John Tichenor
Associate Professor of Decision and Information Science
After 15 years in various university administrative roles, I returned to my first professional passion of classroom teaching during the 2011-12 academic year. I readily draw on my years of experience in applied research and statistics when I teach students in the School of Business Administration. Besides research methods and statistics, other teaching interests include business intelligence, innovation and creativity, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics. I was recently selected as one of Stetson University's 2012-13 Innovation in Technology Fellows and received the First Year Student Advocate Award in 2012. I love to travel and regularly teach in the School of Business Administration's summer program in Innsbruck, Austria. My wife, Mercedes Tichenor, is a professor in Stetson's Department of Teacher Education. We have two daughters, Emily (21) and Caroline (10). I also enjoy music and am currently playing bass and singing in a band with other faculty members that is called "Above Our Raising."
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1995
- Major area of study: social organization
- Minor area of study: sociology of health and aging
- Doctoral dissertation: New Federalism and Social Policy: A Case Study of Board and Care Home Regulations, Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Jill Quadagno
- M.A., Sociology, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1987
- Master's thesis: Teenage Pregnancy: A Community's Attempt to Address a Societal Problem, Thesis Committee Chair: Dr. Tillman Rodabough
- B.A., Sociology, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1985
Research
- Statistics Pedagogy
- Assessment of Learning Outcomes
- Corporate Social Responsibility
Courses
- STAT 301 – Business Statistics
- FSEM 100 – Life at the Intersection: Examining the Collision of Ideas, Innovation and Culture
- BN 391J-JS – Social Justice and the Bottom Line
- BN 496 – Business Thesis
Publications
- (2009) "Using InterClass Teams in Teaching Business Statistics." Published in the Academy of Business Disciplines Journal, co-authored with Dr. Betty Thorne.
