Executive Director Scholars Academy/ Nat.Sci Faculty
University of Houston-Downtown
Houston, Texas, United States
Dr. Mary Jo Parker is currently a faculty member in the Natural Sciences department at University of Houston-Downtown. She also is Executive Director of the Scholars Academy, an academic unit in the College of Sciences & Technology supporting STEM majors through scholarships, a mentoring network system, broadening experiences, and professional assimilation experiences. She currently is PI on six active federal grant awards across federal and state agencies ($2.4M). She brings extensive experience in curriculum and development, supervision and leadership at K-12 and higher education, K-16 outreach and STEM recruitment, online instruction, and closing the achievement gap for minority STEM students. Dr. Parker has incorporated service learning into the University Seminar (Transfers) core course and formerly in the online non-majors biology course she created in 2011-2017. She has been at UHD for fifteen years and continues to be the longest serving director.
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