Tag: Fischler College of Education & School of Criminal Justice

Evan Duff, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice has been named the eighth President of North Carolina Wesleyan College.

Since 2011, Dr. Duff has served in many senior leadership roles at N.C. Wesleyan including, Interim President, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Vice President of Adult and Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Duff was responsible for leading the effort to approve new majors, co-writing the College’s first graduate application to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools- Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC) and creating seven new offsite instructional locations. He was also responsible for facilitating the development of partnerships with 20 two-year and four-year colleges, which led to articulation agreements or memorandums of understanding between those colleges and N.C. Wesleyan.

He earned his doctorate degree in education from the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice in 2007.

Joaquin Martinez. Ph.D., graduate of NSU’s Fischer College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, has been named Provost and Vice President of Instruction at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). He will join CCCB on July 1, 2020.

Martinez has held a high-level leadership position at Miami Dade College (MDC). He currently serves as the district Vice Provost, with oversight for institutional effectiveness across all eight Miami Dade College (MDC) campuses. Prior to his current role, Martinez also held leadership positions at MDC for the past ten years, which include time as President of two MDC campuses, Wolfson and Hialeah, Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs, Associate Provost of Student Achievement; and Dean of Faculty and Student Services, Martinez was the founding Director of the School of Education at Albizu University, a comprehensive university offering doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees that emphasized service to diverse communities, with campuses Puerto Rico and Miami.

Dr. Martinez earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Modern Languages from Middlebury College, in Vermont. He earned his Master’s degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and Administration and Supervision at NSU’s Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice and his Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership and Research Methodology at Florida Atlantic University. He is also a past fellow of the American Association of Community Colleges’ National Community College Hispanic Council program at California State University, Long Beach.

Anthony Price, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ), was named the Junior College Adjunct Educator of the Year for the Lake Country Region, by the President of Georgia Military College. He was recognized for outstanding achievement, exceptional performance, and innovative contributions to the teaching profession at Georgia Military College during the academic year 2019-2020.

Price is a retired educator who served more than 35 years in K-12 education.  He has had unique and varied experiences in his career, spanning time in New York, Virginia and Georgia.   While Principal at Hilsman Middle School in Clarke County, Georgia, the school received the Governor’s Silver Award. Only 1 of 22 schools at that time received the prestigious award, which recognized students who met or exceeded standards in all four content areas in a school that was considered high poverty with high minority enrollment. He also started a Career Center, which was the first JROTC program for middle school students in conjunction with the high school and led the school’s first authorization for the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. Under his tenure, Cedar Shoals High School, a high poverty school in Athens, Georgia, was named by the Washington Post High School Challenge Index as being among the top 8% in the nation out of 22,000 high schools. Additionally, the school was also selected for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program in conjunction with Piedmont College. The Georgia Department of Education named the school an “AP Honor School” because of the access and performance of an underserved population. He also created and initiated the first ninth grade academy at the high school and developed an extensive summer companion program for rising ninth grade students to ease the transitional difficulties of leaving middle school and entering the ninth grade.  Finally, Price’s leadership led to the school’s authorization to become an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program for ninth and tenth graders.

He earned his Doctor of Education in 2006. Price also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the educational leadership program at FCE&SCJ. He is married to FCE&SCJ’s 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner, Noris Price.

Kevin James, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ), has been unanimously appointed the 19^th President of Morris Brown College by its board of trustees. At age 42, he is one of the youngest college presidents in the country. He has served as interim President since March 1, 2019.

Over the past fourteen months, Morris Brown College has made tremendous progress under his leadership with accreditation, governance, rebranding of the institution, partnerships, and fiscal stability.

James is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. He has resided in Atlanta, Georgia since 2015, where he was the Interim CEO of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. James has over 20 years of experience in higher education as a senior level administrator, with positions at Strayer University and Herzing University as dean of academic affairs as well as a senior dissertation advisor at Grand Canyon University

James earned his Doctorate of Higher Education with FCE&SCJ in 2009.

Brian Rick, graduate of the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice authored the horror novel, “I Am Martin.”

Brian wrote his first novel at age 12 and drew more than 120 comic books throughout his teen years. At 14, while dealing with the typical teenage angst that afflicted so many of his generation, Brian created a character, an antihero named Martin. Additionally, he is the author of “Leaving Home,” a Science-Fiction short story set in the not too distant future. He later shared the story with the Vice-President of the United States. In 2016, while living close to numerous current and former Marines, Brian published “Some of Dad’s Stories,” a 43-chapter anthology about his father’s experiences in war and peace. “Some of Dad’s Stories” is now available at Barnes&Noble.Com.

He attributes his father as being the greatest influence in his life as well as his former Imaginative Writing professor and best-selling author, James Lee Burke. Brian also considers Stephen King, Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) and Michael Crichton to be his mentors.

Brian earned an M.S. from the Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice  in 1999. He and his wife, Angel, live in Lakeland, FL with their two dogs: Brandy and Sam.