Dr. Tinsley is a counselor educator as well as a practitioner in private practice.  Her interdisciplinary areas of counseling, research, and publications include multicultural issues in counseling, multicultural training and organizational development, spiritual counseling, sports counseling, and youth, adolescent, and adult development through sports.  Learn more.

Dr. Mitchem is widely known for her research in special education and autism spectrum disorder. She currently is studying the use of electronic performance support tools to support students with learning disabilities, behavioral disorders and autism. Dr. Mitchem holds the Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Endowed Chair in Education. Learn more.

"The special needs students I work with inspire me each day, and I am privileged to be in their company. I hope to pass this passion on to the next generation of special educators."

Director of the Institute of Criminological and Forensic Sciences at Cal U, Dr. Cencich is a member of the General Assembly's Study on Wrongful Convictions and president of the International Association of War Crimes Investigators. A decorated police veteran and investigator, he has investigated international war crimes and has special expertise in forensic law, gambling device examination, analysis of racketeering records and interrogation of criminal suspects. Dr. Cencich teaches courses in law, criminal justice and special crimes, and he is acting dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research.
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"The Institute of Criminological and Forensic Sciences offers a wide range of  professional services for police officers, detectives, district attorneys, coroners, public defenders and others involved in the administration of justice."

Dr. O'Connor is an experienced health care professional, as well as an educator. She led the steering committee that developed Cal U's new online master's degree program in nursing administration and leadership. Dr. O'Connor also serves as coordinator and teaches across the curriculum in Cal U's Bachelor of Science in nursing program. Learn more.

"The new MSN program responds to the high demand for qualified nursing administrators both in Pennsylvania and across the nation."

Dr. Crawford is a specialist in the history of the crusades and of the military-religious orders (such as the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights).  He has published a number of works on these subjects, including the first English-language translation of a 14th-century crusader chronicle known as the 'Templar of Tyre'; several articles and book chapters; a number of encyclopedia entries on crusade-related subjects; and several popularly oriented essays.  Along with Helen Nicholson (University of Wales) and Jochen Burgtorf (California State University-Fullerton), he has edited a collection of scholarly papers on the trial of the Templars, and he is currently working on general history of the Templars and Hospitallers.

He has assisted in the preparation of several television programs on the crusades and the military orders, and has appeared in three: "History's Mysteries: The Children's Crusade" (2000), "The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross" (2005) and "Lost Worlds: Knights Templar" (2006), all first aired on the History Channel.

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