Susie H. VanHuss, Ph.D., received her B.S. degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and her MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. Her teaching specialties include business communications, administrative systems, and personnel management. She has authored numerous best-selling textbooks in communications, keyboarding and word processing, and office technology. In additional, Dr. VanHuss has written numerous journal articles and has served on the editorial review boards of several leading business education journals.