Faust Hall
Department - Position
- Department of Professional Programs and Human Services - Associate Professor
Department - Position
- College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences - Dean's Secretary
Department - Position
- Department of Professional Programs and Human Services - Assistant Professor
- Department of Professional Programs and Human Services - Department Chair
Department - Position
- College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences - Secretary
Dr. Shirley Mixon earned her Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration with an emphasis in Business and an M.S. in Business Education from Oklahoma State University. She earned a B.S. in Business Education from Grambling State University of Louisiana. Mixon’s current area of interest is interdisciplinary studies. Dr. Mixon, a professor within the College of Liberal Arts and Social Science, is currently the Director of the General Studies Program at East Central University. This is a program designed to help students complete a degree within an online format. Since 2010, Dr. Mixon has served on the executive board of the Oklahoma Women in Higher Education. She is the secretary for this state organization and also represents ECU at all OKWHE meetings. During her tenure at East Central University, Dr. Mixon has held the position of Reach Higher Coordinator, Department Chair of Business Education and Office Technology and the Parker Ethics Professor. Additionally, she continues to serve on numerous university, community and state committees and organizations.
Department - Position
- Interdisciplinary Studies Program - Professor and Director
PhD University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1997
BSFS Georgetown University, Comparative and Regional Studies, 1983
Department - Position
- College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences - Dean
- Department of History - Professor
I was born in Fort Worth and grew up in several towns and cities in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. After getting a degree in English from TCU, I spent five years teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in Madrid, Spain and then took the Trans-Siberian railroad to China, where I spent four more years teaching ESL and American Literature and Culture at Xiamen University. From China I went to the University of Chicago, where I got a master's degree in the humanities, and then across town to the Language, Literacy and Rhetoric program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I got my Ph.D. in the spring of 2008. That fall, I came to ECU. I became the director of the University Honors Program in 2012.
Department - Position
- Department of English and Languages - Professor
- Honors Program - Director University Honors Program