Albert Matheny
Associate Dean for Student Affairs (Academic Advising)
Areas of Responsibility (College)
Areas of Responsibility (University)
Brief Biography
Albert R. Matheny, Professor (Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1979; M.A., Political Science, University of Tennessee, 1974; B.S., Public Administration, University of Tennessee, 1972), specializes in the areas of public law, regulatory policy, and judicial processes. His research interests include regulatory politics, administrative law, science and environmental policy, the legal change and judicial reform, and criminal justice.
Professor Matheny has taught courses on the administration of criminal justice, public interest law, comparative legal development, administrative law and regulatory politics, judicial policy making, civil liberties, research methods (for senior honors students), and graduate seminars in court management and the politics of federal and state regulation. He received teaching and advising prizes from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and from the university in 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995 and 1996. In 1997, he received the Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award, and, in 1999, the Morton Wolfson Faculty Award for Outstanding Service to UF Students. In 2007, he was awarded the Art Sandeen Award by the Studen t Government Association , and, in 2009, he became an honorary member of Florida Blue Key.
He has received grants from the National Institute of Justice—U.S. Department of Justice (to study plea bargaining), from the Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems—Florida International and Florida Atlantic Universities (to study hazardous waste regulation in Florida, Ohio, and New Jersey), and the U.S. Department of Education (to establish the graduate Judicial Administration Program).
Professor Matheny has served as the Department's Associate Chair, Graduate Coordinator, and Undergraduate Coordinator in the past., Since becoming Associate Dean for Student Affairs in 1998, Professor Matheny has been extensively involved in the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) and is currently the chair of NACADA's Professional Development Committee.
