Education
 

University of Iowa   MA, Political Science, 1983 & PhD, Political Science, 1986	Iowa State University   BS, Economics, 1980 & MPA, Public Administration, 1981

B.C. (Before College)

(Read from the bottom up; it will make more sense.)

Des Moines (IA) North High   [solidified a social conscience; supported McCarthy; good-bye B-ball]
Ottumwa (IA) High   [biology, geometry & more B-ball; went through an A. Rand period -- who doesn't?]

Fort Madison (IA) Junior High   [discovered public libraries; saw racial discrimination; lots of B-ball]
Macomb (IL) Edison Junior High  [flunked the Mississippi literacy test; so did everyone else in 9th grade]
Cedar Rapids (IA) Roosevelt Jr. High  [soc. studies & economics were interesting; JHS football & wrestling]

Cedar Rapids (IA) Fillmore Elementary   [summer recreation programs gave life purpose]
Iowa City (IA) Henry Sabin Elementary   [JD period; ran around UI campus w/o knowing what it was!]
West Branch (IA) Elementary   [Hoover's birthplace; noticed social class; grilled chess tasted so good!]
Clear Lake (IA) Elementary   [lucky I didn't drown on the melting ice; played ball in the ballroom lot]
Boone (IA) Elementary   [organized football, only one team 1st-8th grades; we were tackling dummies!]
Ward's Spring (MN) School  [1-room school house, 12 grades, 10 students, 1 teacher, only 2nd grader]
Mason City (IA) Washington Elementary   [watched Sputnik; grew snapdragons; loved the Milw. Braves]
 
 

Let's Hear It for Public Education.  I Can't Complain.

"What you have not absorbed by the time you reach
the age of eighteen you will never absorb. It is finished.
You will be able to develop what you have absorbed.
You will be able to make something or  nothing at all of it,
but your time for absorption is over and for the rest of your
life you will be branded by your childhood."

                            Belgian novelist Georges Simenon

	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, & PROFESSOR, Miami University, 1986-PRESENT
	VISITING INSTRUCTOR, Kansas State University, 1985-1986
	VISITING INSTRUCTOR, Cornell College, SPRING 1985
	INSTRUCTOR, University of Iowa, SATURDAY & EVENING PROGRAM, 1983-1984
	GRADUATE ASSISTANT, Iowa State University (1980) & University of Iowa (1981-1984)

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