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Service to the Department

Program Developer:

I was hired at Ball State University (in 1972) and at Missouri State (in 1986) with the specific charge of developing an academic program of study in criminal justice. At both institutions, this required designing a program suitable for the university (i.e., creating new courses, redesigning existing courses, meeting the needs of its students, etc.), the community it served, and the needs of the justice system in that area.

Committee Activity:

Along with service to the community, I am most active at the departmental level. Among the activities in which I participate are as committee chair (Criminal Justice Studies Committee - 10 years), Undergraduate Committee, and Publicity Committee.

I have been or am currently an active member of the Graduate Committee, Undergraduate Committee, Curriculum Committee, and Crime and Society Committee. I have served as Administrative Assistant to a department and as Internship Supervisor.

Student Club Sponsor:

For several years I served as sponsor to both the Sociology Club and the Criminal Justice Society at both Ball State and Missouri State.

Senator:

I have served as Senator from all three departments for which I have worked since 1972 and recently finished my second term as Senator from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Missouri State.

Marketing and Publicity:

The creation of marketing materials for the department, and for the various programs in my department, is an on-going activity for me. I design and create brochures, flyers, bulletin board displays, and other forms of publicity for use in distributing to other faculty at the university, for distribution in our classrooms, and for posting in public places. These materials have been developed for sociology, criminal justice, anthropology, and for social work, depending upon which programs were in the department I was serving at the time. My most recent contribution was the creation of my department's primary brochure.

Web-Related Contributions:

I am the Webmaster and site creator of several different sites on the Internet including the Home page for the Missouri State Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology and the entire site of the sociology program (the anthropology program's Web site is managed by another colleague in the department). For me, the most significant contribution in this category was the creation of AdviseNet - an on-line advisor for criminal justice students.

Service to the College

My primary activities in the colleges I've worked for
include program promotion, marketing, and creating/moderating college-based programs. 

College Council:

Members of this council determine whether courses and/or academic programs proposed by our college (Humanities and Public Affairs) are submitted to the University Senate for approval or not.

Program Promotion:

I represent the college at various public affairs including those that greet parents of our students, recruitment programs for high school seniors, and representing the college at alumni meetings. I enjoy meeting people and am a solid booster of our university, college and department.

Marketing:

I refer here to the creation of college displays for use in hallway cabinets, at recruitment fairs, and for a variety of special occasions where the college would like to establish a presence. I enjoy creating displays, taking the necessary pictures to do so, writing the text, and designing the finished product. The College of Humanities and Public Affairs at Missouri State (my current employer) has been using my college display for the past eight years.

College Lecture Series:

At both Ball State and Missouri State I have created lecture series programs for the college which have involved several of the departments in those colleges. I invite faculty who have a particular specialty or who, for example, have completed an interesting research project, and invite them to speak to the public (including all faculty and students in the college).

Other events I have arranged include inviting faculty who specialize in subjects that, now and then, surface as current issues. I make all room and equipment arrangements, design and disseminate publicity, and act as moderator or interviewer at the event.

Odds and Ends:

As a booster of the college I also make myself available for whatever it is my dean may need. In the past this has included designing college banners and carrying the project through to the creation of the banner by a professional print shop, researching the availability of and ordering display cases, and creating/maintaining the college's display. Not very important stuff but it needed to be done and I am willing to take care of these things as time allows.

Service to the University

Serving on Committees:

The university provides an excellent setting in which to offer service of many kinds. I currently serve on the Missouri State University Futures Task Force (tasked with providing insights into the future growth of Missouri State university's scholarly efforts) and the Center for Community and Social Issues Institute.

In the past I have served as chair of the Safety and Security Committee, and have been an active member of the University Relations Committee (its relations with surrounding residential communities and the area business community), Faculty Concerns Committee (representing various concerns of the faculty to the university), Faulty/Student Judicial Committee, Outstanding Scholar Award Committee, and others.

Creation of the Public Affairs Web Site:

The state-wide mission of Missouri State University is public affairs, and it is unique in the state of Missouri in that mission. I was called upon by the public affairs officer of the university to create the university's web site on public affairs. My contribution was the design of the site, its graphical interface and the structure information contained in the site would take.

Service to the Profession

Invited Presentations:

As a result of my field research on street gangs, I am invited to speak at meetings of professionals with an interest in that topic. Included have been the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, the Missouri Supreme Court Clerks’ College, the Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center (MOCIC) and the Rocky Mountain Information Network (RMIN) - two of the six regional offices in the United States Department of Justice's Regional Information Sharing System), the The New York State Governor’s Conference on Leadership in Law Enforcement, The Missouri Police Corps, local school systems and various community treatment programs.

U.S. Department of Justice:

From 1974 to 1979 I served as a voting member of the Region IV Office of the Criminal Justice Planning Agency, a subsidiary of the United States Department of Justice. The Agency was endowed with funds to support the development of criminal justice personnel and the creation of expanded services to their clientele. As a member of the board I was also responsible for assisting in the preparation and review of grants and for on-site inspections of grant recipient's projects.

Executive Officer:

I have been much less active in regards to serving the profession than I was during the first half of my teaching career. During those nearly fifteen years I served as secretary (a favored position for a writer!) for the Indiana Association Criminal Justice Educators (IACJE), the Missouri Criminal Justice Association (MCJA), and for several regional associations in criminology and sociology including the Missouri Sociological Society.

Panel Discussant/Moderator:

Since 1972, when I began presenting papers at association meetings, I have served as a panel discussant and panel moderator many times at state, regional, and national meetings. The national association with which I have been most active in this regard is the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).

Reviewer:

I have been, on and off, a reviewer of books for West Publishing, Prentice-Hall Publishers and others. I have also served as a reviewer for professional journals in criminal justice. This does not refer to writing reviews for publication. Rather, as do many other colleagues, I read manuscripts of proposed books or articles and offer the publisher and author suggestions as to how the piece may be improved or if it should be declined as a potential publication.

Service to the Community

2005

Greene County Sheriff's Department Oversight Committee. I was appointed to serve on this newly formed committee on February 15th of 2005. The purpose of this committee is to review the operations of the Sheriff's department and to conducting ongoing evaluations of the department's personnel and policies. Other members include the warden of the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, the Missouri State Assistant Attorney General, the local President of the NAACP as well as members of local unions, the schools, and city government.

1972 - date

This category (1972-date) includes those things I have done, somewhat regularly, since 1972. These include television and radio appearances (including The Today Show as well as more traditional local broadcasts). These programs have focused either on the nature of the criminal justice or criminology program I represent (at the university I am working for at the time) or on some special and related topic (such as the death penalty, aging, a new policy on crime, my experiences working with criminal justice practitioners in other countries, juvenile offenders and street gangs, etc.).

Among my most recent work was the creation of two one-hour-long television programs for our local Public Broadcasting System (PBS). Entitled Gangs 101 and Gangs 102, I created the format for the programs, invited the participants who were to appear in them, and moderated the programs on-air. The purpose of the programs was communicate to the station's audience the nature of the gang situation in its midst.

Included in the program were interviews with gang members as well as their counselors, probation and parole officers and their parents. Viewers were given an opportunity to see what it's like to ride in an unmarked gang squad police car and pull a juvenile over - only to discover a knife and a youth on his way to attack the current boy friend of his recent girl friend.

A round table of concerned parties was gathered in order to provide a format in which they could share their concerns with the viewing audience. Included were prosecutors, U.S. Attorneys, newspaper editors, teachers, social workers, community mental health workers, the father of a youth who was stabbed multiple times by a gang member, and a high school senior who had written a compelling letter to her local newspaper concerning gangs in her school. I was the moderator of the group.

1998 - date

Board Member and Co-Chair: The Interagency Task Force on Gangs and Youth Violence, a Southwest Missouri consortium of individuals representing a variety of community services and agencies. Included on the Task Force are the Greene County prosecutor, the U.S. Attorney, the Missouri Office of Probation and Parole, representatives from several area police and sheriff's departments, Ozarks Fighting Back and a few others. Purpose: Create policies and programs to reduce gang activity and youthful violence in Southwest Missouri. I created the web site (above) for the task force.

Board Member and Co-Chair: Springfield Advocates for Youth is a community-based volunteer organization supporting three group homes for at-risk juvenile males in Greene County, MO.

Board Member: The Agency/Business Coalition of Southwest Missouri (Greene County Prosecutor Darrell Moore, Chair). A collection of representatives from social service agencies and area businesses dedicated to creating programs and policies to deal with a variety of social concerns facing Southwest Missouri (health, education, crime, employment, etc.)

Board Member: Ozarks Fighting Back, a community-wide substance abuse intervention organization which acts as a catalyst for reducing the use of alcohol and tobacco in a 23 county area in Southwest Missouri.

1999- date

Board Member and Facilitator: Hammons School of Architecture, Strategic Planning Committee, Drury University, Springfield, MO. As facilitator and member of this group I am responsible for leading discussion and participating in the development of a long-term strategic plan for the School of Architecture. 

Board Member: The Professional Advisory Council for the Hammons School of Architecture, Drury University (Springfield, MO). Work on this committee is an extension of similar involvement in the Ball State School of Architecture when I was on the Sociology faculty at that institution from 1972-1986.

Board Member and Facilitator: The Hammons School of Architecture Center for Community Studies. 

1998-2001

Board Member: Mentoring Project of the Ozarks. An effort to expand mentoring opportunities for youth who are both at-risk and in-trouble.

1987- 1992

Board Member: Missouri Victim Center (formerly the Rape Crisis and Child Abuse Center), Springfield, MO. In addition to normal board member responsibilities (attending meetings, making policy decisions) I co-chaired the Fund Raising Committee for several years.

Board Member: The Agency/Business Coalition of Southwest Missouri (Greene County Prosecutor Darrell Moore, Chair). A collection of representatives from social service agencies and area businesses dedicated to creating programs and policies to deal with a variety of social concerns facing Southwest Missouri (health, education, crime, employment, etc.)

1986-1991

Board Member: Springfield Area Liaison Council for children's services, an affiliate of the Division of Family and Youth Services, State of Missouri. Oversight of various community projects including group homes, treatment programs, in-home counseling, etc.

1972-1978

Board Member: Delaware County Council on Aging and the Aged, Muncie, IN. Board member. Authored and co-authored grants in excess of $400,000 to pay for direct services to the elderly including the creation of a Senior Volunteer Transportation program (bought vans, trained drivers, etc.), an RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) was created and staffed, residential lock installation services (free dead-bolts and free installation) and home insulation services (free insulation and installation).

1970-1972

Board Member: St. Louis Mayor's Task Force on Crime and the Elderly, St. Louis, MO. Appointed by then Major Cervantes to serve on this task force. The focus of the group was on lowering victimization rates of the elderly and on creating education and prevention programs related to their needs.

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