Curriculum Vitae

Institution	Major	Degree
Barnard College New York, New York	Government	B.A. (magna cum laude)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina	Political Science	M.A.
University of Florida Gainesville, Florida	Political Science	Ph.D.

1983 - Present	Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Jacksonville University
	Duties include administrative responsibility for the Divisions of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Mathematics, School of Education, School of Nursing, and the Naval ROTC Program.
1982 - 83	Chairman, Division of Social Sciences, Jacksonville University
	Duties included administrative responsibility for 5 departments and 15 full time and 5 adjunct faculty; also served as acting chairman during the spring terms, 1980, 1981, 1982.
1963 - 1982	Professor of Political Science, Jacksonville University
	Moved from the rank of instructor to professor during this period. Teaching areas include American government, constitutional law, urban government, and public administration.

Director, Robert A. Taft Institute of Government Seminars in Practical Politics for In-Service Teachers: 1968 to 1978.

Instructor, Seminars for professional government administrators; Seminars were sponsored by Jacksonville University and federal HUD and the City of Jacksonville between 1969 and l982.

Evaluator of the Jacksonville Housing Allowance Program, ABT Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975.

Evaluator of the citizen participation element of the Jacksonville Community Development Block Grant program, Citizen Involvement Network, 1977. Also member of the Citizen Involvement National Committee to develop citizen participation guidelines under a HUD grant.

Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (appointment by the Secretary of Defense), Member, l990-1993; Chair, Career Opportunities Subcommittee and Executive Committee member, 1993.

Florida Humanities Council, Member, Board of Directors, 1992-96

Florida Political Science Association, President, 1975-76; First Vice President, 1974-75; Second Vice President, 1973-74, 1986-87; Board Member, 1983-87.

Southern Political Science Association, Nominating Committee, 1979-1980; Chairman, Membership and Participation Committee, 1983-1991; Program Section Chair, 1989; Recording Secretary, 1993-94.

Northeast Florida Chapter of American Society for Public Administration, President, 1987-88; President-Elect, 1986-87; Board Member, 1978-86; Program Chairman for two years.

Women's Caucus for Political Science: South, President, 1981-82; President Elect, 1980 - 81.

Women's Public Leadership Consortium of Institutions of Higher Education in Jacksonville, President, 1984-85.

Member, First District Court of Appeal Nominating Commission, 1983-87.

Member, Florida Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration, Neighborhood Organization Research Group; American Conference of Academic Deans.

Member, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Reaffirmation Committees, 1983-1993.

"The New City - 1968 and Beyond," Conference Proceedings, Jacksonville University, 1969, co-editor.

"Undergraduate Political Science Education: A Case Study," prepared for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1973.

"Women," Florida's Politics and Government, edited by Manning Dauer, University Presses of Florida, 1980 and 1984.

"Metropolitan Reorganization," Administrative Comments and Letters, December 1981.

"The Equal Rights Amendment and the Florida Legislature," Florida Historical Quarterly, April 1982.

"Citizen's Organizations from the Perspective of Political Science," Briefing, JCCI Newsletter, January 1985.

"Impact of Reapportionment in Public Policy," American Politics Quarterly, January 1985 (co-author).

"Florida League of Women Voters in Florida: Its Troubled History," Florida Historical Quarterly, April 1985.

"The Long, Slow Climb," Forum, The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, Fall 1991.

"Women in Florida," chapter 11, and the "Impact of Reapportionment in Public Policy,", chapter 23, reprinted in Reapportionment and Representation in Florida, edited by Susan MacManus, Intrabay Innovation Institute, 1991.

Co-author of Florida chapter (Florida: A Volatile National Microcosm) in Southern Politics in the 1990s, Alexander Lamis, editor, LSU press, fall 1999.

Book Reviews for the Florida Times-Union, the Community College Social Science Quarterly, the National Forum (the Phi Kappa Phi Journal), the Florida Historical Quarterly, and the Journal of Politics.

President, Jacksonville University Chapter of AAUP, 1972-73.

President, 1978-79, Secretary, 1984-86, Jacksonville University Chapter, Phi Kappa Phi.

Chairman of the Faculty, Jacksonville University, 1978-81.

Chairman of the Steering Committee and Director of the Self-Study for Reaffirmation of Accreditation, 1981-82.

Co-Chairman, Long Range Planning Committee, Jacksonville University, 1980-81; Chairman, 1987-88.

Chairman, Assessment Committee, 1987-91.

Member, Steering Committee, Self-Study, 1990-91.

Chair, Re-forming the Major Steering Committee, l992-94.

Membership on many other University committees, 1965-1994.

Papers have been presented at national, state, and regional meetings between 1972 and the present. Among those presented were the following:

Invited participant, Carnegie Foundation Conference on Teaching Political Science, Washington, D.C., 1973. Paper devoted to "Political Science in a Small Department in an Urban University."

Panelist, "Centralization: What Have We Learned So Far?" National Conference on Public Administration, Syracuse, New York, May 8, 1974.

Panelist, "Service Delivery and Urban Growth," The Southeastern Regional Conference on Public Administration, Orlando, October 25, 1974.

"How Much Change Does Reform Bring," paper presented to the Annual meeting of the Florida Political Science Association, May 8, 1976.

"The ERA in Florida," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, November 2, 1979.

"Women's Rights and the Southern Tradition," presented to the Southeastern Women's Studies Association in March 1980 and by invitation to the National Women's studies meeting in May 1980.

"Metropolitan Reorganization," paper presented at Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 24, 1981.

"Women in Political Science: New Perspectives, New Questions," Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2, 1982.

"The First League of Women Voters in Florida, 1920 - 1940," paper presented to the Florida College Teachers of History Annual Meeting, March 1983.

"The Changing Role of Women in Florida Politics," Annual Meeting of Florida Association for Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors, March 1986.

Chairman, Conference to plan and organize a conference on consolidated government for new city officials, 1968.

Member, Citizens' Advisory Committee for Community Development, 1976-79.

Board Member, Jacksonville YWCA, 1977-79.

Member, Advisory Committee for Community Instructional Services, FCCJ, 1981-86.

St. Johns Country Day School Board of Trustees, 1984-94; Member of Executive Committee, 1990-1991; President of the Board, 1993-95.

Mayor's Advisory Commission on the Status of Women, 1984-88; Chairman, Leadership Committee, 1986 and 1987.

Jacksonville Community Council, Inc., Board member 1976-80; Secretary of Board, 1978-80.

Jacksonville Women's Network, Executive Council, 1986-87; Vice President 1986; President, 1987-90.

Meninak, Member.

Northeast Florida Alumni Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, Member.

Seven College Conference National Scholarship, Barnard College.

Annie Nathan Meyer Scholarship to graduating senior, Barnard College.

Graduate Assistantship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Graduate Fellowship, University of Florida.

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Sigma Alpha.

Jacksonville University Professor of the Year, 1971-72.

EVE Award, woman educator of the year, 1982, sponsored by the Florida Times-Union.