Friday, May 2, 2008

Speaker Spotlight: Lyle Gibson

Career:

  • History Professor; Metropolitan Community College—Penn Valley
  • Adjunct Professor for the Social Science department at Kansas City Kansas Community College, 1998-present
Education:
  • Master’s Degree in History from the University of Missouri Kansas City, 1999
  • Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, 1996
Affiliations:>
  • National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
  • Midwest Afro American Genealogical Interest Coalition
  • Eye of Ra—African Fraternity & Sorority
  • Kansas Institute for African American and Native American Family History
  • Co-Advisor for the Black Student Association; MCC-Penn Valley
  • Co-Advisor for the Advocates of Better Government; MCC-Penn Valley

Military:

  • U.S. Air Force 1986-1990
  • Texas—Strategic Air Command (SAC)
  • Greece—NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Awards/Recognitions:

  • Selected as one of the influential faculty members of the Metropolitan Community Colleges—Penn Valley, 2006
  • Inducted into the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution—first African American in the Kansas Delaware Crossing Chapter
  • Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers; 2006, 2005 and 2002
  • Academy for Leadership and Development; 2002 & 2003
  • Fulbright Hays GPA Scholar; 1999, Senegal, West Africa
  • Minority Master’s Fellowship; 1997 & 1998 University of Missouri Kansas City
Publications: Recent
  • We Are the American People: Our Nation’s History Through Its Documents (2005) used as a text at the Metropolitan Community Colleges
  • Black Tie White Tie: Chronicle of an American Family 1739-1940 (2003; Revised Edition 2006) used as a text at the Metropolitan Community Colleges-Penn Valley

Travel:

  • Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad Participant Summer 1999
  • Senegal, West Africa (Mauritania) 1999
  • Greece; Crete; Zachintos; Patras; Achaia; Athens; Olympia; Delphi 1988-1990
Interests:
  • History
  • Genealogy
  • Travel
  • Music
  • Family time

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