Introducing Warrington’s 2023-2024 teaching, advising award winners

The University of Florida Warrington College of Business proudly announces the latest faculty and staff recognized for their excellence in teaching and advising students across the college’s undergraduate and graduate programs.

Megan Mocko is the recipient of the Undergraduate Teaching Award and Emily Overend is the recipient of the Undergraduate Advising Award. For graduate teaching and advising, Sonia Singh is this year’s Graduate Teaching Award winner and Debra Marcum is the Graduate Advising Award winner.

Megan Mocko

Megan Mocko is a lecturer at the Warrington College of Business. She teach QMB 3250: Statistics for Business Decisions, QMB 5304: Introduction to Managerial Statistics, QMB 5305: Advanced Managerial Statistics and QMB 6358: Statistical Analysis for Managerial Decisions. 

Mocko has taught statistics in multiple formats: face-to-face, hybrid, and entirely online. In addition to her teaching, Mocko’s involvement in statistics education led to her work as co-chair on the 2016 GAISE (Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education) report. The American Statistical Association endorsed the revised 2016 GAISE report. Mocko is also the program chair for the eCOTS (electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics) in 2024. She also served in this role in 2022 and 2020.  She also is an associate editor of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. 

Mocko received her bachelor’s degree with a double major in mathematics and statistics and her Master of Science in Statistics from the University of South Carolina. In the Fall of 2022, she began her doctoral journey in the Ed.D. program for Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Technology at the UF College of Education. 

She is passionate about fostering classroom engagement through educational technology, leveraging learning analytics to enhance large enrollment courses, employing mnemonics to decrease anxiety and improve understanding, and facilitating virtual exchanges to encourage cross-border communication about data.

She received the Rising Star Award from the Center for Teaching Excellence in 2021 and 2023. She also received the College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award in 2009-2010 and 2006-2007.

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Emily Overend

Emily Overend is currently an Associate Director of Academic & Career Advising in the Heavener School of Business and works primarily with campus/residential students in all five of our undergraduate majors (general studies, finance, information systems, management and marketing). Having joined the Heavener team in 2017, Overend has worked on many internal projects and committees such as Academic Probation and Scholarships, as well as served UF as a former and current Preview Advisor, a past Communications Committee Chair with the University Advising Council (UAC), and a current Professional Development Committee member with the UAC. She actively participates in professional development with NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. In addition to advising and supervisory responsibilities, Overend is a regular instructor for GEB2015 Warrington Welcome. 

Prior to coming to UF in 2017, Overend worked as an advisor and Assistant Director of Advising role in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Emily earned her master’s degree in Spanish from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT and spent many years as a Spanish teacher in the K-12 system before transitioning to academic advising in higher education.

Sonia Singh

Sonia Singh is an Instructional Associate Professor at the Fisher School of Accounting. She received her LLM in Taxation, JD, MAcc and BS in accounting, all from the University of Florida. She teaches various graduate and undergraduate accounting courses, including intermediate accounting, advanced accounting, governmental accounting and federal income taxation. Singh also teaches several accounting courses in the UF MBA Online, UF Specialized Master’s Online, and UF Law Graduate Tax programs.

Her research interests include financial accounting and taxation. She has received multiple teaching awards, including the 2011-2012 Accounting Faculty of the Year award from the Warrington College of Business, the 2018 J. Michael Cook Teaching Award from the Fisher School of Accounting, the 2018-2019 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year award from the Warrington College of Business, and the Warrington College of Business 2018-2019 Teacher of the Year award from the University of Florida. Singh serves as the faculty advisor for Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting honor society, and the Guyanese Students Association. She is also a licensed CPA and attorney in Florida. 

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Debra Marcum

Debra Marcum joined the Business Career Services (BCS) team in August of 2019 as an Associate Director, Career Coach dedicated to Warrington’s Professional MBA program, along with direct responsibility for multiple specialized master’s programs, all comprising of over 400+ students annually. Marcum has also been instrumental in moving BCS forward towards its focus on data analytics and data reporting, having instituted a number of initiatives to collect, define, and report out career data on an annual basis.

Marcum has also been very involved as an instructor for the undergraduate class GEB4930: Heavener Career Accelerator over the past several years and continues to assist in improving upon this curriculum. Prior to BCS, Marcum spent a number of years in leadership, operations, and training and development roles within the private sector at ADP and ALDI. 

Marcum is a double Gator, having graduated with a BS in human development & family studies, along with a Master of Science in Management degree from Warrington. Marcum now leads Warrington’s Business Career Services team as their Director, where she continues to focus on enhancing BCS and aiding undergraduate students with achieving their career objectives. 

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