Faculty Service
The faculty in the division serve the greater Sacramento community in a variety of ways. Tim Capron is actively involved in HomeStart which provides housing to homeless families. This unique organization focuses specifically on families and requires that parents actively participate in completing their GED, job training, drug treatment and rehabilitation.
Roland Dart has served as a consultant for the California Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training, Pro Bono review of 5 year plan for California Department of Consumer Affairs, and on the panel to develop a police review process for the City of Sacramento .
Laurie Kubicek and Yvette Farmer have both focused their energy volunteering their time and talents to assist at-risk children in the community. Yvette Farmer has coordinated a donation program that collects school supplies from office supply stores and then distributes those supplies to schools in South Sacramento with significant numbers of at-risk children and children living in poverty. Laurie Kubicek provides advice and support to the Board of the GreenHouse Community Enrichment Center in South Natomas . She coordinated a silent auction in the spring of 2005 which raised over $4,200 to fund after school tutoring programs for at-risk elementary, jr. high and high school students. Each summer since 2003 Laurie has taught an intensive four week legal research and writing course at the School of Law at UC Davis in their King Hall Outreach Program. This program is designed to assist disadvantaged students who want to attend law school.
Ricky Gutierrez administers a community outreach program that is affiliated with the division called “Sac-Mentoring.” The program partners our college students with high school students from area schools who are at-risk. The program trains the college students to be mentors, and provides opportunities for them to meet with their mentees throughout the semester. The program is extremely successful and has been awarded significant grant support so that it can continue.
Lynette Lee provides area employers with interns through our division's internship program. It is an extremely effective teaching tool for our majors, providing them with field experience as part of their academic experience, while providing a valuable service to numerous state, federal and local agencies, as well as non-profit organizations.
Hugh Wilson meets monthly with the Director of the Drug and Truancy Prevention Program for the San Juan Unified School as an advisor. They discuss means to discuss and reduce problems of drug abuse, truancy, and others issue placing students at risk within the school district. This relationship has resulted in placing CSUS Criminal Justice Students there as counselors. Hugh personally recruits, screens, and helps qualify CSUS students as part of a hiring out-reach program conducted by the Marin County Sheriff's Dept. after leaving there as a lieutenant to come to CSUS. He arranges the testing, oral interviews, and orientation processes which are all conducted at CSUS. CSUS now has numerous graduates employed as deputies there working in all capacities. Hugh also conducts drug abuse recognition training for public employers and schools and speaks publicly on drug abuse and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Currently Alice Choi is the vice president of the board of directors of Asian Pacific Community Counseling and a member of Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento. She joined the Board of Directors of Asian Pacific Community Counseling (APCC) in April, 2003. APCC is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide mental health and social services to the underprivileged Asian/Pacific community. APCC also performs outreach by providing after-school drug prevention programs and educational seminars on health issues. Alice is a member of the UCLA Alumni Association, Scholarship Committee, for the Sacramento Region. She volunteered and assisted registrants at the First Annual Leveraging Our Diversity: A Multi-Cultural Business Forum organized by the Alliance and Valley Vision in Sacramento , CA in 2004. In she served as a judge in an appellate advocacy competition, Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition, held at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
William Vizzard has served as president of the Sacramento chapter of the American Society for Public Administration, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Regional Community Policing Institute, reviewer for Law and Politics Review, advisor to the Sacramento City Manager of selection procedures for Chief of Police and witness for several legislative committees. In addition he has served as a source on gun control and federal law enforcement to numerous media including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, New Hour, History Channel, Discovery Channel and National Public Radio.
Cecil Canton serves as the 2005-2006 President of the campus chapter of CFA, on the Board of Directors of Youth Guidance Connection of Sacramento and on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission of Sacramento County.
Ernest Uwazie has a long history of service programs in conflict resolution for numerous African nations and has brought many high level officials and prominent litigators from Africa to this country for training in conflict resolution.
Examples of other faculty who have contributed their professional expertise to the larger community include
- Bruce Bikle has served as a volunteer advisor to Contra Costa County on jail reentry programs and reviewer of correctional training for the National Institute of Justice.
- Donald Dixon is playing a key role in developing the handbook and national accreditation process for crime analysts.
- David Swim serves as an advisor to numerous law enforcement employee organizations on labor issues.
- Michael McCrystle served on the Governor's Task Force on SWAT training standards.
