CURRICULUM VITA

I. TEACHING

A. Teaching/Research/Administrative/Professional Experience:

7/00- Present Dean, Honors College and Director,

Special Programs

7/99-7/00 Director, Honors College and Director,

Special Programs

9/95-7/99 Director, Special Programs

8/94-9/95 Director, West Georgia College Honors

Program

9/90-Present Professor of Political Science,

West Georgia College (State University of

West Georgia)

9/81-9/90 Associate Professor of Political Science,

West Georgia College

9/75-9/81 Assistant Professor of Political Science,

West Georgia College

9/72-9/75 University Fellow (Teaching/Research

Assistant), Political Science Department,

University of Georgia

9/69-9/72 NDEA Title IV Fellow, Political Science

Department, University of Georgia

5/69-9/69 Public Safety Officer (Campus Police),

University of Washington

9/68-5/69 Law Student, University of Washington

School of Law

B. Diversity of Courses Taught:

1. I have taught the following courses at West Georgia College:

a. Formal Courses:

PSC 101 American Government (Now POLS 1101)

PSC 101-H American Government-Honors (Now POLS 1101-H)

*PSC 300-H Political Theory and Death-Honors

**PSC 300 The Age of Uncertainty

PSC 320 Approaches to Political Science

PSC 403 Ancient and Medieval Political Thought

PSC 405/605 Modern Political Thought

PSC 407/607 American Political Thought

PSC 445/645 Public Personnel Administration

PSC 455/655 Administrative Law and Procedures

**PSC 490 The Age of Uncertainty

*PSC 498 Contemporary Political Thought

PSC 499 Senior Seminar

PSC 810 Theory of Administration

PSC 895 Professional Seminar

PSC 896 Constitutional Principles

POLS 4981/4985 International Film Classics

POLS 4981/4985 Film Classics Old and New

POLS 4981/4985 Foreign Films

POLS 4981/4985 Human Identity in Film

b. Individual Reading Courses (490/690):

*The American Founding

*Media and Politics

Ancient and Medieval Political Thought

*Civil Rights

*Contemporary Political Thought

*Jurisprudence

*Democracy and Mass Media

*Xenophon's Political Thought

*Political Theory and Death

*Classical Political Thought

*Political Thought of the Revolutionary Era

Modern Political Thought

*Nietzsche's Political Thought

*Liberal Political Thought

*Modern Ideologies

*Neo-Marxism

*Legal Research

*Courses with a single asterisk are new courses of my design.

**"The Age of Uncertainty" was a course offered in conjunction with the John Kenneth Galbraith television series and book of the same name. It was offered for credit as an upper division course in Political Science, History, and Economics, or as a non-credit course through the Department of Continuing Education. I "team taught" it twice with Professors Lankford of Economics and Kennedy of History.

C. Advising:

Advisor, Student Honors Council, 1992-present I was currently one of West Georgia College's two Pre-Law advisors with responsibility for advising forty to fifty students until 1995. Approximately 90 percent of our Pre-Law advisees who graduated gained admission to the Law School to which they applied.

I currently advise all Honors College students until they have declared a major.

D. Teaching Awards:

1994 Honors Program Teacher of the Year (West Georgia College Student Honors Council Annual Award).

1993 Honors Program Teacher of the Year (West Georgia College Student Honors Council Annual Award).

1992 Teacher of the Year, School of Arts and Sciences (West Georgia College Student Government Association Annual Award).

1991 Honors Program Teacher of the Year (West Georgia College Student Honors Council Annual Award).

E. Other Teaching Related Matters:

I have taught both upper and lower division courses in West Georgia Honors Program, and I have offered the following non-credit courses through the Department of Continuing Education:

"Time Management" (part of the series "Programs for the Professional in Government"), Fall 1989

"Motivation" (part of the series "Programs for the Professional in Government"), Fall 1989

Contemporary Constitutional Issues," Fall 1987, Winter 1988

"Why Laws" (part of West Georgia College's "Kid Kollege"), Summer 1979, Summer 1980

"The Age of Uncertainty" (with Professors Lankford of Economics and Kennedy of History), 1977, 1979

Dr. Don Wells, Professor Val Mixon and I were the architects of West Georgia’s Master's degree in Public Administration program. I taught courses regularly in this program as well as two undergraduate degree programs. I served on the MPA degree committee of almost every person who has been in our program, and I have directed the exit papers of about one-third of them until 1975. I have also served on Master's degree committees of a number of students in other disciplines (e.g., Psychology, History, Education).

II. SERVICE TO THE INSTITUTION

A. University System Committees:

Chair, University System ADR Advisory Committee, 2000-present

University System ADR Advisory Committee, 1995-2000 (appointed Chair in 2000)

Co-chair (with Martha Nesbitt, acting President of DeKalb College), University System Semester Conversion Task Force. This group consists of sixteen persons, all appointed by the Chancellor, 1995-1998.

Chair, Presidential Search and Screen Committee, 1993-1994 (appointed by the Chancellor of the University System).

Chancellor's Special Advisory Committee on Retrenchment, 1987. (This committee consisted of eight persons: three college presidents; one academic vice-president; one academic dean; one "special assistant" to a college president; and two faculty members. We were all appointed by the Chancellor.)

Faculty Representative to Chancellor's Committee on Retrenchment (elected by WGC Faculty at General Faculty Meeting), 1980-1981. (This committee consisted of thirty-three faculty members, each elected by his institution).

B. Faculty Senate:

Elected to the Faculty Senate, 1990-1993

Elected to the Faculty Senate, 1986-1989

Elected to the Faculty Senate, 1980-1983

Elected to the Faculty Senate, 1979-80 (served final year of unexpired term of faculty member who resigned)

C. University-Wide Committees:

Chair, Committee on “Continuing Education,” Southern Association Reaccreditation

Self-Study, 2001-present

President’s Advisory Committee (PAC), 2001-present

Chair, Honors College Committee 1999-present

Chair, Advisory Committee on Distance Education, 1998-2001

Search Committee for Director of Continuing Education, 1997-1998

Chair, Truman Foundation Scholarship Committee, 1994-Present

Chair, General Education/Core Curriculum Committee, 1993-1998

Chair, Honors Program Committee, 1992-1999

Chair, Task Force on Revising Promotion and Tenure Criteria and Procedures, 1993-1995.

Chair, WGC Foundation Campus "A-Day" Fund Raising Committee, 1992

Chair, Bicentennial of U.S. Constitution, 1987-1991

Chair, Faculty and Administrative Staff Personnel Committee, 1980-1983, 1988-1989

Chair, Permanent Subcommittee on Grievances, 1979-1980, 1986-1988

Chair, Subcommittee on Promotion and Tenure Procedures, 1979-1980

Subcommittee on Debate/Discussion Forum, 1980

Subcommittee on Emeritus Policy, 1980

Subcommittee to Investigate a Personnel Matter for President Townsend, 1988

Georgia Advanced Academy Steering Committee, 1994-2000

Merryl and Hardy McCalman Executive Round Table, 1994-1998

Search Committee to select a Vice President and Dean of Faculties, 1992-1993

Task Force on University Status, 1990-1993

Graduate School Admissions Appeals Committee, 1991-1992

Task Force on Improvement of Instruction, 1985-1986

Student Activities Committee, 1990-1991

Faculty and Administrative Staff Personnel Committee,

1979-1980 (elected), 1980-1983 (as a Senator),

1986-1989 (as a Senator), 1989-1990 (elected),

1990-1993 (as a Senator), 1993-1995 (elected)

Policies and Procedures, 1978-1979, 1984-1985

Subcommittee on Grading and Absence Policies

Subcommittee on Class Scheduling Alternatives

Traffic Appeals Committee, 1978-1979

First Ad Hoc Committee on Competency Based Education, 1978

Second Ad Hoc Committee on Competency Based Education, 1979

Board of Review for Staff Employee Grievance, 1984-1986

Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Faculty Grievance, 1977

Committee on "Faculty", Southern Association Reaccreditation Self-Study, 1981-1983, 1991-1993

D. School of Arts and Sciences Committees:

Dean's Advisory Committee, 1976-1978

Chair, Subcommittee on Curriculum Evaluation

Chair, Subcommittee on Competency Based Education

Executive Committee, 1979-1981

Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee, 1983-1985, 1990-1991

E. Department of Political Science Committees:

Chair, Search Committee for Public Law Faculty position, 1993-1994, 1994-1995

Chair, Assessment Committee, 1987-1994

Chair, Course Scheduling Committee, 1978-1983

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Summer School Policy, 1978

M.P.A. Coordinating Committee, 1976-1977, 1980, 1983-1996

Assessment Committee, 1994-Present

Student Activities Committee, 1978-1995

Curriculum Committee, 1978-1995

Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1987- 1992, 1993-1995

F. Participation in Educational Activities:

Co-Director (with Professor Melvin Steely, History Department, West Georgia College) of the Georgia Political Heritage Project. We have taped a series of structured interviews ("conversations") with a number of influential and important Georgia political figures. Among them, Herman Talmadge, Zell Miller, Supreme Court Justice George T. Smith, Jack Flynt, and others. Each interview is designed to elicit reflections on important aspects of these persons' careers. This is the most extensive oral history project of its kind in the Southeastern United States. 1985-1990.

Member, WGC Executive Roundtable, 1981-1992

Program Leader, Jefferson Foundation Meeting on the Bill of Rights, sponsored by the Jefferson Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. With Justice George Smith of the Georgia Supreme Court, Professor Brian Murphy of North Georgia College and others. October 1990, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia.

Participant (with Professors Paul Masters, Siegfried Karsten, and Chester Rzadkiewicz) in Roundtable Panel discussion on "Reform in the Soviet Union", School of Arts and Sciences Colloquium, West Georgia College, December, 1989.

"Assessment at West Georgia College and the SACS." Presentation to General Faculty meeting of West Georgia College at the invitation of Vice President and Dean of Faculties John Lewis, West Georgia College, Carrollton Georgia, September, 1989.

Participant (with assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Osborne and the Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Medical College of Georgia) in Roundtable discussion on Faculty Tenure in the University System, Augusta, Georgia, September, 1989.

Keynote address, North Dakota Conference-AAUP Annual Meeting, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October, 1988.

"Faculty Concerns about Assessment." Paper presented to General Faculty Meeting of Valdosta State College at the invitation of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and others, Valdosta State College, Valdosta, Georgia, October, 1988.

Keynote address, Washington State Conference-AAUP Annual Meeting, Tacoma, Washington, October, 1988.

Keynote address, Louisiana Conference-AAUP Leadership Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October, 1988.

Participant (with Professors Marc LaFountain and Mike Arons) in Roundtable Panel discussion on Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, School of Arts and Sciences Colloquium, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, May, 1988.

Organized, introduced, and chaired, "Pornography and Free Speech," a public program as part of the Controversial Constitutional Issues Project, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, May, 1988.

Organized and introduced "Capital Punishment," a public program as part of the Controversial Constitutional Issues Project, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, April, 1988.

Organized and introduced, "Compulsory Blood and Urine Testing," a public program as part of the Controversial Constitutional Issues Project, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, April, 1988.

Organized, introduced, and chaired, "Abortion," a public program as part of the Controversial Constitutional Issues Project, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, April, 1988.

Keynote address, Washington State Conference-AAUP Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November, 1987.

Keynote address, Ohio Conference-AAUP Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, October, 1987.

Chairman, Governor's Day Seminar on the U.S. Constitution on the two-hundredth anniversary of the presentation of the Constitution to the Georgia Legislature for its Ratification. The seminar's participants included twenty prominent persons from Georgia's Sixth Congressional District. It was sponsored by Governor Joe Frank Harris and the Georgia Endowment for the Humanities. Carrollton, Georgia, October, 1987.

Organizer and Chairman, "Religion and the Constitution," a public program as part of West Georgia College's observance of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, October, 1987.

Keynote address, Maryland Conference-AAUP Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, September, 1987.

Discussion Leader, Training Session in the Humanities for The Center for International Leadership Development, Eugene, Oregon, August, 1987.

Introduction of Commencement Speaker, Dr. Walter Murphy, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, Summer, 1987.

Organizer and Chairman, "Congress Then and Now: Jack Flynt's View," a public program as part of the Georgia Political Heritage Project, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, May, 1987.

Keynote address, Texas Conference-AAUP Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November, 1986.

Commentator/analyst on the Newt Gingrich vs. Crandle Bray debate (candidates for Congress, Sixth Congressional District), broadcast live on WBTR, September, 1986.

Organizer and Chairman, "Herman Talmadge on the Vietnam War," a public program as part of the Georgia Political Heritage Project, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, February, 1986.

Organizer and Chairman, "Herman Talmadge on Watergate," a public program as part of the Georgia Political Heritage Project, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, October, 1985.

Co-Host (with Vice President Lyon, Drs. Hall, Smith or Phillips) for "Life on Campus" for parents' visitation days at summer orientation sessions at WGC. West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, Summers 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985.

Keynote address, South Carolina Conference-AAUP Annual Meeting, Greenwood, South Carolina, November, 1982.

Assistant Director for Personnel, Director of Education Programs and Counselor at "Camp Opportunity." "Camp Opportunity" was a summer camp of underprivileged children, ages nine through fourteen, operated by the National Football League Players Association. I was responsible for arranging five educational programs per day, five days per week, for each three-week session of the camp. A number of Atlanta political leaders, media personalities, and others participated in these seminars. A number of West Georgia College faculty and administrators also took part (e.g., Drs. Stallings, Masters, Steely, etc.). I conducted seminars every day as well. West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, Summer, 1981.

Introduction of Commencement Speaker, Dr. Betty Glad, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia, Spring, 1981.

Organizer and moderator of Forum III--"Energy-Future Options and Hard Choices"--one of three national issues forums on "Energy" sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Energy, and a number of other organizations. The forum included U.S. Representative Gingrich, Dr. Don Wells, Dr. Eric Eslinger, and Professor Tom Sav, and was held at West Georgia College before an audience of about three-hundred persons. April 8, 1980.

Non-credit courses, Department of Continuing Education

"Time Management"--Programs for Professionals in Government, Fall, 1989

"Motivation"--Programs for Professionals in Government, Fall, 1989

"Why Laws"--Kid Kollege, Summer, 1979, Summer 1980