Andi Bannister, professor of criminal justice, has been named the interim director of the School of Community Affairs. Bannister serves concurrently as director of the federally funded Regional Community Policing Institute at Wichita State. She has been awarded more than $8 million in federal grants during the past 10 years. She has conducted research in Europe and Asia, provided training on computer crime and community policing to the Royal Thai Police, and provided training and technical assistance to a wide range of police agencies, notably in Kansas and Nebraska. Bannister is an academic fellow with the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and has studied terrorism issues in Israel with police, military and intelligence organizations as part of that fellowship.
