Gregory W. Haselden, CPA
Greg Haselden is an accountant and educator who has served both for-profit and not-for-profit business concerns for over 10 years. As an accountant, Greg's areas of responsibility have spanned from general accounting services for small local businesses to auditing national middle-market public companies. In the classroom, Greg brings a "real life" experience that animates the learning experience of students. Greg received a BA degree with honors in accounting from Furman University. He is a licensed certified public accountant in the State of South Carolina, and he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (SCACPA). Greg currently serves as the Vice President for Finance and Operations and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina, in addition to regularly teaching as an adjunct instructor for Furman University's Undergraduate Evening Studies.
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Courses:
ACC 111 Principles of Accounting I
ACC 301 Principles of Accounting II
ACC 401 Advanced Accounting
Lyle teaches Accounting Principles, Intermediate Accounting, Advanced Accounting, and Accounting Information Systems.
Lyle has held the following positions System's Analyst, EDP Auditor, Controller, Director of Education, Plant Accountant and Factory Accountant with manufacturing and service companies.
He is an active member of the International Association of Accounting Research, the Institute of Management Accountants, the National Society of Accountants, the Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation, and the International Federation of Accountants.
Courses:
ACC 311 Intermediate Financial Accounting I
ACC 312 Intermediate Financial Accounting II
Ian Bradley
CPA(NC), MBA, CMA, CFM, ACMA
Ian Bradley holds an MBA from the University of South Carolina, with a concentration in International Studies. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of North Carolina, a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Financial Manager.
Ian has 16 years of "real world" accounting expertise. He has held controller roles at both site and corporate levels in Europe and the USA and has led the implementation of accounting information systems in Europe the US and China. He brings a unique insight into the classroom from his experience of building accounting infrastructure from the ground up, in large and small companies.
Ian has served on the board of the Greenville chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants for the last 4 years, holding the roles of Chapter President and Vice President of Communications.
Ian is currently the controller for T&S Brass and Bronze Works where he manages the day to day controller functions for T&S's Travelers Rest and Shanghai facilities.
Courses:
ACC 360 International Accounting
Ian Bradley's Links:
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Rusty Copsey
BS Finance
- University of South Carolina
MBA - University of South Carolina
Rusty Copsey has taught for UES since 1998. He holds a BS in Finance and an MBA from the University of South Carolina. He has worked for Carolina First Bank, Regions Bank and is currently a Risk Manager in the Community Bank Group at Wachovia Bank. Rusty teaches Finance and Money and Banking in the Evening program.
Courses:
BUS 340 - Finance
ECN - Money and Banking
Courses:
ACC 340 Federal Income Taxation
Paul Batson
Paul Batson is a licensed accountant and financial consultant with Batson Account and Tax, P.A., and has served as its president since the inception of the firm in 1987. Baton Accounting and Tax, P.A., provides accounting, tax and financial consulting services to individual and small companies in the Greenville area.
For 30 years, Batson has also been a college instructor and has served as an adjunct professor at Furman University for over 25 years teaching courses in economics, investment management and personal finance. Additionally, he has taught numberous courses in the fundamentals of the stock market and portfolio management, as well as other courses in business and personal financial matters.
Before going into private practice in 1987, he served as chief financial officer of a regional business in Greenville, and previously worked for an international firm as accounting manager and cost accountant.
For several years, batson was actively involved in the Greenville Chapter of the National Asociation of Accountants (now the Institute of Management Accountants), and served as its president in 1984. In that year, the organization earned national honors for its achievements in professional issues and community involvement.
"Teaching for UES at Furman is a joy in my life! The interactions with mature students is always rewarding and I often feel I learn more than they do! The program is a wonderful extension of Furman's excellence."
Courses:
Investments Management
Tom Traxler
Tom Traxler has been practicing law in Greenville, South Carolina since 1979 and is a partner in the law firm of Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers, & Traxler, P.A. His areas of practice are commercial litigation, computer litigation and domestic relationships. He received his B.A. in German in 1974 from Davidson College and his J.D. in 1979 from the University of South Carolina. He serves on the South Carolina Board of Bar Examiners and is the past president of the Greenville County Bar. He developed the legal software The All-in-One Child Support Calculator and Alimony Calculator which are used by South Carolina Family Court judges and lawyers.
He came to Furman as an adjunct instructor in 1981. He teaches Business Law in the UES program. "I enjoy teaching because the students in the evening program are both intelligent and highly motivated. Any students, who has to work during the day and still wants to sit in class for several hours at night, is going to be motivated and eager to learn. When you couple that with the student's intelligence, you have the best kind of student any instructor could ask for. It is extremely rewarding to explain and teach new ideas to people who want to learn them."
Courses:
BUS 350 Business Law I
B.S., Furman University, 1985
M.B.A., George Mason University, 1993
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1999
Tom joined the Furman faculty in 2001 after teaching two years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. After leaving Furman in 1985, he spent 4 years in the Army as an Engineer Officer, including tours of duty in Honduras and Costa Rica. After leaving the Army in 1989, Tom worked for what was Mobil Oil for almost 7 years in New York City and Fairfax, Virginia where he was a systems and business analyst.
Dr. Smythe teaches Business Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, Investments, International Finance.
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Bill Stubbs
Bill Stubbs is the Sr. Director of Human Resources for BI-LO, LLC headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. He has worked in retail human resources for over 20 years.
In his current capacity Bill is responsible for Recruiting, Staffing, Training, and Management Development. This includes the BI-LO School of Business, the company's Corporate University, which Bill founded in 1996 and holds the designation of Dean Emeritus. The BI-LO School of Business has won awards from the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) in 2002 and 2004 in recognition as a worldwide best practice in the Supermarket industry. Additionally Bill has consulted with retail companies all over the world including Asia, South America, and Europe on Human Resources issues.
Bill received a B.A. from Louisiana College in Mass Communications and his Master's in Organizational Communications from Baylor University. As a graduate student at Baylor, he taught Public Speaking and Fundamentals of Speech. He also designed and conducted management training seminars for the Baylor Banking Institute, a program for banking executives throughout the Southwest.
Bill is an adjunct professor on the faculty of Furman University and teaches Human Resources Management and Business Management courses each year. He has also conducted over 1000 training seminars and workshops throughout the world.
In addition to his business responsibilities, Bill is active in many professional, civic, and religious organizations and currently serves on the board of the Greenville YMCA and the Food Marketing Institute's Human Resources Advisory Committee.
John Meindl
John manages a Partner Private Equity Fund and is a Board Advisor and Member to several Public and Private Companies.
Courses:
BUS 301 Introduction to Management
BUS 312 The Sustainable Corporation
BUS 411 Entrepreneurialism and New Venture Creation
Tom Rogers
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Robert Arden Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)
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Email:
Robert.Arden@furman.edu
Dr. Arden left a tenured position at Seton Hall University to work in the telecommunications industry. He recently relocated to Greenville, SC and now teaches Introduction to Economics and Managerial Economics for the department on a part-time basis. His research interest remains the U.S. telecommunications industry. Dr. Arden teaches economics courses in both the day and evening programs.
Select Publications:
Why Build a Dedicated ITS Communications System?: A Private-Sector Perspective," with Padmanabhan Srinagesh, in Converging infrastructures: Intelligent transportation and the national information infrastructure, (1996): 148-174.
Courses:
Introduction to Economics
Managerial Economics
Public Finance
Government and Business
Courses:
ECN 101 Macroeconomics
Mary Grant
Mary Grant is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Lituratures in Furman's day program. She has been teaching the three General Education Requirement Spanish classes for the past 10 years. Previously, Mary worked for Michelin Tire Corporation where she was employed for about 12 years as a Language Teacher.
Mary is a 1980 Furman garduate, who has also studied in Madrid with Vanderbilt as an undergraduate in 1978. She directed Study Abroad in Madrid in 2004 and 2005.
Mary Grants Modern Language Website
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Margaret Oakes Ph.D.
Margaret J. Oakes is an Associate Professor of English at Furman University. After a five-year stint as a securities regulation attorney in Chicago, Professor Oakes matriculated at Stanford University for the Ph.D. She has taught at Furman for thirteen years, and this is her first year teaching in UES. Her research interests are in British Renaissance literature, Renaissance humanist education, children's fantasy literature, and British detective fiction.
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Gay Claiborne Ph.D.
Dr. Claiborne has been teaching with Undergraduate Evening Studies at furman since 2004. She received her B.S. from New Mexico State University Secondary Education/English, her M.A. also from New Mexico State University Early American Lit. & Linguistics and her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida 18th C. British Literature and Composition & Rhetoric.
Courses:
ENG 11 Basic Composition
ENG 211 Business Communication
ENG 72A British and American Literature Since 1798
ENG 422 Literature of the South
Vance Jenkins
Courses:
ENG 201
ENG 202
Alan Coulson Ph.D.
Alan received his BS inGeology from Bowling Green State University, his MS in Geology at Texas Tech and will receive his PhD in Geosciences form USC this Spring. He is a Lecturer in Furman's day program.
Research Interests: climate change, paleontology, sea turtle biology, stable isotope applications to environmental reconstruction
Courses:
EES 112- Environmental Science