Dr. Robert A. Herring III
to Dr. Robert A. Herring III, professor of Management, who has been actively involved in professional development activities over the summer. His activities have included:
- running of the “Organizational Behavior Teaching Group” 2009, June 7-10, a personal and professional development pre-conference activity. Herring planned and organized the activity during the preceding academic year.
- participation in the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference for Management Educators -2009, which took place June 10-13 at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. With colleague M. Eileen Higgins of Frostburg State University, he presented a session entitled: Ice-breaking or time-wasting? The effective use of “ice-breakers” in class.
Herring and professor M. Eileen Higgins
Icebreaker session in action
- participation along with Dr. Nikolaos Karagiannis in Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) seminars at the University of Memphis Center for International Business, Education, and Research June 18-21. Herring and Karagiannis represented the WSSU School of Business and Economics in the third year of a three -year grant for faculty of HBCU’s to attend the FDIB’s.
- attendance at the initial seminar of the newly-formed organization “WNC Lean,” a newly-formed organization to promote “lean” business practices in western North Carolina on July 14 in Cherokee, NC. Lean business and management practices are one of the topics in the course Herring teaches at WSSU, “Management and Control of Quality.”
