Shannon Lambert Email and Phone Number

Adjunct faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences.

•Supervises the daily operations of facility, employees, and volunteers.•Develops and maintains the operational budget for non-profit agency.•Responsible for writing and maintaining federal, state, and private grants to ensure yearly funding for non-profit agency.•Provides crisis intervention and victim assistance to individuals and families in Pickens County.•Provides community awareness through presentations, events, and collaboration with public agencies in the county.•Works closely with the Board of Directors to ensure the mission of the agency is being followed and promoted in the community.•Responsible for planning community events and fundraising opportunities to promote the agency and secure private funding.•Maintains professional relationships with federal, state, and local agencies and associations.•Attends professional conferences and trainings for continuing education.

•Completed 2012 internal audit with no findings in the Academic Affairs department.•Completed 2012 ACICS new grant review citation free in the Academic Affairs department.•Maintained yearly campus gross attrition at 5.53- 6.41%.•Increased first year academic year persistence 5% by implementing first year advising program.•Serves as Acting Director in the Director’s absence from campus.•Increased student activities on campus by creating family friendly events and organizing student organizations.•Monitors student behavior issues and collaborates with involved parties to enforce the appropriate sanctions.•Implemented Veteran’s support initiative by establishing a student veteran organization on campus and serves as the organization advisor and mentor.•Directs and evaluates the achievement of student performance objectives. Performs attrition analysis and manages the campuses' retention program. •Leads and manages the campus Academic Affairs department. Facilitates the selection, hiring and scheduling of faculty and oversees faculty and staff training and professional development programs. Establishes performance expectations, conducts classroom observations, analyzes performance indicators, provides coaching and feedback. •Creates academic goals and objectives for the Campus Effectiveness Plan and directs department staff in the achievement of these goals and objectives. •Responsible for the campus Advisory Board meetings. Promotes faculty's and staff's affiliation with professional and community organizations.

•Participated in a university team that raised overall retention by 4.5 % in one academic year.•Developed student mentoring program that improved freshmen retention by 6.8% over the College of Arts & Sciences retention rate for 2009.•Coordinated with advising team, faculty, and other departments on campus to develop and implement academic and career focused seminars and workshops.•Responsible for advising undergraduate psychology students and provided information regarding research opportunities, career counseling, internship, study abroad resources to ensure student retention and success. •Participated in approximately 30 year-round advising conferences for incoming freshmen, transfer students, and re-admitted students. •Evaluated and maintained student records through chronological documentation, evaluation of transcripts and AP credit, and consistent evaluation of course progression, completion, and graduation requirements.•Participated in recruitment activities for the University by attending college transfer student and high school student preview programs.•Served as the Arts & Sciences Ambassador Program advisor. Supervised and mentored student team that participated in open houses, new student orientation, academic advising conferences, Merit weekend, Arts & Sciences “Geek Week”, and peer mentoring program.

•Centralized base education facilities by coordinating efforts with base commanding officer to centralize schools and education offices into one education center, centrally located on the military establishment.•Completed the Military Installation Voluntary Education Review (MIVER) with the American Council on Education (ACE) in 2006. Activities involved completion of self-study report for Navy College, coordination for evaluator meetings with base personnel and on-base colleges, and logistics for evaluator lodging, transportation, and activities. •Conducted base wide educational needs assessment and developed three year educational plan for military base and educational facility.•Supervised four on-base colleges and managed the maintenance and daily operation of the education facilities.•Coordinated and proctored CLEP, DANTES, Excelsior testing with military test control officer.•Responsible for educational program development, implementation, and marketing educational promotions, education fairs, open house events and seminars.•Provided orientation and retention services on a monthly basis for military students through educational, financial aid, and scholarship seminars.•Administered career assessment inventories and provided career counseling to help servicemen and women transition into the civilian world.•Served on the Anti-terrorism committee to evaluate weaknesses in the security of the educational facility on the military base and provided suggestions on strengthening the security for both military and non-military students attending classes. Developed emergency action plan to improve the communication between DOD and civilian personnel in the event of an emergency.