Flanagan comes to SUNY Brockport from Sam Houston State University in Texas, where he has been dean of the College of Criminal Justice, director of the Criminal Justice Center and professor of criminal justice since 1991. As the College of Criminal Justice dean, he was the chief academic officer of a college which offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees through a faculty of 30 full-time members and 12 staff serving 1,700 students. In his role at the Criminal Justice Center, he was its chief administrative officer adminstering program offerings in professional development and leadership development for criminal justice professionals. The Center has a staff of 25 providing courses and events for more than 22,000 attendees each year. Combined budgets for the College and Center are approximately $6.2 million annually.

In his 24 years in higher education, Flanagan has served as associate professor, associate dean and director of the undergraduate program in the School of Criminal Justice, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany; also at SUNY Albany, he has been project director for the Utilization of Criminal Justice Statistics Project, Michael J. Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center where he has also been executive director, and has served as special assistant to the president and executive vice president for academic affairs.

Flanagan, who received his BA from Gannon University (PA), and MA and PhD from the SUNY University at Albany, has garnered many honors and awards in his academic career, ranging from his listing in Who's Who in America (1995, 1996, 1997), to his role as an invited delegate to President Bill Clinton's White House Leadership Conference on Youth, Drugs and Violence in 1996. Among his many awards, he has received the Fellow Award form the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at his Alma Mater.

His record of scholarship is equally demonstrative of his stature in his discipline and as an academic administrator. He has been active as a committee member and program chair for the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; and has served as secretary and vice president for the American Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has published more than 35 articles in a range of academic journals, authored many book reviews, edited 15 reference books on criminal justice, and published 13 research monographs and 10 assorted articles. His recent books include Incarcerating Criminals (Oxford Univerity Press, 1998) and Americans View Crime and Justice (Sage 1996).He has more than $3.5 million in research grants to his credit.

All 33 recommendations addressed one or more of the four key goals regarding parking:

1. Increase the availability of parking for commuter students.
2. Reduce demand for parking spaces during hours of peak usage.
3. Seek to reduce and stabilize parking fees.
4. Continually improve the quality of service and facilities provided to the parking customer. Hours of effort went into the report well beyond the pages you read. For example, thorough inventories of parking spaces and types of spaces were conducted, and lots were monitored at all times of the day to assess usage. One surprising finding? At no lot location on campus are you more than a 12-minute walk away from any academic building ­ it may just be easier and quicker to walk during peak parking times!

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