MUMA College of BUSINESS Grandon Gill Professor, School of Information Systems and Management Founding Director, Doctor of Business Administration program At the outset of the COVID-19 crisis, when students and faculty were told to stay away from the campuses and conduct their classes online, Grandon assembled a team of tech-savvy business educators and offered mentoring for the rest of the faculty. His efforts paid off. A lot could have gone wrong during the transition to 100-percent online education, but the business faculty, with the assistance of Grandon and his team, provided a seamless bridge from face-to-face teaching to computer-to-computer education. In recognition of these efforts, Provost Ralph Wilcox named Grandon a Faculty Champion and he will represent the Muma College of Business on the USF Faculty Instruction and Learning Excellence Development Team.
Le’Shelle Davis Application Document Processor, Graduate Recruitment Graduate Affairs Office Le’Shelle has been a true hero for the Graduate Affairs office during the past several months, adapting to a new environment while never missing a beat in her stellar work ethic. She quietly and steadily took on additional programs in her applicant-tracking system, deftly adding them to her growing portfolio. In total, she tracked 1,105 applications for fall 2020 compared to 729 for fall 2019. When USF’s St. Petersburg campus admission operations consolidated in the Tampa office, two graduate programs dropped into tracking limbo. Le’Shelle made it her mission to ensure that no applicants fell through the cracks. She served as a sounding board for students who feared this would end their dream of a graduate degree and explained that USF would welcome them in the spring if the fall semester was logistically not an option.
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