Louise Ripley
Professor Emerita
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Email: lripley@yorku.ca
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Louise Ripley is a graduate of Shimer College in Illinois, holds an M.B.A. in Finance from Loyola University of Chicago, and earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Toronto. Louise teaches undergraduate students in the fields of Marketing and Women's Studies. She teaches part of her load online, by choice, having discovered she loves teaching on the Internet. Her major research interests include advertising ethics and multi-modal argumentation, the pressures on women who work outside the home, and the joys and difficulties of online teaching.
Dr. Ripley is the daughter of a Canadian editor and an American labour union organizer. She teaches in the undergraduate programmes of both Administrative Studies (Marketing) and Women's Studies (Gender Issues in Management). She remains an active union member. She does research in a variety of interdisciplinary fields, including Advertising Ethics and Philosophy, and Internet Teaching. In her own time, Louise reads, writes fiction (two novels) and poetry, works Sunday New York Times Crossword puzzles, and enjoys spending time with her husband and their greyhound and two cats. She has one son, born during the time that she was both working full time at York and studying as a full-time doctoral student at the University of Toronto.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoMBA, Loyola University
BA, Shimer College
Professional Leadership
Has served as Chair of the University Senate, Chair of the Atkinson Faculty Council, and most recently as the Chair of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.
Research Interests
Approach to Teaching
Students are my top priority Education ought to be enjoyable Theory and practice are equally important Teaching and Research as two sides of the same coin What you get out of anything depends on what you put into it There is no such thing as a stupid question Students earn the grades; I record them Ultimately it's all connected, everything to everything else, and one of the main joys of education is discovering those links
Louise Ripley is a graduate of Shimer College in Illinois, holds an M.B.A. in Finance from Loyola University of Chicago, and earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Toronto. Louise teaches undergraduate students in the fields of Marketing and Women's Studies. She teaches part of her load online, by choice, having discovered she loves teaching on the Internet. Her major research interests include advertising ethics and multi-modal argumentation, the pressures on women who work outside the home, and the joys and difficulties of online teaching.
Dr. Ripley is the daughter of a Canadian editor and an American labour union organizer. She teaches in the undergraduate programmes of both Administrative Studies (Marketing) and Women's Studies (Gender Issues in Management). She remains an active union member. She does research in a variety of interdisciplinary fields, including Advertising Ethics and Philosophy, and Internet Teaching. In her own time, Louise reads, writes fiction (two novels) and poetry, works Sunday New York Times Crossword puzzles, and enjoys spending time with her husband and their greyhound and two cats. She has one son, born during the time that she was both working full time at York and studying as a full-time doctoral student at the University of Toronto.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoMBA, Loyola University
BA, Shimer College
Professional Leadership
Has served as Chair of the University Senate, Chair of the Atkinson Faculty Council, and most recently as the Chair of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.
Research Interests
Approach to Teaching
Students are my top priority Education ought to be enjoyable Theory and practice are equally important Teaching and Research as two sides of the same coin What you get out of anything depends on what you put into it There is no such thing as a stupid question Students earn the grades; I record them Ultimately it's all connected, everything to everything else, and one of the main joys of education is discovering those links
