Jill Lynn Vihtelic

Professor and Chair

Contact Information:
Madeleva #46
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 284-4501
vihtelic@saintmarys.edu


Teaching Interests:
Financial Services
        I am a former bank trust officer and financial planner.  My course offerings within the finance concentration include Personal Financial Planning (BUAD 314) and Management of Financial Institutions (BUAD 315).

Strategic Planning
        I teach the capstone course for the major, Business Policy (BUAD 446), and also the capstone course for the finance concentration, Financial Strategy with Computer Applications (BUAD 415).

Business Communication Skills
        Students in my Principles of Finance class (BUAD 312) write a semester long journal on a company using the most recent annual report, the Wall Street Journal, and various other investment information sources such as Value Line and Dun and Bradstreet's Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios.  Students in Business Policy (BUAD 446) collaborate on teams to present talks using PowerPoint.  In my Business Communications class (BUAD 345) students make several oral presentations.

Case Teaching and Collaborative Learning
        I use cases and encourage student collaborative learning environments to prepare students for workplace teams.


Research Interests and Selected Publications:
        Special Edition Guest Editor of Financial Services Review:  The Journal of Individual Financial Management--Toward a Theory of Instruction:  Teaching Individual Financial Management (Vol 8 No 4, 1999).

        Chapter #6:  Career Planning Math, by Jill Lynn Vihtelic, contributing author.  The Mathematics of Personal Finance, 2nd Edition,  E. Thomas Garman and Jing Xiao, Editors, Dame Publications, Inc.:  Houston, Texas (2000).

        "Personal Finance:  An Alternative Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Finance," Financial Services Review 5(2), 1996, pp. 119-131.

        "Using a Comprehensive Case Examination as a Means of Competence Measurement," Forging New Partnerships with Cases, Simulations and other Interactive Methods, Hans E. Klein, Editor, World Association for Case Method Research and Application:  Needham, Massachusetts, 1992, pp. 195-202, Co-author with Dr. John Ruhe.

        "Teaching Personal Financial Planning as an Upper Level Finance Course," The Journal of Financial Education, 1991, Vol. 20(1), 77-93.


Current Memberships and Activities:
Academy of Financial Services (AFS)
    Past President, October 2000 - October 2001

The Financial Management Association (FMA)
    Chair of the Awards Committee on Innovations in Education, 1999

Midwest Business Administration Association (MBAA)
    Academy of Finance
    North American Management Society


Last update February, 2004