Drexel Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento Adds Five New Faculty
SACRAMENTO, CA, October 17, 2011 — Drexel University begins its fall semester welcoming five new faculty members at the Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento.
Of the five faculty members starting in the fall, four have been hired on a full-time basis by the LeBow College of Business to staff the MS-Finance and MBA courses. They will join Dr. Ramya Ghosh, who has been teaching Economics at the Center this past year.
The four new MBA faculty have diverse educational backgrounds. They are: Dr. Sally Hamilton, who will teach Accounting and Finance; Dr. Kenneth Scislaw, whose expertise will be Finance; and Dr. Leon Schjoedt, who will teach Management. Dr. Ed Arnheiter will focus on the Decisions Science area, a curriculum that includes the academic disciplines of production operations management and statistics.
A fifth new faculty member - Dr. Steven Winlock - will be a part-time professor in the School of Education, working closely with Dr. Ed Bureau in the EdD Program at the Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento.
""We are honored to have such an innovative group of educators join our team in Sacramento," said Frank Linnehan, the Interim Executive Director of the Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento. "As we increase our offerings, we are adding some great educators to ensure that the education we provide is not just among the top-ranked in the country, but closely calibrated to the practical, business needs of this region."
Dr. Leon Schjoedt
Born in Denmark, Dr. Schjoedt comes to Drexel with considerable international teaching experience. He spent two years teaching at Copenhagen Business School and also taught four summers at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Dr. Schjoedt served the last two years as a business professor at the University of Central Florida, where he taught entrepreneurship, strategic innovation management, and strategic management. Before that, Dr. Schjoedt was a faculty member at Illinois State University for six years. He is currently serving on four editorial review boards of prestigious international journals in entrepreneurship, management, and education. His research focuses on entrepreneurial behavior and his work has appeared in many prominent journals.
After receiving a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics and Languages at Southern Denmark Business School, Dr. Schjoedt received an MBA from University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and in 2002 earned a Ph.D from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Sally Hamilton
Dr. Hamilton has local ties to the region, graduating from UC Davis with a B.A. in International Relations. She later received her MBA at the University of San Diego and went on to earn her Ph.D at UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management.
Dr. Hamilton joins the Drexel staff after serving the last 2½ years as a full-time assistant professor of finance for South University College of Business, headquartered in Savannah Georgia. She previously was a part-time instructor at the University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management and Technology. Her background also includes teaching at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, Ecole Superior de Commerce in Rouen, France, and business schools at both USC and California State Northridge.
A Davis resident, Dr. Hamilton also has more than 10 years experience in manufacturing finance, business systems and global project management for firms in Silicon Valley.
Dr. Kenneth Scislaw
Dr. Scislaw entered the academic profession after two decades of work in institutional investments, including Merrill Lynch trading in New York, Templeton Investment Counsel in both Florida and the Bahamas, and his own institutional investment consulting firm. He has worked with retail, institutional, buy-side, sell-side, and academic and investment research segments of the finance profession. His comprehensive background provides an understanding of securities trading, investment consulting, portfolio management, and market applications of modern finance theory.
A native of Alabama, Dr. Scislaw has been a member of faculty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, University College Dublin (Ireland), and the University of St. Andrews (United Kingdom). He recently completed a year as a visiting assistant professor of finance at Drury University, a small private liberal arts college in the Midwest.
Dr. Scislaw has a BS from the University of Alabama, an MBA from the University of Edinburgh (UK), and a Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews (UK).
Dr. Ed Arnheiter
Formerly a New England resident, Dr. Arnheiter earned a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also earned a masters degree in Engineering Management. Arnheiter received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
In addition to his 13 years of academic experience, Dr. Arnheiter has also worked as a consultant in quality improvement, as well as a Quality Engineer with GE Defense Systems, and Senior Quality Engineer for Spalding Sports worldwide. He is also a member of the Decision Sciences Institute and has published and presented papers on lean production, process improvement and quality management. He comes to Drexel after serving on the faculty in the School of Business, Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT.
Dr. Arnheiter served as clinical professor for more than 12 years at the Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, based in Troy, N.Y. The institute is focused on developing aspiring business leaders who have a passion for technology and the ability to work across business functions.
Dr. Steven Winlock
Dr. Winlock has been involved in education for more than three decades as a teacher, vice principal, principal, and most recently as an Associate Superintendent in the Elk Grove Unified School District. He has also been an adjunct professor in the area of school administration and teacher credentialing programs at both Sacramento State and San Francisco State.
A Sacramento native, Dr. Winlock has served as a director of development for the training and development of school site administrators for the state of California. He presently is the Executive Director of the Sacramento County Office of Education Leadership Institute that focuses on the development of school leaders for the Sacramento region. He has also served as the chairman of the African American Advisory to the California State Board of Education with the focus of addressing the achievement gap in the state. Dr. Winlock's involvement has created a number of policies and educational practices that have assisted with the improvement of education in the state of California.
Dr. Winlock earned a doctoral degree in the EdD program at USC. He received both a masters in Educational Administration and a Liberal Arts degree from Sacramento State.
The Graduate Center, which opened in January 2009, offers programs focused on the heart of Greater Sacramento's growth and economic development initiatives, including business, human resource development, higher education and public health. Classes fit with the students' working and are a blend of in-class and on-line pedagogies.
For more information on Drexel's graduate programs in California, visit www.drexel.edu/sacramento or call 888-389-3781 or 916-325-4600.
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