"At the time of retirement Dr. Meine held the academic rank of professor, as a member of
the TROY Public Administration graduate faculty and a recipient of
the Troy University Wallace D. Malone Distinguished Faculty Award.
He served as a full-time faculty member at TROY for nearly 26 years in a number of roles including
Academic Director of
TROY's former Atlantic Region; Department Chair for TROY's Master of Public
Administration program and eight years as the Regional
Director of TROY's former Florida and Western Regions which included
sixteen teaching sites in eight states and he served over 4000 students in multiple
undergraduate and graduate programs. In that position he also led the
dramatic expansion of TROY's online offerings before resigning in 2007
to return to full time teaching before finally retiring July 1st, 2020. Any further teaching would therefore be in a part-time adjunct status.
Dr. Meine's college and university level teaching spans more than
thirty years including previous teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University; City University of New York; University of Maryland; Central Texas College; Columbia College and Saint Leo College. Prior to pursuing an academic career, as a graduate
of the FBI National Academy, Dr. Meine served as a Senior Special Agent for
a Defense Department Criminal Investigative Organization (DCIO) where
he managed various investigative units throughout the world. His previous
professional positions also include: Supervising personal security
for two Secretaries of Defense, personnel management at Federal Departmental
Level, investigative
operations and training policy positions, and serving
as a training consultant and training manual developer for public
service organizations in New York City, New York State and New Jersey.
Dr. Meine held certification as a Government Financial Manager prior to retirement, served on the Executive Committee of the American Society for Public Administration, Section on Ethics and Integrity in Government (SEIGov) and is the past President of the Florida Advisory Council on Military Education. He is also a former Executive Committee member and Treasurer of the National Association of Institutions for Military Education Services.
His academic service includes serving as an editorial board member and manuscript reviewer for ASPA's Public Integrity Journal where he also served as Guest Editor for Public Integrity’s 2017 Symposium Edition on Military Ethics. Dr. Meine has published extensively in the areas of Criminal Justice, Ethics and Online Education, and he has served as Doctoral dissertation examiner and Visiting Professor for South Africa's University of Pretoria’s School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA).
Dr. Meine's education includes a Bachelor
of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha; a Master
of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from John Jay College, City University of New York;
and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Golden Gate University in
San Francisco.
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