Clifford Thermer

Dr. Clifford E. Thermer - A 24-year veteran who has served both in municipal and state police forces in a wide variety of patrol and administrative functions. Retired from state service at the rank of Lieutenant from the Office of Administrative Services as the Commandant of the State Police Academy and Educational Coordinator for the Department of Public Safety. Career includes fifteen (15) years developing training at the recruit, incumbent, supervisory and management levels; implementing traditional and distance learning initiatives for personnel; staff development, liaison with colleges and universities; and providing educational advising to personnel.

Dr. Thermer has taught at all levels of higher education holding adjunct positions at Middlesex Community College in the Criminal Justice Program; a visiting faculty position in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership and has also served as an adjunct, teaching policing and leadership related courses in the Sociology Department at the University of Hartford; an adjunct faculty at the Albertus Magnus College – New Dimensions Program at the graduate and undergraduate levels teaching Change Strategies, Religion in the Workplace and Government. He held positions at Quinnipiac University as Associate Director of the Organizational Leadership Program and Visiting Assistant Professor of Management in the Lender School of Business.

In August 2010, Dr. Thermer joined Goodwin University as Associate Professor and Director of the Organizational Studies Program and the Director of the Business Administration Program. In March of 2011, Dr. Thermer became chair of the Department of Social Science, Business and Education. In January 2013, Dr. Thermer was promoted to Assistant Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Goodwin University.