Ethics in Leadership

Professor of Political Science and Former Director for Academic Programs, TTU Regional Sites, Office of the Provost 

In addition to serving as Faculty Advisor to the TTU Ethics Center, he has served as Chair, Department of Political Science, Past Director, Institute for Modern Conflict, Diplomacy, and Reconciliation. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. His areas of specialization include comparative politics, politics in Japan and Asia, political institutions, security issues in East Asia, and Statistical and Formal methods and Ethics and Leadership. He is also the author of Improving South Korea-Japan Relations (2023), and The Japan that Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country (SUNY Press, 2004) and South Korea’s Rise to International Influence (Lexington Books 2019) as well as numerous book chapters and articles that have appeared in such Journals as the British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Women and Politics, Asian Survey, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy, Pacific Focus, International Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is currently working on a project that involves investigating health disparities by race and ethnicity across Texas’ 254 counties, and published an article based on this research in the Texas Tech University Ethics Journal. He is also past president (current Vice President) of the International University Network a network of universities in the Caribbean, North America, and Central and South America.

Former Managing Director of the Texas Tech University Ethics Center and a Fulbright Specialist on business and international issues.

The 26th Annual Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference invited the TTU Ethics Center to host their Director Summit. The leadership of the TTU Ethics Center discussed effective innovative strategies to enhance service to students and build global networks. The invitation to host the summit demonstrates the high regard peers have for the TTU Ethics Center. Using social media, organizations across the globe view interviews and prompts from the TTU Ethics Center that presents information about academic integrity, research misconduct, and genocide, race, community relations and other relevant ethical topics. Dr. Ferguson speaks to groups about ethical analytics related to the impact of the rising cost of education, management, business development, values, personal financial planning, debt, emerging markets, inclusiveness, and disenfranchisement. Dr. Ferguson was a principal owner in DancingFibers.com, a limited liability corporation, which distributed imported knitting yarns from China, Bolivia, Peru, and Japan to more than three hundred retail stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Under his leadership, Dancing Fibers, LLC partnered with Alamas de la Andes to create opportunities for Aymara and Quechua Indian women in Bolivia. He is the current owner of REF Management, Ethics and Leadership Consulting.

Chair of the Information Systems and Supply Chain Management Department at Howard University School of Business 

Dr. Idemudia holds degrees from universities located on three different continents: a PhD in Management Information Systems from Texas Tech University, a Master’s in Computer Information Systems from the University of Texas at El Paso, an MBA in International Business from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Benin. Before joining the faculty at the Howard University School of Business, he held numerous tenured and visiting positions at domestic and international universities. He is the recipient of a 2024 Distinguished Professor. Award from The European Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking (IJITN) and serves as Associate Editor of several other wellknown academic journals including The International Journal on Networked Business, International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management (IJRCM), The Africa Journal of Information Systems. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Lagos Business School (Nigeria) and a Carnegie Fellow at Covenant University.