Personal Questions and Answers

 
Questions
Answers
What is your favorite outside activity? Watching Tiger basketball games.
What is your favorite color? Blue
Who is your favorite entertainer ever? Elvis Presley
Who is your best friend? My wife, Susan
What is your favorite course? I like all courses in the MIS area, but courses relating to database and the Internet are my favorite.
What first attracted you to the University? The University offered a job in the data processing area, the forerunner of MIS.
What is your biggest professional achievement? Writing 23 textbooks that help students to learn.
What is your biggest honor at the University of Memphis? Being selected for the University Distinguishing Advising Award.
What is your biggest professional honor? Being selected as the Data Educator of the Year by the International Society of Information Systems Professionals.
What do you like most about teaching? The opportunity to work with students.
What do you like least about teaching? Assigning grades.
What would students be least likely to guess about you? That I made All City in basketball and baseball while in high school.
What would you like to devote more time to? I am lucky to have a good family.  I would like to spend more time with them.
If you had not chosen to be a professor, what would you like to do? Work in a large corporation--maybe FedEx or IP.
What has caused the biggest changes for you? Microcomputers, the Internet, and grandchildren.