Peter ZitkoSolano Community College · External Programs
Peter Zitko
Doctor of Education
Research projects pertaining to incarceration, justice-involvement, restorative justice, empathy, and equity.
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Introduction
Dr. Tony Zitko is an award-winning educator who serves as Dean of External Programs at Solano College and teaches political science courses in Northern California.
Please visit https://www.zitko.net/.
Additional affiliations
March 2015 - May 2022
Position
- Adjunct Professor
Description
- Facilitator of courses which include American Government, Comparative Politics, Constitutional Rights, American Legal System, International Politics, Introduction to Political Science, and Political Philosophy.
November 2020 - present
Position
- Dean of External Programs
Description
- Responsibilities include overseeing the daily operations of the college’s justice-involved program and serving as a liaison between Solano College and the three correctional facilities served by the institution. Responsible for supervising the college’s dual enrollment program with local high schools.
May 2014 - present
Napa Valley College
Position
- Adjunct Political Science Faculty
Description
- Facilitator of courses which include American Government 1, American Government 2, Comparative Government, International Political Economy, Political Ideology, and International Relations.
Education
May 2016 - December 2019
May 2011 - September 2013
Publications
Publications (6)
The complex nature of empathy is well-established in research. Nevertheless, there is little consensus on the topic of empathy. Indeed, scholars do not even agree on a set definition of empathy. Uniform methods to evaluate synergy between the complexity of empathy and how interactions influence a variety of situations across the field are likewise...
The United States is the world leader in mass incarceration (Jouet, 2019; Pfaff, 2017; Zitko, 2021). Although incarceration rates in the U.S. have declined, in 2019, over two million justice-involved persons were behind bars in state prisons, federal penitentiaries, and local jails (Gramlich, 2021; Minton et al., 2021). By 2020, due partly to the C...
The purpose of this chapter is to describe educational barriers confronting incarcerated college students in the age of digitalization. This chapter will also explore how to mitigate barriers to developing 21st century competencies. Many incarcerated college students are academically disenfranchised due to the lack of access to essential modern lea...
Among developed countries, the United States is the world leader in incarceration (Beckett et al., 2018; Blumstein, 2020; Dignam, 2016; Jouet, 2019; Wiseman, 2018). In his recent book, Franklin Zimring portentously described the United States as “the homeland of mass incarceration” (2020, p. x). More than two million people are incarcerated in U.S....
The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine the lived workplace experiences of adjunct community college faculty in Northern California. The problem is adjunct faculty may experience an institutionalized employment system that marginalizes contingent teachers. Using the theoretical framework of institutionalization theory and phenomenolo...
Adjunct community college faculty play a vital role in educating students. The purpose of study was to qualitatively examine the lived workplace experiences of adjunct community college faculty in Northern California. This phenomenological study narrows a gap in the literature by building a vital database of information which examines occupational...
