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Dr. Keldon Bauer

Acting Department Head of Management

Interim Dean, Dr. Sam Pack College of Business and Professor of Finance (2023)
Email: kbauer@tarleton.edu
Office: Business Building, Room 173
Phone: 254-968-9350

More Info:

  • PhD, University of Texas at Arlington, Finance, 2002
  • MBA, University of Pune, Business Administration, 1997
  • BS, Electronics Engineering, 1994
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), 2008
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Ms. Stacy Gossett

Administrative Associate V
Email: sgossett@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 130
Phone: 254-968-9098

  • BA – Elementary Education – Western Governer’s University, TBD
  • RBT – Behavior Analyst Certification Board, 2015 (Expired)
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Dr. Triss Ashton

Associate Professor
Email: ashton@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 130A
Phone: 254-968-1705

  • Ph.D. – The University of North Texas – Management Science and Logistics, 2013
  • MBA – The University of North Texas – Decision Sciences concentration, 2009
  • BS – Angelo State University – Applied Physics and Math, 2005

American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Manager of Quality/Operational Excellence (CMQ/OE), Since 2008

Teaching Interests: Applied Statistics, Data Analytics, Data Mining, Management Science,

Research Interests: Machine based text mining in any business domain; statistical analysis for fraud detection and money laundering

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Dr. Miguel A. BaezaACUE Badge

Professor
Email: baeza@tarleton.edu
Office: Fort Worth Campus, Room 315
Phone: 817-484-4401

Program Coordinator for the BBA-International Business

  • Ph.D. – The University of Texas-Pan American, Business Administration/Management
  • MBA – The University of Texas-Pan American, Business Administration
  • BBA – The University of Texas-Pan American, Computer Info Systems

Teaching Interests: International Business, International Management, General Management, and Organizational Behavior

Research Interests: Cross-cultural management topics within a Latin American context.

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Ms. Angela BrownACUE Badge

Instructor
Email: abrown@tarleton.edu
Office: Business Building, Room 185B
Phone: 254-968-9332

  • MJ, Tulane University Law School, Labor and Employment Law, 2019
  • MS, Tarleton State University, Human Resource Management, 2004
  • BBA, Tarleton State University, Human Resource Management, 1993
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Dr. Bryn BrownACUE Badge

Assistant Professor

ACUE Certified: Effective Teaching Practices

Email: brynbrown@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 141
Phone: 254-968-9275

  • Ph.D. – Human Resource Development with a Strategic Management Perspective in Organization Development and Change, The University of Texas at Tyler, 2018
    • Dissertation: “Testing the Measurement Invariance and Latent Mean Differences of Data from the Employee Perceptions of Supervisor/Line Manager Coaching Behavior Measure Between Virtual and Traditional Employees from Generation X and Y”
  • MS – Human Resource Management, Tarleton State University, 2011
  • MBA – Business Administration, Tarleton State University, 2003
  • BBA – Finance, Texas State University, 1999

Teaching Interests: Human Resource Development; Organizational Development and Change; Human Resource Management; Organizational Behavior

Research Interests: Managerial coaching; virtual managerial coaching; generational cohorts; quantitative methods

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Dr. David CavazosACUE Badge

Associate Professor
Email: dcavazos@tarleton.edu
Office: Business Building, Room 128
Phone: 254-459-5496

  • PhD, Texas Tech University, Business Administration, 2006
    • Primary field: Strategic Management
    • Secondary field: Organization Theory
    • Minor: Statistics
  • MPA, Texas Tech University, 2001
    • Primary Field: Public Financial Management
    • Secondary Field: Public Policy Implementation
  • BA, Texas Tech University, Economics, 1996
    • Minor: Mathematics

Teaching Interests: Strategic Management, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory 

Research Interests: Corporate reputation management, industry regulation, firm self-regulation  

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Warren Cook

Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: wcook@tarleton.edu
Office:
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Dr. Catalin C. DinulescuACUE Badge

Assistant Professor

ACUE Certified: Effective Teaching Practices

Email: dinulescu@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 129
Phone: 254-968-1959

  • Ph.D. – University of North Texas, Management Science; minor in Computer Science, 2019
    • Dissertation: “Relationship Quality in Social Commerce Decision-Making”
  • MBA – University of Texas at Dallas, Business Administration, 2002
  • MS – Telecom Bretagne, Mobile Radio Communications, 1996
  • BS/MS – Politehnica University of Bucharest, Electronics & Telecommunications, 1994
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) – Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Teaching Interests: Business Analytics, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Business Strategy, Decision Making, Operations, Supply Chain and Project Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Management Information Systems

Research Interests: Management and Decision Sciences, Business Analytics, Applied Data Science to Business, Operations and Supply Chain, Leadership and Entrepreneurship

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Dr. Ed Dittfurth

Assistant Professor
Email: dittfurth@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 146
Phone: 254-968-1874

  • Ed.D. – Tarleton State University, 2015, Stephenville, Texas
  • MS – Management and Leadership Tarleton State University, 2011
  • BS – Hydrology Tarleton State University, 1990

Ordination – Ministerial Studies, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary/Global University, 2001

Teaching Interests: Business Ethics, Business Statistics

Research Interests: Student Retention, Cohorts in Education

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Mr. Joe DummarACUE Badge

Instructor
Email: jdummar@tarleton.edu
Office: Business Building, Room 185A
Phone: 254-968-9046

  • Master of Science, Naval Postgraduate School, Operations Research, 2011
  • Bachelor of Science, Hawaii Pacific University, Business Administration, 2005

 Professional certifications and licenses: ABCTeach Alternate Certification Course

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Ms. Christi Foster

Assistant Professor
Email: cfoster@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 138
Phone: 254-968-9917

  • MBA – Tarleton State University, Business Administration
  • BBA – Tarleton State University, Accounting
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Dr. Rusty Freed

Professor of Management

Dean, University College

Email: freed@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 134 (Stephenville Campus)
Phone: 254-968-1914

  • Ed.D. – University of North Texas, Applied Technology and Performance Improvement (Human Resource Development)
  • MBA – Tarleton State University (Management and Marketing Concentrations)
  • BBA – Tarleton State University, General Business

Teaching Interests: Small Business Management, Trends in Entrepreneurship, Applied Program Capstone

Research Interests: Prior Learning Assessment, Generational/Workplace Diversity, Adult Degree Completion Programs

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Dr. Reginald Hall

Associate Professor
Email: rhall@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 135
Phone: 254-968-9654

  • EdD: Educational Leadership – Tarleton State University
  • MS: Human Resource Management – Tarleton State University
  • BBA: Marketing – Tarleton State University
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Dr. Jake Heller

Associate Professor
Email: jheller@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 135
Phone: 254-968-9852

  • Ph.D. – Arizona State University
  • MS – Arizona State University
  • BA – University of Texas at San Antonio
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Dr. Nathan Heller

Professor of Management & Marketing

Email: heller@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 134
Phone: 254-968-9512

  • Ph.D. – Arizona State University
  • MBA – Brigham Young University
  • BA – University of Texas at San Antonio

Teaching Interests: Management & Marketing

Research Interests: Brand Alliances, Nonprofit Marketing, Trust, Ethics

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Ms. Joni Holdridge, PHR ACUE Badge

Instructor of Management

Email: holdridge@tarleton.edu
Office: Business Building, Room 109
Phone: 254-968-1948

  • MS, Tarleton State University, Human Resource Management, 2019
  • BS, Lubbock Christian University, Organizational Management, 2002
  • Professional in Human Resources (PHR), 2019

Teaching Interests: Foundational Business Concepts, Human Resources, Management

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Dr. Sue Joiner

Professor
Email: sjoiner@tarleton.edu 
Office: BUS 171
Phone: 254-968-9712

  • EdD, Tarleton State University, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
  • MEd, Tarleton State University, Secondary Education
  • BBA, Tarleton State University, Business Administration

Teaching Interests: Administrative Systems, General Business, Marketing

Research Interests: Vocational Business Education

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Dr. Dianna Krueger

Associate Professor
Email: krueger@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 132
Phone: 254-968-1706

Program Coordinator for the BBA-Human Resource Management

  • Ph.D., Business Administration – Organizational and Management Studies, Human Resource Management Focus, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, 2011, San Antonio, Texas
  • M. A., Psychology, Industrial Organizational Focus, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2005, Nacogdoches, Texas
  • B.A., Psychology, Minor in Philosophy, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, 2001, Corpus Christi, Texas

Teaching Interests: Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Staffing, Training and Development, and Diversity

Research foci: Diversity and inclusion, staffing, and weight-based bias pertaining to employee selection

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Mr. Bill Leaverton

Instructor of Management
Email: leaverton@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 204A
Phone: tbd

  • MBA – University of North Texas, 2006
  • BBA Marketing – Texas Tech University, 1995

Teaching Interests: Small Business, entrepreneurship, Strategy

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Dr. John LeCounteACUE Badge

Assistant Professor
Email: lecounte@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 144
Phone: 254-968-9053

Program Coordinator for the BBA-General Business

  • Ph.D., Human Resource Development, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
  • M.A., Human Resource Management, Webster University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
  • M.A., Management and Leadership, Webster University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
  • B.A., Justice Administration, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Teaching Interests: Entrepreneurship Strategy, Family Business Management, Leadership Development, and Small Business Leadership

Research Interests: CEO Succession Planning, Founder-CEOs Succession, Small Business Governance, and Theory-Building

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Dr. Brian Martinson, SPHR, EAACUE Badge

Associate Professor
Email: martinson@tarleton.edu
Office: Fort Worth Building, Room 338
Phone: 817-717-3327

Program Coordinator for the MS-Human Resource Management

  • Ph.D. – University of Texas at Arlington
  • MBA – American University in Cairo
  • BA – University of Minnesota Duluth

Teaching Interests: Human Resource Management, Strategy, Business Ethics, International Business

Research Interests: Strategic Human Resource Management, Human Capital, Leader/Member Exchange, Employee Attitudes and Behaviors, Group Processes

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Dr. Randy McCamey, SPHR

Professor
Email: rmccamey@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 139
Phone: 254-968-9311

  • Ph.D. – University of North Texas, Applied Technology Training & Development
  • M.Ed. – Tarleton State University, Guidance and Counseling
  • MBA – Tarleton State University, Business Administration
  • BS – Tarleton State University, Chemistry

Teaching Interests: Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development

Research Interests: Leadership, Leadership Development, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Work Ethic, Motivation

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David Mosby

Instructor
Email: dmosby@tarleton.edu
Office: 
Phone: 

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Dr. Drake Mullens

Associate Professor
Email: mullens@tarleton.edu
Office: Fort Worth Campus
Phone: 817-484-9715

Program Coordinator for the BBA-Management

  • Ph.D. – University of Texas at Arlington, Strategic Management
  • MBA – University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • BSBA – University of Nebraska at Omaha, Marketing

Teaching Interests: Organizational Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Theory

Research Interests: Entrepreneurship in the Family Business Context, Social Capital, Outcomes of Organizational Sustainability Initiatives

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Dr. David Notgrass

Professor
Email: notgrass@tarleton.edu
Office: Waco 
Phone: 254-299-8528

  • Ph.D. – Dallas Baptist University – Leadership Studies with Finance
  • MBA – Dallas Baptist University – Management
  • BAAS – Dallas Baptist University – Business

Teaching Interests: Management (Organizational Behavior, Managing Organizational Change, Operations Management, Strategic Management); Corporate Finance

Research Interests: Leadership studies from the perspective of the follower

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Dr. Joanna Shaw

Associate Professor
Email: jshaw@tarleton.edu
Office: BUS 142
Phone: 254-968-9087

  • Ph.D. in Applied Technology and Performance Improvement from the University of North Texas
  • MS – Tarleton State University, Human Resource Management
  • BS in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations from Tarleton State University

Teaching Interests: Human Resource Management, Business Communication, Management

Research Interests: Blended learning, generational cohorts within the workplace