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Ph.D.
Director, The Professional MBA Program
Professor of Health Care Administration
Dr. McDonald is an internationally
recognized educator, consultant and practitioner. He is currently
the Director of The Professional MBA program and Professor
of Health Administration, Reeves School of Business, Methodist
University, located in Fayetteville, NC, and the Chief Executive
Officer of McDonald and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm
dedicated to the optical industry and related professions.
He is a Registered Optician in the State of North Carolina,
and serves as a consultant to a number of ophthalmic and general
health care organizations in the areas of staff development
and training, practice management and specialty contact lenses.
His academic background includes undergraduate degrees in
Opticianry and Management. He holds graduate degrees in Health
Care Management, Education and the Doctor of Philosophy in
Health Sciences, as well as a number of professional certifications,
including the prestigious Master of Ophthalmic Optics, and
Advanced Certification in Contact Lenses from the National
Contact Lens Examiners. He is a member of the Class of 2005
at the Institute for Management and Leadership in Higher Education
at Harvard University.
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M.B.A.
Associate Director of Professional Golf Management, PGM
Education
Assistant Professor of Professional Golf Management |
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M.S.
Instructor of Marketing
Mark Kendrick is a graduate
of Methodist University (then College), with a B.A. in Social
Work and Economics. He completed his graduate work at Thomas
Edison State College with a Master of Science in Management
Degree in 2004. In his graduate program, he completed an extensive
thesis project on improving the air transportation system
at the major airports in the U.S. Professor Kendrick is currently
in the dissertation stage of his Ph.D. in Business Administration.
His area of concentration is in Public Policy at Northcentral
University in Prescott, AZ and his dissertation research centers
on the area of customer service in the public sector.
Growing up in Pinehurst, Professor Kendrick comes to The
Professional MBA at Pinehurst program with a keen perspective
on how positive change can take place within a community.
For 20 plus years, he has had the opportunity to serve as
a Councilmember and Mayor Pro-Tem on the Fayetteville City
Council, and he comes to the MBA program with a wealth of
firsthand knowledge in real estate development, governmental
regulations, planning, and zoning regulations. Professor Kendrick
has served on numerous local, state, and national committees
that focused on long-range planning, community development,
and transportation infrastructure. Mr. Kendrick has been active
in our community for many years by serving on numerous business
and civic organizations. He and his wife, Sharon, are members
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Ph.D.
Director, Resort and Club Management
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Dr. Kendrick comes to Methodist
University with over 15 years of experience in the hospitality
industry. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Hotel/Restaurant
Management from the University of Georgia, her master’s
degree in Organizational Management from the University of
Phoenix, and her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Touro
University International. Dr. Kendrick has enjoyed being involved
in the academic environment since 2001, and looks forward
to an exciting career in the Resort Management field at Methodist
University. Her research interests include following the aging
worker as contemplating pending retirement, work-related retirement
issues facing pre-retirees, and the placement of older workers
in ‘Bridge Employment’ jobs before they enter
the ‘full retirement’ phase of life. She received
a “Best Paper” award at the Institute for Behavioral
and Applied Management conference for her presentation on
older workers and why they continue to work after retirement,
and she looks forward to being published in an upcoming edition
of the Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management. Dr. Kendrick
is a member of the Academy of International Business, the
Association for Operations Management, and serves on the Cultural
Heritage Tourism Advisory Council with the Convention and
Visitors Bureau. |
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Ph.D., CPA
Co-Chair, All Business Programs
Professor of Accounting |
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Ph.D.
Vice President for Planning and Evaluation
Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Professor of Psychology
In addition to his duties as Graduate Dean in which he is
responsible for administrative oversight of Methodist University’s
Master’s programs, Dr. Don
Lassiter is a tenured professor in the Psychology Department.
Until taking on the position of Graduate Dean, he was responsible
for the Human Performance Concentration within the psychology
major, teaching courses in Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational
Psychology (which he still teaches), among others.
At the master’s level, he has taught courses for Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University in Human Factors in Aviation and Aviation
Psychology. He obtained funded research from the National
Institute on Aging to conduct studies on the effects of aging
and expertise on the mental workload of pilots. He has published
research papers in journals and conference proceedings such
as Human Factors, Designing for an Aging Population,
Society for Information Display Digest, and Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting;
a book chapter in Teams: Their Training and Performance;
and has presented papers and posters at numerous national
and regional conferences.
Most recently, he has served as an ad hoc reviewer for Human
Factors, and published a book review in the journal Ergonomics
in Design. He has served in several offices of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), as well as two terms
as President of the Carolina Chapter of HFES. |
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Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Business and Marketing Research
Dr. Lin is a Professor of
Business Administration in the Reeves School of Business and
Economics. Dr. Lin joined the Methodist University faculty
in 1988 and is tenured. In addition to his teaching duties,
he serves as the Director of the Institute for Marketing and
Business Research. Dr. Lin holds a Ph.D. from North Carolina
State University in Economics and Statistics. His undergraduate
course load includes Managerial Economics, Business Statistics,
Management Science, and Microcomputer Business Applications.
He has taught similar courses at the graduate level as an
adjunct professor for both regional universities and accredited
online programs. Among Dr. Lin's recent research presentations
is a paper entitled "Global Economy: The Trends and Issues"
at the Chinese-American Academic and Professional Association
Annual Conference in 2002. |
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J.D.
Director, Professional Tennis Management
Professor Petersen designed
a sports law course for the Professional Golf Association
(PGA) and United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA)
accredited Professional Golf Management (PGM) and Professional
Tennis Management (PTM) programs at Ferris State University
in Big Rapids, MI. As a USPTA certified tennis teaching professional,
he collaborated with Professor Matt Pinter, Director of the
PGM program and certified PGA teaching professional, for the
golf component of the course. Professor Petersen also taught
the sports law course to the undergraduate PGM and PTM students
as well as to students in the university's Master's in Technical
Education program. Professor Petersen is licensed to practice
law in Iowa and Florida. He continues his legal education
by attending seminars in Florida and North Carolina, including
seminars by the Sports and Entertainment section of the North
Carolina Bar Association. |
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Ph.D.
Marketing
Dr. Mark Smith has a wide
variety of management and marketing experience in the business
world, from which he retired to enter a second career in higher
education. Much of his first career was in executive positions
to either reorganize troubled business operations or to open
new regional operations for trust divisions of commercial
banks. In addition, he oversaw or managed a number of small
to medium-sized businesses held by the bank in a fiduciary
capacity. He has also served as a consultant for a number
of years. After retirement, he completed his Ph.D. in Marketing
and International Business which, added to his M.B.A. with
a Management focus, allows him to teach in several disciplines
within the Reeves School of Business. His dissertation is
in an area that had previously had little study: a multicultural
study of print advertising directed towards senior citizens.
He is currently working on additional scholarly articles using
data gathered for this study. Dr. Smith has taught a variety
of courses in his fields on both graduate and undergraduate
levels at several institutions. He is a member of several
professional marketing, international business, and management
organizations. |
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J.D.
Director of Legal Studies
Associate Professor of Legal Studies |
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Ph.D.
Dean, Reeves School of Business
Dr. Jeff Zimmerman is a
tenured Professor of Economics and Finance in the Reeves School
of Business and Economics at Methodist University. In addition
to serving as a student advisor, he serves in several committees
of Methodist University. He teaches Principles of Microeconomics
and Macroeconomics, Money, Banking and Financial Markets,
Financial Markets and Institutions, Investments and Portfolio
Management, Managerial Finance, Managerial Economics, Business
and Economic Statistics, International Trade and Finance,
and Economic Development. Dr. Zimmerman earned his Ph.D. in
Economics from Purdue University. His paper presentations
include: "Trade Patterns in Colonial America," at the Living
History Society Symposium. Dr. Zimmerman has also represented
the Reeves School of Business and Economics as a panel moderator
during ACBSP national conferences. |
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