Higher Education: Meeting the Challenge of Change
Issues for Arkansas Colleges of Business
ARKANSAS COLLEGE TEACHERS OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
61st ANNUAL MEETING
September 28, 2012
Arkansas Tech University – Rothwell Hall
Russellville, Arkansas
8:30-9:30......................................Registration and Continental breakfast - Rothwell 321
9:30-9:45......................................Welcome - Rothwell 321
Ms. Alice Batch, ACTEB President
Dr. Ed Bashaw, Dean, College of Business, Arkansas Tech University
Dr. Robert C. Brown, President, Arkansas Tech University
9:45-10:30....................................Guest Speaker - Rothwell 321
Mr. Shane Broadway
Interim Director, Arkansas Department of Higher Education
“The State of Higher Education in Arkansas”
10:30-10:45..................................Break
10:45-11:55..................................Panel Discussion - Rothwell 321
“Technological Innovations in the Classroom”
Moderator: Dr. Efosa Idemudia, Arkansas Tech University
Panelists:
Dr. Loretta Cochran, Arkansas Tech University
Dr. Ron McGaughey, University of Central Arkansas
Dr. Margaret Tanner, University of Arkansas Fort Smith
LUNCHEON
12:00-12:45………….................. Luncheon Speaker - Chambers East Dining Room
Mr. Roby Brock, Talk Business
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:00-2:00......................................Panel Discussion - Rothwell 321
“Financial Market Economic Outlook”
Moderator: Dr. Ed Bashaw, Arkansas Tech University
Panelists:
Mr. Cole Martin,
Chairman, First State Bank Clarksville, Arkansas
Immediate Past President, Arkansas Community Bankers Assoc.
Mr. Sam Walls III, President, Arkansas Capital Corporation Group
Mr. Grant Tennille, Executive Director
Arkansas Economic Development Commission
2:00-3:00...................................... Concurrent Paper Presentations
Accounting Session - Rothwell 317
An Online Course in Cost Accounting: Development, Performance & Perceptions
Amelia Baldwin, University of Arkansas Fort Smith
Implementation of Managed Inventories for Spare Parts
Rodney Carmack, Arkansas State University
A Reexamination of the Dividend Threshold
Ryan Peterson, Arkansas State University and Jim Whitworth, University of North Carolina - Wilmington
The Impact of Environmental Forces on the Illinois Central Railroad between 1915 and 1939: A Financial Statement
Perspective
Tina S. Quinn, Arkansas State University, Tonya K. Flesher, and Dale L. Flesher, University of Mississippi
Economics Session - Rothwell 321
Fundamental Determinants of Government Debt
Jared Hall and Thomas Snyder, University of Central Arkansas
Determinants of Economics Proficiency Among Arkansas K-12 Teachers and Their Role in Training Workshop
Effectiveness
Jennifer Logan and Brian Logan, Southern Arkansas University
Analysis of Recent Changes in Arkansas Personal Income Before and After the Economic Crisis of 2008-2009
Philip F. Rice and Marshall J. Horton, Ouachita Baptist University
Economic Policy and the Current U.S. Recovery
Richard W. Taylor, David F. Kern, and Jerry L. Crawford, Arkansas State University
Market-Based System, Bank-Based System, or Legal System: What Matters When it Comes to Economic
Development in the Individual States within the U.S.?
Philip Tew, Arkansas State University
Finance Session - Rothwell 311
What Do They Pay? A Basis for Regulation in the Payday Lending Industry
Marc Anthony Fusaro, Arkansas Tech University
An Empirical Analysis of Emergency Student Loan Need
Efosa C. Idemudia, Arkansas Tech University and Ralph Ferguson, Texas Tech University
Measuring Regional Efficiency of Banking Industry after the Financial Crisis
Joon J. Park, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Jawook Baek, University of South Alabama
The Discharge of Student Loans in Bankruptcy
Roy Whitehead and Tom Oxner, University of Central Arkansas
Management Session - Rothwell 312
An Evaluation of Motivation in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and the United States Utilizing the
Hackman and Oldham Model
Rickey Casey, Robert Hilton, Joel Rossmaier, University of the Qzarks and Deborah Sisson, Nova
Southeastern University
“Social Loafer Bait” – Theory and Initial Evidence on the Types of People Social Loafers Target
Kent S. Faught, Ouachita Baptist University
Using Business Simulation for Assessment of Learning
Stephen Jones, Arkansas Tech University
Public Policy and the Law: Unique and Significant Cases
Mark Lewis, Arkansas State University
Christopher v. Smithkline Beecham Corp.
Patricia Quinn Robertson and John F. Robertson, Arkansas State University
3:00-3:30...................................... ACTEB Business Meeting - Rothwell 321
3:30 .............................................. Adjournment of ACTEB Meeting
3:30-4:00...................................... ACTEB Officers Meeting - Rothwell 321