Interdisciplinary+Lunches

=**Interdisciplinary Luncheons** = 

====In response to faculty’s interest in scholarly presentations, we will offer four interdisciplinary luncheons featuring invited guest speakers. Interdisciplinary topics will focus on current events and issues that cut across several disciplines. All luncheons will be held between 12:00-1:15 p.m. Seating is limited and faculty must reserve their seat in advance. The two luncheons planned for fall semester are below. ==== 

**W(h)ither the Economy? September 18, 2009**
====Dr. Lowell Jacobsen is the Elizabeth H. Rhodes Professor of International Business in the Department of Business & Economics in Baker University where has held this position since 1998. Dr. Jacobsen has accepted many visiting professor invitations, including one from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a Fulbright Fellow in 2002, he participated in seminars with academics, government officials, and businessmen in Poland and Slovakia. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed books, The Small Entrepreneurial Firm and Profiles in Small Business: A Competitive Strategy Approach, in addition to many other publications. ====

**[[image:Untitled1.png width="137" height="117" align="left"]] God, the Army, and Biblical Ethics of War and Torture November 13, 2009 **
====Reverend Borderud was appointed to active duty as an Army Chaplain in June 1988, and in September 1990, he was assigned to 1st Squadron, 7th U.S. Cavalry. His unit was shortly deployed to Southwest Asia for Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, during which Scott received the Bronze Star Medal. In May 1993, Scott received his Doctor of Theology from the University of South Africa. He retired from active duty on September 1st, 2006. Since that time he has served as an assistant professor at the Command & Leadership Department of the Army Command & Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. ====

[[image:Daryl_Photo_2006_color_high_res.jpg width="112" height="168" align="left"]]** Your Field Matters to Christ: Teaching With a Christian World View March 4, 2010 **
====Daryl McCarthy has served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of International Institute for Christian Studies (IICS) since its founding in 1988. IICS places Christian academicians and professionals in teaching positions at public universities overseas. Currently, forty full-time IICS professors are teaching in fourteen nations. He received graduate degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary, Nazarene Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He received a Bachelor of Theology degree (magna cum laude) from Kansas City College and Bible School in 1974. Dr. McCarthy has lectured at universities in many parts of the world. He has spoken at numerous seminaries and Christian colleges and presented papers at academic conferences such as the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Christian Management Association. His extensive international travels outside the Western world have taken him to more than forty-five nations on every continent. He has had the opportunity to speak at numerous churches both in the United States and in many countries abroad. ====




09-18-09 participants: Terry Baldridge, Rodney Birch, Cayla Bland, Earl Bland, Neil Friesland, Terry Gunter, Bob Humphrey, Scott Laird, Jo Lamar, Lois Perrigo, Karen Wiegman, LeAnn Yantis