Hi Everyone:

I live in North Berwick, Maine, with my wife Kay who works in the Office of Graduate and Continuing Studies at UNH. While I've been a Mainer for most of my adult life, I grew up in Jamaica Plain, within walking distance of Fenway Park. (I'm old enough to have even seen the Patriots play at Fenway!) In my college years (at BC) I lived in Allston and drove a Red Cab. I've also lived in Ithaca, New York, Chicago, Illinois, San Antonio, Texas, and Auburn, Maine.

This term, in addition to teaching Marketing and Financial Accounting (online) at Granite State, I'll be teaching Managerial Accounting at the Thompson School, Professional Communications at UMass Lowell, and speech workshops for MBA students at Babson College.

In an earlier career, I coached the competitive debate team at Cornell University, was a partner in a small publishing company, and co-authored a series of debate handbooks. When I moved back to New England, I coached debate teams at Winthrop High School in Maine and, later, at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, NH. (It was more fun than any other job I've had and the kids worked hard, winning state and New England championships.) I've also taught summer debate workshops at Boston College, UMass Amherst, Dartmouth, and Bates.

From 1982 to 2001 I taught at McIntosh College in Dover, served as Dean of Students and Dean of Institutional Relations there, and, for twelve of those years (1985-97), managed the college's marketing, advertising, publicity, and public relations.

During the 1990s I chaired the NH Eastern Region School-to-Work Partnership, which supervised the distribution of federal funds for business-education partnerships.

In 1998 I digressed from teaching to serve as a policy adviser and speech writer for a nominee for governor in Maine, and, in 2000, as Policy Director for a U.S. Senate primary campaign in Pennsylvania. The experience left me with a far more sympathetic view of the people who run for office and a far more negative view of the system they are trapped in.

My BA in Philosophy is from Boston College. My MBA is from the Whittemore School at the University of New Hampshire. Over the past 25 years I've taught approximately 400 courses.

My hobby is photography and my favorite website is my brother's photojournalism site. You can check it out at www.jimmacmillan.com (Jim won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his work as the primary AP photographer in Iraq.)

~Jack

For more information about this course, contact the instructor at: jack.macmillan@unh.edu