Program Developer and Coordinator

I was hired by Missouri State to create an academic program of study in criminal justice and criminology. Arriving in 1986, I wrote and offered our first introductory course in criminal justice at Missouri State and, by 1987, had, while working with a committee comprised of other sociologists and social workers, created the then-approved Criminal Justice Studies (CJS) program. I was Coordinator of that program for the next decade, from 1987 to July of 1997. In July of 1997 I resigned the position in order to conduct field research and to return to teaching full time.

Responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining and teaching in the CJS program, creating new courses, doing course scheduling, faculty recruitment and promotion of the program throughout the university, the region and the state. I am happy to say that we went from no criminal justice students to 450 by the end of my tenure as Coordinator of the program.

With only 16,500 students at the university at that time, we had drawn nearly 3% of the student body into the program. By 1997 there were 53 other departments on campus offering over 100 majors and minors. Clearly, there was a pent-up demand for a criminal justice program and the one we created seemed to meet the needs of the interested students.

Prior to my employment at Missouri State I was invited to join the Department of Sociology at Ball State University (Muncie, IN) in 1972 so that I might create an academic program of study in criminal justice for them. Together with Dr. Lionel Neiman and Dr. Steve Brodt, the new criminal justice program was designed and implemented.

By 1977 the program was well developed with nearly 1,000 majors, minors, and Associate of Arts students. It had become the 6th largest major on that campus of 16,000 students.   In 1979 the then Criminal Justice and Corrections program divorced itself from the Department of Sociology and became the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology with Dr. Lionel Nieman as the Chairperson and myself as Administrative Assistant.

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