Faculty Retirements

The 2025 Faculty Retirement and Years of Service Celebration was also held April 30 on the Stockton Campus. Pacificans came together to celebrate the contributions of 15 retiring faculty members who were honored at the event.

Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry

Tamer Alpagot, 29 years of service

Dr. Alpagot joined the Dugoni School in 1996 as a full-time assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics. He earned promotion to associate professor with tenure in 2000 and was promoted to professor in 2008.

William Lundergan, 38 years of service

A faculty member with an active faculty dental practice at the Dugoni School since 1983, Dr. Lundergan has served as the Chair of the Department of Periodontics since 1997 and the Wilbur Hughes Endowed Chair in Periodontics since 2020.

David Ojcius, 10 years of service

Dr. Ojcius joined the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry as a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in 2015 and has served as the assistant dean for research at the Dugoni School.

Patrick Roetzer, 16 years of service

Dr. Roetzer has served the Dugoni School as a faculty member since 2009 and was promoted to associate clinical professor in 2019. Roetzer has taught predoctoral students and Endodontic Program residents in both pre-clinical and clinical settings. In 2022, he transitioned to teaching in the Advanced Education in General Dentistry residents at the school’s Union City Dental Care Clinic.

Steve Sadowsky, 15 years of service

Dr. Sadowsky joined the Dugoni School in 2010 as a faculty member in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry. He was promoted to full professor with tenure in 2016. In addition to teaching in both didactic and clinic settings, Sadowsky’s scholarship includes five book chapter contributions, three patents and 273 invited presentations.

College of the Pacific

Mouchumi Bhattacharyya, 24 years of service

Bhattacharyya joined the Department of Mathematics in 2000 as an assistant professor, earned the rank of full professor in 2015 and chaired the department from 2021-24.

Brett DeBoer, 26 years of service

As an associate professor of graphic design, DeBoer has taught many different courses, including: Typography, Graphic Design, Design Thinking and Honors Knowledge and Creativity.

Scott Jensen, 19 years of service

Jensen joined the Department of Psychology in 2006. In recognition of his teaching, Jensen won the Stephen Corson Award for Distinguished Teaching of Freshman.

Brian Klunk, 38 years of service

Klunk is retiring after joining Pacific in 1987 as an assistant professor in political science and the School of International Studies. Klunk’s leadership roles include department chair of political science for 17 years, assistant dean for student affairs in the School of International Studies and convener for PACS/CORE.

Camille Norton, 31 years of service

Norton is retiring from the English Department in the College of the Pacific as a renowned award-winning poet whose work has appeared in prestigious literary journals and anthologies such as “Best America Poetry.”

Lisa Tromovitch, 20 years of service

As a professor in the Theatre Arts Department, Tromovitch has taught such courses as Voice and Movement for the Stage, Stage Management, Beginning Acting, Directing and Pacific Seminar and is known by students as a ‘caring, yet challenging mentor.’

Conservatory of Music

Jeff Crawford, 38 years of service

Crawford came to Pacific in 1987, first in a staff position with KUOP, then in a staff position with a concurrent appointment as a part-time faculty in the Conservatory of Music, becoming a full-time non-tenure-track faculty member teaching Music Industry from 2019-25.

McGeorge School of Law

John Sprankling, 33 years of service

Sprankling has served as an associate professor, professor, interim dean, associate dean for Academic Affairs and distinguished professor of law.

School of Health Sciences

Rae Charos, three years of service

Charos joined Pacific and the School of Health Sciences in 2022 as the associate program director for clinical experience.

Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy

John Livesey, 31 years of service

Livesey has designed, taught and coordinated many courses in the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy from Cell Regulation & Oncology to Physiology & Pathophysiology III to Molecular Pharmacology II.

Linda Norton, 32 years of service

Norton has made a lasting impact on the pharmacy school by serving in a variety of leadership roles during her years as a professor of Pharmacy Practice, including director, post graduate education, assistant dean of operations, associate dean of operations and department chair of Pharmacy Practice.

Camille Norton, Klunk, Livesey, Lundergan and Sprankling are each receiving the university’s highest accolade, Order of the Pacific, and will be honored at the All-university commencement May 10.