John Wakefield, President - jwakefie@msn.com
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007

Bio
John F. Wakefield is Professor of Education at the University of North Alabama and President of Text and Academic Authors Association, an organization founded in 1987 to enhance the quality of text and various educational materials available for teaching, research, and other educational purposes. His academic career includes a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has served as both interim dean of education and as assistant vice-president for academic affairs at UNA. His psychological research has been published in numerous professional journals and a book titled Creative Thinking: Problem Solving Skills and the Arts Orientation. He has published a textbook, Educational Psychology: Learning to Be a Problem Solver, with Houghton Mifflin, and more recently has written on the subjects of textbook history and textbook usage in the United States. He was recently awarded a U.S. Speaker and Specialist grant to lecture on educational research and textbooks at five universities in Chile. Further biographical information is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in American Education (2007-2008).

Paul Siegel, Vice President/President Elect - PSiegel@hartford.edu
Term: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008

Bio
Paul Siegel is Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford, where he teaches a wide variety of classes. His specialty is communication law, and it is in this field where he writes textbooks.  Communication Law in America and its companion Cases in Communication Law are in their second editions, available from Rowman & Littlefield. Siegel's Ph. D. is from Northwestern, with an M.A. from Wisconsin and a B.A. from New Mexico. He has been on the board of the ACLU for about twenty years, and was on staff as executive director for the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri back in the 1980s. His favorite things are theatre and his cats; his least favorite are mortality, and this nonsense about having to work for a living.

Ron Pynn, Secretary - pepe@sover.net
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007

Bio
Ronald Pynn is Professor Emeritus from the University of North Dakota where he taught political science from 1971-1997. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. While at North Dakota he served as chairman of the Department of Political Science for 12 years and he was Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1992-1994. Pynn has written several books on political science, including Watergate and the American Political Process, American Politics: Changing Expectations (5 Edition), Political Economy, and The Election of 1994. Pynn was a charter member of TAA, serving as a senior member during its formation. He has twice been President of TAA (1992-93, 1996-97), and he served as TAA's Executive Director from 1995-2005. He presently resides in Burlington, Vermont.

Mike Sullivan, Interim Treasurer and Immediate Past President - m_sullivan@att.net

Bio
Mike Sullivan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Chicago State University where he taught for 34 years before retiring a few years ago. Sullivan has been writing math texts for over 30 years. He currently has 15 books in print: three Precalculus series with Prentice-Hall and one Business series with John Wiley.

Sullivan is a member of the Council of Fellows of TAA and has been awarded a Texty and a McGuffey award for two of his books. He is currently Treasurer of the TAA Foundation and the Immediate Past President of TAA.

He has four children: Kathleen, who teaches college mathematics, Mike III, who teaches college mathematics and co-authors with his dad on two series, Dan, who is a sales representative for Prentice-Hall, and Colleen, who teaches middle-school mathematics. Eleven grandchildren round out the family.

John Wakefield, President - jwakefie@msn.com
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007

Bio
John F. Wakefield is Professor of Education at the University of North Alabama and President of Text and Academic Authors Association, an organization founded in 1987 to enhance the quality of text and various educational materials available for teaching, research, and other educational purposes. His academic career includes a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has served as both interim dean of education and as assistant vice-president for academic affairs at UNA. His psychological research has been published in numerous professional journals and a book titled Creative Thinking: Problem Solving Skills and the Arts Orientation. He has published a textbook, Educational Psychology: Learning to Be a Problem Solver, with Houghton Mifflin, and more recently has written on the subjects of textbook history and textbook usage in the United States. He was recently awarded a U.S. Speaker and Specialist grant to lecture on educational research and textbooks at five universities in Chile. Further biographical information is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in American Education (2007-2008).

Paul Siegel, Vice President/President Elect - PSiegel@hartford.edu
Term: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008

Bio
Paul Siegel is Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford, where he teaches a wide variety of classes. His specialty is communication law, and it is in this field where he writes textbooks.  Communication Law in America and its companion Cases in Communication Law are in their second editions, available from Rowman & Littlefield. Siegel's Ph. D. is from Northwestern, with an M.A. from Wisconsin and a B.A. from New Mexico. He has been on the board of the ACLU for about twenty years, and was on staff as executive director for the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri back in the 1980s. His favorite things are theatre and his cats; his least favorite are mortality, and this nonsense about having to work for a living.

Ron Pynn, Secretary - pepe@sover.net
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007

Bio
Ronald Pynn is Professor Emeritus from the University of North Dakota where he taught political science from 1971-1997. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. While at North Dakota he served as chairman of the Department of Political Science for 12 years and he was Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1992-1994. Pynn has written several books on political science, including Watergate and the American Political Process, American Politics: Changing Expectations (5 Edition), Political Economy, and The Election of 1994. Pynn was a charter member of TAA, serving as a senior member during its formation. He has twice been President of TAA (1992-93, 1996-97), and he served as TAA's Executive Director from 1995-2005. He presently resides in Burlington, Vermont.

Mike Sullivan, Immediate Past President - m_sullivan@att.net
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007

Bio
Mike Sullivan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Chicago State University where he taught for 34 years before retiring a few years ago. Sullivan has been writing math texts for over 30 years. He currently has 15 books in print: three Precalculus series with Prentice-Hall and one Business series with John Wiley.

Sullivan is a member of the Council of Fellows of TAA and has been awarded a Texty and a McGuffey award for two of his books. He is currently Treasurer of the TAA Foundation and the Immediate Past President of TAA.

He has four children: Kathleen, who teaches college mathematics, Mike III, who teaches college mathematics and co-authors with his dad on two series, Dan, who is a sales representative for Prentice-Hall, and Colleen, who teaches middle-school mathematics. Eleven grandchildren round out the family.

Don Collins, Elected Member - don.collins@wku.edu
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2009

Bio
Don Collins graduated from West Texas State University with a BS in mathematics. He has taught middle school/junior high mathematics in Texas and Illinois. After earning an MA in mathematics from Boston College, the next several years were spent in the publishing industry. He was the editor of one of the nation's first Pre-Algebra texts. Later, as managing editor he put together the authorship team and guided the production of the nation's best selling Pre-Algebra text. As his children graduated from college, he left the publishing industry and went back to school earning his doctorate from the University of Houston. Dr. Collins has taught mathematics and mathematics methods courses at Ohio State University, Sam Houston State, and Texas Tech before settling at Western Kentucky University. He has served as a reviewer, consultant and co-author on several mathematics texts and is a frequent speaker at NCTM and other conferences.

"When I was a managing editor at a publishing firm, I wanted the authors that I selected to be treated fairly. TAA was the only organization that I knew of that would stand up for authorÕs rights. I always asked these authors to join TAA. This paid off when one group of authors was caught up in a corporate take over and had their project cancelled right as their work was going into film. When they contacted TAA, they were given assistance and won an out of court settlement. When I left publishing and entered academia I joined TAA then became an author. I decided to run for TAA council because I am one of the few if not only person that has experience from both the publishing and authorship sides."

Steve Gillen, Elected Member - SEG@GDM.com
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007

Bio
Stephen E. Gillen is an attorney practicing in Cincinnati, Ohio, and concentrating on publishing and entertainment transactions and disputes, internet issues, advertising law, computer law, copyrights, trademarks, technology transfer, trade secrets, and related matters. Prior to entering private practice in 1994, Gillen served for 8 years as house counsel for an educational publisher, and before that as an executive editor, editor, freelance writer, and published book author. In addition, Gillen has served on copyright and permissions committees with the Association of American Publishers. He has written and spoken nationally on various publishing and copyright topics and teaches a course in Media Business and Law at the University of Cincinnati and a course in Electronic Media Law at the College Conservatory of Music. He currently serves on the Council of Advisors to the Text and Academic Authors Association, the Board of Trustees of Voyageur Media Group, Inc., and is a member of the Authors Guild. Gillen is admitted to practice in Ohio and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Tara Gray, Elected Member - tgray@nmsu.edu
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2008

Bio
Tara Gray serves as associate professor of criminal justice and as the first director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The Teaching Academy provides NMSU educators with training, mentoring, and networking.

Tara was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Southwestern College in Kansas and Oklahoma State, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics by asking, "Do prisons pay?" She taught economics at Denison University before joining the Department of Criminal Justice at NMSU. She has published three books, including her most recent, Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at NMSU and nationally with six awards for teaching or service.

Tara has presented faculty development workshops to 3,000 participants in more than twenty of the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, and Thailand. Workshop participants report that she is "spirited, entertaining, and informative-she's anything but gray!"

Nancy Volkman , Elected Member - nvolkman@archmail.tamu.edu
Term: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2009

Bio
Nancy J. Volkman is a graduate of Beloit College, Beloit, WI and University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. She currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She There her principal areas of teaching have focused upon landscape history, cultural landscape studies, design and planning for historical landscapes, and community design. She is widely published, particularly in the area of landscape history, including the leading text and reference in that field, Landscapes in History, co-authored with Phil Pregill, now going into its 3rd edition. Professor Volkman is a member of several honor societies, including Phi Kappa Phi, and a registered landscape architect in the state of Texas. She is also in her third year as co-editor of ARRIS — The Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Paul Rosenzweig, Elected Member
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2008

Bio
Paul Rosenzweig's professional career, after graduation, followed the traditional career path in public accounting. He earned his CPA certificate as soon as regulations then permitted.

He then joined The Psychological Corporation, supervising the accounting and financial operations, as the company grew in its publishing and consulting activities. As Controller, he also directed the conversion to computerized accounting systems.

In 1974 he was asked by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., to assume the title of Director of Subsidiary Accounting, charged with the responsibility for acquisitions and new business startups. In four years, the group included an audiovisual publisher, consumer magazine, newsletter publisher, a professional training and reference publisher, and a management consulting and outplacement counseling firm. The financial services of seven companies were consolidated instead of duplicating staff for a number of smaller entities.

In 1978 he became Vice President and Treasurer of Academic Press, Inc., a multinational publisher and distributor of technical books and scholarly journals, with revenues of $100 million. He developed off-the-Balance-Sheet financing for US and UK companies, and introduced sophisticated cash management techniques, effectively reducing accounts receivable balances from domestic and third-world customers.

For two years he conducted an independent management consulting practice for both market-and production-driven clients, all outside of the publishing industry. In 1986 he became affiliated with Moseley Associates, Inc., (management consultants to the publishing industry) conducting valuation, litigation support, acquisition and divestiture assignments.

In 1993, he became President of Royalty Review Service, Inc., representing authors who wish to confirm the accuracy of their royalty statements. He is now a consultant to the successor firm, Royalty Review LLC.

Rosenzweig was Chairman of the Publishing and Printing Accounting Committee of the New York State Society of CPAs from 1988 to 1990, and served on the Society's Litigation Support and Publishing and Printing committees. He is a member of The Authors Guild and serves on Council of the Text and Academic Authors Association.

Mary Kay Switzer, Elected Member - MKSwitzer@csupomona.edu
Term: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2009

Bio
An associate professor in the communications department at California Polytechnical State University in Pomona, Calif. and former news anchor, Dr. Switzer has won teaching excellence awards at two institutions.

She serves on many national boards in higher education - Currently she is on the Board of Directors for Text and Academic Authors, the Director of the Edith Wortman Endowment Fund for educational projects, the Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Matrix Foundation and an Executive Producer for Televideo Educational Projects based out of Scottsdale, Arizona.

Dr. Switzer has served on the Academic Senate and the Academic Senate Steering Committee at her university. She even chaired the Instructional Support Services Standing Committee of the Academic Senate. In 1997, she received a Distinguished Service Award for her contributions and service on these committees.

She has served as Chair of the Department Assessment Committee and the Department Budget Committee. Recently, she served as an elected member of the College Rentention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee for a three-year term. She is also a highly successful grant writer, curriculum developer and author and is involved in television and video production. She has been twice recognized by California State Polytechnic University Pomona with the "Golden Leaves Award," once for her work as a contributing author of a major scholarly reference work, Historical Dictionary of American Radio, published by Greenwood Press in 1998, and most recently for her book, China Diary.

A commissioned author, she has written several articles for The Encyclopedia of Radio (Fitzroy Publishers in Chicago). Her degrees include a doctorate in speech communication, a master's degree in theatre/television and a bachelor's degree in theatre/speech communication.

In addition, Dr. Switzer has a background as Director of Theatre Arts and Chair of Theatre Department for Wayland University. While in this position, she was able to develop an affiliation with the UK's National Theatre through a grant from the Texas Arts Commission as well as several private grants. Through this theatrical affiliation, she was able to set up a community-university outreach program to bring Shakeskpeare to rural areas in Texas.

A professional actor, producer, and director, her folk opera, "Karolee Fairaday," has been produced at many regional and university theatres.

Her broadcast experience includes News Anchor, Public Affairs Director, and News Director for several major television-radio affiliates. Her awards in this area include Freedom Foundation and Emmy Awards. Her successful tennis program, "Strokes and Strategies" --running for over seven years -- was a feature of ASPN (pay TV sports network).

Some of her video clients include Cox Communications, Humana Hospitals, United Way, The President's Council on Physical Fitness, and American Express. Her stint as part of the production team for Olympic great Scott Hamilton resulted in the internationally known STARS ON ICE series.

At Cal Poly Pomona, she spearheaded the joint community-university educational series together with her Visual Arts Production students to produce the acclaimed 'Let's Talk," with area middle schools. This student project ran for over seven years and earned many state awards for excellence and was featured on Fox News. Many of her former students have carried on the tradition of "Let's Talk" in their area middle schools. Moreover, her students also produced and directed the campus video magazine, "PolyScene Magazine," for over five years.

Her Nonverbal Communication students have received top honors in the CLASS Division of the Annual Student Research Competition for the past six years.

A magazine and feature-page Contributing Editor and columnist, Dr. Switzer also has several other published works -- including books and short stories.

Michael Lennie, Council Member At-Large - michael@lennieliterary.com

Bio
Michael R. Lennie is a literary attorney and agent, licensed in California and New York. He has been in legal practice for more than 30 years. More than ninety percent of his practice involves the representation of trade and text authors as an agent, or in contract negotiations or litigation. He graduated from California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo/Pomona in 1966 with a degree in engineering. He received his Juris Doctor Degree in 1970 from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Lennie is a founding member of the Authors Coalition of America, a member of the Authors Guild of America, and National Advisor to TAA. He was lead counsel for Buffington, et al. v. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co. (N.Y. Supreme Court and Federal Bankruptcy Court, N.Y. 1995), Anderson, et al. v. CBS, Inc., Holt Rinehart and Winston (N.Y. Supreme Court 1987, and Wesner, et. al. v. Times Mirror Company (California Superior Court, 1999).

He is 62, and has been married for 35 years. He has two children and three grandchildren.