BLINN FACULTY APPOINTED TO STATE STUDY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Several Blinn College District faculty members were recently appointed to a state-wide study advisory committee.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) has appointed Blinn Speech Professor Britney Hibbeler, Computer Science Instructor Mike McHugh, and Technical Theatre Professor Kevin Patrick.
They will work with faculty from across the state, to establish courses that allow the transfer of credits to academic programs at four-year universities.
Each of the THECB’s 30 fields of committees consist of 24 members, taken from two-year and four-year public institutions. The committees review existing fields of studies to make sure they fit in with discipline, student interests, and workforce needs.
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Britney Hibbeler, Blinn’s Communication Studies Department Head, was appointed to the Communications Field of Study Advisory Committee.
Hibbeler has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in communication from Texas A&M University. She has also served as a member on the TEDxBlinnCollege Planning Committee and co-founded “Speak Up, Speak Out,” an annual public speaking contest hosted by Blinn.
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Blinn’s Computer Science Department Head since 2017, Mike McHugh was selected to serve on the Computer Science/Information Technology Advisory Committee.
McHugh holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering and industrial management from Texas A&M, a Master of Business Administration in operations research from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Kevin Patrick, a Blinn faculty member since 2005, was appointed to the Performing Arts/Drama Advisory Committee.
Patrick has a Bachelor of Arts in theatre from Southwestern University and a Master of Fine Arts in theatre scenography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Along with teaching, Patrick oversees the technical needs for the Blinn-Brenham Theatre Arts productions.
Patrick also serves as the Chair-Elect for the Texas Educational Theatre Association Higher Education Committee and is a sponsor for the U.S. Institute of Technical Theatre. In addition, he often takes students to technical theatre symposiums, conferences, tours and professional dramatic productions throughout the state.