College of Professional Studies
Dean
Martha Muñoz, Ph.D.
Administration and Faculty
Mission
As part of Bellevue University’s regional leadership in innovative education, the College of Professional Studies was established in 1987 to offer working adult students accelerated ways to complete a full four-year bachelor’s program.
The goal is to offer students whose family, work, and civic responsibilities would otherwise prevent them from continuing their college education, the opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree through majors offered in an accelerated format and through additional, academically proven forms of learning.
As the first institution of higher learning in the area to offer this educational alternative, Bellevue University developed a wealth of knowledge and experience in both the academic and the administrative issues essential to students’ success in accelerated classes.
The College of Professional Studies specializes in developing and offering challenging, rigorous, relevant majors, and courses of particular interest and value to working adults.
The College of Professional Studies offers Bachelor of Science programs with an emphasis on putting business education to work. Majors in the College of Professional Studies combine the best of academic theory and knowledge with leading edge business practices. The Professional Studies curriculum includes several majors that are broadly applicable to business in general, as well as several focused on specific business environments.
Classes in the College of Professional Studies emphasize active learning. The College acknowledges a diversity of methods and means through which adults may achieve college-level learning, and accordingly, it credits bona fide learning from many sources toward the degrees it confers.
College of Professional Studies Majors
Undergraduate Accelerated Programs
- Adult Education
- Business
- Business Analysis and Management
- Correctional Administration and Management
- Criminal Justice Administration
- Early Childhood Program Management
- Health Care Management
- Human and Social Service Administration
- Investigations
- Leadership
- Legal Studies
- Logistics Management
- Management
- Management of Human Resources
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing Management
- Organizational Systems Management
- Project Management
- Security Management
Graduate Programs
- Master of Arts in Leadership
- Master of Healthcare Administration
- Master of Science in Justice Administration and Criminal Management
- Master of Public Administration
- Master of Science in Instructional Design & Development
- Master of Science in Organizational Performance
- Master of Science in Security Management
Administration and Faculty
Administration Team
- Gail Ortegren, Corporate Academic Liaison
- Corina Snyder, Senior Administrative Assistant
- Marilyn Urquhart, Administrative Assistant II
- Kerree Taylor, Administrative Assistant II
- Linda Dodson, College Coordinator
- Jean Liles, College Coordinator
- Sabine Bender, College Secretary
Faculty
- Gregory Allen, Ph.D. (in progress)
- Michelle Bahr, M.A.
- Janice Brown, M.S.
- Michael Butera, M.S.
- David Byers, Ph.D.
- Robert Cook, M.S.
- Robert E. Gregory, Ph.D. (in progress)
- Edward R. Haynes, Ph.D. (in progress)
- Pamela Imperato, Ph.D.
- Stephanie LaPuma, M.B.A., Ph. D. (in progress)
- John C. Leber, M.S.
- Stephen J. Linenberger, M.A., Ph.D. (in progress)
- Angela Longe, Ph.D. (in progress)
- Michelle Lounsbery, J.D.
- Sheryl M. Okash, M.B.A.
- John Patterson, J.D., M.B.A.
- Nikki Pierce, Ed.D. (in progress)
- James A. Smith, Ph.D. (in progress)
- Louis Soukup, Ph.D. (in progress)
- Anissa Stein, M.B.A., M.S., Ph.D. (in progress)
- Julie Taylor-Costello, Ph.D.
- Delight V. Wreed, M.S.