Speakers Bureau

Arts and Culture

Business/Management/
Organizations

Education

Health/Mental Health/
Wellness

Humanities/Social and
Political Sciences

PNC and the Community

Science

Technology

Please make arrangements directly by telephone or e-mail (if available). Telephone: 219-462-4197, along with the appropriate extension number; or 219-785 and the extension number.

If you are unable to reach the individual, contact the Campus Relations Office, 219-785-5267.

Fees, if any, are a matter between you and the speaker.

These Purdue University North Central faculty and staff members are interested in speaking to your organization. General topics are listed here, but most speakers are willing to adapt their topics to fit your needs.

Arts and Culture

JERRY HOLT - Interim Chair English and Modern Languages
Ext.5346 jgholt@pnc.edu
American Literature; American Film; Kent State Shootings; Life and Career of Jackie Robinson; Film History; Life in the decades 1950’s to present

JUDY JACOBI - Assistant Vice Chancellor of Marketing and Campus Relations
Ext. 5593; jjacobi@pnc.edu
The Value of the Arts in Education; Selected Topics in Contemporary Visual Arts; Contemporary Sculpture; Group Tours

Business/Management/Organizations

JAMES B. DWORKIN - Chancellor; Professor of Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management
Ext. 5331; jdworkin@pnc.edu
Labor Relations; Arbitration and Negotiation; Labor Relations in Professional Baseball and Basketball; Economics; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Importance of Higher Education

KIMBERLY HARKLEROAD - Financial Aid Counselor
Ext.5269; kharkler@pnc.edu
Financial Aid Topics

ALAN KRABBENHOFT - Professor of Economics and Finance
akrabbenhoft@pnc.edu

RICHARD PANTON - Continuing Lecturer in Management
Ext. 5362; rpanton@pnc.edu
Team Building & Management of Work Teams; Defeating Union Organizing Campaigns; Purchasing

CYNTHIA ROBERTS - Interim Dean of the College of Business; Professor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Ext. 5219; croberts@pnc.edu
Leadership; Team Development; Service Learning; Ethics; Gender & Leadership Organization Development; Performance Improvement; Team Building; Diversity; Change Management

DEREK BJONBACK - Associate Professor Of Economics
Ext. 5694 dbjonback@pnc.edu

TANTATAPE BRAHMASRENE - Department of Business and Leadership
Ext. 5310 tapeb@pnc.edu
Finance & Intl Business; Macro-Micro Economics, Finance

CAROLYN ROPER - Interim Chair of the Department of Business and Leadership; Associate Professor of Leadership and Human Resources
Ext. 5686; croper@pnc.edu
Management of Change; Management of Conflict, Mediation; Leadership; Supervision; Leadership Development

DONNA WHITTEN - Associate Professor of Business-Accounting
Ext.5350; dwhitten@pnc.edu
Not-for-profit and financial and program analysis

E. ANNE CHRISTO-BAKER - Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Ext. 5643; ehchrist@pnc.edu
Team building, Diversity, Leadership, Supervisory Challenges, Personality Assessments, Workplace Communications

ANTHONY SINDONE - Continuing Lecturer of Economics
Ext. 5257; asindone@pnc.edu
Local authority on labor markets, forensic economics, regional economic development and public policy

Education

MARY JANE EISENHAUER - Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education
Ext. 5637; meisenhauer@pnc.edu
Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten

REX MORROW - Dean of College of Liberal Arts; Professor of Education; Professor of Social Sciences
Ext. 5680 rmorrow@pnc.edu
Education Policy; Secondary Education; International Education

KILA PAYNE - Student Services Program Counselor
Ext. 5367 kward@pnc.edu

DEBORAH BIRCH - Director of Success Thru Education
Ext 5423 dbirch@pnc.edu
College Success, Study Skills, SAT Preparation

Health/Mental Health/Wellness

JOHN WEBER - Director of Student Athletics and Head Baseball Coach
Ext. 5273; jweber@pnc.edu
Athletics; Baseball; Recruiting Techniques; Motivation; Sport Psychology

Humanities/Social and Political Sciences

KAREN DONAH - Continuing Lecturer of American Sign Language
Ext. 5432 kdonah@pnc.edu
American Sign Language

AMANDA SCHACHT - Enrollment Counselor
Ext. 5411 aschacht@pnc.edu
Volunteerism

JANUSZ DUZINKIEWICZ - Associate Professor History
Ext. 5523 jduzinkiewicz@pnc.edu

REX MORROW - Dean of College of Liberal Arts; Professor of Education; Professor of Social Sciences
Ext. 5680 rmorrow@pnc.edu
Social Studies Curricula; Education Policy; Secondary Education; International Education

LAURA ODOM - Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Equity and Training
Ext. 5545 odoml@pnc.edu
Human Resource Topics

JONATHAN SWARTS – Associate Professor of Political Science
Ext. 5252; jswarts@pnc.edu
International Relations; World Politics; Western European Politics; Middle East; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

KAREN SCHMID - Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Ext. 5750 kschmid@pnc.edu

KIM SCIPES - Associate Professor Sociology
Ext. 5294 kscipes@pnc.edu
Labor, Environment, Social Inequality, "Third World" Development, Globalization, Race and Ethnic Diversity

PNC and the Community

TOM ALBANO - Annual Fund and Alumni Coordinator
Ext. 5307 talbano@pnc.edu
PNC Alumni Association and Annual Giving

Science

Technology

MARTHA GARCIA-SAENZ - Associate Professor Bldg Const Mgmt
Ext. 5522 mgarcia@pnc.edu
Real options, Women in Engineering, Solar Energy

RICHARD PANTON - Continuing Lecturer in Management
Ext. rpanton@pnc.edu
Work Process Re-Engineering; Quality Control/Quality Assurance

GLEN PIPER - Director, IT Support for Academic Services
Ext. 5542 gpiper@pnc.edu
Academic Information Technology

DEREK BJONBACK - Associate Professor Of Economics
Ext. 5694 dbjonback@pnc.edu