Vita
Lyn Huxford, Ph.D

Home Address: 
125 West Dee
Lebanon, IL 62254
Phone (618) 537-2278 / (618) 537-6901
E-Mail lhuxford@mckendree.edu

Education:

1981 Ph.D., St. Louis University

Areas of concentration: Social theory, research
methodology, social change, criminology and deviance


1975 M.A. (Research), St. Louis University

Areas of concentration: Social theory, research
methodology, social systems, criminology and deviance

1972 B.A., St. Louis University

Major: sociology; Minor: psychology

Master's Thesis
"An Analysis of Definitions of Deviance"

Dissertation
"An Exploratory Assessment of Trends in American Social Problems Theory"

Academic Service:

1994- Coordinator, Center for Public Service, McKendree College

1991- Professor, Sociology, McKendree College, Lebanon, IL

1986-1991 Associate Professor, Sociology, McKendree College

1981-1985 Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Studies, McKendree College

1978-1981 Instructor, Criminal Justice Studies, McKendree College

1977-1978 Adjunct Instructor, Sociology Department, St. Louis
University, St. Louis, Missouri

1975-1978 Instructor, Reference Department Coordinator, Pius XII
Memorial Library, St. Louis University

Teaching Areas:

Introductory Sociology, Marriage & Family, Criminology, Social Problems, 
Gender Studies, Research Methods

Community Service:

Advisor, Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honor Society, 1998-

Food Outreach Volunteer, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994-

Illinois Campus Compact for Community Service, Board Member, 1993-

Students Against Social Injustice, Co-founder and Advisor, 1991-

Pi Gamma Mu Advisor, 1990-

St. Louis Metro Housing NOW Task Force. Coordinated student participation in
the Oct. 7 Housing NOW March on Washington. Summer-Fall 1989.

Sabbatical, Martha's Home Shelter for Homeless Women, Amarillo, TX, Sept-Dec 1988

Lebanon Library Board Trustee, 1989-1994.

Honors and Awards:

Sabbatical, McKendree College

1998 $10,000 Grant Midwest Collaboration of Campus Compact

1996 Emerson Electric Excellence in Teaching Award

1996 General Board of Higher Education of the United Methodist
Church, Explemplary Teaching Award

1996 William Norman Grandy Faculty Award

1991 American Red Cross, Group Service Award to Students Against
Social Injustice

1988 William Norman Grandy Faculty Award
Sabbatical, McKendree College

Committee Service:

Faculty Affairs Council, Chair, 2001-

Faculty Representative to the McKendree College Board of Trustees, 2000-2001

Academic Vice President Search Committee, Chair, 1996.

Strategic Planning Committee, 1995-1996.

Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 1991-1994, 1995

Faculty Affairs Council, 1982-(Excluding 1988-89) 1991, 1994-1996, 1998-
Chair, 1985-87

Contract, Renewal, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1985 - Excluding 1988-89)
1991, 1994-1996, 1998-2000.

Presidential Search Committee, 1993-94

Board of Trustees Reconciliation Committee 1992-93

Presentations (selected list):

"Risks and Rewards of Team Teaching in a Learning Community", Learning
Communities Conference, November, 1999.

Presentation. Third Annual Faculty Symposium on Service-Learning, University
of Illinois. April 8-9, 1999.

"The Art of Reflection" at the Leadership in Volunteer Experience Conference at
Rockford College on November 15, 1997.

Partnership for the Homeless Conference sponsored by Illinois Department of
Public Aid. Topic: Colleges and agencies working together to serve the
homeless. March, 1997.

Workshop on Institutionalizing Service-Learning at the Faculty Symposium on
Service-Learning hosted by the Illinois Compact for Community Service. April,
1997.

"Zen and the Art of Service-Learning, Part II" presentation at the Lily Conference
on College Teaching, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 1995

Facilitator. Faculty Roundtable on Service-Learning. Fifth Annual Leadership in

Volunteer Experience Conference, September, 1994.

Faculty Resource Person. Midwest Institute on Integrating Service and Academic
Study. Hosted by Campus Compact. North Central College, July, 1994.

"Zen and the Art of Service-Learning," presentation at the Lily Conference on 
College Teaching, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 1994

"Zen and the Art of Service-Learning," presentation at the Leadership in
Volunteerism Experience Conference, Springfield, September, 1993.

"Just Do It: Developing a Service Group on Your Campus," presentation at the
5th Annual Conference of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger &
Homelessness, October, 1991.

"The Special Needs of Homeless Children," invited presentation to the Tricounty
School District, Vandalia, Illinois, October, 1990.

"Who are the Homeless?" invited presentation to the Triad Teacher's Institute,
August, 1990.

"The Problem of Homeless Children," invited presentation to the St. Clair County
Teacher's Institute, March, 1990.

"Homeless Children," presentation to Delta Kappa Gamma, March, 1990.

"Working with the Homeless," participant in a panel discussion. Daughters of
Charity-Associates in Mission Program, August, 1989.

"On Sabbatical at Martha's Home," presented at the McKendree College Brown
Bag Forum, Spring, 1991.

Conferences:

Invisible College, Portland State University. June, 1998.

National Society for Experiential Education, Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
November, 1995.

Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, The Rise of the Right, October,
1995.

Association of American Colleges & Universities. "Involving Students in Active
& Collaborative Learning." Chicago, October, 1995.

Colloquium on national & Community Service. Campus Compact and American
Association for Higher Education. Washington, D.C., January, 1995.

Sixth Annual Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness, New York
University, October, 1994.

Annual Leadership in Volunteer Experience Conference, Springfield, IL. Sept.
17-19, 1993 and 1994.

1993 COOL National Conference on Student Community Service, University of
Illinois, Champaign, March, 1993.

Fifth Annual Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 10-13, 1991.

Tenth Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Miami University, Oxford,
OH, Nov. 16-18, 1990.

Publications:

1985 Book Review. Pastoral Review.

1983 Coauthor Benjamin Shearer, Communications Technology and
Society: A Selected Bibliography, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

1978 Coauthor. St. Louis Statistical Abstract 1977, St. Louis, St. Louis
University Libraries

1977 Coauthor. St. Louis Statistical Abstract 1976, St. Louis, St. Louis
University Libraries

1976 Coauthor. St. Louis Statistical Abstract 1975, St. Louis, St. Louis
University Libraries.

1975 Coauthor. Perspectives on War and Peace in a Changing World:
A Selected Bibliography, St. Louis, St. Louis University Libraries.

References:

Dr. Jim Dennis
President
McKendree College
Lebanon, IL 62254

Dr. David Ahola
Chair
Division of Social Sciences
McKendree College
Lebanon, IL 62254
(618) 537-4481

Dr. Gerald Duff
Academic Dean
McKendree College
701 College Road
Lebanon, IL 62254
(618) 537-4481

Updated December 2001