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All students, professors, staff of UCO, and members of OkEthics are welcome to attend any of the monthly general meetings.

 

Upcoming Meetings


This semester's meetings will be in the Troy Smith Lecture Hall room 113 in the College of Business.

Next Meeting:

Monday, April 28, 2008

 

Guest Speaker:  Kim Holland

                        Insurance Commissioner, State of Oklahoma

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:15 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethics in the Insurance Industry

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business, Room 113

 

Everyone is Welcome!

     
   

 

Last Meeting:

 

Monday, March 31, 2008

 

Guest Speaker:  David Chapman

                        Professor, Realtor, Broker, Mortgage Banker

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:15 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethical Issues in Real Estate and Mortgage

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business, Room 113

     
   

 

Previous Meetings


Spring 2007

 

Thursday, November 29, 2007

 

Guest Speaker:  Nancy L. Robertston

                        Senior Vice President, Franchise HR Development

                        Sonic America's Drive-In

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethics in Business

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business, Room 113

     
   

 

 

 

Fall 2007

Thursday, October 25, 2007

 

Guest Speaker:  Bob Barry Jr.

                        Channel 4 Sports Director & Weeknight Sports Anchor

                        Host of "Sports Morning" on WWLS AM/FM "The Sports Animal"

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethics in Journalism

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business, Room 113

     
   

 

 

 

 

Guest Speaker:  Rev. Lee Ellingson, Senior Pastor

                        Western Oak Church of the Nazarene

 

Time:       Social with Pizza/Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Integrating what we say & what we do

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business, Room 113

     
   

 

 

Monday, March 26, 2007

 

Guest Speaker:  Frank Harrison

                        CEO & President, Bronco Drilling

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethics in the Oil Industry

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business, Room 113

    Minutes from this Meeting
   

 

 

 

Monday, February 26, 2007

 

Guest Speaker:  Dr. Robert Bost

                        Forensic Science Specialist

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethics and Forensics:  What's the Correlation?

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business

    Minutes from this Meeting
   

 

 

 

Monday, January 29, 2007

 

Guest Speaker:  Maggie Carlo

                        Anchor & Reporter for KOCO-Channel 5

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethics in Journalism

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business

    Minutes from this Meeting
   

 

 

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

 

Guest Speaker:  A. Dewade Langley

                       Director, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 PM

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

 

Topic:       Ethics in Law Enforcement

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business

 

    Minutes from this Meeting
   

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

   

Guest Speaker:  Annette Prince

                       Bioethics Center of the OU Health Sciences Center

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 p.m.

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 to 4:45 p.m.

 

Topic:       Ethics in the Medical Field

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business

 

    Minutes from this Meeting
   

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Bob Byrne, Ethics Advisor for Boeing  

Guest Speaker:  Bob Byrne

                       Ethics Advisor for the Boeing Corporation

 

Topic:      There's No Such Thing as Business Ethics

 

Time:       Social with Refreshments 2:00 p.m.

                Meeting & Keynote Speaker: 2:30 to 4:45 p.m.

 

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall

                College of Business

 

    Minutes from this Meeting
   

 

 

 

 

Thursday, April 20, 2006

   

Guest Speaker:  David Kinney

                       Assistant Attorney General, State of Oklahoma

 

David Kinney is the Assistant Attorney General with the State of Oklahoma.  He is a member of the Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium and has made a  presentation to that group on "Ethics and Taxes".  Mr. Kinney received his degrees in Accounting and Finance from UCO. He will speak on "Headline News:  What Today's Stories Tell Us About Ethics."  The club will also hold its election for the Fall semester officers.

 

Time:       Social 3:00 p.m.

                Meeting  3:30 to 4:45 p.m.

Location:  Pegasus Theatre

                Liberal Arts Building

 

Election for Fall Officers

   

 

 

 

 

Thursday, March 30, 2006

You are invited to see Cynthia Cooper, World Com whistleblower at the University of Central Oklahoma in conjunction with UCO-Ethics and the Southwest Business Symposium.  Please join us on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 3:00-4:30 pm in Constitution Hall at the Nigh University Center on the UCO campus.  Please e-mail Dr. Katherene Terrell at kterrell@ucok.edu for a VIP pass and directions.  Make sure that you put "UCO-Ethics Member" in the subject line of the email.

 

 

Guest Speaker:  Cynthia Cooper

                       Worldcom Whistleblower and Time's 2002 Person of the Year

 

Ms. Cooper is most well-known for her role in uncovering the corporate fraud at WorldCom - to date the largest corporate fraud in history. She was named one of Time Magazine’s 2002 Persons of the Year after detecting and reporting the fraud. Time Magazine has been naming its Person of the Year since 1927. The designation is given to the person or person(s) who most affected events during the year. Prior to Ms. Cooper, Sherron Watkins and Coleen Rowley, the designation has been given to only four women including Wallis Simpson, Madam Chiang Kai Shek, Elizabeth II, and Corazon Aquino.

 

Along with Senator Sarbanes, Representative Oxley and Sherron Watkins, Ms. Cooper was awarded the 2003 Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award by the Women’s Economic Round Table. This award was presented to Ms. Cooper due to her extraordinary contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance.

 

Ms. Cooper is also the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. The American Accounting Association’s Public Interest Section recognized Ms. Cooper for her efforts to promote professionalism and ethics in the accounting profession. Ms. Cooper is the tenth recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award and the first woman to receive the award.

 

Ms. Cooper is the President of Cynthia Cooper Consulting, a firm that provides consulting and training in internal audit, internal controls, governance and ethics. She speaks publicly to both professionals and students about ethics and leadership.

 

Details and Driving Instructions

 

 

 

 

February 23, 2006

 

 

Guest Speaker: Nancy Anderson

Senior Manager, Boeing Oklahoma City Engineering & Logistics Services

Topic: Ethical Challenges in the Workplace
 

Time:       Social 3:00 p.m.

                 Meeting  3:30 to 4:45 p.m.

Location: Troy Smith Lecture Hall (Room 113)

                 College of Business

 

Biography:

Nancy Anderson is the senior manager in charge of Boeing Oklahoma City Engineering & Logistic Services (E&LS).  She has 20 years of diverse engineering management and leadership experience.   She is responsible for developing and executing the strategic vision for the E&LS Organization.

Nancy joined Boeing in April 1997 and has held multiple engineering management positions. She was the Oklahoma Site Senior Engineering Manager for the B-1B and B-2 programs.  In this capacity, she was responsible for repeated engineering successes in delivering B-1B Avionics Flight Software and B-2 software maintenance products.   She also held leadership positions on the Boeing IDS Horizontal Integration Leadership Teams responsible for Processes, Tools and Technology.

 

She has successfully led her teams through multiple CMM and CMMI appraisals and is an avid supporter of performance improvements through the use of  Program Management Best Practices.  Prior to joining Boeing, Nancy founded and operated an Internet consulting company in Centerville Ohio. On-Line Express Inc. provided Internet training, Library Internet policies, client web sites, computer network proposals/contracts, and technical support for client network installations.

 

Nancy started her professional career with AIL Systems Inc.  She was responsible for technical integration of the AN/ALQ-161A defensive avionics system into the B-1B aircraft. Nancy was also instrumental in establishing the AIL Internet and corresponding training curriculum and led the AIL Direct Connect initiative involved in improving coordination and communication between the Air Force and B-1B Associate Contractors.

 

Nancy is a graduate of Stony Brook University, New York, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math and Statistics, and a Master of Arts degree in Computer Resource and Information Management from Webster University, Missouri.

 

Nancy serves as a Director of the Oklahoma City Chapter of Zonta International.  She will also join the Midwest City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in February 2006.  She has actively supported Women in Aviation International and served on her local parish school Board of Education. Nancy is involved in political campaigns and volunteers’ her technical talents and time to make a difference (“pay it forward”).

 

Nancy received the Amelia Earhart Barbara Clark Pioneer Award for 2002, and led her teams to the Boeing IDS 2004 B-1 Silver Eagle Award, and the USAF 2004 B-1 Lancer Customer Satisfaction Award.

 

Minutes from this Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

January 26, 2006

 

 

Guest Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Rolfe

Vice President for Information Technology, University of Central Oklahoma

Topic: Ethics in IT
 

Time:       Social 3:00 p.m.

                 Meeting  3:30 to 4:45 p.m.

Location: Troy Smith Lecture Hall (Room 113)

                 College of Business

 

Biography:

 

Dr. Cynthia E. Rolfe currently serves as Assistant to the President and Vice President for Information Technology at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma.  She is responsible for the university’s strategic direction for technology and the general management of computing services, enterprise services, telecommunications and networking, training and worldwide web support.

 

Dr. Rolfe earned her Doctorate from Oklahoma State University, with an emphasis in information systems management.  She has been an associate professor, Computer Information Systems, at Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island and has owned her own company which specialized in management consulting, systems analysis and design, network design, technical support, and training.  Dr. Rolfe served the University of Nebraska at Omaha as Assistant Vice Chancellor where she was responsible for incorporating educational technology and distance education into the academic curriculum, radio and television stations, University Library, audio-visual services and faculty development.

 

Dr. Rolfe serves as Immediate Past Chairman of the Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and is on the Board of Directors for Edmond Parks and Recreation and the Fine Arts Institute of Edmond.  Dr. Rolfe is a member of the SCT Quality Assurance Board. She is a member of the Edmond Central Rotary, Leadership Oklahoma Class XII, Society for College and University Planning, and The Oklahoma Academy for State Goals.  She has recently served as a Trustee for the Edmond Economic Development Authority.

 

Dr. Rolfe’s primary avocation is in the field of alternative health and metaphysics.  She enjoys reading, golfing, and spending time with family and friends.

 

Minutes from this Meeting

 

November 28, 2005

Guest Speaker: John Burnett

Assistant Director of the Character Training Institute

Topic: Character Determines Success
What is character? How do you build it? How does it relate to ethics? What are the benefits?

Time:       Social 2:00 p.m.

                 Meeting  2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Location: Troy Smith Lecture Hall (room 113)

                 College of Business

 

Biography:

 

John Burnett is the Assistant Director of the Character Training Institute, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing materials and training for families, communities and organizations interested in building good character. John has conducted character-training seminars for businesses and government leaders since 1998 and has a BA in Psychology and a MA in Education.

 

John has been involved with various organizations in helping with character and ethics development initiatives on both a national and international scope, and is a founding member of the Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium.

 

John and his wife, Cheryl, have been married for twenty-four years and have eight children. He enjoys spending time with his family, being involved in church, camping and fishing.

 

Minutes from this Meeting

 

 

     
  Monday, October 31  2:30-3:30 PM

(Social Time and Free Pizza at 2:00)

Location:  Troy Smith Lecture Hall, B113 (College of Business)

 

Guest Speaker:

 

     Joe Hight, Managing Editor of The Oklahoman

     Topic:  Ethics on Information Reporting

 

 

Information:  Joe Walker (jwalker17@ucok.edu) or 250-4708

     

 

General Meetings and Guest Speakers

 

 

October 31, 2005

Guest Speaker: Joe Hight

Managing Editor of The Oklahoman

 

Topic: Ethics of Information Reporting

Time:   Social 2:00 p.m.

            Meeting  2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Location: Troy Smith Lecture Hall (room 113)

                 College of Business

 

Biography

Joe Hight, The Oklahoman's managing editor for research and development, has been in the newspaper business for more than 25 years.  Hight is president of the Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism, an international organization based at the University of Washington. He co-authored the booklets "Tragedies & Journalists: A Guide for More Effective Coverage" and "Managing the Unexpected." He also co-founded the People and the Media Program at the University of Central Oklahoma, where he was named as a "distinguished former student."

 

He also is chairman of the Mid-America Press Institute and serves on the boards of several other journalism-related organizations. He has taught and lectured at several universities, been a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute and has spoken at national conventions and workshops, including two National Writers' Workshops. He also has coordinated many workshops, including a National Writers' Workshop and several for Mid-America.

 

He also wrote several articles on writing, editing, victims’ coverage and other subjects in the latest edition of "Reporting for the Media," a textbook that's used at many universities.  At The Oklahoman, he was victims’ team leader of the Oklahoma City bombing coverage that won two national SPJ awards, a national Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Violence and many others.  He and his wife, Nan, have two children, Elena, a high school sophomore, and Elyse, a fifth-grader.

 

Minutes From This Meeting

 

September 26, 2005

(The first official general meeting.)

Guest Speaker: Ron Connor, CPA

Audit Partner of Cole & Reed, P.C.

 

Topic: Ethical Dilemmas in Professional Relationships

Time:   Social 2:00 p.m.

            Meeting  2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Location: Troy Smith Lecture Hall (room 113)

                 College of Business

 

Minutes from this Meeting (pdf format)