Camille A. McKayle has been Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, University of the Virgin Islands, since 2009, appointed after serving one year as interim
She received her B.S. in Mathematics from Bates College, Lewiston ME, and went on to receive her Ph.D., also in Mathematics, from Lehigh University, in Bethlehem PA. She taught for three years at Lafayette College, Easton PA, before moving to the Virgin Islands in 1996, where she remains Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of the Virgin Islands.
Dr. McKayle served as co-Principal Investigator and project director for the NSF Historically Black College and University Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) project at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), as well as a variety of other grant projects at the university that aimed to strengthen the quality of the preparation of UVI students in science and mathematics, with an overall goal of increasing the number of students that choose graduate study in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) disciplines or choose to enter into the STEM workforce.
From 2005 - 2008, Dr. McKayle served at the National Science Foundation, in the role of Program Officer for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program in the Division of Human Resource Development, in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. This program reaches approximately 59 of the 103 HBCUs through planning grants, implementation grants, education research grants and discipline specific targeted infusion grants.
In addition to her classroom activities, McKayle has been quite active in a variety of outreach activities aimed at increasing interest in science and mathematics for students in grades 3 through 12. These activities include GEMS (Girls Exploring Math Stuff ) for 6th grade girls, MathLab for students in third through seventh grade, Science Awareness Saturday Academies and Summer Science Enrichment Academies. Through these activities, she tries to relay her love and enjoyment of mathematics to elementary, middle, and high school students.
Dr. McKayle endeavors to encourage a collegial atmosphere in the College of Science and Mathematics where students and faculty collaborate in learning and research which may begin in, but transcend the classroom setting.