Faculty Profiles

Robert A. Allen | Ayshia Y. Armorer | William K. Dadson | Jeffrey L. Hillard | John M. Lennick, Jr. | Susan S. Muzorewa | Ganga P. Ramdas | Oswald H. Richards

Robert A. Allen, MBA
Professor Allen has over twenty years of business experience, including financial operations and reporting, project management, sales and lecturing.

He received his Bachelor of Science at Lincoln University, PA and his Masters in Business Administration at Wilmington College, Delaware. Professor Allen is currently a full-time adjunct professor in the Economics and Business Administration Department. He teaches classes on the main campus and at the Graduate Center in Philadelphia. His current courses are: Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Principles of Management, Introduction to Business, and Principles of Real Estate.

Professor Allen is a licensed realtor in the state of Delaware selling residential real estate since 2000 and achieving Sales Award in 2003.

Prior experience includes financial operations and reporting with JP Morgan Services in Newark, Delaware.

Professor Allen's Community Relations are as follows:

• Current board member and treasurer of the Eighth Street Community Development Corporation.
• Current active member and past president of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity graduate chapter in Wilmington, Delaware
• Current mentor for two students with the Creative Mentoring Program in the Brandywine School District.

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Ayshia Y. Armorer, JD
Professor Armorer has been an attorney for seventeen years with an active solo litigation practice for more than ten years. She is a civil practitioner who has found a niche market in the area of pharmaceutical defense litigation.

As Executive Director of a non-profit corporation, Community Operation for Economic Development and Education, Inc., Ms. Armorer is able to provide legal and business counseling services for small business owners and individuals wishing to start a new business. This organization individually and in partnership with Mentors on the Move, Inc. provides workshop and training opportunities for businesses enterprises and mentorship programs to other non-profits. These services to the small business community include training and assistance on employee relations, presiding over investigative hearings and responses to the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (E.E.O.C.) and other agency complaints.

Ms. Armorer has a personal desire to introduce African American students to the practice of law as a possible career choice. She finds considerable enjoyment as an instructor of law. She served in this capacity at the National Academy for Paralegal Studies, Pennsylvania State University and currently at Lincoln University in both the Graduate and Undergraduate programs. Ms. Armorer's experience also includes transactional real estate with a concentration in residential real estate sales and appeals in both civil and criminal matters. She is a Co-Chair of the Multicultural Participation Committee of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and she sits on the Board of Directors of several local non-profit corporations.

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William K. Dadson, Ph.D.
I received a BA in Advertising and an MSBA in Finance and Banking from Texas Tech University; an MA in International Economics, MIM in International Business Management, and a Ph.D. in International Economics from The University of Denver. Currently, I am a professor of Economics and Finance, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. I came to Lincoln University in 1989 from Morgan State University, Baltimore Maryland where three out of the four years I spent there served as the Chairman of the Department of Accounting and Finance.

From 1992 to 1998, then 2000 to 2003, I served as the Chairman of the Department of Economics and Business Administration of Lincoln University. From 1995 to 1997, I served as the Chairman of the Division of Social Science and Behavioral Studies at Lincoln University. During the same period, I was an Adjunct Professor/Consultant to the Wharton's Emerging Nations Executive Management Training Program. During the 1984 to 1985 academic year, I taught at the University of Southwestern Louisiana as an Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance.

In 1987, I was a Fulbright/Hays Scholar to Togo, Benin, and Sierra Leone. In 1996, the American Seminar Leaders Association certified me as a Seminar Leader. In 1997, I was cited as one of America's Leading Business Educators by SIFE. From 1998 to 2000, I was a Regional review member of the Academy of Education Department's National Security Study Abroad Student Selection Committee. I am a founding member of Global Awareness Society International, Nissan Fellow, Walton Fellow and a member of the Delaware Chamber of Commerce.

I was instrumental in the development of the Executive Management Program of the Center for Public Policy and Diplomacy in 1990. As the Associate Director for the training program, I supervised and managed the training of executives from Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. Through my academic career, I have done a lot of work in the areas of privatization and Economic Management. Since 1999, however, the devastating impact of AIDS/HIV has added Economic Impact of AIDS/HIV to my research interest. I have attended several conferences and workshops on this subject during the past three years.

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Jeffrey L. Hillard, MSM, CMA, CPA

Professor Hillard has over twenty five years of business experience in Financial Planning and Analysis, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Commercial Credit, Logistics, Information Technology, Consulting and General Management. Prior professional experience includes positions with U.S. Treasury Department, NCR Corporation, General Motors, Hanover Direct and Wartsila NSD. In 1998, he founded Techinfocus, Inc., a provider of software solutions and management consulting utilizing advanced Microsoft Excel with VBA. Successful projects include assisting with the Y2K conversion at the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole and as a lead consultant in an American Hospital Association published Registered Nurse Compensation Solution for Calvert Memorial Hospital.

Professor Hillard is an Eagle Scout. He received his Bachelor of Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he enjoyed the emphasis given to professors with practical business experience in their fields. After two years as an Assistant National Bank Examiner with the US Treasury, he attained a Masters of Science in Management in a full time, two-year program at the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. His major was Strategic Management with minors in Finance and Information Technology.

Professor Hillard's prior teaching experience include graduate teaching assistantships in Economics at Purdue University, and three sections of Management Accounting each at Pennsylvania State University, York Campus and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He also filled in for professors on extended medical leaves at the Johns Hopkins University MBA in Finance program and at Lincoln University for two Accounting classes in the Spring of 2005.

Professor Hillard's current position is Visiting Assistant Professor at Lincoln University. His specialty areas are advanced courses in Accounting, Finance and Managerial Economics. He is active in the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), the sponsoring organization of the Certified Management Accountants (CMA).

He is also active in his church and his daughters' swim team where he serves as General Manager of Roadkill Café, which is a bunch of dads serving the "Finest Grilled Food on Earth" at home swim meets.

Professor Hillard's research interests include applications of Microsoft Excel in the classroom and as well as applications of Commercial Credit and Management Accounting. He looks forward to sharing his practical business experiences with the students at Lincoln University as they prepare for their careers in Business.

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John M. Lennick Jr. , MBA
Mr. John M. Lennick received an MBA from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and a BS from the Pennsylvania Military College (Widener) in Chester, PA.

Mr. Lennick is currently completing his fourteenth year as an adjunct professor at Lincoln University, PA.

Prior to his employment at Lincoln University, Mr. Lennick held the following positions:

• Senior Accountant - Astra-Zenica
• Internal Auditor - Philco-Ford
• Cost Accountant - United Parcel Services, Inc.
• Adjunct Professor - Wilmington College - Wilmington, DE

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Susan S. Muzorewa, MBA, CPA
Other qualifications: CPA. MBA University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.
BS SUNY Oswego, NY.

I am currently working as Assistant Professor of Accounting at Lincoln University PA.

Before coming to Lincoln University I held the following positions:

• Senior Supervisor of internal auditing at Genesis Health Ventures, Kennett Square PA.
• Management Consultant at Southern Africa Development Institute (SADI) in Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Research Assistant at Research International Zimbabwe (RIZ) in Harare Zimbabwe
• Controller - United Methodist Church, Dayton OH, USA
• Accounting Technician at Ernst and Young in Harare Zimbabwe

Areas that I have worked in include but are not limited to:

• Performing financial and compliance audits
• Managing financial operations to include accurate and timely reporting. ˇ Developing of financial forecasts and budgets.
• Receiving TORs and writing up project proposals.
• Preparing bankable business plans, as well as carrying out feasibility studies.
• Setting up monitoring and evaluating systems for projects funded by the World Bank, the United Nations, and other international donors.
• Providing training and technical assistance to small and medium size enterprises.
• Setting up accounting systems and designing policies and procedures for different organizations.
• Planning and designing appropriate research methods and conducting the research.

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Ganga P. Ramdas, Ph.D.

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE (if applicable)	YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
Lincoln University Baltimore Pike Southern Chester County Lincoln University,PA 19352	PhD Economics MS Taxation MA Economics B.Soc.Sc	1987 Temple Univ 1992 Temple Univ 1973 U Windsor Ont 1969 Univ Guyana	Econ theory, Econometrics, Public Finance, International Trade, Accounting and Taxation, Business FinanceEconomicsEconomics and Accounting

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Professor Lincoln University - 1983- to current. On leave January 1995-August 1997 ˇ Project Director 2002-03-Summer Transportation Institute. Assistant to Executive Director Brazil - January 1995--August 1997: International Monetary Fund, Executive Board. Adjunct Professor (1987-1995)-Wilmington College, graduate MBA program. Taught Managerial Economics and the Economics and Financial Environment of Business Data Base Manager -1982-83. AT&T Long Lines, Service Cost, and Rates Department, Piscataway, New Jersey. Economist, Division Chief - 1970-71, 1973-77. Research Department, Central Bank of Guyana. Research Assistant to Dr. Charles Freedman - 1973. Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Ramdas, Ganga Persad, Export Incentives and Investment Behavior. Boulder Col.: Westview Press, 1991.

2. Ramdas,Ganga Persad, ``Foreign Private Investment, Capital Flows, and Property Rights in Africa,'' in Privatization and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Rexford Ahene and Bernard S. Katz. New York: Praeger, 1992.

3. Book Review by Ganga P. Ramdas in Lincoln Journal of Social and Political Thought, Volume 1, Number 1, 2002: De Soto's Theory of Capitalist Development. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando De Soto. (New York: Basic books, 2000)

4. Ramdas, Ganga Persad, "Caribbean East Indians in the United States: Assimilation and Participation, A Rights Market Approach," in Coping in America: The Case of Caribbean East Indians, Edited by Alina Camacho-Gingerich. St. John's University, 2002.

5. ``Policies for U.S. Economic Growth,'' a written testimony to the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. House Report February 4,5, and 6, 1992. Serial 102--101, p. 1831--1839.

6. Statement on ``NAFTA Parity for Caribbean Basin Countries,'' a written testimony to Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, June 7, 1993, p. 138--145. Co-authored with Peter L. Vico.

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Oswald H. Richards, Ph.D.
Oswald H. Richards is Chairman and Associate Professor in the Economics and Business Administration department at the main campus of Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He is also Director of the Masters of Science in Administration program at the Urban Center campus in Philadelphia. Prior to his transition into academia in 1999, Dr. Richards was employed as a banking and financial services executive at PNC Bank, PA.; Riggs National Bank, Washington, DC; Bank of America, MD.; and Legg Mason Wood Walker, MD.

Dr. Richards also worked as a consultant with Bank of America/Keystone Consulting to install credit card systems (travel, purchase, fleet and integrated) at 14 U.S. government agencies, including the Federal Reserve System, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, US Trade and Development Agency, National Credit Union Association, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, National Science Foundation, General Accounting Office, Office of Personnel Management, Federal Maritime Agency, and others.

Dr. Richards has broad expertise in the Trust, investment industry and brokerage industries; mergers and acquisitions; conversions and integration; management consulting; project management; job re-engineering; due diligence; product marketing; strategic management; information technology and systems analysis; computer programming; feasibility studies; corporate training and education/development programs; entrepreneurship; and workshop and seminar planning and execution. In addition, Dr. Richards has taught at the kindergarten, middle, and high school levels.

Dr. Richards' research interests are in the areas of management, finance, and education.

Dr. Richards holds a graduate banking diploma from the School for Bank Administration, Bank Administration Institute, at the University of Wisconsin. He has earned the BS, MS, MBA degrees; and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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