Professor Alexander in the Media

In addition to teaching his regular classes, Dr. Alexander has been busy with media appearances. He has been interviewed on several occasions by WLIO, and has also had an interview aired on CNBC. (click link to see interview)

Alexander is gaining a stellar reputation as a scholar of the Electoral College and is the go-to-guy for local networks and papers.

Football in American History Class Visits Hall of Fame

Several students from the Football in American History course, along with students from the PMCP and Technology visited the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton. In the photos, students play the video games, and students from Saudi Arabia pose with their country on the wall listing all of the places where NFL football has fans.

Criminal Justice and PMCP Host Heroin Panel Discussions

On November 14, the History, Politics and Justice Department hosted a panel focusing on issues involving schools and prevention related to Heroin.

Panelists for this event included:

Lorrie Lewandowski, Wood County ATOD School and Community Based Prevention Program Coordinator and Supervisor

Brenda Jennings, Kenton City Schools Nurse

This and the following panels contain aspects of heroin use, abuse, addiction, and treatment related to many different majors and fields of interest and we encourage your attendance!!!

Dr. Crawford Received Grant from Ohio Humanities Council

The $1,000 grant was to support the first ONU Social Studies Day, that was held on November 11, 2011 (Veterans Day). over 100 teachers and students attended sessions during the day, including two classes from Piqua High School led by Mr. Dustin Hornbeck and a colleague from the school.

The next Social Studies will be held on April 13 and since this is an election year, as well as the first one that many high school students will be eligible to take part in, we plan to focus on that topic. Speakers from our department will talk about the historical nastiness of elections, the workings of the Electoral College, and provide a student’s view of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. We hope to give teachers a deeper background in their subjects and to provide students with a greater appreciation for the same. The day will start at 9:00 AM and conclude at 2:00 PM, with an hour break for lunch.

Porfessor Nsia-Pepra Published in Distinguished Journal

Dr. Nsia's article Robust Peacekeeping? - Panacea for Human Rights Violations has just been published in the highly esteemed Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Vol. 18, No. 2 Fall 2011, pages 263-290. Click on the link above to read the full article.

The paper examines the emerging conviction that United Nations robust peacekeeping- a strong and forceful peacekeeping force- works better than UN traditional peacekeeping mechanism in reducing human rights violation, specifically, civilian killing, in areas of deployment. Using both negative binomial and logit regression statistical models, the paper finds that United Nations robust peacekeeping lowers civilian killings. Mission size is also associated with lower numbers of civilian killings. Great power participation, peacekeeper diversity and affinity with the host state, along with identity conflicts and at least proto-democratic status of the host state appear to be harbingers of potentially higher deliberate civilian killing total. The findings have both theoretical and policy implications in the field of peacekeeping.

Mock Trial in Action

The winners were: Franklin Howard, Outstanding Attorney; Lauren Lightcap, Outstanding Witness, Caitlin Higgins, Outstanding Witness, and Lisa Bradley, Outstanding Witness.

Student and Professors Publish Chapter

Kevin Cieplowski, BA ’09, from Garfield Heights, Ohio, Dr. Harry J. Wilson, visiting professor of geography at ONU, and Dr. Seungmug Lee, assistant professor at Western Illinois University, are co-authors of a chapter in the new book “Crime Prevention.”

Chapter 8, “Spatial Analysis of Property Crimes, Foreclosure and Other Socio-Economic Variables: An Examination of Garfield Heights, Ohio” details the work the three authors performed on the relationship between property crime, residential mortgage foreclosures and environment in Garfield Heights, Ohio, between 2004 and 2009. Their research used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial statistical methods to illuminate areas within the community that are in danger of becoming blighted.

The 440-page book is written by a collection of scholarly experts and presents significant issues related to contemporary crime prevention efforts. The textbook is written for courses within a criminal justice or sociology curriculum