Campus Advisory Committee
   

Dra. Gwen McAlpine, Associate Professor, Elementary & Early Childhood Education

 

Dr. Feland Meadows, Goizueta Endowed Chair & Professor, Elementary & Early Childhood Education

Feland Meadows, Ph.D. is the first person to be appointed to the Roberto C. Goizueta Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education. Born in Mexico, Dr. Meadows has been preparing teachers to serve young children from zero to five years of age in the US and seven other countries for 30 years.
Dr. Meadows began his work at KSU by collaborating with the Dr. Wes Wicker, Vice President for University Advancement, to secure five million dollars with which to construct a World Class Early Learning Center to serve children from 40 days to 5 years of age
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Dr. Jorge Perez, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Information Systems

I attended Florida State University, where I earned an undergraduate degree in English, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in management information systems. I defended my dissertation on November 17, 1997. The following year, I joined the Computer Science and Information Systems Department at Kennesaw State University. I have experience as a systems analyst, Web developer, and consultant. Courses that I have taught include e-business, Web design, systems analysis and design, quantitative methods, and data communications. I am on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum. My current research focuses on IT literacy — identifying, measuring and amplifying IT competencies needed by computer and Internet users. I am the CETL Faculty Fellow for E-Learning.

 

Dr. Harold "Harry" Trendell, PhD Associate Professor, Geography & Anthropology

 

Professor Leonard Witt , Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair & Assistant Professor, Department of Communication

Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens’ voices heard. He is founding president of the Public Journalism Network, an online network of citizens, journalists and academics interested in public and citizen journalism. He is now developing what he calls Representative Journalism, an idea to build small journalism-centered communities. He is past chair of the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group with the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

 

Dr. Professor Michele Zebich-Knos, Department of Political Science and International Affairs

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University. Her research interests include Latin America and environmental policy issues. She is co-editor along with Heather N. Nicol of Foreign Policy toward Cuba: Isolation or Engagement? (Lexington Books, 2005) and author of numerous publications including “Mexico: Christianity and the Struggle for Collective Identity.” In: Rolin Mainuddin (ed.) Religion and Politics: An Examination of the Explosive Interactions. (Ashgate Publishers, 2002), “The Internet in Latin America: Narrowing the Digital Divide” (The Latin Americanist, 2001), "There Are No Free Riders In An International Climate Change Regime: The Role Of Latin America In Reducing Global Warming" (The Latin Americanist, 2000), and “Global Environmental Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era: Linkage to an Extended Security Paradigm,” (Journal of Peace Studies, 1998).

Dr. Audrey García, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages

 

Mark Hellman, Director of Development, College of Humanities & Social Sciences

 

Dr. Randall Paton, Professor of History, Department of History & Philosophy


 

 
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