Organizational Leadership Faculty

experts in their respected fields

Jeff Bailey is an organizational change and development consultant with CherryRoad Technologies. He has been consulting on organizational change and development matters for nearly eleven years, which included two and a half years with Blackwell Consulting Services at State Farm in the Systems Department and with KC Management Group in Chicago. Additional professional experiences include Dr. Bailey as an instructional designer and training manager for approximately eight years that started with the Arthur Andersen professional development center in St. Charles, IL. His leadership training started with a four year stint on active duty with the US Army as a tactical communications officer with the 1st Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, KS. His military experience is a foundation of his organizational leadership knowledge and practice but he has learned and practiced leadership in a variety of cultures and learns more about other cultures from each student in the program. Dr. Bailey has extensive experience with cohort programs as he earned his PhD in the cohort program at Benedictine University in suburban Lisle, IL where he also advised master’s degree students in cohort programs at BU. Dr. Bailey lives with his wife Becky and four dogs in Kappa.

Dr. Ann Fulop

Associate Professor of Psychology specializes in human-technology interaction and innovation. She has worked in several industries including aeronautics, telecommunications, computing and insurance. She has presented research papers at Human Factors Society conferences. Ann is happy to guide students through their research projects. B.A. Boston College; M.S. and Ph.D. Old Dominion University. email

Dr. Scott Hemmenway

Professor of Philosophy, has written numerous articles and conference papers on Plato's philosophy, has presented his work in England and has been awarded two summer research grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He recently spent a sabbatical leave as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. He is currently working on a monograph about the myth of Atlantis. Besides offering courses in philosophy, Dr. Hemmenway teaches Ancient Greek, chairs the Humanities division, and coordinates the Honors Program. B.A. Wesleyan University; M.A. and Ph.D. Penn State University. email

Kathleen Melcher received her B.S. in Psychology, and her M.S. in Industrial/Organizational-Social, and Quantitative Psychology from Illinois State University. She conducts research on person-job fit, work-stress tolerance differences between employees who leave versus continue employment, and issues related to applicant response
distortion in pre-employment personality testing. She has presented research at university, regional, and national conferences. Kathleen has conducted evaluations of organizations, focusing on improving the organization's functioning for two separate departments of a large Midwestern university, and has analyzed the compensation system for a local division of a national non-profit organization.

Dr. Junius Rodriguez

Associate Professor of History, and division chair, specializes in African American History and has done extensive research on slave revolts. He has published several award winning reference encyclopedias on various aspects of the history of slavery and also developed a History Channel documentary on slavery. He was the 1997 recipient of the Helen Cleaver Distinguished Teaching Award. B.A. Nicholls State University; M.A. Louisiana State University; Ph.D. Auburn University. email | website

Dr. Michael Toliver

Professor Mike Toliver, Professor of Biology and division director, is an entomologist and evolutionary biologist interested in the ecology and evolution of butterflies. His current research involves sexual selection in Hackberry Butterflies, and variations of individual behavior in the Olympia Marble butterfly. He contributed most of the butterfly chapters to Fred Stehr's Immature Insects and is the primary author of a book on the butterflies of New Mexico. He is past editor of the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society and is currently one of the Lepidoptera editors for Zootaxa. He is the Secretary of the Lepidopterists' Society, an international science society dedicated to the study and conservation of butterflies and moths. In addition to his work on butterflies, he often writes and speaks about his experience as a marine in an infantry battalion during the Viet Nam War. B.S., biology, University of New Mexico, M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology, University of Illinois. email | website