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Julie Combs Among 2023 Distinguished Professor Honorees
Oct. 11, 2023
SHSU媒体联系人: 坎贝尔阿特金斯
It was a bittersweet year for Julie Combs, one of three 2023 Sam Houston State University Distinguished Professors. The professor of educational leadership lost her beloved husband after a battle with pancreatic cancer in May before receiving the distinction over the summer.
“I was in such a fog that I don’t really remember the time and place I heard,库姆斯谈到这个奖项时说. “I just remember being so excited, but a little bit sad, too, that Keith wouldn’t be there. He would have been so proud of me and said something like he knew it all along.”
There was certainly much to praise when it came to Combs and her resume in and out of the classroom. Since joining SHSU’s staff in 2005, she has compiled a plethora of awards and an impressive research and service record.
“我收到了几份工作邀请, but I specifically chose Sam Houston for the people, its resources and overall energy,库姆斯说. “I like to say Sam Houston raised me. I came in as an assistant professor and rose through the ranks of tenure. I learned, I was mentored, I learned how to research and I taught other students how to do all that.”
Combs has worked as a public school principal, elementary and middle school teacher and was a founding principal at the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence & 模范校园. She spent stints at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas as well as Texas A&M University-Commerce before joining SHSU’s College of 教育. She spent two years as acting chair of the department and 10 years as director of its doctoral program in educational leadership.
“在这一切中, the theme has been helping other people, whether it’s through mentorship or teaching my students how to do things they don’t think they can do,库姆斯说. “I’ve spent most of my time here working with the doctoral program. Keeping that program vibrant was probably one of my biggest contributions.”
Combs oversaw the doctoral program from 2012-22 and it remains one of the few face-to-face programs of its kind in Texas, as the majority of others have gone online. She has also published 53 peer-reviewed research articles, 六本书, 42 practitioner-focused publications, supervised 33 dissertations and provided over 35 schools with consulting services.
“Hands down, she is one of the greatest professors I have taken throughout my entire academic career. She is intentional in her curriculum and instruction,” said one of Comb’s former doctoral students. “Her content knowledge is superb, and she teaches it in a way that is very easy to understand. She is very approachable and highly responsive to communication outside of the classroom.”
Among her many other distinctions include SHSU College of 教育’s Teaching Excellence Award (2018), 研究 Excellence Award (2017) and the Texas Council of Professors of 教育al 政府’s (TCPEA) 研究er of the Year Award (2017).
“One thing I say makes for a happy life is getting meaning from what you do,库姆斯说. “Teaching and working with others is definitely what I get meaning from. Having incredible mentors was such a highlight of my early years at Sam Houston and now being able to give that back to new faculty or graduate students is really my mission at this point in my career.”
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