FORT LAUDERDALE – After seventeen years of service and recent retirement from Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Dr Susan Lycett Davis a Jamaican national has been awarded the honor of Professor Emeritus.
This honor recognizes her great career as an HR Practitioner and Educator. It highlights her excellent service in teaching. She is a subject expert in organizational leadership, conflict resolution, and Human Resources development.
Years of Service
While at NSU, Dr. Davis was active in teaching and facilitation. She also served on many committees in the College of Education and across the University. Additionally, she took on several volunteer roles. These included being a student advisor for the Nova International Students Association (NISA). She was also the chair of the Black Heritage Council. Furthermore, she coordinated the College of Education’s Employee Incentive Program and Scholars’ Round Table.
As HR Coordinator, she developed and implemented the Employee Orientation Program, and the C.A.R.E. initiative (COMMITMENT to Work; positive ATTITUDE; RESPECT for all; EXCELLENCE in service delivery) which governed the culture of the college for many years.
Dr Davis continues to serve as an Adjunct and a NSU Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Petitioner.
The title of Professor Emeritus gives Dr. Davis many permanent rights and privileges. These were approved by the Board of Trustees. She will always be seen as part of the NSU family.
A community Activist, Entertainer, Writer, Author, Philanthropist, and Speaker, Dr Davis (aka Dr Sue) is positioning herself to continue to live her passion, of serving wherever and whenever needed, in her varied roles and areas of expertise!
Says Dr Davis/Dr Sue on her seemingly early retirement, “I am where I am destined to be at this time and so I move forward boldly, in faith! In the words of one of my poems ‘Use me Lord, use me, send me Lord send me…!’
I’m ready to be all that I can be…watch this space!”
