August 4, 2000 UNT Inhouse publication: Staff to address graduates during Aug. 12 ceremony

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Staff to address graduates during Aug. 12 ceremony

During UNT's summer commencement ceremonies Aug. 12, some 1,300 students are expected to receive degrees.

photo of Marcia Staff Marcia J. Staff, professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law, will be the featured speaker. Her topic will be "Success is a Means, Not an End."

Staff will deliver her address during the 12:30 p.m. general convocation in the UNT Coliseum. The ceremony will include the hooding of about 55 doctoral degree candidates.

After the general convocation, ceremonies will be held in the Coliseum for UNT's individual schools and colleges.

Commencement for the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, and School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management will begin at 2:30 p.m. Commencement for the College of Business Administration, School of Community Service, School of Library and Information Sciences, College of Music, and School of Visual Arts begins at 4:30 p.m.

Chancellor and President Alfred F. Hurley and his wife, Joanna, will be the hosts of a reception for graduates and their guests from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the One O'Clock Lounge in the University Union.



	About Marcia J. Staff Marcia J. Staff, professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law, has been on the UNT faculty since 1979. After 12 years of serving in assistant dean and associate dean roles in the College of Business Administration, Staff returned to full-time teaching in fall 1999. During her years in the dean's office, she served as director of accreditation, and in November 1998 she directed the UNT business school's successful reaffirmation of accreditation by AACSB–the International Association for Management Education. Currently, Staff is conducting research on the scholarship of teaching, international arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the legal and ethical aspects of personnel references. Her other areas of expertise include commercial, banking and employment law, and the ethical dimensions of decision making. She has written numerous articles, conducted seminars and presented lectures on business law, banking law and insurance contracts. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at UNT, she is editor-in-chief of the Southern Law Journal. A practicing attorney, Staff is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business. She will receive the UNT President's Council Service Award at the fall 2000 faculty convocation Aug. 21. During the 1994-95 academic year, Staff spent four weeks in Portugal on an administrator's exchange grant from the Fulbright Scholar Program. In the course of her career, Staff has been honored by the University of North Texas League for Professional Women, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and the American Association of University Women. She also is a former Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Fellow and was named an Outstanding Young Woman of America. Her community service activities include leadership roles with American Bank of Dallas, the Denton Humane Society, the Denton Independent School District Strategic Planning Committee, the League of Women Voters of Denton County, the Retired Senior Volunteer Program and Delta Sigma Pi professional business fraternity. She is currently chair of the State Employee Charitable Campaign for the Denton Area. Staff earned her juris doctor degree (magna cum laude) from the University of Houston Law School in 1975. She earned her bachelor of journalism degree, also conferred with high honors, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973.