Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008
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Yolanda E Fleischer [Email]
Associate Professor of Theatre, teaches voice production, characterization and scene study. Her UDM directing has included On the Open Road and Two. Fleischer’s professional work in area theatres has most recently included If We Are Women. Fleischer’s other work includes: serving as past artistic director of JCC’s "Readers Theatre," directing Growing Up Female, a community-wide project with the city of Flint; founding the Detroit Women’s Shakespeare Company; and serving on the advisory board of a PBS project. She holds a B.S. of Ed. degree from Central Michigan University and M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Wayne State University. Fleischer joined the University in 1986.

Wladyslaw Fuchs [Email]
Associate Professor of Architecture, teaches architectural design, visual communications and Computer Aided Design. His main interests include integrating these subjects across the curriculum of architectural education. Fuchs recently published an article entitled Progressive Tradition, focusing on the relevance of the drawing experience in CAD practice. A member of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, his research includes the design and implementation of the V.C.net, an Internet based educational tool for the architectural community. He earned M.Arch. and Ph.D. degrees from the Warsaw Technical University in Poland. Fuchs returned to the University to teach in 1990.

John T Franklin [Email]
Professor of Counseling and Addiction Studies, Director of Addiction Studies ProgramDr. Franklin is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of addictive disorders and co-occurring mental illnesses. He has directed the addiction studies program since its inception in 1978. He teaches drug effects, theories of addiction, group methods, family systems, qualitative research and compulsive gambling and sexuality. His publications deal with chemical dependence among women, alternative education as preventive of substance abuse, treatment outcomes for adolescents and their families, and steroid dependence among male weight-lifters. His current interests are sexual addiction and the confluence of spirituality and psychotherapy. In 2002 he received the Distinguished Professor Award from his colleagues at UDM. John hold a B.A. in philosophy from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, an S.T.L. in theology from the Gregorian University, an M.A. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois Springfield and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Michigan.

Roy E Finkenbine [Email]
Professor of History, teaches African American and nineteenth-century American history. A specialist on slavery and abolition, he is currently engaged in a study of slave reparations in early American history. As Associate Editor of the Black Abolitionist Papers Project at Florida State University, he co-edited the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 and Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. He recently completed a second edition of Sources of the African American Past. He is director of the Black Abolitionist Archives in the College of Liberal Arts and Education. Finkenbine holds a Ph.D. degree from Bowling Green State University, and joined the University in 1996.

William C Forbes [Email]
Associate Professor of Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, teaches interdisciplinary courses in gross anatomy to dental and dental hygiene. Forbes spent 28 years in private general dentistry practice and 8 years as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine. He received his D.D.S. from the University of Michigan and his Master's in Divinity from Bangor Theological Seminary. Forbes is also adjunct faculty at Wayne State University Medical School and Henry Ford Hospital. Dr. Forbes joined the University in 1997.

John C Freeman [Email]
Professor and Chair of English, teaches Renaissance literature, critical theory and Shakespeare. Freeman’s publications and professional presentations both here and abroad have dealt with Thomas More’s Utopia, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He has published articles in ELH, Moreana, and Modern Language Review. He is currently doing research on reassessing intellectual property rights in More's Utopia. Freeman holds a B.A. degree from Michigan State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University. He joined the University in 1987.

Carmencita Ford-Fleifel [Email]
Affiliate Clinical Coordinator of the Nurse Anesthesiology Program, teaches advanced principles of nurse anesthesiology, and regional anesthesia. She received her B.S.N. from Oakland University and an M.S. in Anesthesia from Wayne State University. She has been a faculty member since 2002.

Wai-Choong Foong [Email]
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, teaches pharmacology and therapeutics. He obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from University of Portsmouth (UK) and completed two post-doctorate fellowships in biopharmaceutics and dental biomaterials. He was an associate professor with Dalhousie University (Canada) before joining the University of Detroit Mercy. Foong joined the University in 2001.

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