Education
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Ph.D., Washington State University, 1982, Sociology
M.A., University of Colorado, 1975, Sociology
B.S., University of Central Arkansas, 1974, Sociology
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Academic/Professional Experience
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| 2007 |
Franklin University, Lead Faculty - General Education. In progress: Major redesign of Anthropology 315 (Cultural Anthropology) including text and reader, outcomes, assignments, etc. |
| 2007 |
Franklin University, In progress: Development of course titled "Social History of Business" which examines the mutual relationship of social and business forms through history |
| 2007 |
Franklin University, In progress: Pre-development work on PF 302, Applied Research Methods in preparation for design of course with more easily applied research strategies such as the following: needs assessment, environmental impact analysis, community impact analysis, process and outcome evaluation research, field research, observational research, non-obtrusive data, secondary data analysis |
| 2007 |
Franklin University, Major redesign of Sociology 110 (Introduction to Sociology) including text and reader selections, outcomes, assignments, five hours of multimedia |
| 2007 |
North Carolina State University Symposium on Assessment, Cary, North Carolina |
| 2007 |
"Closing the Loop: Assessing and Improving Writing and Thinking throughout the Curriculum" Pre-symposium workshop presented by Dr. T. L. Flateby at North Carolina State University Symposium on Assessment, Cary, North, Carolina
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| 2007 |
"Brown Bag: Efficiency in Learning", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio
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| 2006-Present |
Franklin University, Course Manager and Designer, General Education Faculty. Undergraduate Courses: Anthropology, Sociology, Applied Research Methods, Earth Science, Environmental Science. |
| 2006 |
University of Oklahoma, Adjunct Professor. Undergraduate Courses: Social Problems, Social Statistics. |
| 2006 |
Co-developed curriculum for Behavioral Basis for Detecting and Preventing White Collar Fraud which included faculty manual materials, exercises and assignments, and outcomes for social science section |
| 2006 |
"Leadership over Lunch: Goal Setting," Presented by Tim Reymann at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"The Functional Workplace," Presented by Dr. Doug Ross at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Everything You Need to Know about CCA and GoArmy", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Advanced PowerPoint Presentations", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Franklin Live! Moderator Training", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Using Franklin Live! In Your Courses", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Using Course Evaluations to Improve Feedback", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Assessment and Your Voice Counts," Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio
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| 2006 |
"Are We Done Yet?", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Leadership over Lunch: Balancing Life and Work" Presented by Dr. Garry McDaniel at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Elements of Good Face to Face Teaching", Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 |
"Campus Adjunct Faculty Orientation" Instructional and Professional Development Workshop at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2005-2006 |
Redlands Community College, Adjunct Professor. Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Sociology, Social Psychology, Elements of Psychology. |
| 2004-2005 |
Research Coordinator, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurology Clinical Studies Unit, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 2004-2005 |
Teaching in Community, Faculty Development Award, Rose State College, Midwest City, Oklahoma |
| 2001-2006 |
Pursued various entrepreneurial and creative projects related to the Internet, e-commerce, and writing about careers and education. Established FuturesWork to produce workshops and informational materials pertaining to high school success, career exploration and identification, college success and alternatives to college including entrepreneurial paths, and college funding, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 1990-2006 |
Rose State College, Adjunct Professor, Social Sciences Division. Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Sociology, Social Psychology, Family in Society, Changing American Family, and Crime and Delinquency. |
| 1989-2001 |
University of Central Oklahoma, Professor of Sociology (final rank), Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Substance Abuse Studies.
Undergraduate Courses: Sociology, Social Problems, Social Psychology, Careers in Sociology, Careers in Liberal Arts, Writing in the Social Sciences, Social Psychology in Criminal Justice, Chemical Dependency and the Family, Chemical Dependency in Special Populations, Social Stratification, Social Deviance, Sociology of Gender, Social Movements, Sociological Research and Statistic I, Sociological Research and Statistics II, Relating Effectively, Life and Work in the 21st Century, Sociology of Mental Illness.
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| 1988-1988 |
Research Specialist III at the Texas Youth Commission, Austin, Texas, Research design and data analyses, monitoring and evaluation research. |
| 1988-1988 |
Project Director for Inmate Substance Abuse Project at Travis County Jail, Austin, Texas (Temporary assignment) Coordinated questionnaire development, supervised data collection and analyses, primary interviewer, produced written report. |
| 1982-1983 |
University of California, Los Angeles, Post-doctoral Fellow Psychiatric Epidemiology.
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| 1980-1982 |
University of Central Arkansas, Instructor, Department of Sociology. Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Sociology, Strengths and Needs of Troubled Youth, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of the Family. Graduate Courses: Seminar in Social Deviance. |
| 1975-1980 |
Washington State University, Deviance Trainee, Department of Sociology. |
| 1975-1980 |
Washington State University, Research Assistant, Project Social Support and Mental Illness |
| 1978-1979 |
Washington State University, Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology |
| 1975-1978 |
Washington State University, Traineeship in Deviance from the National Institute of Mental Health |
| 1974-1975 |
University of Colorado, Graduate Assistant, Department of Sociology. Field worker in research on incidence and consequences of rape; assisted in questionnaire development for assessment of police-community relations study. |
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Publications/Presentations
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| 2007 |
(In process) "Imagining the Nexus between Institutional Biography and Social Change," Workshop to be presented at Annual Conference of Adult Higher Education Alliance, Dayton, Ohio (October) |
| 2007 |
Presentation titled "Stepping Up: Finding Your Niche at Franklin University" Leadership over Lunch Presentation, March 21, 2007 |
| 2007 |
Presentation titled "Do You Teach the Way They Learn?", Instructional and Professional Development Presentation on Franklin Live!, February 19, 2007 and April 9, 2007 |
| 2007 |
Presentation titled "Rights and Responsibilities of the Disabled Student", Instructional and Professional Development Presentation on Franklin Live!, March 12, 2007 and April 30, 2007 (with Carla Waugh) |
| 2007 |
Presentation titled "Selecting the Best College for You", Presentation through Corporate and Community Relations, Franklin University, March 2007 |
| 2006 |
Presentation titled "How to Stop Lecturing and Start Teaching: Creating a More Interactive Classroom Experience for Adult Learners." Presentation at the Oklahoma Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference, Tahlequah, Oklahoma (with Monique Bruner April) |
| 2000 |
Presentation, "Managing Generation Y," Oklahoma Association of Career Educators Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (December) |
| 2000 |
Presentation titled "Careers in Criminal Justice," Presentation at Oklahoma Sociological Association, Norman, Oklahoma (November) |
| 1997 |
Moderator, Panel on Gender Equity within Academe, at Southeastern Political Science Association meetings in Atlanta, Georgia (Fall) |
| 1996 |
Panel on Affirmative Action in the 21st Century at Southwestern Social Science Association Meetings in Houston, Texas (April) |
| 1995 |
"Role loss and mental illness: A test of Theodore Sarbin's 'transformation of identity' model." Paper presented at Western Social Science Association, San Francisco, California (April) |
| 1995 |
"Role loss and mental illness: Theodore Sarbin's 'transformation of identity' model revisited." Paper presented at Western Social Science Association, San Francisco, California (April) |
| 1995 |
Moderator of Social Psychology Panel, Western Social Science Association, San Francisco, California (April) |
| 1995 |
Moderator of (second) Social Psychology Panel, Western Social Science Association, San Francisco, California (April) |
| 1992 |
"Mental retardation among incarcerated women in the state of Oklahoma." Paper presented at Oklahoma corrections conference (Spring) (with Charolette Myles-Nixon) |
| 1992 |
"Mental retardation among incarcerated women in the state of Oklahoma." Paper presented at International Conference on Education, Hawaii (July) |
| 1992 |
Unfunded research project: follow-up study of inmate substance abuse in Travis County Jail -- maximum and minimum security and work release populations. Questionnaire development, managed on-site data collections in Austin, completed through data coding. |
| 1991 |
"Inmate substance abuse in an urban county jail: A research note. Journal of Correctional Training (Spring) |
| 1988 |
"Travis County Jail Inmate Substance Abuse Project: A preliminary report." Unpublished paper (with Cindy Scaff)
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| 1982 |
"A test and reformulation of Sarbin's model of mental illness." Dissertation, Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington |
| 1981 |
Participated in the Evaluation Research Division of the Mid-South Sociological Association Convention |
| 1981 |
Discussant on Sexual Deviance Committee at the Southwest Sociological Association Convention |
| 1978 |
"Toward a general evaluation model of simulation games: GEM," (with Richard L. Dukes) Reprinted in Richard L. Dukes and Constance Seidner (editors), Learning with Simulation Games, Beverly Hills, California, Sage Publications |
| 1978 |
"Social and psychological characteristics of alcoholics: A male-female comparison." International Journal of Addictions, 13(2), (with Barbara Day-Lorch) |
| 1977 |
"First drinking experiences and present drinking patterns: A male-female comparison." American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 4(1), (with Barbara Day-Lorch) |
| 1977 |
"The role of detoxification in the operationalization of the uniform alcohol and intoxification act." Presented at the University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Conference, Seattle, Washington (with Ronald W. Fagan, Jr., Shearon Lowery, Al Miranne, and Armand Mauss |
| 1977 |
"Toward a general evaluation model of simulation games: GEM." Simulation and Games, 7(1) (with Richard L. Dukes) |
| 1975 |
"An evaluation of six prominent games for teaching undergraduate sociology." Presented at the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, San Antonio, Texas (with Richard L. Dukes) |
| 1975 |
"The nature of alcoholism: A male-female comparison." Sociology Master's thesis, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| 1974 |
"The effect of race and sex on selected variables." Sociology Honor's Paper, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas |
| Book Reviews |
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| 2003 |
Lamanna, Mary Ann and Agnes Riedmann. Marriages and Families: Making Choices in a Changing Society, Review of eighth edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth |
| 2001 |
Forsyth, Donelson. Group Dynamics, Revision of third edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. |
| 2001 |
Fox, William. Social Statistics, revision of third edition. Bellevue, Washington: Wadsworth. |
| 2000 |
Healey, Joseph. Statistics: A Tool for Social Research. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. Reviewed for sixth edition. |
| 1992 |
Ferrante, Joan. Sociology: A Global Perspective. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. Reviewed in preparation for first edition. |
| 1991 |
Dushkin/McGraw-Hill. Annual Editions: Social Deviance. |
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Community Service/Engagement
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American Sociological Association (Current)
Adult Higher Education Alliance (Current)
World Future Society
Franklin County Animal Shelter, Columbus, Ohio
Trinity Episcopal Church, St. John's Dinners, Columbus, Ohio
Volunteer, Cottonwood Free Clinic, Guthrie, Oklahoma
Participation with students in Heart Walk and other fundraisers, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Child Abuse Response and Evaluation (CARE), Oklahoma City,
Board of Advisors, Compeer Program, Mental Health Association of Oklahoma County
American Association of University Professors, Edmond, Oklahoma
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Edmond, Oklahoma
Compeer Friend, Edmond, Oklahoma
Support Compeer through volunteer recruitment, Edmond, Oklahoma
Support Teenline through volunteer recruitment, Edmond, Oklahoma
Precinct Observer in 1988, Austin, Texas
Runaway Hotline, Austin, Texas
National Alliance on Mental Illness, Austin, Texas
Infant High Risk Program, Austin, Texas
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