October 24,
2007
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR TO SERVE AS
SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
LINCOLN
UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Dr. Oswald Richards, chairman and associate
professor in the Department of Business and Information Technology,
will serve as a Faculty Resource Network Scholar-in-Residence,
becoming the first Lincoln University faculty member to serve
in this capacity at New York University (NYU).
As a network scholar, Dr. Richards
will have access to many NYU’s academic resources,
where he will conduct scholarly research and work with
professors who are experts in their fields.
“This program will give me an opportunity to enhance
my scholarly skills in research and publication,” said
Dr. Richards, who begins the one semester program in January. “It
will also help me to transfer my various skills to my colleagues
and the students at New York University.”
Guided by the common lament among faculty that the presence
of time for uninterrupted, focused, independent research
is a much-limited resource, the visiting scholar programs
offer Network faculty an opportunity to come to New York
University to engage in scholarly work. Participants in the
program spend either a semester-long sabbatical or a month-long
summer residency engaging in research, revising and developing
curricula, and producing manuscripts for publication.
Dr. Richards has served and continues
to serve in leading roles in his professional career. He
also serves as the director of the Master of Science in
Administration program at the Graduate Center campus in
Philadelphia. Prior to his transition to academia, he was
employed as a senior banking and financial services executive
at PNC Bank of Delaware and Pennsylvania; Riggs National
Bank of Washington, D. C.; Bank of America of Maryland
and Legg Mason of Maryland, a global asset management and
investment firm.
In addition to Dr. Richards’s
extensive background in information technology and computer
programming, he has broad corporate executive leadership
and management expertise in many areas, including trust,
investment management and brokerage industries; mergers
and acquisitions; conversions and integration; management
consulting; project management; job re-engineering; product
marketing; strategic management; and information technology
and systems analysis.
Dr. Richards holds a graduate
banking diploma from the School for Bank Administration
at the University of Wisconsin. He earned his bachelor
of science in finance and banking, master of science in
management, master of business administration in finance
and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Richards also has completed advanced faculty development
training at New York University, SAP (systems in applications
and products in data processing) Institute in Pennsylvania
and other locations, and the New York Stock Exchange.
Founded in 1854, Lincoln
University is a premier, historically Black University that
combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based
undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs
to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological
and global society. The University is nationally
recognized as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate
degrees in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics);
computer and informational sciences; biological and life sciences. Lincoln
has an enrollment of 2,423 undergraduate and graduate students.
Lincoln
University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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