WCET's 29th Annual Meeting
 


Title
Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness
Company
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Bio
Shonda Gibson has served in a variety of roles in higher education and brings over 25 years of corporate and industry experience in the fields of leadership, operations management, recruiting, training, and team development. She is the associate provost for institutional effectiveness at Texas A&M University-Commerce and also serves as the SACSCOC Accreditation Liaison. She served on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate (TAB) Program Advisory Committee in creation and implementation of the state’s first competency-based degree offered by an accredited public institution, which earned the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s prestigious Texas Star Award. She has also led the Institute for Competency-Based Education (ICBE), a collaboratory funded by the Texas legislature for innovation focused on experimentation and research to advance the understanding of competency-based education and to support development and growth of CBE programs. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Social Psychology, has a master’s degree in Psychology, and an MBA with emphasis in both Management and Economics.