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A longtime professor of management and information systems at Mississippi State is the new president of the Association for Business Communication, Southwest Region.
Carol M. Lehman, who for 16 years has taught business communication in the College of Business and Industry, will lead a professional group that fosters excellence in business communication, scholarship, research, education, and practice. The organization draws its members from academic disciplines that include marketing, English, communication, linguistics, and information systems.
Headquartered at Baruch College's New York campus, ABC is organized into five U.S. regions and four international regions. It is affiliated with the Federation of Business Disciplines, which is composed of 12 regional and national business-related organizations.
In her capacity as ABC president, Lehman will preside over a March 6-8 annual conference of her group and the federation, meeting this year in St. Louis, Mo. In addition to hosting scholarly meetings, ABC publishes The Journal of Business Communication and Business Communication Quarterly.
Lehman is a co-editor of "Business Communication," a textbook published by South-Western Thomson Learning and used by more than one million students since it first was introduced more than three decades ago. She first was named an editor of the classic text in 1990 following a national search for successors to then-editors William Himstreet and Wayne Baty.
Lehman has taught at Mississippi State since 1985, and has two times been recognized by the business college with its Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. She also has been recognized as the Continuing Education Faculty Member of the Year at MSU.
She received bachelor's and master's degrees in business education from the University of Southern Mississippi and a doctorate from the University of Arkansas.