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School of Business
Dean: Bill Berry, Ph.D.
Success Story:
Big congratulations to the faculty and staff at
the West Michigan campus for their support and
work with the Project Management Institute. “The
Project 2012,” a Project Management Institute
collegiate completion involving six Michigan
colleges and universities, took place in April 2012
focusing on a competition for planning the process
of applying for a benefit corporation certification.
University of Phoenix had a student team that
placed third out of a total of eight teams in the
competition. The student team consisted of:
Alicia Webb, Troy Grove, Michael Keifer and Wayne
Johnson; and was championed by Judd Freeman,
CCC for the School of Business; John Globensky,
lead faculty; and Marybeth Rardin, DAA for West
Michigan. Again, congratulations!
Dean’s Reminder:
A challenge these days is balancing the need
to provide effective quality feedback and the
timeliness of that feedback. It is easy to feel
that more is somehow better feedback. It is also
tempting to work to turn feedback around in shorter
periods than our own schedules allow. In order
to help both students and faculty manage these
expectations and receive the best guidance possible,
the School of Business is working on creating more
assignments using tools such as My Math Lab or
Wiley Plus. Stay tuned; we want to develop more
tools for immediate and concrete feedback with less
pressure on faculty to meet that need.
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College of Criminal Justice
and Security
Dean: James Ness, Ph.D.
New This Quarter:
Coming for the new calendar year are two new
concentrations in the BSCJA—Cyber Crimes and
Security and two new concentrations in the MSAJS–
Law Enforcement and Global Security Issues.
Success Story:
Our Southern California Campus has led the way
again with innovative events including hosting a
Research Symposium, sponsoring the NOBLE local
chapter conference and hosting a lecture by General
Stanley McChrystal. The lecture was attended by the
public and numerous ranking officials from Southern
California’s criminal justice agencies.
Tip or Best Practice:
Being faculty is more than a job. It is one of the greatest
responsibilities in civilized society. You lay bare the
mysteries of the world and train students’ minds to
explore, to question, to investigate and to discover.
Dean’s Activity:
I had the pleasure to present with two CJ&S faculty
members at the ACJS Conference in March. We
presented on the topic of how to get published. Also,
the Des Moines Campus, in conjunction with the
College, initiated The First Annual Iowa Criminal Justice
Thought Leader Forum. This forum was a great success
with more than 32 leaders from Iowa’s criminal justice
agencies attending.
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