
Faculty
Matthew Lonam, Ph.D.
Dr. Matt Lonam is the founding Executive Director of Mountain State University
Orlando, the central Florida branch of Mountain State University, Beckley, WV.
Dr. Lonam's vision of university teaching is embodied in its small, boardroom
style classrooms, state-of-the-art technology and modular design that permits
easy upgrading as events and technology require future physical changes. Mountain
State University Orlando is a center for Leadership Studies, offering the graduate
and undergraduate degrees in the field as well as leading the way in higher education
through innovative scheduling, affordable tuition and personal attention to students
based on an instructor-led cohort learning model. Prior to becoming the Executive
Director of Mountain State University Orlando, Dr. Lonam was the Associate Director
of the Accelerated (online) Master of Tourism Administration program in George
Washington University's School of Business and Public Management. He designed
the program's unique course rotation model that made it possible for students
to choose among a dozen sets of course options in pursuing their degrees. He
also directed the program's day-to-day operations, with a special emphasis on
student recruitment and advising.
Dr. Lonam's experience with non-traditional post-secondary education began
twenty years ago in Mexico City as Vice President - Latin America for the Educational
Institute of the American Hotel & Lodging Association and continued as the
Senior Education Consultant for Compass Knowledge Group, a company specialized
in the marketing and administration of university distance learning programs.
Dr. Lonam also has many years of experience in Tourism and Hospitality Management
education, most recently at George Washington University, but also as a faculty
member at Johnson & Wales University, Northern Arizona University and the
University of Missouri. Prior to his career in higher education, he was a hotel
general manager, food & beverage director, sales manager, and front office
manager. Dr. Lonam also worked in the hotel technology as a computer installer
and trainer throughout the United States and the Caribbean. Born in Washington,
D.C., raised in Germany and Italy as well as the United States, Dr. Lonam received
his Bachelors degree in Political Science from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland;
his MA in Tourism Development from The George Washington University; and a Ph.D.
from the University of Missouri in Higher and Adult Education. He is married
and lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife, son, two dogs and a cat.
Lincoln H. Marshall, Ph.D.
Dr. Marshall is the Coordinator of the Hotel Management Certificate Program at
the International Institute of Tourism Studies in the Department of Tourism & Hospitality
Management at The George Washington University. Previously he served as the Director
of the Accelerated Master of Tourism Administration at GWU, and also a tenured
Associate Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the Hotel, Restaurant, & Institutional
Management Department. He is also an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1996 he served as a visiting professor at Cornell
University and taught Casino Management.
He is the co-author of Introduction to Casino and Gaming Operations and has
worked at three of the four casinos in The Bahamas.
He has conducted hospitality training programmers in Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados,
The British Virgin Islands, France, Jamaica, Madagascar, Nicaragua and the United
States of America.
Dr. Marshall is currently a member of the Society of Human Resource Management,
the American Society of Training and Development, and the Council on Hotel, Restaurant
and Institutional Education. He received a Bachelors degree in Psychology from
Grinnell College and a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling and Student Development,
with a support field in Human Resources Management from The American University
in Washington, D.C.
|