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Recent and upcoming courses

Spring 2026

• MPNA 695: Capstone in Community Oriented Management
• NPM 600: Nonprofit Governance and Management

Biography

Dr. Crystal Saric Fashant is a professor in the Department of Public and Nonprofit Leadership. She began teaching at �鶹ֱ�� in 2013, creating an environmental sustainability course in the MPNA program, and later teaching Management Principles and Practices for undergraduate business students. Since 2017, she has co-directed the Master of Public and Nonprofit Administration Program and teaches graduate-level research methods (MPNA 600), nonprofit governance and management (NPM 600), nonprofit finance (NPM 675), and a capstone course (MPNA 695).

Dr. Fashant earned a bachelor's of psychology and sociology from Vermont State University - Castleton Campus; a Master of Public and Nonprofit Administration degree from �鶹ֱ�� in 2011, and a doctorate in Business Administration in 2017. She serves as incoming president of the Board of Trustees at Merrick, Inc., and on the board of Maji Wells.

Dr. Fashant's career in the nonprofit sector spans more than 20 years, including at Fairview Health Services leading corporate-level strategies for environmental sustainability including recycling, reuse, and waste reduction, energy reduction and climate impact, sustainable supply chains, and responsible medical mission donations. Her team received a Minnesota Governor’s Award for Pollution Prevention in 2011 and the Becker’s Hospital Review “50 Greenest Hospitals” designation in 2013. She has been a sustainability consultant at Hennepin Healthcare (HCMC) since 2015 and is an annual awards reviewer for the national healthcare sustainability consortium, Practice Greenhealth.

Dr. Fashant's research has been published in the Journal of Managerial Issues, Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, Twin Cities Medical Journal, Midwest Academy of Management, Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Practice Greenhealth’s ‘Greenhealth Academy’ and Journal of Organizational Psychology, among others. She is passionate about engagement through community service and serves on several university committees/councils, but what brings joy to her day is the privilege of working with our amazing students here at �鶹ֱ��.