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BRUCE C. ANDERSON
Lecturer
Director, Healthcare Administration Program
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Industrial engineering
Healthcare administration

Interests:
Healthcare delivery issues

Education:

B.S., North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D.
M.S., University of Colorado, Denver, Colo.

Contact:
brander@cord.edu, (218) 299-3489 office


DANIEL V. ANDERSON
Assistant Professor
Director Long-Term Care
Administration/Healthcare
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Long term care administration (Nursing home administration)
Healthcare financial management
Management

Research:

Recently completed dissertation - "Conflicting definitions of nursing home quality: Using employee perceptions to assess the validity and reliability of government mandated quality measures."

Interests:
Quality and performance measurement of healthcare services.
Distance learning

Education:

B.A., Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
M.B.A., University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.
Ph.D., Walden University, Minneapolis, Minn.

Contact:
danderso@cord.edu, (218) 299-3950


FRAN DEXTER
Assistant Professor
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Business education (teacher education)
Computer applications
Keyboarding

Research:
Computer ergonomics presentation

Interests:
Ergonomics

Education:
B.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb.
M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Neb.

Contact:
dexter@cord.edu, (218) 299-3532
BOB FOSS
Assistant Professor
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Financial accounting

Education:
B.A., Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
M.S., University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.

Contact:
bfoss@cord.edu, (218) 299-3486 office
THOMAS HIESTAND
Associate Professor
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Economics, microeconomics
Regional economics and statistics

Education:

B.A., Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
Ph.D., Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan.

Contact:
hiestand@cord.edu
LINDA C. KEUP
Assistant Professor
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Human resources management
General management
Organizational behavior
Workplace wellness

Research:
•“Recruitment and Retention of the Older Worker,” currently in the data collection phase.
•“Barnyard Democracy: a study of workplace bullying,” currently under review.
•“Members, Leaders and the Team: Extending LMX to Co-Worker Relationships,” ASAC Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, June 5-8, 2004.
•“The influence of personal characteristics on relationship quality between self-directed work team leaders and members,” ASAC-IFSAM Conference, Montreal, Quebec, July 8-11, 2000.
•“A network of working relationships: the effect on individual and group outcomes.” Presented at annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. London, Ontario, May 26-29, 2001.
•“The influence of personal characteristics on relationship quality between self-directed work team leaders and members.” ASAC-IFSAM Conference, Montreal, Quebec, July 8-11, 2000

Education:
B.S., Minot State University, Minot, N.D.
M.B.A., University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.
Ph.D., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Contact: keup@cord.edu
DAVID S. MOEWES
Professor
Director, International Business Program
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Principles of economics
Intermediate macroeconomic
Public policy analysis
International trade and development
Environmental and energy economics
Developed and led twenty different May Seminars Abroad Programs (A month long seminar abroad on selected topics/themes)
Cooperative education program - supervision of 175 work-based learning experiences over 50 semesters

Research:
•Incorporating Learning styles into “Team-Based Learning” with Barbara Aarestad and Margaret Jorgenson. 3rd Annual SUN Conference on Teaching and Learning, University of Texas at El Paso, March 5-6, 2004.
•International Education — “The Role of Work-Based Learning” with Barbara Aarestad. UNESCO Conference on Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding, Human Rights, and a Culture of Peace in Jyväskylä, Finland, June 15-18, 2003.
•“Assessing Today’s Work-Based Learning Experiences” with Barbara Aarestad. Annual Conference of the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA), Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 14-16, 2002.
•Grade Summit™ “Principles of Microeconomics
Testbank for Frank/Bernanke’s Principles of Economics,” 2nd edition. (Grade Summit™ is a web-based testing program of McGraw-Hill Higher Education. www.gradesummit.com/)
•“Employer Expectations and Assessment of Work-Based Learning: Comparing The Experiences of Domestic and International Students” with Barbara Aarestad. 2003 International Symposium on Work-Integrated Learning — World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE), Pensacola Beach, Florida, November 16-19. Accepted for presentation.

Interests:
In-class learning/problem modules, problem-based
learning, developing critical thinking skills, assessment of learning outcomes, learning styles and classroom performance

Rural community economic development, measurement of community spending leakages and injections, assessment of experiential learning outcomes, economic and ecological sustainability, historical comparisons of the standard of living, market outcomes and environmental impacts, the role of economics in obesity and diabetes

Education:
B.A., M.A., University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo.
Ph.D., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Contact
moewes@cord.edu , (218) 299-3488

JAMES SPECHT
Associate Professor
Business, Accounting and Economics

Specialty:
Certified Public Accountant (licensed in Associate Professor North Dakota)
Certified cost analyst
Auditing and cost accounting specialties
30 years finance and accounting experience in U.S. Army
International experience in Germany, Iran, Guatemala, Panama

Research:

•"Inventory Valuation Under Cyclical Demand: A Modelling Approach," The Journal of Applied Business Research, Fall 1994 (Referred Journal Article).
•"An Empirical Analysis of The Auditing Profession's Ability To Address Litigation Risk," International Business & Economics Research Journal, March 2003, (Referred Journal Proceeding).

Interests:

German and Russian genealogist.
Member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Colonel of Finance, U.S. Army Retired.
Member of Heritage Education Commission
Consulting and Tax Practice.

Education:

B.A. and M.A., North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D.
Master of Taxation,
Ph.D., Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga. - Accounting

Contact:

(218) 299-4538 office, (218) 483-3496 home, jspecht264@aol.com


SCOT A. STRADLEY
Professor and Chair
Business, Accounting and Economics


Specialty:

Business and economic history
History of economic theory
International economics and finance
Money, banking, and financial markets

Research:
•“Three Theories of the Future of the Great Plains,”
The Great Plains Sociologist 12(1) 2000: 37-55. Refereed.
• Statistical Abstract of North Dakota 2000,
North Dakota State Library, www.ndsl.lib.state.nd.us/abstract.html, November 2000.
• “An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Economics.” Dallas, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999.
• “Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier and Federal Farm Policy, 1923-1938,” North Dakota History, Volume 66, Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer/Fall 1999): 30-40.
•”Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride: Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier, Progressive Republican from North Dakota & Federal Agricultural Policy, 1923-1938.” Bismarck, ND: North Dakota Humanities Council, 1999. Also published on the World Wide Web at www.nd-humanities.org. Externally reviewed.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED
• “The Moral Philosophy of T. Robert Malthus,” History of Economics Society Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2000. Refereed.
• “Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride: Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier, Progressive Republican from North Dakota and Federal Agricultural policy, 1923-1938,” North Dakota Humanities Council Fellows Meeting, State Heritage Center, Bismarck, January 1999.

Interests:

Regional economy. Has written a history of the economy. Has keen interest in agricultural markets and the economic history of agriculture in this region.

Education:
B.S., University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
Ph.D., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
M.A., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Contact:
stradley@cord.edu ,
(218) 299-3115 office; (218) 329-4592 cell, (218) 299-4211 Business, Accounting, and Economics office

RON TWEDT
Assistant Professor
Business, Accounting and Economics


Specialty:

Taxation
Financial Accounting

Interests:
Income taxation (general)
Income taxation of financial institutions

Education:
B.A., Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
M.B.T., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.

Contact
twedt@cord.edu , (218) 299-3484