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MARY DIXON
Chair / Professor
Office: 212B Stone Hall
Phone: 695-3754
Email: dixonm@sandhills.edu
A graduate of East Carolina University, BSBA; the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, MSBE; and Atlantic University, MA. Mary Dixon has been employed at Sandhills Community College since 1987 as a full-time faculty member. A graduate of the North Carolina Community College Leadership Program, nominated for the Governor’s award for Excellence in Workforce Development—Outstanding Workforce Development Professional-Policy/Management, a recipient of the Who’s Who Among American Teachers Award over the years, which recognizes five percent of the nation’s teachers each year, Department Chair for the Management and Business Technologies Department, she is especially proud of the leadership she provides for the Entrepreneurship Program and Sandhills Community College’s vital role in economic development through entrepreneurship education to students and the community at large.
CATHERINE SKURA
Associate Professor Economics / Coordinator Business Administration
Office: 212C Stone Hall
Phone: 695-3750
Email: skurac@sandhills.edu
Catherine Skura was born in France and moved into the U.S. in 1986. She first lived in Brooklyn, NY, where she attended Brooklyn College and where she earned her B.A. in Economics. She then moved to Raleigh, NC, to attend North Carolina State University and graduated with a Masters’ in Economics. Catherine has been teaching Economics since 1999, first at NCSU, and at SANDHILLS CC since July 2004. She is an associate professor of the Sandhills CC Department of Management and Business Technologies and the program coordinator of the Business Administration Program.
TONEY RATLIFF
Instructor / Coordinator HIT Program
Office: 212A Stone Hall
Phone: 695-3752
Email: ratlifft@sandhills.edu
Toney Ratliff received a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. She also received a Masters of Science in Administration with a concentration in Business Administration and Health Management from Central Michigan in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Toney is an Instructor of the Management and Business Technologies Department at Sandhills Community College. She also is the Program Coordinator for the HIT program offered through Pitt Community College.
Toney usually teaches BUS 110, BUS 137, BUS 255, and MKT 120. She created and or edited all of the courses online that she teaches. She is a member of the distinguished 20/20 VISION committee. She has ten years of banking experience with Wachovia (formally First Union National Bank) based in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is the fourth largest banking chain in the United States based on total deposits. She held various positions with the bank to include being licensed to sell mutual funds, associate in the Trust Department, consumer loan officer, financial consultant, provided technical support for all branches in the 14 states of operation, and the associate management program to name a few.
MARINDA MOORE AVERA
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 211 Stone Hall
Phone: 693-2062
Email: averam@sandhills.edu
A North Carolina native, Marinda Avera came to Sandhills Community College in 1979 to teach in the Department of Management and Business Technologies. Upon graduation from East Carolina University with a BSBE degree, she immediately began teaching in the North Carolina Community College System at Lenoir Community College. With her completion of an MAEd with a concentration in business education and 6 years of teaching experience, Marinda came to Sandhills where she taught full-time for another 26 years. Since 2005, Marinda has continued to educate Sandhills’ students as she continues to serve the college on a part-time basis teaching business mathematics, contract law, text editing applications, medical legal issues, organizational behavior, and business communications. In addition, she frequently offers effective communication seminars through the Small Business Center.
KARL ECKER
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 105 Meyer Hall
Phone: 246-4118
Email: eckerk@sandhills.edu
Karl Ecker, a graduate of the University of Michigan, B.A, Wayne State University Law School, J.D., and Columbia University Law School, LL.M., practiced law for 35 years in the Washington, DC. For the first three years, he worked with the Urban Renewal Administration of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He then entered private practice with a D.C. law firm to represent private real estate developers in acquisition, disposition and financing of multi-family and commercial real estate. In the mid-1970's, he help establish a law firm and expanded his practice to include corporate law representing private companies seeking financing through private and public debt offerings, doing mergers and acquisitions. The last several years prior to retirement, he concentrated on representing foreign entities in commercial transactions in the United States. Upon retirement in 1998, he accepted a position with Sandhills Community College as an Adjunct Professor and continues to teach Business Law and Real Estate.
LEO A. GARCIA
Adjunct Faculty
Office:210 Stone Hall
Phone: 246-4119
Email: garcial@sandhills.edu
Leo Garcia retired to Pinehurst from Michigan in 2001. Leo worked for GMC for 28 years in various capacities in the financial and public relations fields, including various overseas assignments. He was a successful business owner in three companies. He received an MBA and BBA from the University of Detroit and has taught at five different colleges as a “hobby” for the past 25 years. He and his wife Jane of 40 years have two daughters and one grandson. He is a former Marine, fluent in Spanish, and his hobbies include teaching, sports, dancing, reading and traveling. Leo teaches business and management courses for the college.
SUSAN HAWKINS
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 212D Stone Hall
Phone: 695-3751
Email: hawkinss@sandhills.edu
Susan Hawkins has a dual M. S./ M. B. A from the University of Maryland with a concentration in both E-commerce and Marketing and an undergraduate degree in Finance and Business Administration. Her experience includes commercial and personal lending at Suntrust and First American Banks, marketing consultant for Community Programs on Fort Bragg, and business education. Currently, she teaches Business and E-Commerce classes for Sandhills Community College and is a small business consultant specializing in E-commerce finance and marketing.
RICHARD LAUCKS
Adjunct Faculty
Phone: 215-3779
Email: laucksr@sandhills.edu
Richard Laucks received a B.S. in Criminal Justice and an MBA from Michigan State University. He began his professional career with J.L. Hudson Department Stores in Detroit, Mi. He then spent ten years with Forest City Enterprises in Cleveland, OH, and nineteen years with Shopko Stores in Green Bay, WI. While at Shopko, he held positions as Vice President of Loss Prevention and Regional Vice President of Store Operations. In 2002 Rich became an instructor for Sandhills Community College, teaching business, management, and marketing courses. Rich now resides in California and continues teaching internet courses for SCC.
LARRY LITTLE
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 105 Meyer Hall
Phone: 246-4118
Email: littlel@sandhills.edu
Larry Little received a B.S. Education from Illinois State University and a MBA from the University of Illinois. He spent 40 years in manufacturing working for Kraft Foods, Best Foods, and Unilever. He worked in a number of positions in manufacturing including operations, safety, training, human resources, and as general plant manager. He joined Sandhills Community College in 2003 and teaches a number of business courses and is a member on the entrepreneurship mentoring committee.
ED SILBERHORN
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 210 Stone Hall
Phone: 246-4119
Email: silberhorne@sandhills.edu
Ed Silberhorn received a BA from Vanderbilt University in 1970 and a JD from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1973. He was an Assistant City Attorney and an Assistant State Attorney for a few years before joining a law firm where he was engaged as a partner in the private practice of law, specializing in Corporate, Securities and Tax matters. Later, he sold his practice and went “in-house” as US General Counsel of a multi-national company that traded on the NYSE where he was also active with the Telecommunication Industry Association in the areas of public policy pertaining to the FCC and Congress.
Ed was Chairman of the Board of Founders Forum-a group of professional that critiqued the business plans of start-ups and assisted them in improving their respective plans. They brought start up management teams together with venture capitalists or angels in order to help them achieve first round and/or mezzanine financing and/or have a provide placement and/or help them prepare to go public. Here at SCC, Ed teaches Business Law and Business Communications and is a board member of the Sandhills Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, as well as Director of Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program, where he is continuing his work to assist entrepreneurs."
LARRY HARWARD
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 211 Stone Hall
Phone: 695-3903
Email: harwardl@sandhills.edu
Larry Harward started at Sandhills in September 1968 as a full time instructor in Business and Accounting. He retired from full time teaching in December 1997. In January 1998 he became a part time instructor in Accounting. Larry teaches ACC 149 and ACC 150.
REBECCA JONES
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 207 Stone Hall
Phone: 695-3903
Email: jonesr@sandhills.edu
After Rebecca Jones retired from Bladen Community College in 2004, she and her husband moved to Pinehurst, and she began teaching Internet Keyboarding and Word Processing for SCC. Rebecca was one of the first Blackboard course developers in the Virtual Learning Community and has continued to teach and develop online courses. She has had a lifelong career in the classroom as a business educator and was a semifinalist in the NCCCS/First Union Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994. Rebecca now resides in Charlotte and continues teaching Internet courses for SCC. |
