Brent Never teaches the Applied Statistical Methods course for the Executive MBA Program. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, Never most recently went to the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he conducted research on nonprofit service provision after thirty years of ethnic conflict. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University- Bloomington. He has also worked in the Statistics and Research Department at the Central Bank of West African States.
Currently, Dr. Never’s research focuses on the impact of economic recession on the capacity of nonprofits to continue providing necessary services to those most in need. He is finishing an edited volume of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly considering the impact of his mentors, Lin and Vincent Ostrom, on the scholarship of nonprofit organizations; Lin won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009. He has completed two chapters for the Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations on voluntarism around the world, and is currently working on a project to map the distribution of human service funding to poor individuals: (manuscripts are under review). This spring Dr. Never has been awarded tenure and will be promoted to Associate Professor.