Corey Humphries, Vice President of Student Affairs (Photo contributed by Shorter University)
He will provide direct supervision for student support services, residence life, judicial programs, student activities, intramurals, new student orientation, student health services, campus safety, and campus ministries.
“We are excited to have Corey Humphries become a part of the Shorter family,” said Shorter University President Dr. Don Dowless. “His experience and his passion for Christian higher education will serve us and our students well as we work together to enrich the campus life experience and to fulfill Shorter’s mission of transforming lives through Christ.”
Humphries comes to Shorter from Charleston Southern University, where he served as Assistant Dean of Campus Life. He had been employed at Charleston Southern University since 2005. Beginning work there as Residence Life Coordinator, he went on to serve as Director of Residence Life and as Assistant Dean of Campus Life. As assistant dean, he oversaw the work of the directors of security, campus activities, and campus recreation in addition to retaining his previous responsibilities for the area of residence life.
While at Charleston Southern, Humphries also served three years as Catalyst Coordinator, developing and coordinating the university’s community service program. He partnered with non-profit organizations to identify, schedule, promote, and coordinate a wide variety of service projects for more than 20 local organizations. He also organized student volunteers as well as establishing partnerships with university teams, clubs, and organizations to increase student involvement in serving the local community. In addition, he served as advisor to the Charleston Southern Student Government Association and the House Council and as a member of the university’s Committee for Retention.
Humphries earned the Bachelor of Science in Psychology and the Master of Science in Criminal Justice, both from Charleston Southern.
Debra Faust was Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students. For some reason, she has been demoted and is now an Assistant Vice President -- and still the Dean of Students, only working in a different part of the University with a different boss.
Shorter released a new organizational chart, dated 7-23-2012, which shows some important changes such as the unannounced replacement of Craig Shull as Provost by the new Executive Vice President, Donald Martin back in May:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CIgEEBYwAA&url=http://www.shorter.edu/about/organizational_chart.pdf&ei=L-AOUNPPJNL82gXP44DwAw&usg=AFQjCNGfZAXJzM-_oKdeurN7BEufvqc-Wg
For many months, they had not shown Dr. Martin in their organizational charts.
This new organizational diagram is still not fully correct, though -- they still show Wayne Phipps as HR Director.
There are also many unfilled positions.
All this turnover must be so disruptive. If nothing else, they still can't even get straight who's in which job (or who's on their Board of Trustees).
I hope someone at the Georgia Baptist Convention is following all this. Shorter is now a GBC school and it's falling apart. If the GBC really wants to give it a makeover, they may want to change their takeover team.
So did he turn in a letter of resignation and then retract it? Or was the report that he was leaving wrong to begin with?
Also, what's with Shorter firing Sallie Samples? She was beloved among students, faculty, alumni and Romans -- that really got everyone in town's attention when they let her go. A fine Christian woman, too.
Today (Thursday, 7/26) is the last day for HR director Wayne Phipps. He is a good man who saw saw many unethical practices in his very short tenure at Shorter and he just decided to get out.
You know who you are (and so does everyone else) and you know what you did is very, very wrong. God will take care of your wrong-doing and you will suffer the consequences. Your day is coming.
Whether you work at Shorter or not, everyone's focus should be on our beloved students! This should be a positive and exciting time in their new lives! New dorms, new classes, new friends! That's their priority!
Considering what the negative use has been lately with their org chart, I don't blame them for not updating it every moment that a new hire arrives or when others leave. It just amazes (&annoys) me the things people choose to nit-pick about.
Georgia Baptists, you better wake up. South Carolina Baptists aren't going to pay the salaries of these new hires. You might want to start directing that your Cooperative Program contributions not be used to support Shorter. Just sayin'.