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Full-time MJA Faculty
Dr. Darl H. Champion
Director, Master of Justice Administration Program
Dr. Champion is a tenured professor
within the School of Public Affairs. Dr. Champion earned his master’s
degree in criminal justice from the University of South Carolina
and a doctorate in adult education with a minor in public administration
from North Carolina State University. At the undergraduate level
he has taught courses in policing urban society, juvenile delinquency,
criminal justice planning, terrorism and homeland security, organizational
behavior in criminal justice organizations, police administration,
interpersonal communications for criminal justice personnel, ethical
foundations of criminal justice, and criminology. At Webster University
he has taught graduate courses in administration of justice, police
and society, security management and administration, and behavioral
issues. In 1997 he was named the Outstanding Instructor at Fayetteville
Technical Community College; in 1988 he was named the Margaret Lange
Willis Outstanding Educator in North Carolina. In 2004 he was named
Professor of the Year at Methodist University. He has presented
numerous papers at professional conferences, and in 2002 co-authored
a textbook entitled An Introduction to American Policing.
He has been a peer reviewer for the journal Crime and Delinquency.
Dr. Champion has been a long-term member of the Academy of Criminal
Justice Science, the American Society of Criminology, American Society
of Public Administration, and the American Society of Industrial
Security. He served ten years as a member of the North Carolina
Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and
is currently a member of the governing board of the Carolina’s
Institute for Community Policing. In the local community he serves
on the Public Safety Committee of Fayetteville MetroVisions.
Dr. Frank J. Trapp
Professor of Political Science
Dr. Trapp is a professor
of political science in the Department of Political Science
within the School of Public Affairs at Methodist University.
Dr. Trapp holds a master of political science and a doctorate
in political science with a concentration in Middle East
politics, research methods, and conflict theory from Florida
State University. At the undergraduate level, he has taught
courses on American government, comparative politics, international
relations, developing politics, international organizations,
state and local government, political economy, Middle East
politics, research methods, public administration, comparative
public policy, and terrorism and conflict theory. At the
graduate level, he has taught courses on analytical/research
methods for public administrators, state and local government,
international organizations, international relations, and
Middle East politics. Dr. Trapp was hired by Methodist University
in Fall 2004. From 1990 to 2004, he was a tenured associate
professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
He is a graduate lecturer for Troy State University, a visiting
professor at the Chinese University of Mining and Technology,
Xouhou, China in 2004, the Macau University of Science and
Technology, Macau, China 2002, and an adjunct professor
for the International Studies Program, United States John
F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Ft. Bragg,
North Carolina, 1993-94. Dr. Trapp has worked as a contract
research analyst for the United State Defense Intelligence
Agency and has authored the following research studies:
Emergency Situation Ministries in the Former Soviet
Union: A Thirteen Country Study, 206 pages, 2004; Estonian
Telecommunications: A Study of Post-Soviet Development,
364 pages, 2002; and Life Science Facilities of North
and West Africa: A Twenty-two Country Study, 60 Pages,
2001. Dr. Trapp is a member of the American Political Science
Association, the Model United Nations Organizations, the
Model Arab League Organization, and currently is the Vice-President
for the North Carolina Political Science Association. At
the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, he served
on a wide variety of university committees and was the secretary
for the Faculty Senate from 2001 to 2002. At the community
level, Dr. Trapp is a member of the State Employees Credit
Union of North Carolina’s Loan Review Committee.
Dr. Willis M. Watt
Professor of Speech Communication
Dean, School of Information and Technology
Dr. Watt earned his master’s
degree in speech communication and a doctorate with a double
major in speech communication and education from Kansas
State University. At the undergraduate level he has taught
courses in conflict management, listening, public relations,
persuasion, business and professional speaking, contemporary
issues and theories in leadership, leadership behaviors,
organizational communication and leadership, and small group,
intercultural, interpersonal, nonverbal, and speech communication.
At Fort Hays (KS) State University Dr. Watt was Director
of Graduate Study in Communication. He has taught graduate
courses such as Introduction to Graduate Study, Seminar
in Communication, and Research Methods. He has served as
the Major Professor for over 125 theses and master’s
research projects. In 1996 Dr. Watt was selected by the
Kansas Speech Communication Association as the Outstanding
College Teacher of the Year. He was inducted into the Mid-America
Education Hall of Fame in 1998. Dr. Watt has presented over
50 scholarly papers at state, regional, national, and international
conferences with many of the papers being included in the
conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored five
books in the field of speech communication and business/professional
speaking, including Speech Communication: Theories and
Practices. In addition, he has authored several monographs
in the field of theatre and co-authored a chapter in a book
on intercollegiate cross-examination debate. His writing
includes a variety of poems published locally, nationally,
and internationally. Dr. Watt is currently a copy and review
editor for the Journal of Leadership Education.
He has served as a copy editor, a review editor or an editor-in-chief
for several journals in the speech communication field.
Over his 29-year career in higher education he has been
a member of several communication associations. He is a
member of the Leadership Educators Association and is currently
serving as a member of the Tally Leadership Center Advisory
Board at Methodist University. He is also a founding member
of the Institute for Community Leadership program and a
member of its operational team in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, North Carolina.
Dr. Donald L. Lassiter
Professor of Psychology
Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Dr. Lassiter earned his
master’s degree and Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology
from the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the undergraduate
level, he has taught courses in human factors psychology,
industrial/organizational psychology, statistics, perception,
memory and cognition, physiological psychology, principles
of learning, social psychology, history and systems of psychology,
and general psychology. At Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,
he has taught master’s level courses in human factors
of aviation and aviation psychology. He also teaches a graduate
course in organizational behavior for the Methodist University
MBA at Pinehurst program. Dr. Lassiter obtained funding
from the National Institute on Aging to conduct studies
on the effects of aging and expertise on the mental workload
of pilots. He has published research papers in journals
and conference proceedings such as Human Factors,
Designing for an Aging Population, Society
for Information Display Digest, and Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting;
a book chapter in Teams: Their Training and Performance;
and has presented papers and posters, as well as chaired
numerous sessions and meetings, at national and regional
conferences. Most recently, he has served as an ad hoc reviewer
for Human Factors, published a book review in the
journal Ergonomics in Design, and co-authored a
paper presented at the 2005 Sandhills Regional Psychology
Conference. Also, he has served in several offices and on
several committees of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
(HFES), as well as two terms as President of the Carolina
Chapter of HFES.
Dr. Michael Potts
Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Potts holds the M.Th. in theology from Harding University
Graduate School of Religion, the M.A. in religion from Vanderbilt
University, and the Ph.D. in philosophy from The University
of Georgia. He has taught undergraduate courses in philosophy
and religion, including Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction
to Religion, Introduction to Biblical Studies, Logic, Ethics,
Business Ethics, Medical Ethics, and Ethical Foundations
of Criminal Justice. He has also taught a graduate course
in medical ethics to students in the Methodist University
Physician Assistant Program. He edited (with Paul A. Byrne
and Richard G. Nilges) a book, Beyond Brain Death: The
Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death (Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2000). He has ten articles in refereed
scholarly journals, including Academic Questions,
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith
and Philosophy, International Journal for Philosophy
of Religion, Journal of Medical Ethics, The
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of
Near-Death Studies, Perspectives in Biology
and Medicine and The Thomist. His letters have
been published in the British Medical Journal,
the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the
New England Journal of Medicine. He also has written
several book chapters for anthologies and six articles for
the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and
Society. He has made over twenty-five presentations
at scholarly conferences, including a paper at the “Signs
of Death” conference in February 2005 at The Vatican
City. In addition, his poetry has been published in such
magazines as the Journal of the American Medical Association
and Poems & Plays. His poetry chapbook, From
Field to Thicket, won the Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book
Award of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and
his essay, “Haunted,” won the Rose Post Creative
Nonfiction Award from the same organization. He was recently
elected to the Board of the North Carolina Poetry Society.
Adjunct MJA Faculty
J. Thomas Edwards
Director of Public Safety and Homeland Security Training
Wake Technical Community College
Raleigh, NC
Dr. J. Thomas Edwards is currently the Director of Public
Safety and Homeland Security Training for Wake Technical
Community College. Previously, Dr. Edwards has held positions
as an Instructor/Coordinator with the North Carolina Justice
Academy, BLET School Director and Criminal Justice Curriculum
Instructor at Southeastern Community College, and BLET School
Director for the Coastal Plain Police Academy. His law enforcement
career began 1977 with the Wilson Police Department. Other
law enforcement positions have been with the Wilson County
Sheriff’s Office as the SRT Team Leader, an Agent
with the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division of North Carolina
Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, and a Military
Police Officer in the United States Army Reserves.
Dr. Edwards has a Doctor of Education, Training and Development
from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; a Master
of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University,
Mt. Pleasant, MI; and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal
Justice from North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mt.,
NC. Dr. Edwards has participated in the Oxford Round Table
for Criminal Justice and Law at Oxford University, England.
Dr. Edwards has been awarded the T. Elbert Clemmons Faculty
Award from Southeastern Community College, the Outstanding
BLET Instructor from the Coastal Plains Law Enforcement
Academy and graduated with honors in Criminal Justice from
North Carolina Wesleyan College.
Dr. Bruce Gay
Associate Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice
Program at Campbell University.
Dr. Gay holds a master
of arts in philosophy and a doctorate in criminal justice
from Sam Houston State University. Dr. Gay has been teaching
at the university level since 1993 and has taught courses
at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. At the undergraduate
level he has taught courses in policing, criminology, criminal
justice administration, investigations, profiling, juvenile
justice, gangs, terrorism, police tactics, theories of justice,
modern trial advocacy, research methods, victimology, and
ethics. At the University of Texas, Dr. Gay taught graduate
courses in research methods and critical issues in policing.
Currently, he is teaching a graduate course in school violence
threat assessment for the School of Education at Campbell
University. In addition to his academic training, Dr. Gay
has approximately 10 years of law enforcement experience
working with the following agencies: Dallas Police Department
(Dallas, Texas), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and the Houston
Police Department’s Targeted Offender Program. As
a police officer, Dr. Gay has served as a patrol officer,
a field training officer, and on the S.W.A.T. team. His
areas of training expertise include: use of force, street
survival skills, gangs, extremist groups, biological terrorism,
ethics, stress management, interviewing, and verbal deception
detection. Dr. Gay has been the recipient of several distinguished
teaching awards including: Who’s Who Among America’s
University Teachers (2002), the Enron Teaching Excellence
Award, University of Houston-Downtown (1998), Top Professor
Award, Mortar Board, University of Texas-Arlington (1997),
and Professor of the Year Award, Western Carolina University
(1995).
Dr. Richard A. S. Hall
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fayetteville State
University, a constituent institution of the University
of North Carolina, and an adjunct professor of philosophy
at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Dr. Hall received a M.A.
in philosophy from Dalhousie University and a Ph.D. in philosophy
from the University of Toronto. At the undergraduate level
he has taught a wide variety of courses including the introduction
to philosophy, ethics (including a course on ethical foundations
in criminal justice), logic, critical thinking, aesthetics
and the philosophy of art, and the history of philosophy.
He has published two books, The Ethical Foundations
of Criminal Justice (Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press/LLC
Publication, 2000), and The Neglected Northampton Texts
of Jonathan Edwards: Edwards on Society and Politics
(Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990). He has
also published articles and essays in the areas of the history
of American philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of
art, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Further, he
visits libraries, museums and art galleries throughout North
Carolina giving presentations on the history of art.
Chief Thomas McCarthy
Chief of the Fayetteville, North Carolina Police Department,
Chief McCarthy has been
Fayetteville's police chief since June of 2001. He has a
master’s degree in public administration from the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has done graduate
work at Saint Louis University. He began his police career
in Newport News, Virginia where he worked his way to the
rank of commander. From 1987 until 1993 he served as the
Gaston County Police Chief, and also served as the County's
Assistant County and Deputy County Manager from 1994 until
2001. During that time he was also privileged to serve again
as the County Police Chief from 1998 until he left for Fayetteville
in 2001. He also spent two years as the police chief in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is an adjunct professor of
Public Administration at the University of North Carolina
at Pembroke where he teaches graduate courses in Leadership
and Labor Relations. He is a graduate of the FBI National
Academy, and the FBI's Law Enforcement Executive Development
program. He is an active member of the Police Executive
Research Forum where he serves on both the legislative and
terrorism committees.
Thomas McNally
FBI Agent (Retired)
Adjunct Instructor
Department of Justice Studies
Methodist University
Fayetteville, NC
Thomas M. Moss
Chief of Police
Garner, NC
Thomas M. Moss is the Chief of Police in Garner. Garner
is a community of 24,500 residents located in Wake County
– the heart of the Research Triangle Park region of
North Carolina. He manages a staff of 65 full-time personnel
in this full service municipal community policing agency.
Chief Moss has more than 30 years of law enforcement experience.
He began his law enforcement career as a uniformed patrol
officer and ultimately spent more than four years as a crime
scene investigator. He was recognized as a fingerprint expert
in superior court and testified in numerous felony cases.
He taught full-time as a criminal justice instructor in
a North Carolina community college and served as departmental
chair of the curriculum program. While in the community
college system, he served as school director for the Basic
Law Enforcement Training program and coordinated other law
enforcement training courses. He was selected to serve as
training and personnel manager for the police department
in an eastern North Carolina community. While in this department,
he was promoted to the rank of Captain managing the support
and investigative divisions. He served as interim director
of city personnel for a brief period and was later promoted
to the rank of Assistant Chief of Police.
For the past 17 years, he has served as Chief of Police in Garner.
Chief Moss earned a Master of Public Administration degree from
East Carolina University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy
and the Municipal & County Administration Program at UNC-Chapel
Hill. He is a past president of the North Carolina Association of
Chiefs of Police and currently serves on the Governor’s Crime
Commission and the NC Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards
Commission. He has instructed law enforcement training courses in
the community college system and at the North Carolina Justice Academy.
He has taught college-level courses at both the two-year and four-year
college level and is a guest lecturer at the Institute of Government
at UNC.
Dr. Martha A. Stanford
Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy (NCJA), the
state-funded training center for criminal justice practitioners
in North Carolina.
Dr. Stanford earned her
master’s degree in education from Western Carolina
University and a doctorate in adult education with a specialty
in training and development from North Carolina State University.
In her Director’s position at the NCJA, she manages
two residential training centers with over 100 personnel
whose mission is to provide curriculum development for all
mandated law enforcement programs, as well as deliver advanced
and specialized training programs for the professional development
of criminal justice personnel. Dr. Stanford has a wealth
of experience in the criminal justice field. She began her
career working as a Program Director in an adult prison
and served as an Assistant Director of an institution housing
juvenile offenders. She served as a training manager and
instructor for the Justice Academy and then progressed to
lead the training function for the Department of Correction.
Her corrections career culminated in the position of a Regional
Administrator with the Department of Correction managing
13 prisons and 9 probation/parole districts. She has consulted
with the National Institute of Correction and taught NCJA
Management Development Program, Instructor and Advanced
Instructor courses. She has taught an undergraduate course
in corrections at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. Dr. Stanford
has given numerous presentations to both graduate and undergraduate
classes in various colleges and universities.
Representative Rick Glazier
is presently serving his first term in the North Carolina
General Assembly, and is a member of the largest freshmen
class since 1984.
Rep. Glazier practices employment
and labor law, and teaches a course on criminal evidence at Fayetteville
State University. Mr. Glazier has taught criminal justice as an
adjunct instructor at FTCC and NC State, and has been teaching courses
at Campbell University School of Law for more than a decade. Mr.
Glazier received his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1981.
He is a six-year veteran board member of the Cumberland County School
Board, serving two years as Chairman, three years as the Chair of
its Finance and Budget Committee, and co-chair of the 1997 School
Bond campaign. A strong supporter of quality public education, Mr.
Glazier has been an advisor to high school students on the Moot
Court, a scholastic appellate court competition. He has served as
the regional chair of the State Mock Trial Competition. He has served
as a board member of the Women’s Center, as well as UNC Public
Television, where he was a three-year Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Currently, Mr. Glazier is on the board of directors of the Fayetteville
Urban Ministry and the Child Advocacy Center. In 1993, Speaker of
the House Dan Blue appointed Mr. Glazier to the NC Juvenile Code
Revision Committee. During that time, Mr. Glazier was also appointed
by Governor Hunt to the Governor’s Crime Commission’s
Juvenile Justice. In the General Assembly, Mr. Glazier serves on
six House Committees: Judiciary IV (Vice-Chairman); Education; Education
Subcommittee on Pre-School, Elementary and Secondary Education;
Finance; Financial Institutions; and Health. He is also a member
of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Medical Malpractice, which meets
in the interim session. Mr. Glazier pursued these committee assignments
because they represented areas that would directly affect families
and citizens of Cumberland County. Mr. Glazier was elected to lead
the Democratic Freshman members as their Chairman. He organized
the groundbreaking ‘Listen & Learn Legislative Statewide
Bus Tour’, where the freshmen toured the state to hear citizens
talk about important issues. In 2003, Mr. Glazier was chosen as
Legislator of the Year by the NC School Guidance Counselor Association,
and was appointed to serve on the NC Actual Innocence Commission
by Co-Speaker of the House Jim Black. He has also been selected
as a Fellow by the Flemming Leadership Institute, a program funded
by the Kellogg Foundation that trains emerging state legislators
from across the 50 states. Mr. Glazier has been appointed to the
Chief Justice’s Commission on the Future of the NC Business
Court, and was the first legislator ever to win a seat in the 2004
class of Leadership NC.
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