Vickie Shamp EllisAssociate Professor ofCommunication Arts Sarkeys 405.878.2352 OBU Box 61240 500 W. University Shawnee, OK 74804 |
Dr. Ellis’ teaching career began as a competitive speech coach, English teacher, and theatre arts director. Additionally, she developed peer-teaching workshops for faculty members and worked as the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Speech & Debate Coordinator in Texas high schools. Her high school speech and debate students were regional and state winners. Her theatre company also placed in the Texas regional and state One Act Play contests.
After completing her Master of Science Degree in Communication Studies at the University of North Texas, she began teaching communication courses at the college level and later completed her Doctorate of Education with an emphasis on curriculum, instruction, and supervision. Throughout her experiences, she has been especially interested in developing ways to enhance communication skills across the curriculum. Encouraging positive communication skills is her career passion. Dr. Ellis also serves as workshop presenter for the Oklahoma State Department of Education.
She is married to Barry Ellis, associate professor of finance at the University of Central Oklahoma. She has one son, Branson Stephens (OBU class of 2000), a theoretical astrophysicist at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics (Princeton, NJ) and one daughter, Nola Stephens, a fourth year doctoral candidate in linguistics at Stanford University (Stanford, CA). Nola’s research is focused on child language acquisition.
Dr. Ellis' Curriculum Vitae
Educational Background:
B.F.Ed., Southeastern Oklahoma State University
M.S., University of North Texas
Ed.D., Texas A&M - Commerce
Dissertation: "A Semantic Measure of Affective Meanings of Professional Titles in Higher Education"
Courses Taught:
Communication Research
Persuasion
Family Communication
Public Speaking
Introduction to Speech Communication
Political Communication
Group Discussion
Interpersonal Communication
Creative Communication
Methods of Theatre and Speech Education
Graduate Education Courses
Selected Publications and/or Professional Activities:
Keynote Address: "Laughing our way to Retention." Oklahoma State Department of Education, (June 19, 2008). State Superintendent’s Northwest Regional Curriculum Conference.
Ellis, V. S. (projected publication date, summer, 2008). Contributing author of devotions, "Getting Back to Camp" and "Sacrificial Giving." Solomon was a Businessman: Business Devotions from Proverbs. Baker, A., & Whitlock, D. (Eds.) Eugene, OR: Resource Publications.
Ellis, V. S. &, Harlin, N. M. (2008). Designing teacher-student rapport. (In press Design Principles: An International Journal. CG Publisher.
Ellis, V. S. & Travis, J. (Dec., 2007). Professional titles in higher education: Do they matter to students? College Student Journal, Part B, 41(4).
V. S. Ellis, [Pub. Under Shamp-Ellis]. (Oct., 2006). Powered by Humor: Innovative Teaching, Creative Learning. Bulletin of the Institution of Polytechnic University in Iasi, Romania. Tomul Lii (LVI). Fasc. 5, Socio-Humanistic Series
—CNCSIS.Keynote Address: "Humor Engages Learners." Delta Kappa Gamma, (April 1, 2006). Delta Kappa Gamma District Meeting, Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Missouri
