Our Staff
Dr. Ian Cicco
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Dr. Ian Cicco completed his PhD in music education (specialization in elementary/choral) with a minor in voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He teaches at The University of Southern Mississippi as Assistant Professor of Music Education and previously taught at the University of North Texas as a Visiting Lecturer of Music Education. Ian taught in P-12 schools in Southwest Florida with an emphasis in elementary general music and high school choral music.
During his time in Florida and Indiana, Ian served as a section leader for several churches and most recently served as a youth band/choir director. An active presenter, Ian has presented research and practitioner sessions at state, national, and international conferences. His research has been published in the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Visions of Research in Music Education, and The Orff Echo. He currently serves on the The Orff Echo editorial board.
Ian can be reached at ian@ubchm.org.
Tina Parks
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR
Tina lives in rural Columbia with her husband Glen, 3 dogs and 2 cats. They relocated to Mississippi, three years ago, from rural Illinois due to her husband’s job. They attend church at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Columbia and have three children, Mitch (Iowa), Taylor (Nashville) and Tim (Illinois) and one grandson, Everett. In her free time, Tina enjoys working outdoors, crocheting, painting, reading and learning about anything and everything. Her grandparents did not have children’s books when she was young so she learned to read using the encyclopedias, Reader’s Digest and Handyman books. She believes that this accounts for her wide variety of interests and insatiable curiosity.
She has over twenty years of bookkeeping experience in a variety of businesses, beginning with St. Mary’s Catholic Church in South Carolina, then Village Ace Hardware, Lowe’s, O’neill Glass Shop and most recently at First United Methodist Church in Columbia.
She is very excited to have joined the team here at University Baptist and is looking forward to settling in and getting to know the University Baptist family!
Tina can be reached at office@ubchm.org or (601) 264-6908.
Idella McSwain
CHILDCARE PROVIDER
Idella, a daughter, sister, a friend, and mother, has worked with our children since 2006. She loves all the roles God has bestowed upon her which have allowed her to learn and grow through love and respect. The youngest of Rev. George and Bessie L. McSwain’s fourteen children, Idella lost her mother at a young age. She was the first of her siblings to attend college and since her time in school all McSwain children have been bound for higher education. Her philosophy is: The world is a school, the people whom we encounter are our teachers, and the lessons we learn from them are important and begin with God.