Scot Ober Scot Ober has taught business education for more than 20 years, most recently
as a professor of business at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He
received his Ph.D. degree from the Ohio State University in 1974. In addition
to his high school and university teaching experience, he has served as director
of research for the Gregg Division of McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York
City and served as a military secretary in Vietnam, where he was awarded the
Bronze Star. He received the 1993 Distinguished Alumnus award from East Carolina
University. Scot is a past national president of Delta Pi Epsilon and a past national
chair of the Policies Commission for Business and Economic Education. He also
served a three-year term as editor of the Business Communication Quarterly and
was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Business Communication
in 1997. He has chaired or served as a member of more than 100 ACICS accreditation
teams and won the organization's Distinguished Public Evaluator Award in 2002. Scot has published more than 60 journal articles in every major business communication
and business education journal and is the author or coauthor of nine textbooks
in the areas of business communication, keyboarding, shorthand, and software
applications. In addition, he has spoken or presented papers at hundreds of
conferences and training sessions in 43 states as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto
Rico, England, and Greece. Several of his presentations have won the "Best-Paper
Award" at professional conferences. Scot and his wife and five sons live in a suburb of Indianapolis. Jack E. Johnson Jack E. Johnson is Dean Emeritus and Distance Learning Professor in the Department
of Management and MIS at the University of West Georgia where he teaches primarily
graduate courses in methodology, research, keyboarding, and communications.
In 1999 he was selected as Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the National Business
Education Association, and he has also received this award from the Southern
Business Education Association and the Georgia Business Education Association.
He also holds a Distinguished Professorship from Texas A&M University in
Commerce, Texas. He has authored textbooks for McGraw-Hill since 1977 and has traveled to over
40 states and Canada speaking at various national, regional, and state associations.
He has also authored over 35 articles in professional journals. Johnson was born and raised in North Dakota. He received his undergraduate
and graduate degrees from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and
has taught in the states of Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Texas, and Georgia
and has been a visiting professor at several universities. He currently resides
in Douglasville, Georgia, with his wife, Diane, but spends as much time as possible
at their log home in Wisconsin. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Johnson was assigned as a Captain
in the United State Air Force; served as advisor to several student business
organizations; worked as Webmaster for the Southern Business Education Association
and the Carrollton, Georgia, Rotary club; and earned his 1st degree black belt
in American Free Style Karate. Arlene Zimmerly Arlene Zimmerly is a professor at Los Angeles City College, where she teaches
a
broad list of computer applications and office technologies courses. She has
been a co-author of College Keyboarding and Document Processing since the 8th
Edition. In addition to teaching keyboarding online, Web page design, and word processing,
your author has pioneered the curricula for many of the most innovative courses
taught in her department and at LACC including several online courses. She serves
as the Web administrator and computer lab coordinator for her department and
maintains a host of departmental Web sites. As vice chairperson of the Computer
Applications and Office Technologies Department, which has been recognized as
a model program for innovative curriculum, she staffed 33 courses and supervised
five computer labs. Her past teaching experience included positions at other community colleges,
California State University at Los Angeles, Sawyer College of Business, Moon
Valley High School, and Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute. She earned
her M.A in Business Education at California State University, Los Angeles, where
she was selected Outstanding Graduate Student in Business/Office Education.
Ms. Zimmerly is a noted speaker on the topics of distance education, keyboarding,
and office systems and technology.
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