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Dr. Daintee G. Jones-Clark

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Academic Appointments:

San Jacinto College, Chair, Liberal Arts Department, 2021 to present
Lone Star College, Associate Dean for Student Learning & Dual Credit, 2015 to present
                        Adjunct English faculty, 2000 to 2021
DeVry University, Associate Professor/Faculty Chair, 2013 to 2015
Academic Affairs Specialist, 2012 to 2013
Assistant Professor/English Chair, 2010 to 2012
Prairie View A&M University, English Lecturer, 2009 to 2010
Houston Community College, adjunct English faculty, 2008 to 2009
University of Houston, Director of Student Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, 2000
                       
Education:           
University of Houston, Doctorate of Philosophy, English and American Literature
DeVry University School of Education, Higher Education Leadership Certificate
K-12 Educational Leadership Graduate Certificate
Keller School of Management, E-Commerce Management Graduate Certificate
Houston Baptist University, Master of Liberal Arts
University of Houston, Bachelor of Business Administration
 
Non-degreed Education:
Inclusive Teaching for Equitable Learning Micro-credential -Association of College & University Educators, 2022
Religion, Conflict, & Peace - Harvard 
The Science of Religion - University of British Columbia
First Year Experience: Student Success Course Professional Development Certificate (Lone Star College)
Myers Briggs Type Indicator Type, “Ask an Expert: Is Professional Networking Just for Extraverts?” (National Board for Certified Counselors)
Myers Briggs Type Indicator Type, Learning Style, and Student Retention Training (National Board for Certified Counselors)
Myers Briggs Type Indicator Type and Stress Training (National Board for Certified Counselors)
Active Learning Techniques – Level I – DeVry University
Learning Styles Certificate – etools4Education
Learner-Centered Concepts Certificate – etools4Education
Learning Theory Certificate – etools4Education
Differentiated Instruction Certificate – etools4Education
Development and Learning Certificate – etools4Education
Cognitive Processing Certificate – etools4Education
Structure of Disciplines Certificate – etools4Education
Special Education for the Regular Classroom Teacher – etools4Education
Fundraising 101 (Association for Fundraising Professionals) – Rice University
Public Relations Writing Certification – University of Houston

Dissertation:  
Pearl Cleage’s Hollering Herstoricist Migrations: Defining Her Selves and Telling Her Stories – Chairs:  Drs. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory and Maria Gonzalez.  Committee Members:  Drs. Paul Guajardo, Peter Gingiss, and Irving Rothman
 
Courses taught:  
DRAM 2366  Film Appreciation
EDUC525      Education Program Evaluation
​EDUC531      Higher Education Leadership
​EDUC555      Faculty Development in Higher Education
ENGL112        Freshman Composition
ENGL135       Advanced Composition
ENGL227       Professional Writing
ENGL510       Foundations of Communication
GM410            Foundations of Business Communications
GOVT 2305    Federal Government
GOVT 2306    Texas Government
HUMN303      Intro to Humanities
HUMN420      Contemporary Literature
HUMN422      Film and Literature
​LAS432           Technology, Society, and Culture


Online course design:
 
EDUC1300     FYE College Student Success
ENGL1301     Freshman Composition
ENGL1302     Advanced Composition
HUMN303      Intro to Humanities
 
University/College service:
 
San Jacinto College, Dissertation Chair - Doctoral Candidate at Ferris State University
San Jacinto College Dual Credit Operating Scholarship
San Jacinto College First Generation Club
Lone Star Sabbatical Committee
​Lone Star College Doctoral Scholarship Committee
Packet Editor for Clinical Laboratory Science Program Accrediting Committee
Chair of DeVry First Year Initiatives Committee
            Math pass rates moved from 45% to 90% within first semester of this initiative
            First year English classes moved to laboratory classrooms
Faculty Lead with DeVry Innovations Committee (Google Docs project)
Co–chair of DeVry Soft Skills Committee
Chair of DeVry Live Well – Millionaire Mindset Committee
Founder of DeVry Senior Project/Capstone Prep Workshops
Founder of DeVry Faculty Writing Group
Founder of DeVry Performance Troupe
Continuing Student Review Committee member
Academic Success Center faculty volunteer
Faculty Development Committee member and presenter
            Learning Differences
            Negotiation in the Classroom
APA faculty consultant
WRAP (English Norming Committee) volunteer
P-16 Initiatives volunteer
Writing Initiative pilot program (ENGL112)
New Student Orientation volunteer
Graduation volunteer (singer and Master of Ceremonies)
Persistence Committee member – assisted in placing campus 23rd in nation
Net Promoter Score committee member – assisted in placing campus 4th in nation
Marketing Committee volunteer
Community outreach faculty volunteer
TEACH awards ceremony volunteer
Yates High School Bridge Initiative volunteer
Career Services volunteer
 
Publications:     
Collected Essays & Plays  
“Issacharites:  One of the Teaching Tribes”.  One Love Caribbean. September 2013
 
“Reubenites:  One of the Warrior Tribes”.  One Love Caribbean. August 2013
 
“Which Prophet Are You?”  One Love Caribbean. July 2013
 
“(Re)membering the Pieces of Her Selves from the plays of Pearl Cleage and August Wilson” (in progress)
 
“The Twelve Tribes Personality Assessment” (in progress)
 
“Lana’s Wings” – for Children, 2013 (looking for a publisher)
 
“Lana’s Wings” (in progress)
 
“Widowed” in Pearl Cleage’s Hollering Herstoricist Migrations: Defining Her Selves and Telling Her Stories, Proquest, 2010.
 
“Spaces and Boundaries in Zulu Sofola’s Song of a Maiden” in Urbanization and African Cultures, Ed. Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm. Carolina Academic Press, 2005, pp. 41-50
 
“Zulu Sofola and Feminist Consciousness” in Nigeria in the Twentieth Century, Ed. Toyin Falola. Carolina Academic Press, 2002, pp. 847-855

Letters, Notes and Reviews  
“Knock Me a Kiss” Theatre Review. One Love Caribbean.  February 2013
 
“The Mountaintop” Theatre Review.  One Love Caribbean. February 2013
 
 “Cinderella” Theatre Review.  One Love Caribbean. January 2013 
 
“Ralph Esquire”. Script Supervisor. 2009.
 
▪  Reviews of
    Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction
   Mothers and Daughters in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Anthology
   Is it Really Mommie Dearest? Daughter-Mother Narratives in Young Adult Fiction.
   NWSA Journal, 14.2 (2002) 216-219
 
▪  Biographical entry of Myrtle Smith Livingston, Black Drama Biographies online,
   Alexander Street Press (forthcoming)
 
▪  Biographical entry of Hilary Holladay, The Ann Petry Encyclopedia. Ed. Hazel Arnett
   Ervin. Greenwood Press, 2002.
 
▪  Biographical entries on Adrienne Kennedy and Shay Youngblood, Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature. Ed. Wilfred Samuels. Facts on File.  2007
 
Citations  
Cited by Christine J. Farnum O’Leary in Motherhood: Portrayals in American Literature. Proquest. 2008.
 
Intellectual supervision:  
Consultant, Doctoral Dissertation: Joshua Lo, DeVry University Professor
Reader, Master’s Thesis: Davis Monroe. Morgan State University
 
Awards and Honors:  
DeVry, I Teach Award, 2013
DeVry Golden Gloves Award, 2012
DeVry University Employee of the Semester, 2011
DeVry University TEACH Award, 2011
DeVry University Ron Taylor Excellence in Performance Award, 2011
UH Staff Council Scholarship, 2004-06
Miller Theatre Advisory Board Grant, “Flutations” July, 2003
UH Committee on the Status of Women Scholarship, 2000 (for graduate studies)
 
Selected Presentations:  
"Stress and Emotional Intelligence".  Lone Star College.  Katy, TX. September 2018
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"A Kink and a Prayer in 'Da Kink in My Hair".  The Ensemble Theatre.  Houston, TX.  September 2018
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"Surviving Survivor's Remorse with Magic in The First Noel". The Ensemble Theatre.  Houston, TX. October 2016
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"Deconstructing a Diaspora Deferred: Teaching the Diaspora to the Millennial Student". College Language Association. Houston, TX April 2016
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"Once Upon a Wife Time: War Games in a Pan-Africanist Fairy Tale" dramaturgical presentation.  Texas Southern University. Houston, TX. March 2016

"The Learning Commons & Tutoring Center Department: A Radical Change Agent in Navigating Educational Resources". DREAM 2016. Atlanta, GA. February 2016

“Plátanos & Collard Greens: Deconstructing a Drapetomanic Pigmentocracy” dramaturgical presentation.  The Ensemble Theatre, Houston, TX, August 2015
 
“Family Wounds, Realistic Characterization, and History in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog” dramaturgical presentation.  Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, January 2014
 
“The South as Mecca: Pearl Cleage’s Freedom Plays.”  College Language Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2014
 
“Long Time Since Yesterday” dramaturgical presentation.  Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, January 2013
 
“Women of Color: Open Topics.”  Panel Chair.  South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, TX, October 2012
 
“Business Communication and Etiquette” presentation for WalMart Corporation. Houston, TX, February 2012
 
“Pearl Cleage’s Inspiration for “Chain”.” South Central Modern Language Association, Hot Springs, Arkansas. October 2011
 
“Business Etiquette” Presentation. Fort Bend County Annex.  Richmond, TX. September 2011
 
“Bessie Coleman and Independence Heights” Presentation for Mercer Corporation. Houston, TX. February 2011
 
“Sirens’ Songs” Dramaturgical presentation. Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, February 2011
 
“Exodusters in Flight:  Pearl Cleage’s Wandering Women in Flyin’ West.” South Central Modern Language Association, Fort Worth, Texas. October 2010
 
“Waiting to be Invited” Dramaturgical presentation.  Ensemble Theatre. Houston, Texas, February 2007
 
“A Tribute to August Wilson” Presentation funded by CACHH.  Ensemble Theatre. February 2006
 
“Color Me Dark” A Migration Series Presentation.  Ensemble Theatre.  January 2006
 
“Twentieth-Century Black Women Playwrights.” Chairperson.  Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2005
 
“Widowed.” Staged at Midtown Arts Center. (Including original music- The Goodness of the Lord, Fresh Meat, He’s Alright With Me, Make Me Whole). Houston, Texas. June 2005
 
“Widowed.” The Miranda Project. Houston, Texas. May 2005
 
“Primary Care.” On The Edges: Extreme Caregiving, Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Practice Conference.  University of Texas Houston School of Nursing.  February 2005
 
“Drums of Sweetwater.” Dramaturgical presentation. Texas Southern University, February 2005
 
“In Search of a Thirdspace in Judith Alexa Jackson’s WOMBmanWARs.” College Language Association, Howard University, April 2003
 
“Spaces and Boundaries in Zulu Sofola’s Song of a Maiden.” Conference on Nigeria in the Twentieth Century. African Urban Spaces: History and Culture, University of Texas, March 2003
 
“Womanish Madwomen in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro.” South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, October 2002
 
“Modern Drama – Open Topic.” Chairperson.  South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, October 2002
 
“Postmodern ‘Travelin Men’ and ‘Stayin Women’ of Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play.”  College Language Association, LeMoyne-Owen College, April 2002
 
“An African Feminist Consciousness within Zulu Sofola’s Memories in the Moonlight and King Emene.” Conference on Nigeria in the Twentieth Century, University of Texas, March 2002
 
“Jokers and Jokes in Ntozake Shange’s Spell #7.” South Central Modern Language Association ,Tulsa, OK , November 2001
 
“La Bakaire performance.” College Language Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2001
 
“Humanities and Healing – Student Perspectives,” Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Houston, Texas, October 1999
 
Dramaturgical Presentations on plays - Johnnie B Goode, Two Trains Running, Black Eagles, Once On This Island, The Ensemble Theatre, Houston, TX, 1997-98
 
Memberships:
 
Modern Language Association
College Language Association
South Central Modern Language Association
The Ensemble Theatre Acting Company
University of Houston CEO Group
 
Public Service:
 
The Dignity in Direction Group – Founder
Stage Whisper Playhouse – Advisory Volunteer
Junior Achievement – Success Skills Volunteer
Fort Bend I.S.D. Extended Day Program - Advisory Board Member
American Cancer Society – Public Relations Committee
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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