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Prof. dr hab. Łukasz Sułkowski
He is a vice-rector of the Academy of Management in Lodz and a Director of Clark University Graduate Programs in Poland. From 2004 he is an editor-in-chief of the quarterly “Organizacja i Kierowanie” devoted to management and organization issues. He was a coordinator of the research and an expert in 3 European projects. He participated in many research projects among others “Determinants of the development of the family companies in Poland” (2004-2005) and “Pro-competitive strategies for Poland” (1999-2002). He was a granted many foreign scholarships among others in Spain and Ukraine. His main research interests are: organizational culture, intercultural management, social determinants of management, the methodology of management, the development of human resources, the methodology of educating and training personnel. His academic output includes 110 publications in the field of management.
Teaching area: Strategic Planning, Intercultural Communication, Capstone |
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Dr Thomas Massey, Dean
Dr. Thomas Massey is Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Education at Clark University, a world-renowned research university in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The College of Professional and Continuing Education (COPACE) programs and courses reflect the strengths of Clark University as well as the educational needs of the community that the university serves. COPACE shares Clark University’s strengths in liberal arts, psychology, geography, environmental studies, and international and interdisciplinary programs. Its programs and courses in language and culture, English as a Second Language, communications and computer science all focus our strengths on the immediate needs of an increasingly heterogeneous community.
Under Dr. Massey’s guidance, COPACE conducts training and educational programs all over the world as well as hosting students and training delegations from around the world. COPACE’s Graduate Programs division offers a program of graduate study in Israel, Poland and Russia. COPACE’s American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI) draws significant numbers of students from Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. During the past five years, COPACE has trained significant numbers of managers from France, the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, China, and Western Africa, in such diverse areas as competition and public enterprise, defense conversion, legislative reform, and international management. COPACE faculty teaching in these programs are drawn from Clark University and COPACE, and from universities, governments and businesses worldwide. Dr. Massey holds a PhD from the University of Michigan.
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Prof. Max E. Hess Professor Max Hess is Assistant Dean and director of Graduate Programs for the College of Professional and Continuing Education (COPACE) at Clark University. He is also the Academic Director of the Clark University Branch programs in Israel, Poland and Russia. Prof. Hess is the curriculum designer for many management-training programs that are delivered by COPACE. Max Hess has developed management training for many types of clients especially those interested in Intercultural Communication and global competition and has trained managers from all over the world, including Eastern, Central and Western Europe and China. Hess was the recipient of over one-million dollars in training grants from US Agency for International Development to develop training programs for the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Before coming to Clark prof. Hess worked for fifteen years managing Chinese language and culture training-centers in Beijing and Harbin, China. In addition, Hess was on the graduate faculty of the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, a professional graduate school that specializes in international management education. Hess earned his masters degree in social anthropology. His doctoral work focused on comparative institutions as he studied at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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Daniel R. Nicholes, D.A.
Dr. Nicholes is the Assistant Director of Graduate Programs and Director of COPACE External Programs for Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Prior to assuming his present position, he taught for five years in the COPACE MPA and MSPC programs and was for four years the Director of Business and Industry at Worcester State College. He earned his doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before moving into higher education, Dr. Nicholes was a human resource manager for the FedEx system, where he specialized in building leadership competency models.
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Prof. dr hab. Alicja Jaruga
She is an accounting professor in the Management Department at the University of Lodz and the Academy of Management in Lodz. She is the director of the Centre for the International Accounting Studies at the University of Lodz. She is a chair of the Standards of Accounting Committee in Poland. As a Ford Foundation scholarship holder she performed her academic practice at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also in the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels and the M. Lomonosov Moscow State University. She lectured at the University of North Texas, Birmingham University, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and conducted guest lectures and seminars in 35 foreign universities including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Canada and many European countries. She is a consultant in designing expense management systems and managerial accounting systems as well as an expert in the area of international accounting in the Team of Experts in International Accounting Standards which she was a head of. Prof. Jaruga is a chair of a Polish Branch of European Accounting Association. Her research is focused on the new systems of management and the processes of the international harmonization of accounting standards. Alicja Jaruga is an author of 10 and co-author of 38 books and over 180 articles which were published among others in England, Japan, China, USA. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gdansk and the Academic Prize of the Lodz City.
Teaching area: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers |
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Prof. Joseph Ribak Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University Medical School and with distinction from the Hebrew University School of Public Health. Spent two years’ fellowship in Occupational Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, City University of New York. Graduated the Formal US Navy Flight surgeons Course at Pensacola, Florida and spent six months with the USAF at Brooks AFB in San Antonio, Texas. Served for twenty years in the Israel Defense Forces and retired as full colonel. Served as a battalion and brigade combat physician with vast field experience in two wars. Served as Chief Flight Surgeon of a combat Israeli air force base. Commanded and directed the Israel Air Force Aero medical Centre and served as Surgeon General of the Israeli Navy and Air Force. Board certified in Israel in: Public Health, Medical Management and Occupational Medicine. Directed the Occupational Health Centre in Israel for fourteen years. Under his responsibility were sixty physicians and more then hundred nurses. Served as Director of the National Occupational and Environmental Health Institute with responsibility to ninety workers (research, field and administration). Authored and coauthored more than a hundred and fifty research papers in peer reviewed journals and edited two books. I participated in national and international conferences and presented many papers. Prof Ribak has vast experience in teaching at Tel Aviv University in his expertise. Served for two years as Vice President for Academic Affairs of Israel College, working in close collaboration with US universities. (Clark, Northeastern and University of New England). Joseph Ribak was responsible for The Master's program in Occupational Health at Tel Aviv University and served on the curriculum committee of the center for advanced studies of Tel Aviv University Medical School. Teaching area: Epidemiology, Health Promotion |
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Prof. dr hab. George Anders
Graduated from the University of Lodz and the Technical University of Lodz. He defended his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Toronto. He is a specialist in the field of electric power systems and project management. He has been a fellow of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineering since 1999. He has been a member of the scientific committee “Probabilistic Methods Applied to Electric Power Systems” conference. He participated in many scientific/academic grants, and has published over 180 publications. His main research interests are: the probabilistic issues in electric power systems, the application of the new mathematical methods to the electric power systems analysis, project management. He is a professor at Clark University where he lectures Project management.
Teaching area: Project management |
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Prof. dr Martin Dobbie
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Organic Chemistry from Liverpool University in Great Britain in 1970. He spent 13 years working as a research chemist in the pharmaceutical industry for ICI plc - the largest chemical firm in Britain. At one time he worked in the same team as the Nobel prize winner Sir James Black who discovered and synthesised Beta-blocker heart drugs. He also worked alongside Dr Dora Richardson who was the inventor of the first synthetic anti-cancer drug “Tamoxifen”. In 1982 he changed his career direction and returned to University to carry out research and to study for a PhD in Labour Relations at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. In Manchester he accepted an appointment as Leverhulme Research Fellow in Conflict Resolution. In 1988 he took up a post with the University of Wales in Wrexham, North Wales and was appointed as the Director of the MBA Programme in North East Wales in collaboration with Georgetown University in Washington, USA, and Harris Manchester College, Oxford University (Britain). He has worked in many areas as a consultant and lecturer in Business, Management, Training and Occupational Safety. His main teaching areas are in Management Research Methods, Labour Relations, Organizational Change, Sociology, and Safety Management. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Production Management at the Technical University of Lodz and at Clark University. He has travelled widely, lecturing and carrying out academic projects in Russia, China, Spain, Finland, Netherlands, France and South East Asia.
Teaching area: Research Methods and Strategies |
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Prof. Peter Przytula
Peter Przytula has studied in England, Sweden, United States, Israel, and Poland. He holds two Master's degrees, one from Lodz University and another one from the University of Minnesota where he also earned his Ph.D.. Peter Przytula works as a Full Professor of public relations and advertising at St. Cloud State University (Minnesota) and Clark University (Lodz). He has lectured all over Central Europe (conducting well over fifty workshops and seminars in PR methods) and is the author of "Introduction to Public Relations". Professor Przytula has worked with Polish branches of American public relations agencies both as an educator and a consultant. He has also worked with Szkola Glowna Handlowa (WEMBA, AMBA and CEMBA programs), Szkola Bankowasci, Kozminski School, Telewizja Lodzka, Orkla Media Polska, Grey Warszawa, Burson-Marsteller. Also, Professor Przytula was a president of his own PR agency, Propublic that was present on the Polish market from 2000 to 2005. Professor Przytula is a co-author of a three-hour documentary "Bez litosci" (shown on national Polish television three times), and a Fulbright scholar, as well as United Sates Information Agency researcher and a (USAID’s) CEUME Scholar.
Teaching area: Media Ethics, American Media and Society, Public Relations |
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Giuseppe Sena, PhD Professor Sena is currently teaching at Clark University (Worcester, MA) and MassBay Community College (Wellesley, MA) in the areas of E-Commerce, databases, business analysis, legal & financial issues in IT, computer networks, IT system implementation, and interactive multimedia. Before teaching for Clark University and MassBay Community College, he taught courses at Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and the Central University of Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela) in the areas of operating systems, algorithms and data structures, computer organization & programming, fundamentals of computer science, discrete mathematics, numerical analysis, logic & algebra, and others. He received a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University (Boston, MA, 1997), and S.M. degree in Applied Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Cambridge, MA, 1995). He obtained a B.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the Central University of Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela, 1990). While teaching at Northeastern University, he also received the “1997-1998 Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants”. He also works as a consultant for in the area of networking, Internet and Web technologies and LDAP (Directory Services). He has also worked in industry as a Software Developer, Network Engineer & Consultant, and a Network & System Administrator.
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Jan Grudziecki, Ph.D.
20 years experience working as a senior lecturer at the Technical University of Lodz and at Clark University. Lecturing in Computer Science, Programming Languages, 3D-Modelling, Controller Programming, Control Systems, Operating Systems, Networking, Information Systems Architecture. Teaching abroad (Germany, UK) among Computer Science, Computer Applications. Present interests of research cover also new teaching and learning methods, e-learning, information technology. Attended numerous international conferences and projects on computing, education and e-learning.
Teaching area: Information Systems Architecture, Operating Systems |
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Izabela Kołodzejczyk-Olczak, Ph.D.
She has many years of experience in conducting projects and trainings concerning management and human resources management. She is an expert in personnel management. For many years she was a director in consulting companies and European Union projects. She has Ph.D. in Economy with concentration in the HR Management. She took part in preparing and realizing many European and national research. She is an author and co-author of many publications in the field of motivation, remuneration, competence management, and knowledge management. She took part in a number of conferences in Poland as well as abroad: in China, India, Spain, Great Britain, Austria. She was an auditor in “The Leader in Human Resources Management” competition. She is a Socrates-Erasmus, MBA and postgraduate studies lecturer.
Teaching area: Human Resources Management |
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Sebastian Kopera, Ph.D.
Graduated from Cracow University of Economics with MSc Degree. He received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Warsaw in 2005. He works in the Organization and Management Department of the Technical University in Lodz. At Clark he lectures in M.S.I.T. program. He is a specialist in management in information technology, knowledge management and the development of the organization. He has many national and international publications in these fields. In his academic practice he is able to join his theoretical knowledge with business experience which he gained as a co-author and implementation manager of many both IT and organizational projects.
Teaching area: Information Systems Policy and Organization |
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Jan Krolikowski, Ph.D.
He graduated from University of Strathclyde Glasgow with PhD diploma in management information systems. Developed many software applications for companies. He cooperated with Clyde Blowers – Glasgow, Hunting Oil Services – Aberdeen, AEG Elester – Lodz, Philips – Pabianice and others. He participated in implementation of Microsoft Axapta in Sudzucker group. Academic teacher in Technical University of Lodz and Clark University. He has academic cooperation with Germany, Holland and Great Britain. He was lecturing on information technology in University of Central England w Birmingham. He is a specialist in production planning, information systems in logistics, data mining. Currently he works as an instructor and co-ordinator of Master of Science in Information Technology program, at Clark University.
Teaching area: Management Information Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Design, Capstone
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Joanna Ruszkowska-Majzel, MPH, PhD
She graduated from medical department of Medical University of Lodz, specialist of public health. Since 2003 academic teacher, PhD exams passed with distinction. Completed WHO i CDC course „Evidence based Public Health: A Course in Chronic Disease Prevention” (2003) and several courses in sports medicine and physiology of physical exertion in Poland. In 2001-2003 vice-coordinator of nationwide physical activity promotion campaign („Revitalize Your Heart”). Participant of governmental project POLKARD constituting part of National Cardiovascular Diseases Prevention and Treatment Programme 2006-2008, and „European Healthy Stadia Project” realized within European Union Public Health Programme. Author and coauthor of almost 20 scientific publications and popular scientific articles.
Teaching area: Issues and Cases in Public Administration
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Katarzyna Waniek, Ph.D.
She graduated in sociology from the University of Lodz, where she was appointed a junior lecturer in the Department of Sociology of Culture. From 2000 to 2006 she was pursuing her Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Fritz Schütze at Otto-von-Guercike Univerität Magdeburg, Institut of Sociology, Germany. She defended her dissertation on “Biographies and Identities of Young Polish Immigrants in Germany after 1989” in October 2007. Since 1997 she has been engaged in multinational research on national identities in unifying Europe. Her main research interests are: interpretative sociology, biographical research – autobiographical narrative interview method, face-to-face interaction, national identity, immigration, sociolinguistics, public discourse, stereotypes and prejudices, history as an identity-constructive element, intercultural communication, marginality, cultural hybridity and strangeness, socio-cultural peripheries, inferiority and asymmetry in intercultural interactions, bi(multi)culturalism, bivalence, bilingualism as well as sociology of medicine, social organization of medical work, suffering and disorderly social processes. At Clark University she is coordinating the organization of Intercultural Management Congress.
Teaching area: Intercultural Communication |
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Magdalena Wieczorkowska, PhD
She is a sociologist. Graduated from University of Lodz (specialization: methodology and research). From 2003 she works as an assistant in the Medical University of Lodz. Her doctoral dissertation from the area of social advertising has been recommended to the Rector`s Award in the Medical University of Lodz. She conducts classes (both in Polish and English) of sociology of medicine, methodology, ethics and professional life, sociology of the body and history of the social thought. She participated in several national conferences and is an author of nine publications. Her professional interests focus on the risk society and sociology of the body. Currently she holds a position of instructor and coordinator of the MPA Health Systems program offered at Clark University.
Teaching area: Ethics and Professional Life |
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Malgorzata Marciniak, MA Graduate of the University of Lodz and Finnish University of Tampere. Her career is strictly linked with higher education, mainly in the area of internationalization. She co-operates in many international projects, european and transatlantic. She is a member of European Association for International Education. Since 2005 she has been the manager of Clark University programs in Poland. Her scientific interests include: project management, intercultural communication and leadership. Teaching area: Communication Theory and Research |
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Grażyna Budzińska, MBA
Graduated in management, a joint Executive MBA program of the University of Lodz and the University of Maryland. Completed English Philology at the University of Lodz with MA degree. Works as a lecturer at the Clark University in Poland and the International Faculty of Engineering, The Technical University of Lodz. Teaches business communication and team building. Collaborated with US AID (Agency for International Development) and HEI (Health Enterprise International) within the framework of projects in managed health care and health education. Interested in the issues of leadership, intercultural management, teamwork as well as problem/project-based learning. At Clark she is a teacher and coordinator of M.S.P.C. program.
Teaching area: Advanced Professional Communication, Capstone
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Michał Chmielecki, MA
Studied in Poland, the USA and Germany. He gained his experience among others in TAW.de - one of the biggest consulting and training companies in Germany. At Clark University he lectures Communication Theory and Research. He is a Ph.D. candidate in management at the Academy of Management in Lodz. He is a member of various international associations including International Association for Conflict Management and American Communication Association.
Teaching area: Communication Theory and Research |
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Ricardo Cypreste, MPA
Recent to be graduated from University of Medicine of Lodz with an MD degree and in the graduated from a Master’s of Public Administration with concentration in the Health Systems through Clark University. Currently he holds a position of a lecturer in Non-Profit Management course at Clark University. Passionate in the field of academics and science, with the aspiration of pursuing a physician’s/teacher’s carrier. He chooses to dedicate his knowledge and experiences to assist those in need and to teach those interested. He's the co-organizer of the first Walkathon in the history of Łódź, an initiative promoting healthy life-style among Poles.
Teaching area: Non-Profit Management, Capstone
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Justyna Fijałkowska, MA
She graduated from Management Department of Lodz University (specialization in accounting). PhD studies completed at Department of Science on Management of the Lodz University. Part of studies conducted at the Universita degli Studi di Perugia in Italy and at the University of Utrecht in Holland. During 2002-2004 she carried a research within Harmonia Project of the European Union in Lisbon University in Portugal and at the University of Bangor in the UK. In 2006 she received a scholarship of the Polish Government and Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry a research at the University of Perugia in Italy. She worked in the project for Ernst&Young and presently is the executor of the research project of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education on measurement and reporting of intellectual capital within accounting. The results of her research were published in many articles in Europe and in the USA, Brazil and South Africa and were presented at the numerous national and international conferences. Since 2001 she is a member of academic staff at the Academy of Management in Lodz and since 2004 she is a lecturer at Clark University.
Teaching area: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers, Public Budgeting and Accounting
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Marta Kędzia, MA
She graduated from the University of Lodz (Marketing and Management). She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in London. Marketing operations of FMCG companies are the key interest for her. She supported different companies in creation of their marketing campaigns (e.g. Agros-Nova, Raben, Colgate-Palmolive etc.) She is a specialist in international cooperation and global marketing. For many years she has been managing, supervising and implementing international projects based on EU funds. Currently she's been cooperating with several European and Asian institutions.
Teaching area: Global Marketing and Advertising, Capstone
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Michał Matyjaszczyk, MPA
Graduated from the Medical University in Lodz and from Clark University with Master of Public Administration degree with concentration in Health Systems. He is an assistant in the Department of Family Medicine of the Medical University of Lodz and a lecturer at Clark University. He has been elected twice to the position of a head of the Organizational Committee and the president of the International Scientific Conference of Medical Students and Young Doctors. He is currently working on his Ph.D. thesis in the field of family medicine.
Teaching area: Policy Analysis |
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Jacek Pec, MA
He completed sociological studies at the University of Łódź with a specialization: methods and techniques of social research. He took part in Oslo University Summer School of Social Sciences and completed internship in Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Manchester. His work experience includes: administration in a psychotherapeutic company, consulting and market research. His scientific interests are centered around social research, with emphasis on social psychology, economic sociology and health institutions management. Currently he prepares a PhD dissertation on research methods applied to management.
Teaching area: Research Methods and Strategies |
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Cher de Rossiter, PhD Cher de Rossiter has an MBA with a specialty in logistics and operations management from Maquarie University in Australia and is currently writing her dissertation for a PhD in Counseling Psychology. She retired from IBM US in 2007 after 35 years working in Sales, Support and Marketing operations at various times in her career. She was the Consulting Executive for IBM’s Customer Relationship Management Practice and the Project Executive for IBM’s transformation of their Customer Relationship processes and practices and was involved in the development of new call center capabilities and the software and processes to support them. Prof. de Rossiter has managed global projects for IBM and its customers for more than 20 years and has been involved in strategic management, organizational change, transformation and the leadership of change for that time. Cher was IBM’s Asian Executive Education manager for 5 years and as such managed a team of educators that worked with IBM customers throughout Asia helping them understand and plan for organizational changes related to technology management. In the three years before she left IBM she was the Global Data Steward for IBM’s customer data. On that position she held responsibility for the data bases that contained all of IBM’s customer data around the world and the people who managed it, and developed the systems that supported it. Cher’s special interest area is wisdom and how it makes us better business leaders. |
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Piotr Wyrwicki, M.Sc.
Graduated in 2004 from Technical University of Łódź.Topic of Master Thesis: ”Optimization of an Intelligent Acceleration Sensor Using Multicriterial Optimization Method”. Since 2004 Ph.D. student at Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Mechatronics and Information Systems. Speciality: Computer Science. The scope of Phd Thesis: Microfluidic Systems, micropumps(MEMS) numerical simulation on Ansys 11 platform. Teaches databases (SQL Server 2005),MS Access, Data Warehouses, Data Security And Privacy. Cooperates with Clark University since 2006. Scientific interests: Artificial Intelligence.
Teaching area: Data Security and Privacy |
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Amiee Shelton, MSc Amiee Shelton (1971) is Associate Professor of Communication at Roger Williams University. She teaches public relations, and advises the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter. Prior to RWU she taught at Texas Tech University, Texas State University (formally Southwest Texas University), and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Prior to working as a college professor, she worked in television. She was a reporter, assignment manager, promotions assistant or producer for the following stations: WPRI (CBS) providence, WXIN (FOX) Indianapolis, WQAD (ABC) Moline, WOI-TV (ABC) Des Moines, KEVN (FOX) Rapid City, WDAF-TV (FOX) Kansas City, and KCTV (CBS) Kansas City. In 2001, Shelton received her Master’s Degree in Public Relations from Boston University, where she was a teaching assistant under Dr. Edward Downes. Her Bachelor’s Degree is from University of Central Missouri (formally Central Missouri State University).Shelton has presented several papers at academic conferences including: International Management Development Association, American Society for Competitiveness(ASC) International Academy of Business Disciplines, and the Eastern Communication Association. Additionally, she was awarded the Silver Spur Award honoring outstanding professional achievement in developing and implementing significant public relations programs or projects from the Texas Public Relations Association (TPRA).
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