March 2008

CURRICULUM VITA

Name: Ralph A. Anderson

Residence: 709 Mt. Vernon Avenue

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37405

Home Phone: 423/266-4741

Office Phone: 423/425-4487

Military Service: U.S. Navy 1961-1965

Education: BS. 1969 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Major: Sociology

Minor: History

MS. 1972 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Major: Anthropology

Masters Paper: An Analysis of Demographic Variables

in Prehistoric and Non Census Societies

Ph.D., 1976 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Major: Anthropology

Minor: Demography

Title of Dissertation: Males in a Female World:

Men in Public Housing for the Elderly

Present Position:

Faculty member at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga since August 1982

Currently within the Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Nonprofit Management: Coordinator of the undergraduate Public Administration and Nonprofit Management program

2006 to present

Professor (Obear Distinguished Teaching Professor 1998-2004) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in planning, evaluation, policy, and management, direct field internships.

January through June 1997

Acting Director, School of Social and Community Services.

Previous Work Experience:

Siskin Memorial Foundation

Executive Director and Program Director, July 1987 through June 1988.

Responsible to the Board of Directors for the activities of a CARF accredited comprehensive rehabilitation agency: duties included planning, budgeting and overall supervision of agency clinical and support programs. Facility with seventy-one employees. On loan from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Southeastern Wisconsin Health Systems Agency

Senior Analyst, September 1981 to August 1982

Directed a regional hospital data system and conducted studies of the regional health care system.

Curative Rehabilitation Center

Director of Program Development and Evaluation, June 1976 to September 1981

Managed a department of twelve with responsibility for agency planning and evaluation, grants and program development.

Comprehensive Health Planning Agency of Southeastern Wisconsin

Senior Analyst, June 1974 to March 1976

Responsible for various studies in support of health care planning.

Fellowships and Awards: Awarded a one-year fellowship at the Center for Demography and Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September

1971 to August 1972. Purpose of fellowship was intensive training in demography and demographic methods.

UT-Chattanooga Research Associate. Fall 1985. Purpose: to develop

proposal to conduct research on transients and street men.

College of Health and Human Services Advising Award 1992

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College of Health and Human Services Teaching Award 1997

Patricia Draper Obear Distinguished Teaching Professor 1998-2004

College of Health and Human Services Teaching Award 2000

UT-Chattanooga Teaching, Learning and Technology Faculty Fellow 2001-2002

Greater Chattanooga Area United Way Allocations Volunteer of the Year 2007

Major Committee

and Other Activities: Wisconsin Health Data Coordinating Committee.

September 1975 to March 1976

Project Review Committee. Rehabilitation

Services Administration Region V. May 1978.

Chairman, Research and Human Subjects

Review Committee, Curative Rehabilitation Center,

January 1978 to June 1981

Human Subjects Research Review Committee,

Medical College of Wisconsin, March 1978 to June 1981.

Surveyor, Commission on Accreditation of

Rehabilitation Facilities, March 1979 to September 1981

St. Matthew's Night Shelter Co-Shelter Administrator

December 1984 to March 1986

Chattanooga Community Kitchen Board of Directors

June 1986 to Sept. 1989

Chattanooga United Way Allocations Committee 1990, 1992 and 1993

Chattanooga Metropolitan Council Moccasin

Bend Hospital Task Force 1993

Chair, Chattanooga United Way Program Evaluation Committee

July, 1994 to 1995.

Chattanooga Homeless Coalition 1992 to 1998

At large member of the Executive Committee 1992-1996

United Way Direct Services Board of Directors

January 1995 to January 1999

Chair January 1996 to January 1998.

Member of the reorganized Center for Nonprofit Advisory Board and Chair Nominating Committee January 1999 to 2000

Elected At Large member of the UTC Faculty Council

April 1996 to 1998

Chattanooga United Way Board of Directors

January 1997 to 1999

Tennessee Valley Canoe Club Board of Directors

January 1999 to 2000

North Side Neighborhood House Board of Directors

January 2000 to 2001

Chattanooga Metropolitan Council Board of Directors

January 2000 to 2003

American Red Cross Chattanooga-Hamilton County Chapter

Disaster Service Committee, 2004.

United Way of Greater Chattanooga Program Evaluation Committee,

2004 through 2005

United Way Community Investment Committee

2005 continuing

United Way Building Stable Lives Committee

Chair, Evaluation Subcommittee

2007 continuing

Mayor’s Task Force on Homelessness

Member, Planning and Coordination Subcommittee

2007 continuing

Service to the University:

Research Committee Curriculum Committee Council on Aging, Honor Council, Associate Provost Search Committee, Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Department Head Search Committee, Criminal Justice Faculty Search Committee, Department External Review Committees: (Sociology and Anthropology; Special Education, Administration and Supervision), Dept. of Human Services Faculty Search Committee, Cline Chair of Rehabilitation Search Committee, University Self Study Steering Committee, Chair, University Self Study Undergraduate Curriculum Subcommittee, Advisement Council, Health and Human Services Deans Search Committee, Petitions Committee, Handbook Committee, Committee on Committees, Chair Director of SSCS Search Committee, Faculty Banner Committee, Peer Evaluation Project, Chair SSCS R&T Committee, SSCS Second Method of Teaching Committee, Chair Political Science R&T Committee, UTC Admissions Committee. Chair PANM Search Committee

Multimedia Computer Based Training Modules

Planning Series Developed in 2002 and 2003.

Learning Module One Needs Assessment

Learning Module Two SWOT Analysis

Learning Module Three Program Design

Data Base module

Interactive program with access to three SPSS data bases.

Data Types and SPSS

Interactive SPSS tutorial

These modules are developed in Macromedia Authorware with Flash components and are distributed on CDs.

Grants and Funded Projects: Project Director, September, 1977 to October, 1980.

$100,000 project to develop, test, and implement a program evaluation system in a comprehensive rehabilitation setting.

University of Chattanooga Foundation Research Grant 1983.

To conduct life history interviews with an elderly black-Cherokee woman;

$650. .

University of Chattanooga Foundation Research Grant 1987.

To research economic patterns of homeless men in Chattanooga; $1,300.

Principal Investigator, Southeast Tennessee Private Industry Council

contract 1992. Purpose: to evaluate the Chattanooga Homeless Job

Placement Center; $17,000.

Principal Investigator, Southeast Tennessee Private Industry Council contract 1993. Purpose: to evaluate the Chattanooga Homeless Job Placement Center; $15,693.

Project Director, City of Chattanooga Office of Economic and Community Development contract 1994. Purpose: to conduct a shelter and community survey of homeless persons in Chattanooga. $2,400.

Principal Investigator, Southeast Tennessee Private Industry Council contract 1994. Purpose: to evaluate the Chattanooga Homeless Job Placement Center; $14,777.

Evaluator WhykNOw Abstinence Program 2004-2005. $22,000

Principal Investigator, Cleveland, TN Weed and Seed Program 2005 $6,000

Evaluation and Research Reports:

Milwaukee Commando Project I; Wellin, Edward, Ralph Anderson and Robert Creecy. Milwaukee Association of Commerce, September 1971.

Health and the Elderly in Public Housing; Wellin, Edward, Ralph Anderson, Eunice Boyer, and Karen Jonas. U.S. Department of Housing, June, 1974.

Information and Referral Service Study; Comprehensive Health Planning Agency of

Southeastern Wisconsin, September, 1974.

Final Report Curative Program Evaluation System; Ralph Anderson, Michael Rode and John Melvin, M.D. Rehabilitation Services Administration, Federal Region V. September, 1980.

St. Matthew's Night Shelter: The First Year; Ralph Anderson and Kyra Osmus.

St. Matthew's Board of Directors. August, 1985.

A Report on Various Circumstances and Conditions of the Siskin Memorial Foundation; Confidential Report to the President of the Board of Directors. March, 1988.

University Self Study Undergraduate Curriculum and Instruction Report. Ralph Anderson et al . March 1990.

The Streets are no Place for Someone Like Me: Evaluation of the Chattanooga

Job Placement Center. Ralph Anderson et al . April 1992.

Work and Opportunity for the Homeless of Chattanooga.

Ralph Anderson, Jason Gibson and Dean Fanselau. July 1993.

"They Showed me How To Do Things Myself: Perspectives on Work and the Homeless.

Ralph Anderson, Jeanie Hurst and Ellen Dodrill. April 20, 1994.

Chattanooga 1994 Survey of the Homeless: Status of the Population.

Ralph Anderson, Jeanie Hurst and Robert Hansel. May, 1994.

Career Beginnings Program Evaluation Report. James McDonell, Ralph Anderson and Jeanie Hurst. December 29, 1994.

Evaluation of the Programs and Services of First Call for Help. Ralph Anderson July 21, 1995.

The Homeless in Chattanooga and the Surrounding Region: An Analysis of Need, Capacity and Perceptions. Steve White, Ralph Anderson and Anntrese Jones. May 19, 1999.

The Programs of First Alternative Probation and Counseling. Ralph Anderson, Beth Hewgley, Rachel Sterchi-Elliott. November 1999.

Needs of the Hungry: Chattanooga Regional Assessment of Area Food Programs and Their Clients. Rachel Elliott, Susan Ritz, Ralph Anderson. September 2001.

Evaluation of the Programs and Services of the Episcopal Metropolitan Ministries

Ralph Anderson, Melissa Parrish, and Justin Wilkins. February 2004

Evaluation of WhyKnow Abstinence Program

David Edwards, Ralph Anderson, Sharon Hill, 2005

Evaluation of the Cleveland Weed and Seed Program

Ralph Anderson, Meghan Anderson, Anna Puckett, 2005

Publications: “An Evaluation Study of a Private Probation Agency.” Phyllis Berry and Ralph Anderson American Journal of Criminal Justice. 26 (1) 2002

"Homeless Violence and the Informal Rules of Street Life,"

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. 5 (4) 1996

"Three Strikes and Your Homeless," The Bell 10 (1) 1996

"Save a Soul or Save a Body: Dilemmas in Serving the Urban Homeless," Ralph Anderson and Bruce Hutchinson. New England Journal of Human Services. 11 (2) 1993

"Cold Nights and Long Days: Comparison of Male and

Female Volunteers in a Night Shelter," Ralph Anderson and Kyra Osmus. Journal of Voluntary Action Research.

17(1) March, 1988.

"At Home with the Homeless." Interview by Mark Curriden. Chattanooga Life and Leisure. 3(9) 1988.

"Human Service Environments and the Anthropologist Interpreter," Practicing

Anthropology, 7 (3&4) 1985.

"Accepting Responsibility for What We Do. Comments," Practicing Anthropology. 4(3&4) 1982.

"Factors Predicting Short-Term Outcome of Nerve Blocks in the Management of Chronic

Pain." Stephen Abram M.D., Anita Maitra-D'Cruze, M.D. and Ralph Anderson Pain. volume 10 1981.

"Using a Pain Questionnaire to Predict Response to Steroid Epidurals," Abram, Stephen M.D. and Ralph Anderson Regional Anesthesia. volume 5, 1980.

"Profile Practicing Anthropologist," Public Affairs Report. American Anthropology Association Newsletter. 17 (9):25 1977.

Conference Papers Presented:

"A Comparative Analysis of Rural and Urban Native Americans in Three Midwest States, Using 1960 Census Data." Paper presented at the Central States Anthropological Society meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. April, 1972.

"Males in a Female World; The Roles of Men in Public Housing for the Elderly."

Central States Anthropological Society meeting in Chicago. March, 1974.

"Information and Referral Services in Southeastern Wisconsin." Wisconsin Public Health Association meeting in Milwaukee. June, 1976.

"The Urban Neighborhood- Threat or Sanctuary for Men in Public Housing for the Elderly." Allied Health

in Aging Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. June, 1978.

"Predictive Factors in Treating Chronic Painful Disorders with Nerve Blocks and Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation." Steve Abram, M.D. and Ralph Anderson; International Organization for the Study of Pain, Second World Congress, Montreal. August, 1978.

"Internal Program Evaluation- The Curative Model." National Association of Rehabilitation Facilities annual meeting in Milwaukee. June, 1981.

"Human Service Environments and the Anthropologist Interpreter" Southern Anthropological Society meeting in Atlanta. April 1984.

"Rainbow Around the Light Bulb: Zelar Turner a Blind Activist for the Old and Poor." Southern Anthropological Society meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. April, 1985.

"Human Service Agency Adaptation: The Strategy of a Grass Roots Night Shelter."

Southern Anthropological Society meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas April, 1985.

"Cold Nights and Long Days: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Volunteers in a Night Shelter." Southern Anthropological Society meeting in Wrightsville Beach, NC. April 1986.

"All I Need Is A Little Heat: Economic Adaptations of Street Men."

Southern Anthropological Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia March, 1987.

"Spatial Patterns of Homeless Men in Chattanooga." David Anderson and Ralph Anderson. Association of American Geographers meeting in Phoenix April, 1988.

"Save the Soul or Save the Body: Dilemmas in Serving the Urban Homeless."

paper presented at the Midwest Political Science meeting in Chicago April 1989.

"Survival of the Nonprofit Spirit in a For-profit World." Bush, Richard and Ralph Anderson. Invited paper presented at the Regis College Center for Nonprofit Organizational Leadership conference titled Compassion and Excellence in Nonprofit Organizations held in Denver, April 1991.

"Patterns of Violence among the Homeless."

Southern Anthropological Society meeting in Raleigh, N C. May, 1995.

"Merging the Nonprofit Spirit with a Business Mentality: Adaptation and Change in the Nonprofit Sector." Invited Paper, Society for Applied Anthropology meeting in Seattle March, 1997.

“Health Problems of the Homeless.” Invited Paper, Tennessee Society of Radiologic Technologists meeting in Chattanooga November 13, 1997.

“An Evaluation Study of a Private Probation Agency.” Phyllis Berry, Ralph Anderson, and Helen Eigenberg. Paper presented at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences meeting in Washington, D.C. April 6, 2001

“Active Learning in Undergraduate Nonprofit Education: Utilization of Selective Teaching Modalities.” Marvin Ernst, Ralph Anderson, Nora Ernst and Jane Kushma. Panel Discussion at the 25^th National Public Administration Teaching Conference, Knoxville February 8, 2002