staff stories

For more than eight years, one of the first people many OSU-Tulsa visitors see has been Lori Burgan.

Burgan is positioned front and center at the OSU-Tulsa Information Center in North Hall and serves as program specialist in support of events. In this job, she gets to see most of the people who visit campus during her shift.

It takes a team effort to provide a safe environment for teaching and learning. This summer, the officers and staff at the OSU-Tulsa Police Department faced a challenge unlike any they had experienced before as OSU-Tulsa was at the center of a series of events that drew thousands of visitors to the Greenwood District several times in the span of only a few weeks.

Budget and finance specialist Bambi Greer and testing and tutoring coordinator Kimberly McCrackin were recently recognized for their distinguished service to OSU-Tulsa students, faculty and staff.

If you know Oklahoma State University-Tulsa’s Alnetta Morris, you know her new job is a perfect fit.

As a community engagement specialist, Morris creates and leads programs and initiatives to help OSU-Tulsa invest in the lives, businesses and organizations of north Tulsa and beyond. It’s a community Morris is well familiar with.

“It’s just a blessing to be selected for this role,” Morris said. “This is where I began.”

Oklahoma State University’s School of Accounting will honor five outstanding alumni and friends of the school during the 2021 Wilton T. Anderson Hall of Fame and Awards virtual ceremony April 29.

Academic counselor Sherry Clegg and safety officer Patty White were recognized for their distinguished service to OSU-Tulsa students, faculty and staff.

Olivia Woody landed at OSU-Tulsa on a whim.

After graduating from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s in Agricultural Science and Natural Resources and doing a work study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Woody had realized she would rather work in an industry that gave her more time to raise a family.

Darrell Cole stays busy.

IT Services were especially busy in the spring and summer of 2020 as a global pandemic pushed the world further online than ever before. Spring classes were vaulted online, most campus staff started working remotely and dozens of classrooms had to be configured for livestreaming before fall classes began.

When Oklahoma State University-Tulsa’s Black Wall Street History course launched in August, instructor Quraysh Ali Lansana didn’t anticipate the majority of his students would have a direct connection to that history.