Faculty Roundup
Welcome New Faculty Member
Welcome to our newest colleague!
Treva A. Clark has joined the department as an assistant professor of business administration and will take on primary responsibility for International Business and Organizational Communications. Clark holds an MBA from Loyola College of Maryland (now officially I believe Loyola University of Maryland) with concentrations in International Business and Marketing and is in the final stages of her doctoral work through the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation research looks at the relationship between business education and the phenomenon of micro-lending. Just prior to joining us, she was in Peru conducting her first round of field research for the dissertation. Clark spent 10 years in international business development for a major computer manufacturer and nine years of international business consulting with the World Trade Center. She has been teaching as an adjunct in this area for nine years as well.
Faculty News
Gail Sanderson followed up an action packed 2008–2009 (sabbatical, achieving Certified Valuation Analyst credentials, an internship in financial planning, an officer’s position with the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Financial Executives Institute, and leading the first short-duration Study Abroad Program to Maastricht), with a successful application for promotion to full professor. Congratulations Professor Gail Sanderson. Ms. Sanderson is also serving on the Executive Council of the Faculty and chairing a sub-committee examining the area of educational resources for our impending Middle States Accreditation review (spring 2012).
Dr. Neil Perry ended a year peppered with activities associated with a number of economic sustainability initiatives both on and off campus by earning tenure and being promoted. Congratulations Associate Professor Neil Perry. Perry is celebrating all of this by spending the fall semester on sabbatical in Australia and will return to us in the spring.
Dr. Edward Sullivan, Dr. Neil Perry, and Dr. David Setley all conducted research in collaboration with their students. Sullivan and Lauren Throne ’10 studied the queuing challenges of the coffee bar in the lobby of the Lynch building which results in a conference paper, presentation, and proceedings for their efforts. Setley developed and presented an ethics case with MBA student Eric Fuss. Perry, working with Lauren Dubois ’10, Amber Keeseman ’11, and Lauren Train ’10, with funding from the LVC Sustainability Task Force, produced ‘The Lebanon Valley College Climate Action Proposal.’
Sullivan’s article “A.D. Roy: The Forgotten Father of Portfolio Theory” has been accepted for publication by Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
Joel Kline continued his drive toward his doctorate and is in the final stages of dissertation research. Kline, founding co-director of the Digital Communications Program, has moved to the newly designated Digital Communications Department along with Dr. Jeff Ritchie from English and another new hire, Mat Samuel.
Robert Leonard experienced first-hand the vagaries and challenges of college start-up as he has been busy getting his two daughters ensconced in their colleges, one at Wilson and one here at Lebanon Valley College.
Tami Barton expected to spend much of the summer working for Thermacore of Lancaster to develop an accounting Policy and Procedures Manual. Real world experiences like these greatly enrich our courses. Thermacore found that they needed her controller skills to help with month-end closing responsibilities and looking for areas in which the accounting procedures could be improved either through eliminating redundant processes/controls or where specific reports could be used or prepared in order to automate processes. These experiences will prove invaluable when Barton gets the chance to resume her original assignment. She is working on a series of critical incident teaching cases that arose from her experiences as a business consultant for the company.
Dr. Will Delavan, in addition to making the transition to a new teaching environment, has been busy sharing his thoughts concerning the major environmental issues surrounding the Marcellus Shale project with interested parties including those attending a special conference at Bucknell, the editors of an economics encyclopedia, and a number of local special interest groups.
Among the dedicated adjunct faculty who deliver between 20 and 35 percent of our program each year, Doug Gautsch is closing in on the all-but-dissertation stage for his doctorate in Public Administration with a focus on leadership through Penn State Harrisburg; Kristen Evans-Waughen is in the final stages of her doctorate in Information Systems Management through Walden University; Joann Hauer continues to run her own CPA firm in between teaching assignments; Dr. Hope Witmer has joined Lebanon Valley College as the new assistant dean for graduate studies and continuing education; and Frank Vottero escapes the pressures of teaching by refereeing high school football games.