Warren Schlesinger

Retired Associate Professor, Accounting and Business Law

Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Utilizing First Year Curricula Linkage to Improve In-Major Persistence to Graduation: Results from  Four-Year Longitudinal Study, Fall 2000-Spring 2004
Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, May 2007, volume nine Number 1.

(Monograph) "Career Development in First-Year Business Students: Connecting Student Success Skills to Business Success Skills," with Lifton, D. and Cohen, A., Chapter 10 of The Career Development of Students in Transition. National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (2005).

"Improving In-Major Retention and Grade Point Average Through First-Year Curricula Linkage: Results from a Business School Longitudinal Study," with Lifton, D. and Cohen, A., Journal of the Academy of Business Education, 5:21-27 (2004).

"Creating a First-Year Seminar in Business," co-authored with A. Cohen and D. Lifton," Academic Exchange Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer (2001).

Chapters in Books & Cases

"ID Express," with Eckrich, D. and Gualtieri, F., Annual Advances in Business Cases, McGraw Hill Primis (2005).

 Lifton, D., Schlessinger, W., and A. Cohen 2005. Ithaca College in Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Bradley E. Cox, Mary T. Wagner, (Eds) Exploring the Evidence, Volume III: Reporting Research on First-Year Seminars, Monograph No. 42. Colombia: National Resource Center for First Year Experience and Students in Transition. pp 55-57.

Conference Proceedings

"Piloting a Comprehensive, Four-Year Information Literacy Integration Plan for Undergraduate Business Majors: Can it Serve as a Model for Other Disciplines?"
Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, 14th Annual Conference (February 2007)

"Improving In-Major Persistence to Graduation Year Through First-Year Curricula Linkage: Results from a Business School Longitudinal Study," with Lifton, D. and Cohen, A. in Abdelsamad, M. (ed), Proceedings of the Society for Advancement of Management 2005 International Business Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas A&M University (forthcoming).

"Developing a Service Learning Project to Enhance Business Students' Mentoring Skills, with Cohen, A., Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Business and Behaviorial Sciences (February 2005).

"Improving In-Major Persistence to Graduate Year Through First-Year Curricula Linkage: Results from a Business School Longitudinal Study," with Lifton, D. and Cohen, A., Proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Management National Conference (April 2005).

"Warrantech Corporation," with Bramhandkar, A., Proceedings of the 26th Annual Society for Case Research Summer Case Workshop, Kansas City, MO (2004).

"ID Express," with Eckrich, D. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Society for Case Research Summer Case Workshop, Kansas City, MO (2004).

"The Management of Consumer Correspondence: A Report on a Complaint-Compliment Research Project," with Eckrich, D., Proceedings of the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business (2004).

"Warrantech Corporation: A Case Study," with Bramhandkar, A., Proceedings of the North American Case Research Association, 17(1) (2003).

"Improving Business Major Retention Through First-Year Curricula Linkage" with Cohen, A. and Lifton, D., Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business & Behavioral Sciences (2003).

"State Farm Salutes Life's Heroes," with Eckrich, D., Johnson, C. and Lee, M., Proceedings of the 24th Annual Society for Case Research Summer Case Workshop, Durango, CO, June (2002).

"Preliminary Lessons Learned in Creating a Professional Development Program for First Year Business Students," co-authored with A. Cohen, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, February 7-9, (2002), Las Vegas, NV.

"Adapting a First-Year Student Success Course to the Business School Environment," with Lifton, D. & Cohen, A., Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Busienss & Behavioral Sciences, Las Vegas, February 17-21 (2001).

"Assessing Student Outcomes When First-Year Curricula is Linked: Baseline Result from a Longitudinal Study on Retention," co-authored with A. Cohen and D. Lifton, Proceedings of the International Conference on the First-Year Experience, Columbia: The Freshman Year Experience, 34 (2001).

"An Examination of Fraud Coverage in Leading Financial Accounting Textbooks, with P. Libby, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (2001).

"Retaining Undergraduate Business Students: A New Approach to the Crucial First Semester," with D. Lifton and A. Cohen, Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, Villanova University: Academy of Business Education (2000).

"Adapting a First-Year Student Success Course to the Business School Environment," with A. Cohen, Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Las Vegas (2000).

"The IRS VITA Program and Tax Education," with Cohen, A., Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business & Behavioral Sciences, Las Vegas, February 18-22 (2000).