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OUR FACULTY
Faculty for the university’s Justice Management Program come from universities and law schools across the nation. Many faculty members are prominent researchers and practitioners with doctoral degrees who share their real-world knowledge and professional insights with students.
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JANE L. ROBINSON is the Assistant Program Director of the Master of Justice Management Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her credentials include a J. D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California, 1987, an MBA from Morrison University, Reno, Nevada, 2002, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology, University of Hawaii - Hilo College, 1978. She practiced civil law in the State of Hawaii managing a private law corporation. In 1997, she relocated to Reno, Nevada, where she has taught law, management, philosophy and other courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs. She developed and taught a special course in critical thinking from a legal perspective for the Philosophy department at the University of Nevada. Reno. She became involved with the development of the Master of Justice Management program from the outset, first as a member of the advisory committee, and then as the coordinator charged with developing the curriculum for the program. Recently, she co-authored Justice System Degree Programs at the University of Nevada, Reno, published in The Justice System Journal, Volume 26, Number 2, 2005.
E-mail: justmgmt@unr.nevada.edu |
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KEN GIBSON is the Technical Manager and Instructional Designer of the Master of Justice Management Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. His credentials include a M.S. in Education from the University of Nevada, Reno. Ken has 5+ years experience in online course management, web-design and digital media production.
E-Mail: kgibson@unr.edu |
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DR. MICHAEL E. NOYES is an adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada – Reno and teachs exclusively within the Justice Management Graduate Program. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA; a Master of Arts in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Michael was most recently employed full-time by the Administrative Offices of the Pennsylvania Courts as a Deputy District Court Administrator for the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, PA. As Deputy District Court Administrator, his primary responsibility was to serve as the Director of Community Corrections which encompassed both the Department of Adult Probation and the Department of Juvenile Court Services. As of May 1, 2006, he assumed the responsibilities as Director of the Dallas County (TX) Community Supervsion and Corrections Department (CSDC). The Dallas County CSDC is a 600 person adult probation department comprised of 30 judges and over 40,000 adult probation clients.
E-mail: patotxnoyes@hotmail.com |
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CHRISTOPHER A. SIMON is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Nevada, Reno. He received baccalaureate degrees in History and Political Science from Oregon State University in 1991. He earned his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Political Science from Washington State University. Currently, he is pursuing a BSc in Economics through the London School of Economics, University of London External. He conducts research in alternative energy policy; environmental policy; civic community and volunteerism; elementary, secondary, and higher education policy; criminal justice policy; Homeland Security policy; and, land use policy and localism. He is the author of Public Policy (Longman, 2007), an introductory textbook; and, To Run a School: Administrative Organization and Learning (Praeger, 2001; in Mandarin, China Light Industry Press, 2005). He has recently completed a book length manuscript, Alternative Energy, contracted with Rowman & Littlefield. He has published in Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, American Review of Public Administration (with David Nice), Policy Studies Journal (with Nicholas Lovrich), Land Use Policy Journal (with John Dobra), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (in Proceedings with others), and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (with others). Simon teaches courses in the following subject areas: public policy, public administration theory, public personnel administration, public budgeting theory, policy evaluation, organization theory, research methods, and American politics.
E-mail: casimon@unr.nevada.edu |
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Robert Bayer is an adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno and Chair of the Justice Management Degree Program's Advisory Committee. He received his baccalaureate degree in liberal arts from The University of New York, College at Oswego in 1971. He earned his M.A. in English from Oswego in 1972 and his Masters of Public Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1990. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004. He has worked in prison, parole, and probation for 26 years and served as the Director of the Nevada Department of Prisons from 1/1995-7/2000. He was also a Peace Officer Standards and Training commissioner for over 5 years and has an extensive training and education background in adult corrections. Currently he is active as an associate member of the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) as well as an active member of the American Correctional Association (ACA) serving on the Legal Affairs Committee for over ten years. He has published numerous articles and consults in adult criminal justice.
E-mail: justiceexpert@clearwire.net |
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