Art Parker

Title: Department Chair

Department: Food Marketing & Agribusiness Management/Agricultural Education

Room: 2-215

Phone: (909) 869-2208

E-Mail: afparker@csupomona.edu

Home Page: www.csupomona.edu/~afparker

Tenure: 1976, Food Marketing & Agribusiness Management/Agricultural Education

Education:

BS; Clemson University; Economics
MS; Univ. of Florida; Agricultural Economics
Ph.D.; Univ. of Florida; Agricultural Economics

Biography:

Dr. Parker is Chair of the Food Marketing and Agribusiness Management/Agricultural Education Department at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. Since joining the faculty in 1976, he has also served as Associate Dean for Agriculture.

Prior to Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Parker was at California State University Bakersfield for three years, where he started the Agribusiness program in the School of Business.

Teaching Areas/Expertise:

His primary teaching areas include marketing and promotion of food and fiber products, as well as agribusiness finance. Other areas are quantitative methods and agricultural policy.

Research Areas/Expertise:

His interests lie in the area of marketing food and fiber products.

Awards/Recognition/Professional Activity:

Dr. Parker received the 2000 George P. Hart Award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership. He has been recognized several times for his teaching and interaction with students. He received the 1998-99 Mack H. Kennington Adviser of the Year Award. This was the second time that he has received this award. He has also received the Gamma Sigma Delta Teaching Excellence Award.

He has been a member of the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) since 1989. He has served the Southern California chapter as Treasurer since 1991, and has been a member of the National Careers Committee. Currently he is a member of the national Board of Directors for NAMA. For the past eleven years, he has also has advised groups of students in preparing marketing campaigns as part of a national competition; his teams have placed in the national finals four of the last eight years.

He has also been active with the Fresh Produce and Floral Council as well as with the Southern California Association of Frozen Food Brokers.

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