Dr. Glenna Dod Meyer, D. Abbott Turner Professor of Free Enterprise,
joined the Wesleyan College faculty in 1983. Dr. Meyer's degrees
are from Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Southern
Mississippi. Prior to joining the Wesleyan faculty, she taught in
New York, Kentucky, Texas, and Mississippi. International
teaching appointments include Sofia University, Bulgaria, and Peking
University, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.
As a former Fulbright professor to Eastern Europe and Fulbright-Hayes
Scholar to Southeast Asia, she has concentrated her research on
entrepreneurship and small business in the U.S., Bulgaria, and the
People’s Republic of China.
She has done staff development workshops for East Texas State
University and the University of Southern Mississippi, as well as
seminars for Leadership Macon for many years. For the past
two decades, she taught yearly seminars in Bulgaria to high school
economics teachers about the free market economics and small business
entrepreneurs about the competitive environment in the United States.
Her current research deals with “How Small Businesses Can Compete with
the Big Box Stores.”
Twice she has received the prestigious Ann Munck "Excellence in
Teaching" Award at Wesleyan College where she instructs in both the
graduate and undergraduate programs.
Outside activities include being Chair, Mount de Sales Academy, and
Member of the Executive Board of the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce.
She is married to J. Patrick Meyer, Jr., a tax attorney with Hall,
Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP in Macon and has two grown sons:
Daniel, a computer animator in Los Angeles, California, and David, a
business consultant for Augusta Medical Systems.
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