She has 7 years of upper administration experience first as an Academic Division Director and later as a Vice President. In the past decade, Evert has worked on grant-funded projects from NSF, USDA, NIH, NASA, DOL, and DOED. She is also a certified HLC reviewer and has completed face-to-face and in-residence reviews. In 2013, she was nationally elected as a Council for Undergraduate Research Peer Counselor. She is also a founding member of the Oklahoma Journal for Undergraduate Research.