Dr.
Scot Ober has taught business education for more than 20 years, most
recently as a professor of business at Ball State University in Muncie,
Indiana. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Ohio State University in
1974. In addition to his high school and university teaching experience,
he has served as director of research for the Gregg Division of
McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York City and served as a military
secretary in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. He received
the 1993 Distinguished Alumnus award from East Carolina University.
Scot is a past national president of Delta Pi Epsilon and a
past national chair of the Policies Commission for Business and Economic
Education. He also served a three-year term as editor of the Business
Communication Quarterly and was named a Distinguished Member of the
Association for Business Communication in 1997. He has chaired or served
as a member of more than 100 ACICS accreditation teams and won the
organization’s Distinguished Public Evaluator Award in 2002.
Scot has published more than 60 journal articles in
every major business communication and business education journal and is
the author or coauthor of nine textbooks in the areas of business
communication, keyboarding, shorthand, and software applications. In
addition, he has spoken or presented papers at hundreds of conferences and
training sessions in 43 states as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico,
England, and Greece. Several of his presentations have won the “Best-Paper
Award” at professional conferences. Scot and his family live in Tucson.
