Positions and
Courses Taught Positions Professor of Social Sciences Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids, IA 1990 to Date Courses taught include General Sociology, Criminology, Social
Problems, Medical Sociology, Juvenile Delinquency, Concepts in Social Sciences,
Liberal Arts Orientation, Sociology of Aging, Sociological Imagination, and Any
Time-Any Where Distance Learning. Research Fellow The Arlington Institute Washington, DC 1991 to Date The Institute is a “think tank” that deals with alternative future
scenarios. Other members include: * David Gergen
of US News and World Report, former Senior Advisor to the President of the
United States, Bill Clinton * Morton
Krondrake of The New Republic * T. George
Harris, Psychology Today * Neal
Creighton, Chicago Tribune * Paul Bracken,
Yale University * Elliot Cohen,
John Hopkins University * Murray
Feshback, Georgetown University * Arkady
Shevchenko, American University * The late
William Colby, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency * Admiral E.R.
Zumwalt, former Chief of Naval Operations * Marvin Zonis,
University of Chicago The CEO is John L Peterson. Mr. Peterson is the former Military
Strategist for the 1988 presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis and current
Vice President of the United States, Al Gore. Member of the Editorial Board or Reviewer: * The Annals of
American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Philadelphia, PA. * Psychology-Journal
of Human Behavior. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. * Journal of
Criminal Justice Education. University of Houston. Houston, Texas. * Southeastern
Political Review. Bainbridge College. Bainbridge, Georgia. * Focus: Social
Science Journal. Kirkwood Community College. Cedar Rapids, Iowa Formerly with Sociology: Reviews of new books * Lutheran
Quarterly * Journal of
Research on Race, Gender and Social Class * Journal of
Crime and Justice * Contemporary
Sociology: International Journal of Reviews, Quality Network News Co-Author: * $750,000 of
research and institutional grants from Department of Education, National
Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Law Enforcement
Assistance Agency, U.S. and State Department of Labor and Options of Brown
University. * Author of
about 300 articles in over 60 journals, papers, symposiums, and periodicals.
Futurist for the Arlington Institute and Economic Development for Kirkwood
College. Professor: Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids, IA 1990 to Date Editor Focus: Social Science Journal. Coordinator, Faculty Forms.
Member of Editorial Board of Psychology. Manuscript Evaluator, Journal of
Criminal Justice Education. Associate Professor Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids, IA 1978 to 1989 General Sociology sequence. Criminal Justice theory sequences.
Medical Sociology for ADN, RN, BSN. Co-Principal Faculty Forums. Co-Author of
grants. Assistant Professor / Department Head Dana College Blair, Nebraska 1975 to 1978 Sociology and Criminal Justice sequence. Director of Community
Organization and Planning Program. Medical and Social Gerontological sequence.
Director of the Career Information Center. Please see courses at towards the
end of the syllabus. Sociologist / Futuristic U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Urban Studies Branch Omaha, Nebraska 1975 Involved in transportation analysis, recreation cost benefit
analysis, soil analysis, social ecological studies, social geography, and
technical writing. Wrote the first man-to-land analysis for the entire Corps.
This position was held co-terminously with UNO-LEAA position. Research Consultant LEAA Criminal Justice Studies Department of Criminal Justice University of Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska 1975 Wrote or co-wrote articles, monographs, and technical reports
pertaining to criminal justice with Dr. Vince Webb, Dr. Dennis Hoffman, and Dr.
Sam Walker. We did manpower studies for the midwest and border south of LEAA. Instructor of Sociology Dana College Blair, Nebraska 1969 to 1974 Teaching, counseling, and served as the Director of the Career
Information. With R. Gary Dean, conducted institutional and social indicator
research with a company we founded called Dell Research. Vocational Counselor Us Department of Labor 1969 This originated as one of the “poverty programs” for this area.
Employed in three sub-agencies. Concentrated Employment Services, Youth
Opportunity Center, and the Omaha Employment Services. In all three
sub-agencies, learned to work with the support agencies Strong, GATB, and DOT
codes. Counseled minority, unskilled, handicapped, and post residents of the
Nebraska Penal Institute. Also counseled displaced and over qualified
applicants. Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology Omaha University Omaha, Nebraska 1967 to 1968 Responsibilities were to lecture in the main lecture hall and to
lead in three discussion groups. In the second year, was a group leader for
three other Master’s candidates. My mentors were Dr. George Helling formerly of
St. Olaf College, Dr. Ken Root formerly of Luther College, and Dr. John Ballweg
formerly of Virginia Polytechnical Institute. Was assistant to the secretary of
Omicron Delta Kappa’s Sociological Inquiry, and to a professor who started the
Center for the Applied Urban Institute. Research Interviewer Transcentury Corporation Washington, DC 1967 Interviewed low income respondents who were involved in either
Office of Economic Summer Youth Program or the Job Corps. The study was a
social cost-benefit study. Also did coding. The entire project was funded by
the Department of Education and Welfare. Research Interviewer Department of Roads of Nebraska 1966 Interviewed auto transit respondents for a density-distance and
density origin studies. This information became the baseline data for Omaha
Metropolitan Area Transit study and the allocation of the North-South
interstate connecting with I-80 and feeder routes near the arterials to I-80 Research Assistant Research Unit of Nebraska Psychiatric Institute 1965 Trained interviewers with another Research Consultant. Also drew
samples, collated materials, and coded. This was the origin study for community
based mental health centers. Worked for Dr. Richard Miele now of the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. Courses Taught * World
Populations * Social
Demography * Minority
Relations * Urban
Sociology * Modern
American Community * Community
Organization and Planning * Political
Sociology * Sociological
Theory and Methods * Seminar in
Sociology * Social
Gerontology * Readings in
Sociology * Deviant
Behavior - Social Psychology * Medical
Sociology * Sociology of
Leisure * Social
Problems * General
Sociology * Criminology * Juvenile
Delinquency * Sociology of
Aging * Family in
Transition * The Nation’s
Health - Introduction to Sociology (Medical) * Introduction
to Sociology (Quantitative) * Concepts in
Social Sciences * Liberal Arts
Orientation * Open Learning
Lab Sociology - Revised to Guided Self Study Sociology * GSS Sociology
(Medical) * Sociology
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