Office of College Relations
 
Speakers' Bureau

BGSU Firelands is pleased to offer you its 2007-2008 Speakers' Bureau Topics

Speakers may be contacted through Ms. Jaymee Skelly at 419-433-5560 or
800-322-4787 or jaymees@bgsu.edu

There is no charge for these presentations, but donations to the BGSU Firelands Faculty and Staff Scholarship Fund would be appreciated. Donations may be made by contacting Ms. Jaymee Skelly.

MR. JOHN L. CLARK
Coordinator of Career Services
• Key to a Successful Job Search
• Take This Job and Love It!
• You Can Do It: Tips for Mid-Life Career Changes

MS. DEBRALEE DIVERS
Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
• Financial Aid 101
• Financial Planning for Your Child's College Education

MR. M. PETER HENNING, III
Associate Professor of Applied Sciences in the Department of Applied Sciences
and Industry Liaison for the Office of Educational Outreach
• The Lean Enterprise
• Six Sigma Breakthrough Strategy
• Total Productive Maintenance

DR. TIMOTHY J. JURKOVAC
Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Natural and Social Sciences
• Presidential Election Campaigns
• Sport and Society
• The Influence of Television on American Culture
• Columbia: Country of Wonder, Country of Turmoil

DR. CYNTHIA L. MIGLIETTI
Associate Professor of Accounting and the Chair of the Department of Applied Sciences
• Financial Planning: How It Works for You

DR. BENJAMIN N. MUEGO
Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies in the
Department of Natural and Social Sciences/Asian Studies Program
• The “New World Order” and American Priorities
• Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
• Shared Governance at BGSU
• Viet Nam and the United States after Normalization
• The War of Terrorism: Iraq and Afghanistan
• The People’s Democratic of Korea (“North Korea”)

DR. VICTOR U. ODAFE
Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Natural and Social Sciences
• Misconceptions in Mathematics
• Cooperative Learning in Mathematics
• Mathematics Anxiety
• Problem Solving in School Mathematics
• Assessment in Mathematics
• Nigerian Affairs

MS. LESLEY G. RUSZKOWSKI
Director of Marketing and Communication
• Publicizing Your Business
• Marketing Your Small Business
• The 360 Degree

MR. PATRICK R. SAUNDERS
Adjunct Instructor of American CultureStudies
• The Institutionalzation of Racism: Local Ordinances to Separate Races
• The Myth of the Melting Pot: The Stratification of Race and Class in American Society
• The Price of Membership: The Assimilation of Eastern and Southern Europeans into White America in the 20th Century
• The Growing American Underclass: Working Harder, Longer and Still Losing Traction in 21st Century America
• Thinking on Two Wheels: Observations on changes in American Culture from the saddle of a Harley Davidson

DR. O. DALE SCHNETZER
Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities
• Death and Dying and Popular Music
• Death and Dying: Old and New Perspectives
• Euthanasia in the 90s
• U.S. Ethnicity in the 00s

DR. ROBERT R. SPEERS
Associate Professor Emeritus of Physics in the Department of Natural and Social Sciences
• Humor in Science
• Cedar Point - The Early Years
• Cedar Point - Bigger and Better Coasters
• Global Warming Science

DR. KAY E. STRONG
Associate Professor of Economics and Applied Statistics
• “A Glimpse of China”
• “Chinafication”
• Social UnSecurity
• Globalization’s Macro Challenges
• Immigration: Friend or Foe?
• Truth-In-Federal Budgeting
• Obsolescence of Education: a macro perspective
• The 911 Version on Monetary Policy
• Healthcare: Human Right or Privilege of Income

DR. JEFFREY K. WAGNER
Associate Professor of Astronomy/ Geology and Chair of the Natural and Social Sciences Department
• Dinosaurs and Their World
• Meteorites: Stones From the Sky

MR. RAY YOUNG
Adjunt Instructor of Humanities
• Current Issues in Public Schools
• School Finance
• School Law
• Teacher Contracts, Evaluations
• Education Careers in Public Schools