TSEM Advisory Board

The Towson Seminar (TSEM) Advisory Board brings together faculty, staff and administrators from across the university to provide strategic guidance and recommendations for TSEM program policies and curriculum development.

Drawing on diverse institutional knowledge, board members support TSEM alignment with university objectives and student success initiatives. Members serve two-year terms, meeting up to three times per semester to recommend policy adjustments, review program outcomes and ensure that TSEM effectively supports the transition of first-year students to university-level work at TU.

Board recommendations are shared with campus partners like the following:

Membership (2025-2027)

  • Emily Bailey (chair)
    TSEM Director/Professor
    Philosophy and Religious Studies (CLA) 
  • Mairin Barney
    Assistant Director for Faculty Outreach (Writing Center) 
  • (COE) to be filled
  • Michaël Dewally
    Professor, Finance (CBE) 
  • Michael Elliott
    Honors College Faculty Director/Professor
    Sociology (CLA/HONR) 
  • Emily Halligan
    Senior Assistant Director
    First-Year Experience Programming (Academic Advising, Retention and Completion) 
  • Audra McMullen
    Professor and TU in Northeastern Maryland Communication Studies Coordinator Communication Studies (COFAC)  
  • (FCSM) to be filled
  • Jasmine Thomas
    Research & Instruction Librarian (Cook Library) 
  • Tab Uhrich
    Associate Dean/Associate Professor
    Physical Education (CHP)