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		Charles Wankel, Ph.D. with Robert DeFillippi, Eds. The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management Educating Managers with Tomorrow’s Technologies   2004 This volume covers key applications of new technologies in management education, a new open model of education with integrations of corporate and academic courses and new levels of customization to fit the learning needs of particular individuals and their organizations. A model of technology planning initiatives to improve the delivery of management education is presented. If properly harnessed, the technologies and management education applications described in this volume should provide superior tools for management education and management learning in the 21st century.

		The Cutting Edge of International Management Education  2005 This volume surveys global best practices in international management education including internationalizing business curricula through integrated approaches involving multiple disciplines.  The experiences of international networks of business schools and other forms of partnering internationally in business education are discussed. Global international online team projects are considered. Multi-site study abroad program creation is discussed. The experience of transfer  of such pedagogies as cooperative education across cultures is also examined, with a focus on cooperative education in China.

		Educating Managers Through Real World Projects  2006 University based management education has frequently been subject to criticism of being out of touch with the real world. This volume puts forth research on a variety of learning pedagogies based on students working on real world projects. These include consulting projects, service-learning projects; action learning and work embedded E learning.

		21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook 2008 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook highlights the topics, issues, questions and debates that any student obtaining a degree in the field of management must master to be effective in today’s business world. Providing authoritative insight into the key issues covered in both undergraduate and corporate course work, this resource offers a particular emphasis on the current structure of the topic in the literature, key threads of discussion and research on the topic and emerging trends. This handbook assists readers in structuring meaningful papers and presentation, selecting management areas in which to take elective course work and orienting themselves toward a career.

		Alleviating Poverty Through Business Strategy 2008 There is a growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty. How the for-profit model can be harnessed to provide the poor with a share in the world’s prosperity is discussed through actual cases and nested in innovative theories of business, social sciences and philosophy. This book included collaboration with business ethics professors at DePaul University, who wrote the theoretical overview of the volume.

		and Robert DeFillippi, Eds. *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty 2008 This book presents innovative approaches to reducing poverty through business commitment, involvement and leadership. Some of these approaches may look promising now at their current level of success but will turn out to be limited in their scalability or in their ability to sustain themselves and endure over time. However, all of them offer fruitful grounds for inquiry and learning. It is our intention that sharing the learning from these projects and initiatives from around the world will be useful to others committed to assisting the poor in escaping from poverty — especially by bringing the poor into productive business activities.

		Global Sustainability Initiatives: New Models and New Approaches 2009 This book provides reports, analyses and discussions of a wide variety of cutting-edge global sustainability initiatives addressing the challenge of our journey toward a sustainable world. The initiatives include “zero-footprint” production facilities and projects integrating environmental, social, political and economic (poverty alleviation) goals. The initiatives include scaling up and dramatically expanding the scope of operations of a very successful environmental organization — taking it into new and risky domains of corporate growth and change.

		Innovative Approaches to Global Sustainability 2009 We are now at a time in human history when we must implement original and daring ideas in order to combat our environmentally destructive habits. And we must learn from these experiments at an unprecedented rate in order to ensure the survival of all life on Earth. This volume offers a variety of fresh and unique approaches to global sustainability, recognizing that working toward the goal of a socially just and ecologically sustainable existence is the only game worth playing.

		University and Corporate Innovations in Lifelong Learning 2009 This volume covers cutting-edge theory and cases in lifelong learning in both corporate and higher educational contexts. It includes studies of both prestigious world-class executive education and programs of regional universities. Analysis of the experience of innovative efforts to provide management education transcending normal degree program structures in both advanced nations and developing ones is provided.

		Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World, Vol. 1-4 2010 The Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World serves as a general, nontechnical resource for students, professors and librarians seeking to understand the development of business as practiced in the United States and internationally. The American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Association division selected his Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World (SAGE) as a recipient of an Outstanding Business Reference Sources Awards.

		Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar 2010 Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar is a volume that is comprised of reports by the scholars leading the main research publication venues in the discipline of management on what it takes to succeed in academic management education and development scholarship, presenting perspectives on the opportunities, constraints and requirements of contemporary research in management education.

		Co-Editor: Shaun Malleck *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds 2010 This book explores the emerging ethical issues associated with these novel environments for human interaction and cutting-edge approaches to these new ethical problems. This volume’s goal is to put forward a number of these virtual world ethical issues of which research is only commencing. This volume introduces path-breaking work in a field, which is only just beginning to take shape.

		Co-Editor: Jan Kingsley *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Higher Education in Virtual Worlds: Teaching and Learning in Second Life 2010 This book discusses how students can collaborate and communicate without restrictions of time or distance. How the costs of higher education can be reduced. How both younger and older generations be attracted and motivated to learn, when all knowledge seems to be available at the touch of a button. This book provides a forum for discussing these and other issues, focusing on the use of Second Life.

		Co-Editor: James A.F. Stoner *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Management Education for Global Sustainability 2010 Management Education for Global Sustainability provides a diverse and extensive set of perspectives on how management education can be transformed to be a significant part of the solution to the sustainability problem with which business and other sectors of our world must grapple. Approaches from around the world are offered. The sense of deeper purpose and developing authentic relationships in management education for global sustainability is robust throughout this volume.

		Co-Editor: James A.F. Stoner *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Global Sustainability as a Business Imperative 2011 The global environmental crisis is the greatest challenge facing the world today. There are far-reaching ecological, social and economic impacts from the transformations that are currently occurring. As the first volume in the Global Sustainability Through Business series, this book addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. The need for global sustainability is based on one of the simplest of all premises: ''what cannot continue forever will not continue forever.”

		Cutting-Edge Social Media Approaches to Business Education: Teaching with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Second Life and Blogs 2011 This book provides an overview of emerging social media use in business school teaching around the world. Business is embracing these technologies to tighten collaboration, sharing and reach. Blogging, wikis, Facebook, Second Life, LinkedIn, Twitter, Ning, Hotseat, WordPress, Google Groups, Wiggio, Skype and YouTube are among the Web 2.0 platforms discussed here. The role of faculty is changing more toward mentoring and facilitation in a new collegial atmosphere supported by social media. Many innovative uses of new media applications are described. Social media are being used to connect universities in new ways with alumni, employers and their wider communities. Learners increasingly use these new technologies on mobile platforms enabling more ready and extensive collaboration.

		Transforming Virtual World Learning 2011 This book is a practical guide on how to transform your ideas from virtual world course ware to virtual world learning experiences. The book argues that setting up learning in 3D virtual worlds requires a transformative approach. The advice given in this book comes from real world implementers of virtual world learning. The models presented here show how to transform your thinking in 3D spaces and achieving your organizational learning goals while motivating your learners. The practical articles and lesson plans come from those pioneers who have used virtual worlds to learn, teach and support their learners with in-world presence.

		Educating Educators with Social Media 2011 Social media are increasingly popular platforms for collaboration and quick information sharing. This volume is a collection of reports on how these technologies are being used to educate educators with social media in creative and effective ways. The use of wikis, blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, Flickr, Delicious,YouTube, Yahoo Pipes, Diigo, Second Life, Moodle and other Web 2.0 technologies are shown in vivid examples and insightful critiques. The use of social media in developing countries for new approaches to teaching as support for individual and peer-based learning for such endeavors as collaborative screen play writing projects and social annotation are covered.

		Higher Education Administration with Social Media: Including Applications in Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Alumni Relations, and Career Centers 2011 New technologies provide new ways of delivering the programs and services of higher educational (HE) institutions. Social media such as Facebook, blogs, Flickr, Twitter and the Second Life virtual world engage constituents and enhance effectiveness. Understanding the trends in the expanding role of social media in HE and the related implications for staff preparedness and training is necessary for future-oriented administrations and practitioners. This book examines how social media are redefining what university communities are and the purposes and practices of the various functional areas in HE.

		Teaching Arts and Science with the New Social Media 2011 This book covers a wide range of approaches to applying social media in teaching arts and science courses including: collaborative social media in writing courses the use of Wikis as a platform for co-creation of digital content and powerful data sharing; the expansive vistas enabled by these new technologies, the use of content posting in public social media forums as an enabler of critical reflection and the use of social media to augment face-to-face meetings. Also addressed are: the opportunities and downsides of this immersive technology, design recommendations for instructors and a welter of applications and implications for teaching practices, such as the use of Twitter as a sandbox where students share ideas before arriving in class or as back-channels to classes.

		Streaming Media Delivery in Higher Education: Methods and Outcomes 2011 Streaming Media Delivery in Higher Education: Methods and Outcomes is both a snapshot of streaming media in higher education as it is today and a window into the many developments already underway. In some cases, it is a forecast of areas yet to be developed. As a resource, this book serves both as an explication of many practices, including their possibilities and pitfalls, as well as recommendation of the many areas where opportunities for development lie.

		Effectively Integrating Ethical Dimensions into Business Education 2011 A volume in Research in Management Education and Development Series Editors: Charles Wankel, St. John's University Over the last decade, we have been witnessing a dramatic contrast between the CEO as a superhero and CEO as an antihero. The new challenge in business education is to develop responsible global leaders. Relatively little is known, however, about how management educators can prepare future leaders to cope effectively with the challenge of leading with integrity in a multicultural space. This volume is authored by a spectrum of international experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives. It suggests directions that business educators might take to reorient higher education to transcend merely equipping people and organizations to greedily proceed, with dire effects on the preponderance of people, nations, our planet and the future. The book is a collection of ideas and concrete solutions with regards to how morality should be taught in a global economy.

		Co-Editor: Shaun Malleck *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization: Cultural, Socio-Political and Economic Perspectives 2011 Continued growth of the global market necessitates research that establishes norms and practices and ensures the appropriate level of ethical concern for those who contribute to the process of globalization and are being affected by globalization. Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization: Cultural, Socio-Political and Economic Perspectives presents the work of researchers who seek to advance the understanding of both the ethical impact of globalization and the influence of globalization on ethical practices from various cultural, socio-political, economic, and religious perspectives. The aim of this reference work is to put forward empirically grounded methods for understanding both the effect that the process of globalization has on ethical practices in organizations and how this research can shape the course of economic globalization.

		Co-Editor: Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education 2011 This publication is an examination of the inattention of business schools to moral education. This reference addresses lessons learned from the most recent business corruption scandals and financial crises, and also questions what we‘re teaching now and what should be considered in educating future business leaders to cope with the challenges of leading with integrity in the global environment. The book is a comprehensive collection of research from experts in the field of business education and information ethics.

		Co-Editor: Laura A. Wankel *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Misbehavior Online in Higher Education 2012 As interaction in higher education among faculty, staff, students, and others becomes ever more digital, the welter of new online communication technologies have provided many unintentional opportunities for indiscipline and misconduct. As a result of this unfortunate increase is misbehavior, administrators and instructors in higher education are increasingly being called upon to remedy and forestall such actions. Misbehavior Online in Higher Education is rich in contemporary case studies, analytical reports, and up-to-date research providing detailed overviews of various misbehavior, including cyberbullying, cyberstalking, cyberslacking, and privacy invasion, hacking, cheating, teasing, and enhanced prejudicial attitudes. The development of approaches to addressing these problems is discussed and examples are provided. The book also anticipates emerging problematic behavior and the development of new policies, programs, facilities, and technologies to tackle the concerning behaviors.

		Ettie Ward *School of Law* Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the Bronx Bombers 2004 In a series of 21 essays by legal scholars, Courting the Yankees examines both baseball law and baseball lore. By focusing on the famous New York Yankees, and incidents involving the team and the Yankee franchise, the book explores a wide range of legal issues as they relate to baseball. The chapters are organized so that the sports fan (even if neither a lawyer nor a Yankees’ fan) is invited to read about sports and learn about the law. Baseball aficionados will enjoy the added insights provided by the discussion of various legal concepts, and lawyer sports fans will gain greater insight as to the application of familiar legal principles on and off the baseball diamond.

		Gregory A. Wilson *College of Professional Studies, Division of English and Speech* The Problem in the Middle: Liminal Space and the Court Masque 2008 This book attempts to resolve the long-standing tension between text and performance using a theoretical term developed by Victor Turner: liminality, a condition or status between two conditions or statuses. Criticism of the court masque from the Renaissance period in England has often been founded on the idea of disconnection between stage and seats, but here Dr. Gregory Wilson argues that the masque is in a perpetual state of liminality, existing in the margin between performance and an observing audience.

		Ann C. Wintergerst  Co-Author: Joe McVeigh *St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Languages and Literatures* Tips for Teaching Culture: Practical Approaches to Intercultural Communication 2011 Tips for Teaching Culture: Practical Approaches to Intercultural Communication introduces English language teachers to approaches they can use to build intercultural understanding. This practical reference book links specific techniques for teaching culture with contemporary research on intercultural communication. Topics covered include language, nonverbal communication, identity, culture shock, cross-cultural adjustment, traditional ways of teaching culture and social responsibility.

		With Andrea DeCapua, Ed.D. *St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Languages and Literatures* Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom 2004 Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom links theory with experiential activities that will be helpful for use in teacher training or certificate programs. The goals of this book for the teacher educator are to expand cultural awareness, to acquire an in-depth understanding of culture and its relationship to language, and to comprehend and implement observations of cultural similarities and differences. The book will help both current and prospective teachers develop the abilities to discern which cultural elements affect communicative interactions, why they affect the interactions, and how they do so.

		Michael Wolfe Co-Editor: Natalie Zemon Davis *St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, History* A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet 2011 The path breaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society and culture. In these conversations with Denis Crouzet, professor of history at the Sorbonne, Davis examines the practices of history and controversies in historical method. Davis rescues men and women from oblivion using her unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence and archival sleuthing to uncover the past. She recounts how her own life as a citizen, a woman and a scholar compels her to ceaselessly examine and transcend received opinions and certitudes. She reminds the reader of the broad possibilities to be found by studying the lives of those who came before us and teaches us how to give voice to what was once silent.

		Walled Towns and the Shaping of France: From the Medieval to the Early Modern Era 2011 This book focuses on the ways in which military technology, political and social trends and shifting frontiers shaped the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life embodied in the ''wall,'' an image at once intensely physical and deeply symbolic. It traces the evolution of towns across much of what is today France from the Middle Ages to the 18th-century when the walls began to come down, opening up new and ultimately revolutionary possibilities for urban life. This long-term perspective on town fortifications - how they were built, the contests to control them and how they shaped the lives of people both inside and outside them - in the end tells us much about the making of France.

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