Criminal Justice Faculty

Elizabeth Bondurant is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice joining the Program full time in 2009. She earned a bachelor's degree in Health and Physical Education from East Stroudsburg State College, and a master's degree in Criminal Justice Management from Jersey City State College. She is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. and is designated as a New Jersey Certified Public Manager in Law Enforcement . Professor Bondurant joined the Plainsboro Police Department in 1983 and worked her way up through the ranks, serving in the Patrol Division and Detective Bureau. She retired as Chief of Police in 2008. Since 1996, she has taught a variety of courses as an adjunct professor for the MCCC Criminal Justice Program.

Cavit Cooley is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program at Mercer County Community College. He has been at Mercer since 2004. He received his A.S. in Law Enforcement from Lake Land College in Mattoon, Illinois, his B.S. and M.A. in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, and achieved ABD status from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has also completed a three month long internship with the United States Probation Office. Prior to his position at Mercer, Professor Cooley was an Assistant Professor at Truman State University as well as teaching numerous courses at both Western Illinois University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American Correctional Association, the New Jersey Chapter of the American Correctional Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, the New Jersey Association of Criminal Justice Educators, and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Professor Cooley has also made numerous presentations at various national criminal justice conferences and has published The Interactionist School, a chapter in the book The Historical Development of Criminological Theory published by Sage in 2001.