Dr. Gloria Kellum

As vice chancellor for University Relations at The University of Mississippi, Dr. Gloria D. Kellum oversees the Office of University Development and University Communications, which includes Publications and Media and Public Relations.  She also works with the William Winter Institute on Racial Reconciliation.  Kellum joined the Ole Miss faculty in 1966 and over the years became nationally recognized in the field of communicative disorders, as well as involved in campus and community activities.

She earned undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees from Louisiana State University in the fields of speech pathology, audiology and instructional technology. She has authored more than 70 publications and garnered more than $1 million in scientific research grants and service contracts. Kellum served as an assistant and associate professor before becoming a full professor in 1991.

She also provided leadership as acting chair of communicative disorders and the department's director of clinical services. Kellum has been recognized with the campuswide Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teaching Award and with Mortar Board's Outstanding Woman Faculty Award. The American Speech- Language-Hearing Association has recognized Kellum as a fellow and with a Clinical Achievement Award. She has received the International Association of Oral Myology's Research Award, the honors of the Mississippi Speech-Language Hearing Association, and has been an invited presenter at an array of national professional meetings.

In 2004, she was inducted into the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction, and in 2006, she received the Leadership Award from the Women in Higher Education-Mississippi Network.