SU Celebrates Recent Faculty, Staff Successes

SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University is celebrating the following faculty and staff successes:

Dockins-Mills Named Maryland 2020 Census Champion

Dr. Lawanda Dockins-Mills, associate dean of students, has been named a Census Champion by 2020 Census Maryland for her service as SU’s representative to the Salisbury/Wicomico Complete Count Committee, which oversaw census efforts in the county.

In that role, Dockins-Mills promoted the census to students via emails, text messages, social media and more, significantly boosting off-campus student response rates. She also had planned several on-campus promotional activities, which were canceled when the University shifted to an all-virtual class format last spring as a precaution against COVID-19.

Weber Serves as Associated Press Expert, ‘Pursuit’ Contributor

David P. Weber, assistant professor of accounting in the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, recently served as an expert for an Associated Press investigation into alleged attempts by Venezuela’s state-run oil company to circumvent U.S. sanctions by partnering with a large Thai asphalt business to pay the company’s debts in exchange for discounts on petroleum.

The investigative report, picked up by more than 300 national and international media outlets including the Washington Post, spotlighted Weber’s former service as a U.S. Treasury Department and Securities and Exchange Commission investigator.

In addition, Weber has signed on as a contributor for Pursuit Magazine, a trade publication for professional investigators. His first interview for the magazine’s podcast, The Sound of Pursuit, discussing open-source intelligence, Weber’s investigation into Russian president Vladimir Putin, and the Perdue School’s Fraud and Forensic Accounting Upper-Division Certificate Program, is available online.

For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website.