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Dr. Abeer Mustafa will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 Chancellor’s Veterans Day Luncheon. After graduating from high school in 1990, she enlisted in the U.S. Army, which she served four years and attained the rank of E-4. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Abeer Mustafa grew up sheltered and close to her Saudi Arabian-Indian parents, but she didn\u2019t tell them she had joined the U.S. Army until the night before she shipped out in 1990.<\/p>\n

The family, minus her father, who stayed behind with the U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, moved to Houston when Mustafa was 7. She was the middle child among five brothers, no sisters.<\/p>\n

Her Saudi mother, Nafisa Hakim, spent that night crying after hearing about the Army enlistment. Her father, India-born Syed Irfan Ali, worked for the U.S. State Department and immediately got on the horn to Washington, D.C., in a futile effort to rescind his daughter\u2019s military appointment.<\/p>\n

When her Army recruiter warned her she would be AWOL if she didn\u2019t make basic training in South Carolina, Mustafa said he\u2019d have to come get her.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom\u2019s crying. She thinks no one\u2019s going to marry me now because I\u2019m going to join the Army. For her, everything\u2019s about marriage. I literally didn\u2019t sleep that night. So the recruiter came to my house and he wound up staying for three hours while my dad was on the phone with Washington trying to get me out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recruiter reminded Mustafa\u2019s father that she was 18 and, legally, the decision-maker. Dad didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018In your world, she\u2019s an adult, but in this house, I\u2019m still her father.\u2019 But I wound up leaving and my dad\u2019s like, \u2018This is not over. I\u2019ll come get you in basic training.\u2019 And every day I thought someone\u2019s going to pull up at the gates and take me home,\u201d Mustafa said.<\/p>\n

From Fort Jackson in South Carolina, Mustafa went to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio and then joined her unit as a front-line medic with 91 Bravo Company, part of the 536th Brigade Support Battalion with the Texas National Guard in Galveston. She served four years and reached the rank of E-4.<\/p>\n

She never saw combat but used her training as a first responder following Hurricanes\u00a0Katrina and Rita. She credits the Army with shaping the woman she has become.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo once you get in, it teaches you so much,\u201d she said. \u201cThey took this puddle of mud and really shaped me in my values, the strengths that they gave me to believe in myself. I went in as this mud and I came out as this defined sculpture that they made me into and strengthened the values of who I am today. I think it was the best experience of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mustafa became UTC associate vice chancellor for enrollment management and student affairs in July 2018, overseeing Housing and Residence Life. Her work history includes similar stints at Chico (California) State University (2016-18), North Carolina State University (2014-16), Winston-Salem State University (2012-14), the University of Houston (2009-12) and Rice University (2003-09) in Houston.<\/p>\n

At UTC, she runs the Campus Life unit and oversees 72 full-time staff and 200 paraprofessionals with a total budget of $24 million. On Nov. 10, Mustafa will keynote the UTC Veterans Day Chancellors Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the University Center\u2019s Tennessee Room.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Mustafa was selected for a UT System President\u2019s Award in the \u201cExcel in All We Do\u201d category to honor individuals who commit to continuous improvement and outstanding performance.<\/p>\n

Mustafa\u2019s family moved to Houston in late 1978 from Jeddah, on the Red Sea. Because of her parents\u2019 \u201cmixed marriage (Saudi and Indian),\u201d Mustafa could not attend Arab school beyond the elementary grades. The family emigrated to America because Mustafa\u2019s late mother \u201cdidn\u2019t want to raise her kids as second-class citizens.\u201d After years of taking English as a Second Language classes (she arrived in America speaking Arabic, Hindu and French), she graduated from Klein Forest High School in Houston and immediately joined the Army.<\/p>\n

Using the GI Bill, she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration from the University of Houston in 2007, an MBA in 2011 from Sam Houston State University and a doctorate in organizational leadership from Oakland City University in Indiana in 2021. Along the way, she trained and volunteered at the local Army recruiting station. A high school soccer player, Mustafa said the Army\u2019s physical training was a \u201cbreeze\u201d and that she excelled at shooting an M-16 rifle.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is amazing,\u201d said Haley Sebastian, who graduated from UTC in December 2021 and was president of the Student Veterans Organization, of which Mustafa was the adviser. \u201cShe is definitely a champion for veterans. She\u2019s all about helping people, doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019re veterans or not but especially veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has the personality that just lights up a room and would give you the shirt off her back or coffee machine from her office, which she did,\u201d said Sebastian, a former Marine Corps drill instructor who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and now is an environmental supervisor at the Tennessee State Veterans Home in Cleveland, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Dr. Valerie Rutledge, dean of UTC\u2019s College of Health, Education and Professional Studies, chaired the search committee that hired Mustafa in 2018 and said she goes out of her way to recognize other veterans and to find places for veteran students\u2014usually older adults\u2014in quiet areas for them to study.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has brought a brand-new perspective and all sorts of ideas that have been important in our resident life programs,\u201d Rutledge said. \u201cShe comes from a family of all brothers and saw herself as someone who had the opportunity to give something back. She\u2019s very self-disciplined, which is very good for those in the military. Abeer is proud, proud, proud to be a veteran. She\u2019s been a fabulous addition to that part of our campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mustafa and her husband, Shamael, a Truist Bank executive in Chattanooga, have twin 15-year-old boys, Imaad and Adeem. The couple met in Houston after Mustafa\u2019s mother announced at a cousin\u2019s wedding that she had an unattached \u201cbeautiful daughter, if anyone\u2019s interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI swear to God, I wished the Earth would open up and swallow me. Most times we have arranged marriages, and at that time I was 31, which is unheard of in my culture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mustafa laughs when recalling how her five brothers, ranging from 6 feet tall to 6-foot-6, hazed her 5-foot-5 husband before the marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to marry a traditional guy from my culture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mustafa, working on her Veterans Day luncheon speech, said she will never forget the Army\u2019s creed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the creed, it says, \u2018I am a team member. I\u2019m committed to the mission. I will never quit. I\u2019m disciplined. I\u2019m an expert. I\u2019m a professional,\u2019\u201d Mustafa said. \u201cAll these transfer into any position that you\u2019re doing. So if they take this and train you as a soldier with this mindset, they\u2019re setting you up for future success.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s mind over matter. I mean, anything that you want to do or I want to do, I\u2019m going to do it because that\u2019s how they molded my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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