Events
- Great Teaching Round-up
- Leading from the middle
- fall conference for faculty leaders
- The Texas Network
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Events: 2008 Business Administration Schedule
Business Adminstration Summary
Friday, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
"Improving Student Success: Best Practices for Teaching General Business Courses"
Speakers: Bob Hughes, Professor of General Business, Dallas County Community Colleges, and Willliam Pride, Professor of Marketing, Texas A&M University
Saturday, 10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
"Accreditation, Assessment, and Classroom Measurement of Student Learning"
Speaker: Chuck Williams, Dean of the Eberhard School of Business, University of the Pacific
Friday, February 22nd, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Friday's Business Administration Section meeting attendees will learn about "Improving Student Success: Best Practices for Teaching General Business Courses," with Bob Hughes and William Pride.
How can I motivate my students? How can I help students experience success? What makes on class better than another class?
All teachers have asked themselves these questions at one time or another. Yet there are no easy answers. Although no one has created a "cookbook" approach that works in every classroom, we can learn from each other, according to the presenters: "In this session, we'll discuss what effective instructors do to create a learning atmosphere that encourages both student participation and student success."
"Student success!" Only two words, but Dr. Hughes, professor of general business at the Dallas County Community Colleges, believes that these two words can literally change lives. Dr. Hughes has taught introduction to business, personal finance, business math, small business management, small business finance, and accounting since 1972. He has authored several textbooks, including Business and Personal Finance, Foundations of Business, and Focus on Personal Finance. He has also served as a content specialist for two popular television series, "It's Strictly Business" and "Dollars & Sense: Personal Finance for the 21st Century," and is the lead author for a business math project utilizing computer assisted instruction, funded by the ALEKS Corporation.
Dr. Hughes received his BBA from Southern Nazarene University and his MBA and Ed.D from the University of North Texas.
Dr. Pride is a professor of marketing at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. degree in marketing from Louisiana State University. His research interests are primarily in the areas of advertising, branding, and marketing education. His articles appear in a number of journals including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Journal of Advertising.
Dr. Pride is co-author of an introductory level marketing textbook and an introduction to business textbook.
Saturday, February 23rd, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Saturday's program features "Accreditation, Assessment, and Classroom Measurement of Student Learning," with speaker Chuck Williams.
Dr. Williams says, "Today, all accreditation and assessment standards require basic classroom measures of student learning (but exams don't count!). In this session, learn simple ways to measure student learning in your classes."
The presenter is dean of the Eberhard school of business at the University of the Pacific. Previously, he was associate professor of management at the M.J. Neeley school of business at Texas Christian University, where he also served as an associate dean and the chair of the management department.
Dr. Williams received a BA in psychology from Valparaiso University, and specialized in the areas of organizational behavior, human resources, and strategic management while earning is MBA and Ph.D in business administration from Michigan State University. Previously, he taught at Michigan State University and was on the faculty of Oklahoma State University.
His research interests include employee recruitment and turnover, performance appraisal, and employee training and goal-setting. He has published research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, Personnel Psychology, and the Organizational Research Methods Journal.
He was a member of the Journal of Management's editorial board, and serves as a reviewer for numerous other academic journals.
Dr. Williams teaches a number of different courses, but has been privileged to teach his favorite course, introduction to management, for nearly 20 years. His teaching philosophy is based on four principles: (1) courses should be engaging and interesting; (2) there's nothing as practical as good theory; (3) students learn by doing; and (4) students learn when they are challenged. The undergraduate students at TCU's Neeley School of Business named him instructor of the year, and he has also been a recipient of TCU's Dean's Teaching Award.
Business Administration Section Chair:
Jim R. Ellis, Lamar State College - Orange