Division of Business 2001-02

Kimbrough Ferrell

Attended:

• American Marketing Association Educators' Conference

• Lessons in Leadership

Nanette Hagood

Member:

• Institute of Management Accountants, Mobile Chapter

Attended:

• Institute of Management Accountants annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

• American Accounting Association regional meeting, Northern Kentucky University

-Reviewed the second edition of McGraw Hill's Cost Accounting, A Strategic Emphasis
-Applied for admittance and was accepted into the accounting doctoral program at Anderson University;  did not enroll because of financial constraints
-Passed three sections of the Certified Management Accountant exam 
-Prepared for and took the CPA exam

-Revised ACC 331 Cost Accounting:  new textbook, new class assignments, use of textbook's website and other technological aids, use of case studies;  set course up on ERes
-Revised ACC 201 Principles of Accounting:  used study guides, review sessions, group work, ERes
-Revised BUS 503 Accounting Foundations:  new textbook, new course material, more case studies, comprehensive term project

Elected Trustee (a financial audit position) at VFW Post 49

 Andre Honoree

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• SHC Table Talk (with Dr. Stu Langdon):  business rationale for corporate globalization

Member: 

• National Academy of Management

• Southern Management Association

• Southwestern Academy of Management

• Mobile Botanical Gardens Board of Directors

• Student Life Committee, SHC Board of Trustees 

Attended:

• Southern Management Association annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference meetings (as SHC's faculty athletic representative)

As part of work for SHC Graduate Summer Research Grant, traveled to Spokane, Washington, to work with a colleague on a national study of faculty regarding the use of merit pay in academia

Selected to participate in Fall 2002 "Globalization as Seen from the Developing World" conference at Santa Clara University

-Set up and coordinated a marketing project in which MBA students from BUS 570 Marketing Management prepared a strategic marketing plan for the Exploreum and presented the plan orally and in writing to the Exploreum's Board of Directors and administration 
-Assisted Mobile Botanical Gardens by offering students in MKT 311 Principles of Marketing bonus points for collecting marketing research data at the Garden's fall plant sale;  conducted several statistical analyses on data and produced report suggesting more effective uses of the organization's limited resources
-Incorporated justice-themed material into all courses
-Revised BUS 570 Marketing Management and MKT 450 Marketing Management:  utilized new case study text and  extensive case analysis

Worked with Theresa Crider (Academic Computing) to develop and launch a national web-based survey of faculty perceptions regarding merit pay in academia

Subscribe to four national academic journal publications in related disciplines

Works in progress:

• "Self Presentation and Personality:  Development and Validation of a Self-Presentation Questionnaire using the Five Factor Model," submitted to Management Communication Quarterly for review 

• Have collected and coded all data for the merit pay in academia study;  will work with colleague during summer 2002 to begin analysis and to separate it into distinct works to be submitted for publication

• In the process of completing coding of almost 1,000 federal reverse discrimination cases; in summer 2002, will begin analyzing data to investigate the relationships between various factors/variables and the resultant judgments of the various federal courts

Stewart Langdon [Division Chair]

Member:

• Industrial Relations Research Association

• Society of Human Resource Management

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• SHC Faculty Friday presentation (with Dr. Andre Honoree):  reviewed  issues relating to globalization and justice from the business perspective

• Sertoma Club:  on Spring Hill College and its business programs

Attended:

• SHC "Teaching for Justice" Summer Seminar 

• SHC workshop:  "ERes for New Users"

• SHC workshop:  "Enhancing Student Motivation to Learn"

• SHC workshop:  "Model Projects on ERes and Information Literacy"

• SHC workshop:  "Teaching for Justice" (Spring 2002)

Completed reviews of new Annual Editions publications for Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship, and Production and Operations Management

-New course preparation:  BUS 595 Special Topics: Entrepreneurship
-Incorporated justice issues into several classes
-Incorporated ERes into most classes:  posted student information, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, study and review questions

-Worked with the Division Chair of Nursing on the development of a new graduate program in health care leadership
-Worked with the Development Office to finalize the B.J. "Buzz" Heggeman Scholarship  
-Conducted, with the Director of the MBA program, a cost-benefit analysis of the MBA program;  results showed that the program makes money for the college while fulfilling a vital component of the college's mission;  also showed that the size of the MBA program could be doubled without any significant increase in costs

-Completed year-long program of Church Leadership Development at Christ United Methodist Church
-Completed an extensive bible study called "Disciple I"  at Christ United Methodist Church

James Larriviere

Publications:

• “A Human Capital Approach to American Indian Earnings:  The Effects of Place of Residence and Migration,” accepted by the Social Science Journal  (refereed)

Member:

• National Association of Economic Educators

• Southern Economic Association

Attended:   

• Southern Economic Association annual conference, Tampa, Florida

• Presenter:  "A Human Capital Approach to American Indian Earnings"

• SHC workshop: Student Motivation

• SHC fall and spring workshops: ERes

New course preparations:  ECO 101 Principles of Macroeconomics, BUS 320 International Business, ECO 434 International Economics, ECO 301 Intermediate Microeconomics, FIN 401 Advanced Financial Analysis

Works in progress:

• In process of submitting a manuscript to the Social Science Journal

Charmane May

Attended:

• Society for College and University Planners annual conference

• National leadership conference sponsored by Radcliffe

• SHC workshops on student learning

Member:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Special Interest Group on Collaborative Editing (SIGCE)

• Society for College and University Planners (SCUP)

• WHIL Board

-Course revision:  CIS 221 Problem Solving I - Programs and Algorithms was split into separate lecture (CIS 221) and laboratory (CIS 223) courses
-Working with Dr. Cort Schlichting and Dr. Virginia Ori on revision of CIS courses

-Work with Middle School Girls in Science program
-Tutor several middle school girls in math
-Participate in service projects with church youth group
-Advocate for youth strings and Mobile Student Symphony

Virginia Ori

Attended:

• Association of American Colleges and Universities conference:  "Technology, Learning and Intellectual Development," Baltimore, Maryland

• Visual Studio User Group meetings to discuss technical side of software

• SHC fall and spring faculty development workshops

Participated in Race, Class and Gender Reading Group

-New course preparation: CIS 381 Intermediate Computer Applications
-Revised CIS 484 Systems Analysis:  used real-life case study (Radiology Information Systems, University of South Alabama Medical Center) and  incorporated ideas from the "Technology, Learning and Intellectual Development" conference
-Revised CIS 110 Introduction to Computers to meet faculty-determined requirements for what students need to know about computer technology
-Course revision:  CIS 221 Problem Solving I - Programs and Algorithms was split into separate lecture (CIS 221) and laboratory (CIS 223) courses

 Glenda Partridge

Attended:

• Accounting and Auditing Update:  FASB and SAS Review

• 2001 Tax Update

• Mobile Chapter of Alabama Society of CPAs annual meeting

Member:

• Mobile Chapter of Alabama Society of CPAs:  Scholarship competition contact person for University of South Alabama and University of Mobile

• Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

• American Accounting Association

• Friends of the Library Board:  Treasurer

-New course preparation:  ACC 202 Principles of Accounting 
-Incorporated consideration of ethical issues into most classes

Ralph Sandler

Attended:

• Allied Social Sciences Association meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

• Chaired session on forensic economics

• Two SHC workshops on ERes

Member:

• Financial Education Association

-Revised FIN 435 International Finance to include student presentations and papers on country risk
-Incorporated more institutional and ethical issues into the MBA course BUS 560 Management of Financial Resources

Volunteered for:

• WHIL fund-raising drive

• Leukemia Society (Alabama Chapter) fund-raising activities

• Spring Hill Avenue Temple's Christmas morning "pinch hitter" program and Christmas dinner for the needy program 

Works in progress:

• Continuing work with Dr. Andy Sharp on business valuation paper for the National Association of Forensic Economics meeting

• Paper on finance pedagogy, possibly  to be presented at next year's Financial Education Association meeting 

• Paper on exchange rate forecasting for the Journal of Financial Education

• Working with Dr. Alex Landi and others on a Core Development Grant to assess the social sciences in SHC's current core curriculum

Cort Schlichting

Member:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Attended:

• Comdex Convention

• Small Business Workshop

Consulted with Mobile Memorial Gardens and TEC Engineering:  developed complex database applications in ACCESS for both firms

-New course preparation:  CIS 470 E-Commerce
-Revised CIS 115 Business Computer Applications to include both PowerPoint and FrontPage for web design;  added projects and labs in both areas;  required students to make PowerPoint presentations and create web pages 

Sang with Musica Sacra

Works in progress:

• Learning Dreamweaver

Andrew Sharp

Promoted to Professor

On sabbatical for Fall 2001

Awarded Teagle Foundation Summer 2002 Research Grant

Publications:

• "Hedging Fuel Costs in the Airline Industry:  The Delta Way," Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, June 2001  (refereed)

• "Accounting for Broken Ballots and Fixed Assets," The Alabama CPA Newsletter, August 2001 (edited)

• "The Financial Statement Impact of SFAS 133 on Delta's Fuel Hedging Program," Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, December 2001  (refereed)

• "Tomisms:  A Tribute to Thomas A. Ratcliffe, Pd.D., C.P.A.," The Alabama CPA Newsletter, September 2001 (edited)

• "Two Energy Tax Targets:  East Coast and West Coast," Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, March 2002  (refereed)

• "Our Confusing Management Accounting Terminology," ReveNews, December 2001 (edited)

• “Taxing Free Travel Awards: A Potential Problem for the Airlines,” accepted for publication in TSU Business and Economic Review, Summer 2002 (refereed)

• "Some Energy Cost-Savings and Conservation Thoughts," accepted for publication in Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, June 2002  (refereed)

• "Red Flags for Accountants are Flapping in the Storm," accepted for publication in National Public Accountant, July or August 2002 (refereed)

• "Accounting:  When and Where Did It All Begin?" accepted for publication in The Alabama CPA Newsletter, Forthcoming (edited)

• "Accounting for Personal Property on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad," accepted for The Academy of Accounting Historians' Annual Research Conference; August 13, 2002;  San Antonio, Texas (double blind reviewed) 

Member:

• American Accounting Association

• Institute of Management Accountants

• American Institute of CPAs

• Alabama Society of CPAs

• Academy of Accounting Historians

• Mobile Chapter of Alabama Society of CPAs

• North Carolina Association of CPAs

• Board of Directors, Friends of SHC Library

Attended:   

• “Accounting and Auditing Update:  FASB and SAS Review,” Alabama Society of CPAs

• “Accountancy Weekend,” Patterson School of Accountancy, University of Mississippi

• 2001 Federal Tax Update, North Carolina Association of CPAs

-Prepared "Review of Accounting Programs:  Ole Miss and Spring Hill"
-Prepared "Analysis of the 5-year Accounting Program 2000-2001"

-Prepared for a local dentist a comprehensive financial plan regarding the sale of a dental practice and the lease of a dental office
-Researched and prepared the necessary journal entries and disclosures regarding a complex variable interest rate swap derivative for a local CPA firm to provide to a client

-Worked with Dr. Stu Langdon and Dr. Ralph Sandler on the MBA cost study
-Revised the two paradigms for 5-year accounting students

-Incorporated ethnics discussions into all classes
-Used ERes in most classes

-Judge for Lebanese-American Club scholarship competition
-Volunteer for Mobile Botanical Gardens:  worked at various events, served on Executive Director Search Committee

Works in progress:

• Working with Gary Previts of Case Western Reserve University, Dale Flesher of the University of Mississippi, and Bill Samson of  the University of Alabama on accounting history archival research regarding the railroads of the Civil War period