grow.
Institutional Service (Selection)
(Hochschulische Selbstverwaltung)
University/Campus level
2022-active Founding Vice President for Academic and International Affairs (digital learning)
2020-2021 MU Teaching for Learning Center, Advisory Board member
2019-2020 MU Research Council
Fall 2018-active MU Faculty Development Advisory Committee (Provost committee)
Spring 2018 MU Graduate Faculty Senate
College level (Fakultät)
2016-2021 Financial Awards Committee (FAC)
Fall 2018 Research Growth Group (led by Associate Dean Dr. Bergin)
2014-2015 Faculty Committee, College of Social Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden
2008-2011 Co-leader of the Center for Research on Higher Education and Faculty Development, TU Dortmund, Germany
2008-2011 Head of the Team "IT support and new media" at the HDZ, Center for Research on Higher Education and Faculty Development (HDZ), TU Dortmund, Germany
2006-2007 Faculty Board Member, Institute for Applied Work Science, Bochum University
2002-2004 Member of Steering Committee and Advisor for Study Management, Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Germany
Department level (Institute)
2018-2020 Academic Personnel Committee, APC, Member
2016-2021 Financial Awards and Scholarships Committee, Chair
2015-2021 Director of the Information Experience Lab
2017-2018 Search Committee SISLT Faculty position, Member
2017-2018 Search Committee SISLT NTT position for Kansas City location, Member
2017-2018 Alumni events organization with Jane Howland
2012-2015 Research Committee, Member, Department of Applied Educational Science, Umeå University, Sweden
2008-2011 Steering Committee Member, Center for Research on Higher Education (HDZ), TU Dortmund, Germany
2008-2011 Head of team "IT support", Center for Research on Higher Education (HDZ), TU Dortmund, Germany
2006-2007 Study program re-accreditation, Master of Organizational Management (MOM), IAW, RUB, Germany
2005-2007 Website Team Leader, Institute for Applied Work Science, Bochum University
Outreach - Local Community Service (Missouri) / Transfer-Activities
2020 Several workshops/presentations for faculty/instructors, "how to do online courses"
Fall 2019 Workshops for teachers; tablet integration in Pilot Grove schools, Missouri
Spring 2017 iPads in Columbia Public Schools (studying 20 classrooms)
2016-2017 Mobile technologies in Kansas City Public Schools (MU MPER funded, classroom visits and workshops for teachers)
Summer 2016 LeXMizzou: Location-Based Augmented Campus Tour for new students: Event with 130 Brazil students, University of Missouri-Columbia
Additional Service
2009- (inactive) Vertrauensdozentin der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Germany