Topics

BUSINESS and ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Michael Ashcraft

Associate Part-Time Professor

•   Business Development

•   Small Business - Start-Up, Financing and Marketing, Obstacles, Resources

Rick Fields, CPA

Associate Part Time Professor

•   Business and Personal Budgeting and Financial Models

•   Business Process and Procedure Development

•   Business Strategic Planning

COMMUNICATION

Peter Will, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

•   Technical Writing  

 

 

 

COMPUTER SCIENCE and INFORMATION SYSTEMS

James Feher, Ph.D.

Chair, Division of Computing

Associate Professor, Division of Computing

 

 

 

Kian Pokorny, Ph.D.

Professor

•   Uncertainty Methods with Small Data Sets  

ECONOMICS

Frank Spreng, MBA, Ph.D., J.D.

Professor of Economics

Director of the MBA Program

•   General Economic Conditions (employment, inflation, tax policy, current economy)

•   Economic Loss in Personal Injury and Death Cases

•   Law and Economics

EDUCATION

Dr. J. Alan Alewine

Associate Professor of Mathematics

University 101 Coordinator

•   "12-Step Program for Lecture-hall-ics"

•   Making Groups Work

Timothy Richards, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Education

•   Secondary Education

 

 

 

Nancy Stewart

Instructor of Education

•   Writing Fiction

•   Writing Children’s Books

Julie Tonsing-Meyer

Program Coordinator

Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant

•   Technology in the Classroom 

ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION, ECOLOGY

Dr. Michele (Mickey) Schutzenhofer

Assistant Professor

•   “Alien Invasion,” Causes and Concerns (invasive species)

•   Backyard Conservation (reconciliation ecology, rain gardens, invasive species)

•   Native Plants and Wildflowers

HISTORY, POLITICS, GOVERNMENT

Ann Collins, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Political Science

•   “All Hell Broke Loose“- American Race Riots from the Progressive Era Through World War II

•   “Illinoistown” - The Cultural History of East St. Louis

•   American Politics and Government

Brian Frederking, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

•   United National Security Council

•   Conflict Resolution

•   Foreign Policies of the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France

•   International Politics

LITERATURE, WRITING and FILM

Brenda Boudreau, Ph.D.

Professor of English

Director of Gender Studies

•   Contemporary American Literature

•   Women’s Literature

•   Gender and Ethnic Literature

•   Film Studies

MANAGEMENT

Peter Will, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

•   Product Development

•   Research and Technology

 

NURSING, HEALTH and WELLNESS

Dr. Martha McDonald

Associate Professor of Nursing

Coordinator of Nursing Programs, Southern Illinois

•   Community CPR

•   General Health Issues

Dr. Suzette Sewell Scheuermann, RN, Ph.D.

•   Fibromyalgia

•   Sleep Hygiene

•   Circadian Rhythm

Janice Wiegmann, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Nursing

•   Family Health Issues

•   Rural Health Issues

 

 

PSYCHOLOGY / PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT and DEVELOPMENT

Tami Eggleston, Ph.D.

Associate Dean

Professor of Psychology

•   Human Sexuality

•   Sports Psychology

•   Teaching Psychology

RELIGION and THEOLOGY  

Dr. Duane Olson

Associate Professor of Religion

•   Contemporary Issues in Christianity

•   History of Religion

•   Religions of the World

SOCIAL and CULTURAL ISSUES

Brenda Boudreau, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Director of Gender Studies

•   Women’s Studies

•   Feminism

Neil Quisenberry, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology

•   Criminal Justice and Criminological Theory

•   Hate Crimes

•   Juvenile Delinquency