Presenters
Vicky Bowden is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Director of the Honors Program at Azusa Pacific University. Dr. Bowden served as the chair of the Academic Freedom Task Force at APU.
Jane Buck taught as professor of psychology at Delaware State University from 1969 to 1998. She served as president of the AAUP from 2000-2006, the first national president to serve three terms, the first from an historically black institution, and the first from a collective bargaining chapter.
William J. Byron, S.J., former president of the University of Scranton and The Catholic University of America, is a Jesuit priest, educator, economist, and author.
Pamela L. Caughie is Professor and Graduate Program Director in English and an Associate Faculty Member in Women’s Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is author of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself (1991) and Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility (1999), and editor of Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2000).
Linda J. Collier has been an attorney licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 1991. She received both her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and her Juris Doctorate in law from Howard University in Washington, DC. Additionally, she holds a Master’s in Sociology/Criminal Justice from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA. She is Dean of Public Services and Social Sciences at DCCC.
Richard M. Jacobs is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Public Administration at Villanova University and is recognized nationally for his research and publications in the area of Catholic educational leadership. At Villanova, Jacobs teaches courses in organization theory, leadership, ethics, philosophy of education, and research methods.
Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center http://thirdcoastactivist.org. His latest book is Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007).
Adam Kissel is Director of the Individual Rights Defense Program at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He is ABD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he has focused on theories of liberal education and on interdisciplinary rhetoric.
Anne Neal, one of the founders of ACTA in 1995, became president of ACTA in 2004. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in American History and Literature and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as the chief editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
Mary Refling completed her Ph.D. studies in Medieval Italian Literature at Columbia University. For ten years she taught Italian at Fordham University in the Bronx as a Clinical Assistant Professor.
Clare Robinson is the Program Officer of Scholars at Risk (SAR), an international network of universities and colleges promoting academic freedom and defending the human rights of scholars and their communities worldwide. Ms. Robinson oversees SAR's domestic network development and organizes placements, research and events within the US.
Susan Scalzi has her BA in Education and is completing her MA in Healthcare Administration. She has taught at DCCC for 8 years.
Paul Von Blum is Senior Lecturer in African American studies, Communication Studies and Art History at UCLA. He has taught at the University of California for 38 years and is the recipient of two Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Awards (Berkeley and UCLA).
Dr. David Wright is Dean of the School of Theology, and Professor in the Higher Education Leadership Department at Azusa Pacific University. He has served as a faculty member and in a variety of administrative positions both in the United States and abroad.
