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Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE
Martin J. Lecker
| SUNY Rockland 145 College Road Suffern, N.Y. 10901 (845) 574-4583 Email: mlecker@sunyrockland.edu |
| Education | ||
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| May, 1990 | Ed. D. | College Teaching and Academic Leadership Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| February, 1990 | Ed. M. | College Teaching and Academic Leadership Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| June, 1978 | M.B.A. | Professional Management (With Distinction) Pace University, Pleasantville, N.Y. |
| June, 1972 | B.B.A. | Marketing Pace College, Pleasantville, N.Y. |
| Professional Employment | |
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| 1985 to present | Department of Business, SUNY Rockland Professor, Business (1991 to present) Associate Professor, Business, (1989 to 1991) Assistant Professor, Business, (1986 to 1989) Temporary Full Time, Business (1985 to 1986) Administrative Positions: Department Chair, Business Technologies (2002 to 2006) Coordinator, Management Development Business Honors Program (1990 to 2002) Department Chair, Business (1991 to 1994) |
| 1982 to 1985 | Ridgefield High School Ridgefield, Connecticut, Accounting Teacher |
| 1980 to 1981 | SUNY New Paltz New Paltz, New York, Adjunct Business Instructor |
| 1974 to 1982 | Rhinebeck High School Rhinebeck, New York, Business and Language Department Chairperson (1978 to 1982) Business Teacher |
| 1973 to 1974 | Xerox Corporation Tarrytown, New York, Customer Service Representative |
| 1972 to 1973 | United Factors New York, New York, Assistant Credit Manager |
| COURSES TAUGHT AT POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS |
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| Rockland Community College |
| Accounting I Accounting II (i.e. Honors) American Economy Business Communications Business Leadership Honors Seminar Business Mathematics Ethics in Business (i.e. Honors, online) International Business (i.e. London, U.K.) International Business Practice Firm (i.e. Honors) Introduction to Business (i.e. telecourse and ESL) Life Skills (Life Career and Educational Planning) Marketing (i.e. Honors) Money and Banking Personal Financial Management Principles of Management (i.e. telecourse and Honors) Pluralism and Diversity in Business and Industry (i.e. Online and Honors) Pluralism and Diversity in America Small Business Management (i.e. telecourse) |
| SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, N.Y. |
| Organizational Behavior (i.e. graduate students) Principles of Management Principles of Marketing |
| COURSES DEVELOPED |
| Ethics in Business (i.e. Honors and online) International Business Practice Firm (i.e. Honors) Introduction to Business for ESL students Pluralism and Diversity in Business and Industry (i.e. Honors and online) |
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH STUDIES |
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University Associate, New York University, Faculty Forum Network Fall 2005-Spring 2008 Graduate Work (audited) |
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
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| "Karma Capitalism: A Normative Standard for Entrepreneurial Leaders" Fourtheenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois November 1, 2007 (Co-Presented with Terri Kaye Needle) "The Smoking Penalty: Distributive Justice or Discrimination?" Thirteenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Niagara University, Buffalo, New York October 26, 2006. |
| "Workplace Romances: A Platonic Perspective" Twelfth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, St. John's University, NYC, New York October 28, 2005. |
| "Workplace Rankism: An Unchallenged Form of Discrimination" Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Garden City, New York October 23, 2003 (Co-Presented with Terri Kaye Needle). |
| "S.T.A.R.S. Board: The Internal Advisory Board Advantage" The National Conference on the Adult Learner, Orlando, Florida, June 2, 2002 (Co-Presented with Terri Kaye Needle). |
| "Integrating Cultural Awareness into the Curriculum: Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities" The International Process Education Conference, State University of New York at Stony Brook June 25, 1999 (Co-Presented with Terri Kaye Needle). |
| "Developing A Honors Program with a Professional Studies Curriculum" NISOD's International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, Austin Convention Center, University of Texas at Austin, May 24, 1998. |
| "Psycho-ethics: Applying Psychology to Ethics" Ethics in the International Environment, Thames Valley University, London, U.K., March 20, 1996 (Co-presented with Terri Kaye Needle). |
| "The Affirmative Action Debate: Past, Present, and Future" Presidential Inauguration Week Lecture of Scholars. SUNY Rockland Community, Suffern, N.Y. April 25, 1995. |
| "Teaching Ethics in Business" for Philosophy Department Faculty. SUNY Rockland, Suffern, NY. June-July 1993. |
| "How to Financially Plan in Today's Economy" Guest speaker on WRKL's "Smart Investor," Pomona, N.Y. February 10, 1995. |
| "Teaching Economics for the Real World: NYS Regents Action Plan for Economic Education" Rockland Center for Economic Education, Suffern, N.Y. June, 1990. |
| "Retaining Freshman: The Mag Plus Program" University of South Carolina Freshman Regional Conference. White Plains, N.Y. April, 1988. |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
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REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES |
| "The Smoking Penalty: Distributive Justice or Smokism?" JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS (published online March 18, 2008, hard copy not yet published). |
| "Workplace Romances: A Platonic Perspective," RESEARCH IN ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONS: INSURANCE ETHICS FOR A MORE ETHICAL WORLD, Vol. 7 (P. Flannagan, P. Primeaux and W. Ferguson, Eds.) Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2007. |
| "Psychoethics: A Discipline Applying Psychology to Ethics," REVIEW OF BUSINESS, Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring, 1997, pp. 30-34. (Co-author Terri Needle). |
| "Integrating Communications Skills on a Community College Level," COLLEAGUE, 1991, pp. 26-31. |
| "Increase Your Students' Stock Market Literacy," BUSINESS EDUCATION FORUM, Vol. 49, No. 2, November, 1984, pp. 13-14. |
| "Learning Accounting Under the Mastery Teaching Technique System," BUSINESS EDUCATION FORUM, Vol. 36, No. 6, March, 1982, pp. 10-13. |
| EDITED BOOK |
| MULTICULTURAL READINGS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. FOURTH EDITION (Ed.), Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006. (Third Edition, 2002, Second Edition, 1998, First Edition, 1996). ISBN 0-536-12408-6. SUCCESSFUL IMMIGRANTS IN BUSINESS. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007. ISBN 0-536-06271-4. |
| ARTICLES IN TEXT |
| "The African, Asian, and Jewish Immigrant Movements," MULTICULTURAL READINGS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. Lecker, Martin J.(ed.) Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006. (13-22). |
| "Psychoethics: A Discipline Applying Psychology to Business Ethics," PERSPECTIVES IN BUSINESS ETHICS. Hartman, L.P. Chicago: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1998. (116-121). (Co-author Terri Needle). |
| "The U.S. Government Reforms Child Product Safety Laws," GREAT EVENTS FROM HISTORY II: BUSINESS AND COMMERCE, Magill, F.N., Ed., Salem Press, October, 1994, pp. 1426-30. |
| "Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed Launches a Consumer Movement, "GREAT EVENTS FROM HISTORY II:" BUSINESS AND COMMERCE, Magill, F.N., Ed., Salem Press, October, 1994, pp. 1270-75. |
| "Public Relations Assignment," GOOD WRITING (by Linda Simon), New York: St. Martin' Press, 1988, pp. 275-6, (Co-author: Annette Schneider). |
| JOURNAL ARTICLES (General) |
| "The Market Basket Survey," BUSINESS EXCHANGE, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 3-5. |
| "Starting Your Own Student Employment Agency," TODAY'S SECRETARY, Vol. 84, No. 2, November, 1981, pp. 14-18. |
| "The C.P.A. Game," BUSINESS EXCHANGE, Vol. 3, No. 3, February, 1981, pp. 28-30. |
| COMPETITIVE TEACHING AWARDS |
| National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Award, The University of Texas, Austin, TX. May 27, 1998 |
| State University of New York Chancellor's Award For Excellence in Teaching, May, 1994. |
| GRANTS AND OTHER AWARDS/ HONORS |
| Town of Ramapo Humanitarian Award, April 25, 1995. University of Arizona Economic Fellowship Recipeint, Junior College Teacher Workshop. August, 1995. Who's Who Among America's Teachers, May, 1994; May , 2002; May, 2004. Leadership Rockland Program, Class of 1994. Initiated into Phi Delta Kappa, National Honor Society of Education, 1989. Mid-Hudson School Study Council Grant, S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz, for student employment agency project, 1981. Awarded CERTIFICATE OF VALIDATION from the N.Y.S. Department of Education for student employment agency that acted as a model for the state, 1982. |
| SCHOLARSHIPS |
| Teachers College, Columbia University Department of Higher Education Scholarship (1988) Teachers College Merit Scholarship (1987-1988) |
| Pace University, Graduate School of Business Graduate Trustee Award Scholarship (1977) |
| SELECTED CONFERENCES ATTENDED |
| "Teaching Business Ethics, " Faculty Resource Network, (selective), New York University, New York City, NY June 11-15, 2007. |
| "The Practice of Ethics," Faculty Resource Network (selective) New York University, New York City, NY June 9-13, 2003 |
| S.U.N.Y. Council of Business Faculty/ Administrators Conference, S.U.N.Y. Ulster, Kingston, N.Y., October 24-25, 2002. (moderated Wrap-Up Session on Teaching Business Ethics). |
| "Native American Religion," Northeast Regional Faculty Conference on Religion and American History-Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 1, 2000. |
| "Religion, Race and Ethnicity," Northeast Regional Faculty Conference on Religion And American History-Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 2-3, 1999. |
| Eleventh Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, N.Y.C., N.Y. June 12-13, 1999. |
| "Whose Values? Ethics in the International Business Ethics Environment.," London, U.K. March 18, 1996. (Co-Chairperson of Conference), |
| "International Conference on Promoting Business Ethics," Niagara University, Buffalo, NY. October 31-November 2, 1996. |
| "The Thatcher Revolution," Ealing College, London, U.K., November, 1988. |
| SELECTED COLLEGE SERVICE |
| Faculty Senator At Large, 1987-1995, 1997-1999, 2001-Present Pluralism and Diversity Review Panel, January-March 2002. S.T.A.R.S. (Services to Returning Adult Students) Board 1998-2002. International Education Advisory Committee, 1999-2001. College-wide Retention, Promotion, and Retention Committee, 1995-1999 Faculty Senate Executive Committee 1993-95, 1997-1998 Task Force on General Education Committee Workshop, 1990 Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Council, 1989-90 Appointed to the State Education Department Business Administration Team Outcomes Assessment in Post-Secondary Occupational Programs Committee, 1989-1990 Founded the local Beta Xi Chapter of Alpha Beta Gamma, the International Business Honor Society, 1987 |
| SELECTED CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT |
| Developed an online course in Pluralism and Diversity in Business and Industry and an online course in Business Ethics, 2007. Proposed and co-developed the A.S. degree in Business Administration to increase student transferability, 1988. Developed and taught a Business Communications course with an emphasis on improving the reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills of students, 1989. Introduced and taught a Business in Ethics course that integrated philosophy with the Harvard Case method, 1992. |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE |
| Leadership Rockland Board of Directors, January, 1998-2000. Children's Brain Tumor Foundation Volunteer, November, 1999. Helen Hayes Theater in Nyack, NY, volunteer usher, October, 1996-1997. Cornell Cooperative Extension Issue Committee: Economic Development, November 1993-1995. National Business Honor Society For Two Year Colleges, National Faculty Executive Board of ABG, 1988-1990 |
| PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS |
| Society for Business Ethics Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics |