Professional Studies Faculty Biographies

Darius Navran, PhD
Dr. Navran is the Dean of the College of Professional Studies and has been teaching at Chancellor University since 1992. He holds a BA in Public Administration, an MA in Political Science and Public Policy and a PhD in Comparative World History with a cognate area in International Relations. He also holds certificates in Russian language and Russian studies from University of California, Berkeley and Norwich University. Prior to joining Chancellor University, he taught at Miami University as a teaching fellow and at Cuyahoga Community College in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Between 1989 and 1992, he served as the College Dean at ETI Technical College. Dr. Navran advises Chancellor University's Model UN club, which he founded in 1998. Under his leadership, the club has attended numerous national and international conferences including Harvard University WorldMUN in Bello Horizante, Brazil and Edinburgh, Scotland. The club has received numerous recognitions for mastery and articulation of issues by conference sponsors. In recent past, he has received grants from UN Foundation to sponsor the annual People Speak Program, a national and foreign policy forum, which advances understanding of America's role on the global scene. He is currently the contact person for the Madison Foundation, which grants scholarships to promising young scholars. Dr. Navran has a number of published papers and book reviews in scholarly journals and has presented papers at national and international conferences. He annually chairs the Comparative Public Administration and Globalization Track for International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE). He holds memberships at IABE and the ASPA (the American Society for Public Administration).

Scott Brantley, JD
Scott Brantley has been the Director of the Chancellor University Criminal Justice Program since January 2004. Prior to that Mr. Brantley served as a Special Agent and Chief Division Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Cleveland for over twenty-eight years. He holds a BA and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Memphis and is admitted to practice law in Ohio and Tennessee. During his FBI career, one of his responsibilities was to lecture and teach at numerous police academies, in-services, and seminars throughout northeast Ohio. Mr. Brantley continues to lecture at several police academies in Metropolitan Cleveland and often consults on the Fourth Amendment and search and seizure matters. His professional memberships include the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Cuyahoga County Chiefs of Police, Ohio Council of Criminal Justice Educators, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, and Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 25.

Gretchen Fleming, JD, MS
Ms. Fleming recently came from Bowling Green State University where she has been a faculty member for the past 9 years, and EHOVE Career Center in Milan, Ohio where she started a Tech Prep Legal Careers Program. Ms. Fleming’s educational background includes a Bachelors of Science from St. Mary’s University in Political Science, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Toledo, and a Master in Criminal Justice-Forensic Psychology from Tiffin University. Her Master’s thesis was “The insanity Defense in Infanticide and Filicide Cases: What’s in a Label?” which she presented at the Ohio Council of Criminal Justice Educators Conference in April, 2004. Her work experience has been both in the law and in education. She has worked for the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office conducting legal research with inmates and background investigations on new hires as well as creating policy manuals for the deputies. She has also worked at the Erie County Prosecutor’s Office seeing life from both the State and the victim’s perspective.

Brina Hollis, MS
Brina Hollis is Assistant Professor of Health Services Management. Prior to joining the faculty at Chancellor University, she served as the Medical Programs Subject Area Coordinator at Bryant & Stratton College in Parma, Ohio. Her responsibilities included teaching a variety of allied health courses and monitoring the curriculum. An alumnus of Chancellor University, Professor Hollis earned her BSBA degree in management. Additionally, Ms. Hollis holds an allied health credential and an Associate of Applied Science in Surgical Technology, a Masters degree in Health and Human Services Administration from Youngstown State University, and is currently completing her PhD in Public Health at Walden University.