Al Alt
Program: MS Higher Education
Al Alt is currently the Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services for Yuba Community College District. He also serves an affiliate faculty in the Master of Science in Higher Education Program at Drexel University, Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento. He currently manages Human Resources, Fiscal Services, Police, Purchasing and Contracts and Facilities Construction in this capacity.
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Ed Arnheiter, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration, Masters in Finance
Formerly a New England resident, Dr. Arnheiter earned a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also earned a masters degree in Engineering Management. Arnheiter received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
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Mary Bardes, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration
Mary Bardes is an Assistant Professor of Management at Drexel University. Her primary research interests include workplace deviance and destructive leader behaviors. She has published research articles in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Professor Bardes teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behavior and leadership. She has a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management from the University of Central Florida.
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Zekarias Berhane, PhD
Program: Master of Public Health
Zekarias Berhane received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Addis Ababa University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He worked as a Post Doctoral Associate on the development of a Generalized Model for Post Transplant Survival and collaborative work on analyzing Medicare Database focusing on ICU deaths in the Medicare population at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Darryl R. Brown, PhD
Program: Master of Public Health
Dr. Darryl Brown received his PhD in Health Services and Outcomes Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an MPA degree in Health Services Management from the Wagner School at New York University.
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W. Edward Bureau, PhD
Program: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Dr. Ed Bureau began serving students, colleagues, and programs of the School of Education in 2006 as an Associate Clinical Professor. Teaching courses in the EdD program, Dr.Bureau focuses on developing the leadership of individuals and the capacities for sustainable change in organizations.
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Holly Burkett, PhD
Program: MS Human Resource Development
Dr. Holly Burkett, SPHR, CPT is an Adjunct Professor for the Human Resource Development (HRD) program at Drexel University. She is also Principal of Evaluation Works in Davis, California and is certified as both an ROI professional and a performance technologist. Dr. Burkett has over 20 years of progressive achievement in multiple facets of human resource management, human resource development, human performance technology, performance improvement, workplace learning, and organization development.
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Toni Carbo, PhD
Program: MS Library and Information Science
Dr. Toni Carbo joins Drexel from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences (SIS), the iSchool - where she served as dean for 16 years, and as the director of the Institute for Information Ethics and Policy and the ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellows program. She held a joint appointment in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA).
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Holly Carpenter, PhD
Program: MS Higher Education, EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Dr. Holly Carpenter is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Higher Education at Drexel University. She has held positions in the area of student affairs, research administration, and policy analysis. Some of the institutions/organizations she has worked for include Harvard Graduate School of Business, California State University - Fullerton, University of California – Irvine, the Arizona Board of Regents, Arizona State University and Texas A&M University.
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José Luis Chávez, EdD
Program: MS Higher Education, EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Dr. José Luis Chávez joined the School of Education in Sacramento as the lead professor of the Master of Science in Higher Education Program. Dr. Chávez brings 28 years of experience in education, ranging from K–12 public schools to community colleges to four-year universities, where he served in various administrative positions in student services and academic affairs.
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William Clarke
Program: MS Higher Education
William Clarke earned his Master of Management degree in 1981 from Webster University and has 31 years of experience in education, including 25 years managing and supervising educational opportunity and equity programs includes working at the Community College, State University, and University levels. Mr. Clarke served as the Director of Educational Support Programs at Sonoma State University for twenty-one years before retiring. He owns and operates a national educational consulting firm Clarke & Associates in California.
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Wendy Combs, PhD
Program: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Wendy Combs, Ph.D., PMP, is an adjunct faculty member. Wendy has an exceptional track record of building and developing global teams to meet business goals and produce outstanding results. She has worked in public education as a School Psychologist and in a training leadership capacity in several high tech companies (most notably Intel Corporation).
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Qizhi Dai, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration
Qizhi Dai is an associate professor of management at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. Qizhi earned her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include strategic and economic impacts of information systems, value of information systems, IT standards and standardization, and e-business.
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Ravi Dasu, PhD
Program: Interdepartmental Medical Science (IMS)
Dr. Dasu joined the inaugural IMS Program in Fall 2010 as an Adjunct Faculty, specializing in the areas of Medical Biochemistry and Immunology.
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Carl Drott, PhD
Program: MS Information Systems
Associate Professor M. Carl Drott joined the Drexel faculty in 1971. Dr. Drott teaches INFO 515 Action Research and Statistics as part of the IS program.
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Daryn Eikner, MS
Program: Master of Public Health
Professor Eikner has an accomplished career in public health programs, training and performance at the federal and local levels. She has served as a faculty member at the Drexel University School of Public Health since 2006 facilitating classes that address behavioral assessment, community assessment, and program planning and evaluation.
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Salvatore V. Falletta, EdD
Program: MS Human Resource Development, EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Dr. Salvatore Falletta is an Associate Professor and serves as the Director for the Human Resource Development (HRD) program at Drexel University. He advises and teaches graduate students in HRD and the Doctoral program (Ed.D.) at Drexel's Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, CA; he also teaches courses online for the MS in HRD program. In collaboration with his colleagues at Drexel, Dr. Falletta is establishing an evidence-based HRD research institute and concomitant agenda for the university.
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Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD
Program: Master of Public Health
Arthur L. Frank received his M.D. degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the City University of New York. He was trained in both internal medicine and occupational medicine and holds board certification in both fields.
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Dennis Gallagher, MA, MPA
Program: Master of Public Health
Dennis Gallagher is an Associate Professor, and Director of Health Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health. Prior to coming to Drexel, Professor Gallagher had a 27-year career with the federal government, working with four agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in management and public health policy positions.
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Jacqueline Garner, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration
Dr. Jacqueline Garner has been at The LeBow College of Business at Drexel University since 2002. She is an Associate Professor of Finance and currently serves as Ph.D. Coordinator in her department and currently teaching FIN 601 to the first LEAD MBA cohort.
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Kathy Geller, PhD
Program: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Kathy D. Geller, Ph.D. joined the faculty of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Management at Drexel's Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies as Assistant Clinical Professor. Bringing breadth and depth as a scholar - practitioner in adult learning, human resource development and leadership, Dr. Geller leaves her role as Associate Vice President for Learning and Organizational Effectiveness at Stanford University to join the Drexel faculty team.
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Ramya Ghosh, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration, Masters in Finance
Ramya Ghosh joined the Center for Graduate Studies in Fall 2010 as Assistant Clinical Professor of Economics. He teaches BUS 507, BUSN 508, ECON 601 and INTB 620.
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Rose Giordano, PhD
Program: Interdepartmental Medical Science (IMS)
Dr. Rose Giordano, a Philadelphia native, holds a Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Science from Drexel University and a doctorate in Nutritional Biology from the University of California, Davis. Over the past five years, she has guest lectured and performed research on the cardiovascular system in athletes through patients with advanced heart disease.
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Sean Goggins, PhD
Program: MS Information Systems
Assistant Professor Sean P. Goggins joined the iSchool faculty in September 2009. Dr. Goggins teaches INFO 616 Computer-Supported Co-Op Work as part of the IS program.
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John Gould, PhD
Program: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Dr. Gould has more than 30 years of in-depth experience in the educational field, in which he has specialized on issues surrounding systemic change, curriculum development and the effective implementation of new technologies in the classroom. He has recently retired from the superintendency in Pennsylvania and serves as associate clinical professor at Drexel University, teaching courses in educational administration at both the master's and doctoral levels. He is also coordinating Drexel's work with the Business Higher Education Forum and the Philadelphia School District's charter schools.
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Peter Grillo, PhD
Program: MS Information Systems
Assistant Teaching Professor Peter Grillo joined the iSchool faculty in June 2004. Dr. Grillo teaches INFO 631 Information Technology Integration as part of the IS program.
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Sally Hamilton, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration, Masters in Finance
Dr. Hamilton has local ties to the region, graduating from UC Davis with a B.A. in International Relations. She later received her MBA at the University of San Diego and went on to earn her Ph.D at UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management. Dr. Hamilton joins the Drexel staff after serving the last 2½ years as a full-time assistant professor of finance for South University College of Business, headquartered in Savannah Georgia.
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Mary E. Hovinga, PhD, MPH
Program: Master of Public Health
Mary Hovinga received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Michigan. Her main areas of research interest include the surveillance and etiology of mental retardation, environmental epidemiology, and the human health effects of heavy metals, PCBs and DDT.
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Kathryn Jeffery, PhD
Program: MS Higher Education
Dr. Kathryn E. Jeffery was appointed president of Sacramento City College (SCC) in March 2008. Earlier in her career, she had been a counselor and adjunct music instructor at SCC.
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Mary Ellen Kassotakis, EdD
Program: MS Human Resource Development
Dr. Mary Ellen Kassotakis is an Adjunct Professor for the Human Resource Development (HRD) program at Drexel University. She also serves as the Director of the Leadership Center of Expertise within Oracle's Global Organization and Talent Development group. Dr. Kassotakis has more than twenty years of experience in large, global companies; her areas of expertise include leadership development, organization development consulting, diversity, leadership coaching, change management, and strategic planning.
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Benjamin Lev , PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration
Dr. Benjamin Lev is Professor and Head of Decision Sciences at LeBow College of Business. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining Drexel university Dr. Lev held academic and administrative positions at Temple University, University of Michigan-Dearborn and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of OMEGA-The International journal of Management Science; Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management; serves on several other journal editorial boards. He published five books, numerous articles and organized many national and international conferences.
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Jiexun Jason Li, PhD
Program: MS Information Systems
Assistant Professor Jiexun Jason Li joined the iSchool faculty in Fall 2007. Dr. Li teaches INFO 605 Intro to Database Management as part of the IS program.
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Frank Linnehan, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration
Dr. Frank Linnehan is an Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Programs at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business and Professor of Management in the Department of Management. Dr. Linnehan received his PhD in Human Resources Administration from Temple University and has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Human Resources, Compensation, Organization Behavior, Leadership and Management. Prior to receiving his PhD, Dr. Linnehan worked for seventeen years in both line and Human Resource management in the financial services industry.
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Ray Lum, MS
Program: Master of Public Health
Ray Lum is an Associate Teaching Professor with eighteen years of academic experience in the Department of Health Management and Policy within the School of Public Health at Drexel University where he teaches courses in health management and policy. He has been affiliated with projects in the areas of reducing health disparities in the Asian population as well as management issues related to continuous quality improvement, strategic planning and strategic alliances.
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Jackie Alcalde Marr, MS
Program: MS Human Resource Development
Jackie Alcalde Marr, MHROD, CPCC is an Adjunct Professor for the Human Resource Development program at Drexel University. In addition, she has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco for ten years, teaching organization development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Brian Moffitt, EdD
Program: MS Human Resource Development, EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Dr. Brian Moffitt is an adjunct professor for Human Resource Development (HRD) for Drexel University. He advises and teaches graduate students in HRD and the Doctoral program (Ed.D.).
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Daniel O'Meara
Program: MS Higher Education
Daniel O’Meara is the Director of the Cochise College TRiO Student Support Services program in Douglas, AZ. He also serves as affiliate faculty in the Master of Science in Higher Education Program at Drexel University, Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento. Daniel has held leadership positions in such diverse institutions such as the Michlalah Le Minhal in Tel-Aviv, Israel and Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Administration at Drexel University.
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Nader Oweis
Program: MS Higher Education
Nader Oweis is the Chief of Police with the University of California, Santa Cruz Police Department. He has over 18 years of law enforcement experience working at institutions of higher education. In addition to his law enforcement responsibilities, Oweis has consulted for state and local governments, and has also participated on several public commissions and work groups to effectively engage university and community groups to work more efficiently.
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Fariborz Partovi, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration
Prof. Partovi received his PhD in Management Science from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He published over 25 papers in referee journals, presented papers at INFORMS, DSI and other conferences. He was the 2007 Research Fellow at LeBow College of Business.
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Hernando Perez, PhD, MPH
Program: Master of Public Health
Dr. Hernando Perez is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and serves as director of the Drexel School of Public Health's industrial hygiene consulting service. He is also board certified in safety by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.
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Michael Poindexter
Program: MS Higher Education
Mr. Poindexter serves as Vice President of Student Services at Sacramento City College. He also serves as affiliate faculty in the Master of Science in Higher Education Program at Drexel University, Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento With more than 22 years of administrative experience, Mr. Poindexter has led an exceptional career, serving in both two-year and four-year institutional environments. During his tenure at Kingsborough Community College (KBCC), the Student Affairs Division held the highest student satisfaction rate of all community colleges in CUNY.
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Victoria Rosario
Program: MS Higher Education
Victoria Rosario is the Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Services at Los Rios Community College District. She also serves an affiliate faculty in the Master of Science in Higher Education Program at Drexel University, Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento. She also teaches in the Educational Leadership Master of Art's program at California State University, Sacramento.
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Raja Roy, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration
Dr. Raja Roy joined Drexel University in 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Dr. Roy teaches Managing Technological Innovation at the graduate level and is currently teaching MGMT 602 to the first cohort of Sacramento LEAD MBA students. His research includes the following: What explains heterogeneous firm performances during technological changes? What explains heterogeneous firm strategies during technological changes? What are the effects of firm capabilities on firm strategy during technological changes? These are the broad research questions that drive Dr. Roy’s intellectual curiosity.
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Leon Schjoedt, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration, Masters in Finance
Born in Denmark, Dr. Schjoedt comes to Drexel with considerable international teaching experience. He spent two years teaching at Copenhagen Business School and also taught four summers at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Schjoedt served the last two years as a business professor at the University of Central Florida, where he taught entrepreneurship, strategic innovation management, and strategic management.
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Ken Scislaw, PhD
Program: Masters Business Administration, Masters in Finance
Dr. Scislaw entered the academic profession after two decades of work in institutional investments, including Merrill Lynch trading in New York, Templeton Investment Counsel in both Florida and the Bahamas, and his own institutional investment consulting firm. He has worked with retail, institutional, buy-side, sell-side, and academic and investment research segments of the finance profession.
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Bernadine Sikorski, PhD
Program: MS Human Resource Development
Dr. Bernadine Sikorski has been teaching in an adjunct faculty capacity in the MS in Human Resource Development program since 2008. She has written and taught three of the core courses in Drexel's MS in HRD degree. She plays a vital role in both the Philadelphia Drexel program and the Sacramento program.
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David Stewart, MS
Program: Masters Business Administration
David Stewart joined Drexel University's LeBow College of Business in 2002 as Director of LeBow's Professional MBA Program. As Senior Director for Graduate Programs in Business, he contributed to LeBow's significant rise in the rankings over the past five years. Working with LeBow faculty leaders and administration, he successfully planned, developed and launched LeBow's innovative Evening Accelerated Drexel (LEAD) MBA Program in 2004 which was recognized among the top 10 part-time MBA programs in the world by Business Week magazine in 2007.
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Jennifer Sweeney, PhD
Program: MS Library and Information Science
Adjunct faculty member Jennifer K. Sweeney, PhD teaches INFO 515 Research in Information Organizations as well as INFO 688 The Instructional Role of the Information Specialist, both for the LIS program.
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Catherine T. Tamse, PhD
Program: Interdepartmental Medical Science (IMS)
In August
2010, Dr. Tamse joined the inaugural Interdepartmental Medical Science (IMS)
Program of Drexel University College of Medicine, and serves as faculty at IMS Sacramento.
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Seth Welles, PhD, ScD
Program: Master of Public Health
Dr. Seth Welles has worked for more than 14 years to understand the impact of HIV phenotypic and genotypic antiretroviral drug resistance on HIV disease progression and transmission. Dr. Welles also studies psychosocial risk for HIV infection and STDs among sexual minority adults and adolescents. He has conducted random surveys of sexual minority adults at community festivals and at health-clinics to assess demographic and psychosocial determinants of sexual risk-taking and HIV/STD infections and has recently developed Internet-based and audio-Computer-Assisted Interviewing (A-CASI) technologies for recruitment and data collection in sexual minority populations. He is committed to community-based participatory research and has a demonstrated interest in working with marginalized populations. Dr. Welles' research has been funded by both NIH and the CDC.
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Angelo Williams, EdD
Program: MS Higher Education
Angelo Williams serves as affiliate faculty in the Master of Science in Higher Education Program at Drexel University's Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento. He has taught at the Master of Art's in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Williams brings over fifteen years of experience in education administration and policy ranging from K-12 public school districts as well as community college and state universities.
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Steven Winlock, EdD
Program: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Dr. Winlock has been involved in education for more than three decades as a teacher, vice principal, principal, and most recently as an Associate Superintendent in the Elk Grove Unified School District. He has also been an adjunct professor in the area of school administration and teacher credentialing programs at both Sacramento State and San Francisco State.
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Valerie Yonker, PhD
Program: MS Information Systems
Associate Teaching Professor Valerie Ann Yonker joined the iSchool in Fall 2004. Dr. Yonker teaches INFO 530 Foundations of Information Systems as part of the IS program.
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