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Focus EMU, March 6, 2007 EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY EMU HOME March 6, 2007 Volume 54, No. 24 FOCU Sholtis named winner of EMU's Full-Time Lecti.1rers Outstanding Featured Teaching Award Articles Leonard Sholtis never had any intentions of teaching. But, after being convinced by one of his professors to pinch-hit in the classroom while he v..as a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University, Sholtis is still teaching 27 years later. And he loves it. :JSholtis named winner of EMU'S Full-Time That inherent knack to Lecturers Outstanding relate business Teaching Award management principles and :JPresident Fallon heralds real-world experience to EMU's progress in House students has been honed testimony over the years. So much so ;JWomen's History Month that Sholtis, a full-time takes international lecturer in the department approach of management within the :J!naugural Ethos Week to College of Business, is the tackle ethics in business recipient of this year's Full­ education Time Lecturers Outstanding �"Voice of EMU Athletics" Teaching Award. The award, to put down microphone bestowed by Academic this month Affairs, requires �EMU Gospel Choir takes documentation showing a second place at national lecturer's commitment to competition the education of students BUSINESS LECTURE: Leanard Sholtis, a full-time ::2People column and their ability to facilitate lecturer in the College of Business's Department of :JMarch service student learning from Management, is the recipient of the Full-Time anniversaries effective tea chi ng. Lecturers Outstanding T�aching Award. :JBy the numbers ::iBriefs "It's a great honor to be recognized," said Sholtis, who tegan teaching at EMU as an ::uobsline adjunct professor in the 1970s. "I'm kind of being recognized for caring about the ::iWhy I work at Eastern students. It tells me my peers have recognized my effor.s in trying to teach students." Michigan University Sholtis will be honored at an informal ceremony Wednesjay, March 14, from 4-6 p.m., in the New Student Center. Hors d'oeuvres will be served. -le will receive a $1,000 honorarium and a plaque. This is the fifth year of the award. For the past three years, two EMU lecturers (the award was originally intended for one) were honored. Ri:k Rogers, a history and philosophy lecturer, earned the honor during its inaugunl year. More on this story ... .. FOCU§... LWD EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERStTY EMU HOME Cover Story u Leonard Sholtis never had any intentions of teaching. But, after being convinced by one of his professors to pinch-hit in the classroom while he was a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University, Sholtis is still teaching 27 years later. And he loves it. March 6, 2007 issue Sholtis named winner of That inherent knack to relate business management principles and real­ EMU's Full-Time Lecturers world experience to students has been honed over the years. So much so Outstanding Teaching Award that Sholtis, a full-time lecturer in the department of management within the College of Business, is the recipient of this year's Full-Time Lecturers Outstanding Teaching Award. The award, bestowed by Academic Affairs, By Ron Podell requires documentation showing a lecturer's commitment to the education of students and their ability to facilitate student learning from effective teaching. "It's a great honor to be recognized," said Sholtis, who began teaching at EMU as an adjunct professor in the late 1970s. "I'm kind of being recognized for caring about the students. It tells me my peers have recognized TEACHING INTRODUCTION: Leonard Sholtis, a full­ my efforts in time lecturer in the department of management, trying to began teaching as an EMU graduate student in the teach late 1970s. One of his professors, Bob Crowner, students." encouraged him to give teaching a shot after a position came open because another professor fell ill. Sholtis will be honored at an informal ceremony Wednesday, March 14, from 4-6 p.m., in the New Student Center. Hors d'oeuvres will be served. He will receive a $1,000 honorarium and a plaque. This is the fifth year of the award. For the past three years, two EMU lecturers (the award was originally intended for one) were honored. Rick Rogers, a history and philosophy lecturer, earned the honor during its inaugural year. But, as Sholtis will say, such an honor developed in a roundabout way. While pursuing his MBA at Eastern Michigan University in the late 1970s, Sholtis was asked by his professor, Bob Crowner, if he would like to teach an undergraduate business course. "Literally, there was an (teaching) opening that occurred. Someone had +--==-I/on ill " C::hnl.. o ..-o.r::allor{ "l\.t- +-ho l::act- mini 1hc Ot"nfoccnr rrn,Mnor c::.irt 'T liked what you did in the graduate class. Would you teach an undergraduate class?' "Teaching would never have been on my radar. I asked, 'What do I do?' He said, 'Come watch me teach Monday night and you do the same thing Tuesday."' Since that time, Sholtis said he has continually worked to improve his teaching skills, crediting many of his colleagues with answering his questions or providing suggestions over the years. He added that Fraya Wagner-Marsh, head of the management department, and who nominated him for the award, has created a team environment in which collaboration is common. Sholtis said his teaching philosophy was actually nurtured back in his undergraduate days at the University of Michigan's School of Engineering and then, as a graduate student at EMU, beginning in 1974. While at the University of Michigan, he said the academic approach, with a focus on core principles, was instilled as the basis for everything. Sholtis said he then had an epiphany that there was a real-life business world where such core principles could be applied. "Eastern Michigan University was the vehicle that proved out that epiphany," Sholtis recalled. "The classes I took getting my MBA not only provided the basis and the core, but also made everything real when the professors and lecturers brought real-life examples into the classroom to reinforce the academia they were teaching." Sholtis credited his student experience with shaping his teaching approach. At EMU, he lectures business policy/strategy, entrepreneurship and introduction to business courses. "Simply stated, it is to provide the student with the basic principles, so that we can communicate and reinforce these principles with real-time examples," he said. "I want them to be prepared for the real business world as best we can in the classroom. I also stress to the student that their job is to be a student and they should do everything in their power to excel at doing their job. I encourage them to get internships and to join student organizations or clubs so they can experience the real world." Sholtis has more than 36 years of practical business experience, which he has drawn on to illustrate his points. He has been co-owner of Howard's Beauty Supply in Farmington Hills since 1993. Prior to that, he was plant manager for Colorbok Paper Products in Dexter from 1991-1993. He also owned and operated Sholtis Enterprises in Saline from 1990-1991; was a plant manufacturing manager at Hines Industries in Ann Arbor from 1988- 1990; director of engineering services at La-Z-Boy Chair Company in Monroe from 1986-1988; and was in a number of positions at NSK Corporation-Bearing Division, in Ann Arbor, from 1972-1986. In addition, Sholtis said he teaches because he cares and wants his students to succeed. "What can I do to make the student a better student, person and eventual employees or, even business owners themselves?" he said. "I find myself being a motivator. I motivate through enthusiasm, showing a job can be fun. I motivate by trying to show how everything we do in the classroom fits into the overall picture in the real world." Sholtis was a member of a committee responsible for developing the "Introduction to Business" curriculum; has been faculty adviser for the Entrepreneur Club for the past three years; and has twice received the _ "Outstandtng $�rvj_c� in ljig_b_e! Eg).J_Ci!_!_i_on�·2��rd _fromJh�thl�tics department for his support and encouragement of student-athletes at EMU. "I think that the entire college is geared to preparing the student for the real world," Sholtis said. EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY EMU HOME Feature I Eastern Michigan University is entering a period of exhilarating change unlike any in its 158-year history, President John A. Fallon told legislators March 2. March 6, 2007 issue President Fallon President Fallon's comments came during a 40-minute presentation before heralds EMU's the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education. He testified progress in House at the daylong hearing along with presidents from four of Michigan's 15 testimony state universities. "As you can imagine, the people who work and study at By Pamela Young EMU are hopeful about its future, its role in helping Michigan citizens realize their dreams, and in helping this state - my home state - compete in our new "flat" world," President Fallon said. "Eastern Michigan University is doing everything it can to keep this state moving forward, and that commitment starts by preparing Michigan citizens for the realities and opportunities of the 21st century." Each year, the committee invites each university Fallon president to appear before it and provide campus updates. The testimony often highlights new programs and initiatives, and the work universities do in directly and indirectly helping the state's economy and in service to local and regional communities. President Fallon's testimony was delivered on the campus of the University of Michigan-Flint.
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