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Name: |
Gilbert Coon |
| Title: |
Adjunct Instructor of English |
| Education:
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Ph.D., Washington State University
B.A., Wilmington College
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| Office: |
210 Bancroft Hall |
| Phone: |
803/323-4556 |
| E-mail: |
coong@winthrop.edu |
| Web: |
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/coong |
| Area(s):
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American Literature, Composition, Organization/Management Development
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Dr. Coon started his academic career as an assistant professor of English at Central Missouri State University. He taught undergraduate courses in American literature and composition, and a graduate course on the American realists and naturalists. After five years, he joined the University of Missouri as a continuing education specialist for a three-county Cooperative Extension region. He then left academe for the business world, serving as a supervisor, manager, and director of training and development in several manufacturing organizations. Ten years later he started his own business as a management/organization development consultant.
A decade of consulting work led to an offer to join Inland Paperboard & Packaging as a performance improvement manager. One year later, Coon was promoted to a district human resources manager, a job which brought him to Charlotte, N.C. He retired from Inland in 2003 and has been teaching part-time at Winthrop and other higher-education institutions since then.