Master of Arts Administrative Science Faculty
MAS faculty combine the best elements of practice and theory to provide a quality education for public service professionals.
Mark Nicol, MA, ABD
MAS Graduate Coordinator
Instructor of Political Science
356 Brown Hall
(989) 964-2605
mlnicol(at)svsu.edu
Mr. Nicol has taught a wide range of courses in political science, criminal justice and the graduate program in administration during his time at SVSU, with primary teaching responsibilities in the field of public administration. His approach to teaching public administration draws upon his experience as a supervisor and administrator in residential juvenile treatment and is rooted in the application of rigorous theoretical understanding to performing practical administrative duties and solving the concrete problems encountered by administrators in public and non-profit organizations.
Mr. Nicol has a wide variety of research interests that deal with the impact of political institutions on the actions of individual and collective political/administrative actors. His current research projects include the application of cluster analysis techniques to the classification of policy programs in large American cities in order to measure and predict the capacity of local governments for making choices that substantially shape the economic conditions of their communities. He has a secondary research interest in the application of the techniques of policy analysis and program evaluation in the educational and residential treatment settings.
Holly Child, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
316 Brown Hall
(989) 964-2047
hchild(at)svsu.edu
Holly Child undertook her doctoral work at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI and earned a B.S. and M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida. She has taught in the Criminal Justice Department at Wayne State University. She previously worked as Director of the Crime and Justice Unit at the Center for Urban Studies and as a Research Associate with the Center for Criminal Justice Research at the University of Cincinnati.
Holly Child has over ten years of experience managing and conducting evaluation and research in her areas of academic interest, which include: risk/needs assessment and effective programming for juvenile and adult offenders; correctional rehabilitation programs; and crime prevention and deterrence programs.
She has directed several state and federally-funded research projects on correctional programming and treatment, and programs that work with at-risk youth.
“People who should look at careers in Criminal Justice are those who are looking for a way to make a difference in the world, people who are socially responsible, and who want to help others,” explained Professor Child.
Dr. Child describes the best Criminal Justice programs as those whose members represent a mix of practitioners and academics, so students can learn about what works based on data and how to apply that knowledge in the real world.
“I teach topics that allow students to see practical application of the fundamental principles of our discipline. It’s essential for students to see how they can use and apply knowledge from their coursework.”
Her research interests include risk/needs assessment and effective programming for both juvenile and adult offender populations, correctional rehabilitation, and prevention and deterrence programming. In the 2006-2007 school-year she will teach Human Relations in Criminal Justice, and Issue in Corrections in the Fall semester and Human Relations in Criminal Justice, Intro to Criminal Justice and Research Methods in the Winter Semester
Francis C. (Frank) Dane, Ph.D.
James V. Finkbeiner Endowed Chair in Ethics
College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences
161 Science East
(989) 964-2046
fdane(at)svsu.edu
After earning a Ph.D. from the Social Psychology Program at the University of Kansas in 1979, Dane held academic positions at SUNY College at Oswego, Clemson University, and Mercer University before coming to Saginaw Valley State University in 2002. He has published books, articles, and chapters in the areas of statistics, research methods, ethics, social psychology, jury decision processes, prejudice and stereotypes, and in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He is a member of numerous professional organizations in Ethics, Psychology, Statistics, and Medicine, serves on editorial boards of journals in the areas of Ethics, Public Policy and Critical Care Medicine; he also chairs the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at SVSU. He currently teaches Ethics and Research Methods. His current research programs include research ethics, medical outcomes, ethical climates in organizations, and program evaluation. His Curriculum Vitae can be found at Frank Dane.
Fenobia Dallas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
248 Science West
(989) 964-4627
fidallas(at)svsu.edu
Dr. Dallas is an assistant professor of Professional and Technical Writing at SVSU. She recently returned to academia after spending a number of years as a network administrator, computer systems analyst, and operations research analyst. She has extensive hands-on knowledge of personal computer (PC) and Macintosh (Mac) systems and software, including set-up and installation of computer networks, and has authored numerous web sites.
Her research areas include: technical writing and communication in academic, business, and community areas; the rhetoric, discourse, and computer-mediated communication of online communities; visual representation of African Americans; the rhetoric of African American women writers of the early nineteenth-century period; and the intersection of Critical Race Theory and computers/technology in composition studies.
She has developed various workplace documents, including a 3-year information systems plan, a budget and planning guide for computer acquisitions, a systems policy for a Policy and Procedures Manual, prepared daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets, forecasts, and actual expenditures for production planning, provided labor analysis and productivity reports, and worked with a marketing team to provide transaction pricing for prospective business partners.
Her attention to detail has served her well as an editor for a SVSU custom text, a reviewer for a literature anthology, and an assistant editor of the resource pages/bibliography for Computers and Composition Online.
Dr. Dallas currently serves as the coordinator of the Professional and Technical Writing Internship program.