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Biography

Dr White is a professor of Computer Information Systems. Dr. White has published articles in diverse journals from Small Group Research to Business Communications Quarterly, to Journal of Informatio Systems Education, to Issues in Information Systems.<br><br>Before joining WCU's College of Business, in 1992, Dr. White started and spent 8 years running the Sound To Sea Program on the coast of North Carolina at Trininty Center--Episcopal Camp and Conference Center of the Diocese of East Carolina. From 1992 to today, over a thousand school groups and about 150,000 students have completed team-building activities and learned about the coastal environment (https://www.trinityctr.org/sound-to-sea/)<br><br>Prior to her work designing and running the Sound to Sea Program, Dr. White lived and worked overseas at a bread and breakfast in London and voluteered on a kibbutz in Israel. Dr White was proud to serve the United States of America as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic (1987-1989) where she created The World Map Project where Peace Corps Volunteers work with students and counterparts to hand draw and paint world maps over 10 feet wide on school walls all around the world.

Education

• Ph D, University of Mississippi, Business Administration (with a major in Management Information Systems)
• MBA, East Carolina University, Management Information Systems
• BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Journalism and Botany

Teaching Interests

<b>Become a CIS major/minor -- or add a CIS major to your other major and enjoy some of my classes!</b><br><b>CIS251</b>; Managing Enterprise Info Sys (what all business majors need to know about info sys to be successful!)<br><b>CIS353</b>: Database Theory and Practice (a fun class about relational/non-relational databases--the backbone of how businesses store data!)<br><br><b>The class I teach below is for anyone at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵand counts as a P6 and Upper Level Perspective (ULP)</b><br><b>BA304</b>: Business Communications in a Multicultural Environment (a super fun World Cultures class looking at how businesses target customers in different cultures!)

Research Interests

A curious person like me? I have a wide range of interests from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Prompt Development Life Cycle (PDLC) to the intersection of IT and Law to Images Used in Search Engines to new technologies used in classes!

Curriculum Vitae