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 (Medical for Allied Health Sciences)
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