As Head of the Department of Accounting, Marty provides administrative leadership and service to the Accounting Department and to the College of Business Administration. Her responsibilities to the Accounting Department include management of course offerings, teaching assignments, and course enrollments; overseeing the search process by which new tenure track faculty are hired; hiring adjunct instructors; annual evaluation of faculty; making tenure and promotion recommendations for existing faculty; and overseeing the curricular process for the department. The Accounting Department has an active Accounting Advisory Council made up of leaders in the accounting profession. Marty works with the council to advance the interests of the UNI Accounting Department and our students. She regularly speaks on accounting careers and UNI’s accounting programs to prospective students, their parents, and various other groups. In addition, she administers funds to support the McGladrey & Pullen Center for Accounting Education and approximately fifty accounting scholarships. As a department head in the College of Business Administration, Marty is a part of the Dean’s administrative leadership team.
Professor Wartick has 10 publications in refereed journals including The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Accounting Literature, and Advances in Taxation. In addition, her research has been presented at numerous national conferences. Professor Wartick was awarded the CBA Faculty Scholarship Award in 2002 and is Vice-President of the American Taxation Association. Prior to her position at UNI, Professor Wartick taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and University of Oklahoma.
Economics: Fred Abraham
Professor and Head of Economics
Director, Center for Economic Education
CBB 217
319-273-2412 f.abraham@uni.edu
Fred has administrative and evaluative responsibility for the faculty in the economics department. This includes annually evaluating faculty on their on their tripartite mission of teaching, research and service and making salary recommendations. In addition, department heads are responsible for overseeing the search process by which new faculty are hired and making tenure and promotion recommendations on existing faculty. Fred is responsible for overseeing the curricular process in the department and also creates the teaching schedule for each semester including the three months of the summer session. Unique to the economics department, he is the Director of the Center for Economic Education and oversees staff connected with the Center. He also administers funds to the international programs associated with the Jepson endowment.
Professor Abraham has been teaching economics at UNI since 1973 when he started as an Assistant Professor. Since that time he has accumulated a long record of publications in journals such as the Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Forensic Economics and the Journal of Sports Economics. In addition, he has authored a text Graphs of Macroeconomic Principles and presented numerous papers at research conferences. He has served as the Head of the Department of Economics since 1990.
Finance: Arthur T. Cox
Associate Professor and Interim Head of Finance
Director of Real Estate Education Program
CBB 317
319-273-6986 arthur.cox@uni.edu
Art has dual responsibilities as Head of the Finance Department and Director of the UNI Center for Real Estate Education. As the Department Head, he manages course offerings, teaching assignments and course enrollments. He identifies and hires adjunct instructors and is the point person for tenure/tenure-track faculty searches. Passionate about his field, he regularly speaks to groups of prospective students and their families and advises incoming students. The Finance Department and Center for Real Estate Education have active advisory councils composed of leading industry professionals. Art works with both councils to advance the interests of the respective programs and industry, the students, and the university. Art is a tireless advocate for the Finance and Real Estate programs. He works with individuals and companies around the country in both finance and real estate to develop internship and career opportunities for students and to raise funds for scholarships and operating support.
Arthur Cox specializes in the research areas of accuracy and effect of property tax assessments, tax burden of public open space, housing trends in Iowa, and targeted hiring practice in the real estate industry research. He has thirteen refereed publications in journals such as the Journal of Business Disciplines, Journal of Economics, Journal of Management Education, Midwestern Journal of Businessand Economics, Journal of Financial Planning, Personal Financial Planning, The Appraisal Journal, The Journal of Insurance Issues, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and College Athletic Management. Under Art’s direction, the UNI Real Estate Education Program was accredited in 2007 by the Society of Accredited Real Estate Programs. Art received the Iowa Commercial Real Estate Association's Industry Impact Award for 2005 and the 2007 Veridian Credit Union Community Engagement Award. He is a Past President of the Waterloo Rotary Club, a Past District Governor of Lions Clubs International, and is an Eligible Lay Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, USA.
Mary is in charge of all evaluating and administrative decisions in the Management Department. These responsibilities include the evaluating faculty on many different criteria, not just limited to teaching, but also involving research and service to UNI and the Cedar Valley. Using these criteria, it is Mary’s job to oversee the process of hiring adjunct instructors, and making tenure, promotion, and salary recommendations for Management faculty. Her responsibilities also include overseeing the curricular process in the Management Department, including managing course offerings, teaching assignments, and course enrollment. Mary must also work with the Management Advisory Council, which is made up of leaders in the Management profession. As Head of Management, she must provide leadership and service to the Management Department and to the College of Business Administration.
Professor Connerley has published articles in many respected journals including Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Public Personal Management, and Journal of Business Education. In addition to these articles, Professor Connerley won the Outstanding Paper Award for 2009 for Emeral Literati Network for her paper on 'Gender differences in leadership competencies, expatriate readiness, and performance.' During her time teaching at Virginia Tech she won the Pamlin Diversity Excellence, Teaching Excellence award. Professor Connerley taught at the University of Iowa and Virginia Tech before coming to UNI.
As the Head of the Department of Marketing, Steve provides administrative leadership and service to the College, his department, and the department’s five marketing-related student organizations (i.e., American Marketing Association, Mu Kappa Tau, Pi Sigma Epsilon, Students in Free Enterprise, & Supply Chain Management Association). Since January of 2007, he has worked the Marketing Advisory Board to hone the department's curriculum offerings to better match marketing-related employment patterns, increase alumni outreach efforts, increase corporate giving, and improve the branding, positioning, and marketing of the curriculum. Under his leadership, department faculty have created the only comprehensive and systematic undergraduate Learning Assurance Program on campus covering all Marketing classes. In the fall of 2007, the faculty, in conjunction with J.W. Morton & Associates Ad Agency, identified how the department operates in ways distinctive from the other CBA departments and from any department at UNI, Marketing's Seven Points of Difference, and an 18-fold matrix measurement for self- and public-accountability and transparency of performance.
Dr. Corbin is widely recognized for his excellence in teaching as evidenced by receiving nine local, regional, and national awards. He has been voted by the College of Business Administration majors as 'Faculty of the Year' on five different occasions in a 10-year time span. The Iowa Board of Regents bestowed their 'Award for Faculty Excellence' upon Dr. Corbin for his teaching, scholarly, and service contributions. Professionally, he won the Marketing Management Association's 2003 Master Teacher Award.
Dr. Corbin's research presentations, proceedings, and publications are concentrated predominantly in the field of Marketing Education. He has twelve refereed publications in such journals as the Journal of Customer Service in Marketing & Management, Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy, Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education, Marketing Management Journal, and Journal of Marketing Education. Dr. Corbin's conference proceedings and presentations have been delivered to the Marketing Management Association, Marketing Educators' Association, and Moscow State Linguistics University (Moscow Russian Federation) Scientific and Practical Conference. Since 2003, he has served on the Advisory Board that oversees the publication of Annual Editions: Marketing (McGraw-Hill Higher Education).
Dr. Corbin's service contributions include over 20 President or Provost-appointed committees, 25 search committees, and 30 other departmental, college, and university committees. He is a journal reviewer for two publications, Journal of Marketing Education and Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education. Dr. Corbin is the faculty advisor for the College of Business Administration's Presidents' Council. His professional consulting and research includes work for 40 corporations with responsibility for sales training, train-the-trainer, marketing research, and employee benchmarking and selection. Dr. Corbin is a member of the Marketing Management Association, Marketing Educators' Association, and Pi Sigma Epsilon.
Randy Pilkington serves as Executive Director of Business and Community Services (BCS). BCS is the economics and community development division of the College of Business and Administration and consists of eight outreach programs that provide an integrated approach to meeting the needs of businesses, entrepreneurs, and communities throughout Iowa and beyond. BCS serves external constituents through specialized executive-level professional development, market research and analysis, guidance for environmentally sound practices, small business counseling, and community and economic development guidance.
In addition, Pilkington serves as the Director of the Institute for Decision Making, a statewide program that assists communities in the creation and implementation of community and economic development initiatives, as well as the director of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. In the latter capacity he has helped establish a community-based equity fund for Northeast Iowa, assisted with student entrepreneurship curricula, and facilitated public and private funding for a student-based business incubator.
Pilkington has worked in all 99 Iowa counties and guided economic development plans and projects in more than 300 Iowa communities. He served as president of Professional Developers of Iowa, served in the Iowa Department of Economic Development Board of Directors, and the twenty-first Century Workforce Council. He currently served on the Iowa Business Council Deputy Committee, the Bioscience Alliance of Iowa and the Governors Council of Economic Advisors. He was awarded the Regent's Award for Staff Excellence in 2003.
Director of the University of Northern Iowa Regional Business Center in Waterloo, Iowa, Collins-Williams has worked in the small business development field since 1982. She served as a program manager for ‘Main Street’ downtown revitalization programs in three Iowa communities and was certified in 1994 as a Professional Downtown Manager (PDM). Since 1998, Collins-Williams has been instrumental in raising over $1.9 million in outside funding to promote programs and launch new entrepreneurship initiatives in eastern Iowa, including an urban mixed use business incubator, and a rural virtual accelerator program called MyEntreNet. Under her guidance, the UNI Regional Business Center opened in January of 2001, which serves over 1,100 small businesses annually with technical assistance and training. She has authored and delivered entrepreneurship workshops in Iowa on such topics as Youth Entrepreneurship, Business Financial Statements, E-Commerce, Web Research, Strategic Planning and Community Empowerment.
The UNI Center is one of 15 Small business Development Centers in Iowa and serves a nine county region of northeast Iowa including Waterloo/Cedar Falls. Hahn is responsible for identifying the educational and training needs of small businesses within the region in order to design, coordinate and/or deliver educational programs for start-ups as well as existing entrepreneurs.
Hahn has over 20 years experience working in the small business and community revitalization fields serving as the Main Street director in Waverly, Iowa until 1994 and then in Waterloo, Iowa until 1998. Prior to joining UNI in 2000, he served as the Assistant City Planner for Mason City, Iowa. Hahn was instrumental in the creation and implementation of Iowa’s first rural entrepreneurship development system, MyEntreNet. He has been a leader in rural development efforts providing train the trainer assistance to local leaders, one on one counseling to small and medium sized enterprises and working to improve business owners access to capital.
Lou Honary
Pioneer Hi-Bred Professor of Innovation
Director - National Ag-based Lubricants Center
X 103
319-352-5218 lou.honary@uni.edu
As director of the National Ag-Based Lubricants (NABL) Center, Dr. Honary is responsible for coordinating all activities and functions of the center. This includes the research and development of new products, fee-based training and testing, and overall market advocacy and promotion of the biobased industry. In addition to this, Dr. Honary works to cultivate solid relationships with industrial and academic partners. These efforts continue to produce mutually-beneficial collaborations between NABL and its associates.
In 1982, Honary joined the UNI faculty to teach fluid power and engineering technology classes. Nine years later, he founded UNI’s Ag-Based Industrial Lubricants (ABIL) Research Program with a grant from the Iowa Soybean Association. In 2006, ABIL expanded its scope and became the National Ag-Based Lubricants (NABL) Center. Work at NABL now includes an increased focus on technical support and testing services to promote the growth of the biobased industry. Today, Dr. Honary is recognized as one of the foremost researchers in the biobased lubricants industry, worldwide.
Dr. Honary has issued numerous publications, including a book chapter, in the area of agriculture-based lubricants, and is a sought-after speaker for major national and international events. In 2006, Honary was appointed to the USDA / DOE Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee for a 3-year term. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Industrial Achievement Award of the Fluid Power Society (FPS) and is certified by the FPS as both a Fluid Power Engineer and a Fluid Power Specialist, in addition to serving as a ‘Member-at Large’ on their Board of Directors. He has also been the recipient of the author award from the National Lubricating Grease Institute (NLGI). Currently, Dr. Honary holds a total of six (6) US patents, both individually and jointly, for his work with soybean-based industrial lubricants.
John has been the IWRC Director since its inception. He manages the Iowa Waste Reduction Center's programs and activities and interacts with small businesses to learn their needs. John pursues continued and new funding for the IWRC to ensure continuation of a quality small business environmental assistance program.
Ron manages and directs the overall operations and staffing for Strategic Marketing Services and the Executive Development Center. For EDC, he works to ensure the creation and delivery of quality, leading edge education and development services to business professionals, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Within SMS, Ron also works with clients and manages projects in the areas of marketing intelligence (research and analysis), strategic planning, marketing strategies, market segmentation, and competitor analysis. His primary responsibility is to ensure that each member of the SMS team delivers an unsurpassed quality of service and customer satisfaction to every SMS client.
Ron has over 25 years of business experience in both the public and private sectors. He has sales experience in insurance and investments, marketing and communications experience with a major utility company, and project management experience with private sector businesses through the University of Northern Iowa's College of Business Administration. He also teaches business management skills through the University's Executive Development Center.
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