Barbara Price Named a Fellow of ABET
Barbara Price Named a Fellow of ABET
Barbara A. Price, Ph.D., interim associate vice president of the Division of Continuing Education and professor emerita of quantitative analysis in the College of Business Administration, has been named a Fellow of ABET.
The Fellow of ABET Award was established by the ABET Board of Directors in 1988 to recognize individuals who have given sustained, quality service to applied science, computing, engineering or engineering technology education and to their respective professions through the activities of ABET.
“Becoming an ABET Fellow is a great honor. Over my years
as an ABET volunteer, I have had the pleasure to meet and work with many
outstanding individuals,” said Price. “I now count these people as my mentors,
friends and colleagues. I look forward to continuing my ABET experiences
and greatly appreciate the recognition.”
A Fellow of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB), Price served as
the 2012-2013 chair of the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET,
vice president of the CSAB Board of Directors, and chair of its volunteer
recruitment and selection committee. In addition, she helped bring Georgia
Southern’s information technology program accreditation into the CAC.
A Georgia Southern faculty member for nearly 16 years, Price returned to the University in April this year after retiring, to serve as interim vice president of the Division of Continuing Education. In this role, she provides vision and leadership in creating, developing and administering programs and operations within the Division.
A native of Sharon, Pa., Price is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the ABET Computing Accreditation Commission, Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and the Fulbright Alumni Association.
ABET is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that accredits college and university programs in the disciplines of applied science, computing, engineering and engineering technology. ABET accredits over 3,100 programs at more than 670 colleges and universities in 24 countries. ABET provides specialized, programmatic accreditation that evaluates an individual program of study, rather than evaluating an institution as a whole.
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