Administration - Academic

As a native of Bangor, Marie earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science, with a minor in Public Administration and the Honors Program from the University of Maine. She returned to Bangor to practice law after she earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Today, Marie continues her legal practice on an Of Counsel basis in the areas of federal criminal appellate, mediation and Guardian Ad Litem work.

She began working at Husson in 2003, where she has delivered a variety of classes in over 24 topics ranging from introductory courses through graduate level. She has also presented courses for the Maine State Bar and at national conferences for Criminal Justice teachers and professionals.

Marie completed the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard University in 2010 and attained Mastery level of Prior Learning Assessment through DePaul University. Currently, she is pursuing further doctoral studies in Organizational Behavior at the Chicago School for Professional Psychology.

Outside of Husson, she is the Past-President (2004) of the Penobscot County Bar Association (PCBA) and past Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Bangor Ballet. She continues to serve as a Director on the PCBA Board. Additionally, she is serving on the Advisory Committees for Hancock County Technical Center Criminal Justice Program and Biddeford Regional Technical Center.

Having worked with legal professionals, I understand that the key to education at the college level is to learn how to perform the work hands-on. While it is imperative to have a background from text books to learn the law, in order to apply this knowledge, one must see the legal world in action. In both the Criminal Justice and Paralegal Studies Programs, I endeavor to find full time and adjunct instructors that bring this philosophy to life in the classroom as I do. One has to love what they do to be ready to do a job everyday and the exposure that students will gain from both programs will help them find that energy.

Before joining Husson, Frank spent five years chairing the Department of Humanities at Georgia Perimeter College in Dunwoody, Georgia. Before that, he was first coordinator of first year composition and then an assistant dean in the graduate school at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He has been instructing in collegiate settings for more than 30 years, teaching primarily writing and linguistics. Frank received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Amherst College, where he played soccer, worked in the dining hall, and sang in the glee club. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also taught scuba diving and helped to run a recreational facility. He has had a Fulbright in Finland and a short teaching stint in Gaza City. He has four grown children scattered about the country.

My students usually notice right away that I repeat myself a lot, and one of the things I say often is "This is not 13th grade". I mean that college students have to find ways to become more active learners, in order to meet their professional and career responsibilities. For many, that means learning better ways to learn, ways that I hope will sustain lifelong mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. I also start many classes with "You need a blank piece of paper", because I want my students to feel how writing can help them learn, in any class and not just in mine. Probably what I ask the most is "Where's the critical thinking"? For me, that's the most important thing college has to teach.