Sandy Alspach
Professor
Communication/Humanities
Office Phone: (231) 591-2779
Email: [email protected]
Sandy Alspach has more than 40 years of coaching experience with high school- and college-level competitive debate and speech. Alspach has been teaching and studying intercultural and diversity communication for more than 20 years. She is involved with curriculum development, such as course design and instructional strategies, and student activity development and advising.
Sandy Balkema
Professor
English
Office Phone: (231) 591-5631
Email: [email protected]
Sandy Balkema has been a professor at Ferris State University since 1984. Her expertise is in writing and editing, including business, technical and professional writing. Balkema also is an expert on professional and technical writing careers, career-tracks, opportunities and trends, corporate training (online and traditional), and assessment and evaluation.
Outside of Ferris, Balkema has written, edited and produced many corporate training programs. She has had the honor of working with companies such as Meijer, Amway, HP, Steelcase, Dematic and Anheuser-Busch. She has written, edited and produced technical/professional documents, including four self-study documents for Ferris related to NCA/HLC accreditation.
Barry Mehler
Professor
Humanities
Office Phone: (231) 591-3612
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Mehler's field of expertise includes the history of science, eugenics, racism and science, and genocide and science. He is the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism.
Cami M. Sanderson
Professor
Humanities
Office Phone: (231) 591-2995
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Sanderson's field of expertise includes research of the airline industry, specifically customer service, air rage, and communication and the airlines. She also specializes in gender and family relationships, and family and the role each child plays.