Title(s): Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department: Business & Professional Studies
Contact Information
Phone: 845-688-6041
Office location: Stone Ridge Campus, Hasbrouck 212
Email: kolem@sunyulster.edu
PhD, Organization Management & Management Education, Capella University
Post Master’s Certificate in College Teaching, Capella University
MBA, Marketing, NYU Stern School of Business
BA, Economics, NYU
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
Advertising
Management
Business Ethics
Entrepreneurship and small business management
Marketing and advertising
Business ethics
Adult education
Experiential learning
Hudson Valley Magazine, Women in Business award, 2012
Delta Mu Delta, National Business Honor Society, 2016
SUNY Ulster 2010 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
NACCE (National Association of Community College Entrepreneurship) Conference presentations:
Own It! Entrepreneurial Women’s Conference at SUNY Ulster – Oct. 2016
Community Creations, SUNY Ulster’s student-run business – Oct. 2014; 2015
Real World Marketing at SUNY Ulster – Oct. 2013
SUNY COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) Conference:
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing: Learning Culture Through Advertising – with Eva Haug, Netherlands – April 2016
Dogs, Military, Food, Nightlife: Deepening the COIL connection with empowered student
use of social media – with Jeanine Mercer, Empire State College, Lebanon – April 2015
Ulster County Chamber Leadership Class Presentation – Public Speaking – 2015, 2016
Coleman Grant, start-up Community Creations, SUNY Ulster’s student-run business
Director, Darlene L. Pfeiffer Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Owner, The Marketing Department, LLC (mktdpt.com) 1996 - present