The OEI Team

Dawn Barker Floyd, J.D.

Director of Equity & Inclusion & Title IX Coordinator

E-mail: titleixcoordinator@udel.edu OR dfloyd@udel.edu

Phone: (302) 831-8063

 Dawn brings to the University more than twenty-five years of experience in higher education and law. Most recently, Dawn worked at Lenoir-Rhyne University as the Director of University Compliance and Title IX Coordinator and prior to that she was the Title IX Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Dawn began her career in higher education in student life, serving as the Assistant Director of Student Life at Manhattan School of Music and a Residence Life Area Coordinator at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Dawn is an attorney licensed to practice in New York and North Carolina and worked for ten years at private law firms as a litigation associate on a variety of legal matters. Dawn earned her B.A. and M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Appalachian State University and her J.D. form the City University of New York School of Law.

Eugene Smith, Ed.D.

Associate Director of Equity & Inclusion & Deputy Title IX Coordinator

E-mail: ehsmith@udel.edu

Phone: (302) 831-8063

Dr. Eugene Smith has nine years of professional experience in student affairs, resource management, organizational strategy, change management, and program development. His experience includes policy and advocacy, diversity and anti-racist initiatives, and academic success programs for low-income and underrepresented populations.

Eugene has served as the Assistant Director for the Office of Student Success as well as the Title IX Coordinator for Students at Frederick Community College. While there, he oversaw the PASS (Partnership to Achieving Student Success) program, a two-year retention program that assists low-income first-year students and adult learners in transitioning to college. As the Title IX Coordinator for Students, his role consisted of coordinating and monitoring the college’s compliance with Title IX, state civil rights requirements, prevention efforts, and implementation of learning and development in discrimination.

Additionally, Eugene served at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) as the Assistant Director for the Center for Identity and Inclusion while also serving as a Title IX Investigator. He created persistence, retention, and diversity initiatives which fostered a positive sense of belonging for a diverse population of students. He also served at Northern Oklahoma Community College (NOC) as Coordinator of International Students and the Diversity Officer. In this role, he led the efforts to create the college’s first strategic plan on diversity and seminars.

Eugene received his Doctorate of Education in Community College Leadership and his Master of Higher Education Administration from Morgan State University.

LaShun McGhee

Assistant Director of Equity & Inclusion & Deputy Title IX Coordinator

E-mail: mcgheel@udel.edu

Phone: (302) 831-8063

LaShun McGhee serves as Senior Resolution Specialist with expertise in various educational settings spanning fifteen years in higher education for several small and medium-sized four-year residential public and private, and two-year nonresidential public colleges and universities, along with K-12 school partnerships. As part of her former roles, she informed students, employees, and third parties of their rights and provided response for acts of misconduct, harassment, and discrimination. She has often served in inaugural roles in Student Conduct, Compliance and Title IX Administration, Clery Act, and behavioral intervention teams (B.I.T.) and plans. She has led crisis response and intervention, primary prevention and awareness campaigns, OCR Voluntary Resolution monitoring. Authored various policies and protocol development for Title IX and intersecting statutes, led training programs for students, employees, community, and nonprofits, and college and university decision-makers, administrators, and resolution personnel on their role, response, and obligations.

LaShun provided direct care for co-occurring populations for over a decade with certifications as addiction and mental health counselor, life coach, civil rights investigator, diversity and inclusion, and certified affirmative action professional. She holds both degrees in Psychology with a Bachelor’s from Northern Illinois University and a Master’s from National Louis University.  She also serves on the Executive Advisory Board for a professional Consortium of Title IX Professionals and engages in her community. She has lived the mantra of “Do what you have to do, until you can do what you want to do.”  Working with Grand River Solutions allows her to do what she wants to do by assisting campuses, technical programs, and schools from an expert level on Title IX, equity compliance, and EEO discrimination.

Alice Moore

Protection of Minors Program Coordinator

E-mail: protectionofminors@udel.edu OR ammoore@udel.edu

Phone: (302) 831-8063

Melissa McDerby

Administrative Assistant IV

E-mail: oei@udel.edu OR mmcderby@udel.edu

Phone: (302) 831-8063