Dr. William Woods  bio
  - Popular Culture Studies

Warren Ferguson is the manager of Schreiner University’s Business Accelerator Program, which provides assessment and evaluation, expert consultation, connections to resources and expertise and assistance to local businesses. Ferguson has 22 years experience establishing, owning and growing small businesses, and 25 years of experience in large global corporations. As a senior consultant for business and community relations at Schreiner, he is involved with economic development, career counseling and the University’s international business program. He also is on the business advisory council and served on Schreiner’s board of trustees, 1996-2004. Mr. Ferguson is available to talk about the Business Accelerator Program.
 

Dr. Ron Hatchett is the director of Schreiner University’s Center for Global Studies. He has held similar positions on the faculties of The University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas A&M University, the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute in Washington D.C. and The United States Air Force Academy. Dr. Hatchett is the world affairs analyst for Texas Cable News Network and has appeared as a commentator on other networks. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy, a Master’s degree from California State University, San Diego, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. During his 20-year career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, he worked in intelligence and politico-military affairs. He was a senior civilian official in the Department of Defense under President Ronald Reagan, and has served in other capacities for the U.S. government, including representing the Secretary of Defense at the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Talks (MBFR), negotiating NATO and Warsaw Pact conventional force levels in central Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the NATO High Level Task Force on conventional arms control. Dr. Hatchett’s areas of expertise are foreign policy, the Middle East, globalization and human rights issues.

Dr. Kathleen Hudson is a Professor of English at Schreiner University and the founder and current executive director of the Texas Heritage Music Foundation, which recently received a Peabody Award for one of its programs. Dr. Hudson has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Christian University, a Master’s from North Texas State University and a Ph.D. from TCU. She has published two books about Texas music: Telling Stories, Singing Songs; an album of Texas songwriters (University of Texas Press, 2000) and Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs (University of Texas Press, 2007). She also writes columns and commentary freelance for a variety of Texas newspapers and magazines. She is available for a number of programs and workshops, including appearing as Texas’ famous female outlaw, Belle Starr; Women and Texas Music; The Power of Stories; Past is Prologue: A way of Learning, based on a 10,000-year-old oral history; Jimmy Rodgers and Texas Music; and Telling Stories, Singing Songs, a program about Texas songwriters.

Dr. William Woods is professor of English and communications at Schreiner University and dean of the School of Liberal Arts. He is a published writer, screenplay author and a poet. Dr. Woods has Bachelor of Arts and Master’s degrees from Southwest Texas State University and a Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University. He teaches literature and creative writing classes and his students have given him a number of teaching awards. Dr. Woods is the founder of the Chautauqua Lecture Series, the coordinator of Schreiner’s Popular Culture Symposium, a former director of the University’s Center for Innovative Learning and lead singer for the faculty rock and roll band, Phil 'N' the Blanks. Dr. Woods is available for programs on popular culture.