Professor Ken Bates, SPHR
Associate Professor of Business
Department Chair

Ken BatesBS, Houghton College, 1971; MBA, Loyola College, 1980; SPHR.


Experience: Professor Bates has taught at Houghton since 1989. He has been actively involved in the Christian Business Faculty Association and served as chair of its board. He is also a member of the Society of Human Resources Management, the Buffalo-Niagara Human Resources Association, and the Willard J. Houghton Foundation Board of Directors. He has served on various college committees at Houghton, including the Strategic Management Advisory Council, the Academic Affairs Council, the Teaching & Learning Technology Roundtable, The P.A.C.E. Academic Committee and the Financial Affairs Council. In 2009 he chaired the college's Online Task Force. Currently he serves on the college Academic Council and the Adult Education Council.

Professor Bates joined the faculty after a 17-year career in management. Previously, he served as an association executive in a Washington, DC based trade association, and before that in a management capacity for a not-for-profit, charitable organization.

In 1994 he co-founded the Houghton Development Group, which built and now operates The Inn at Houghton Creek.

  

Email: ken.bates@houghton.edu 

Phone: 585-567-9448
(Campus ext. 4480)

Office: Chamberlain Center 314

Teaching areas: Management, leadership, organizational development, human resources management, and strategic management

 Scholarship interests: The integration of biblical principles in business; small business development; strategic management consulting; and leadership


Professor Bates is a member of the local Houghton Wesleyan Church and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church of America. He recently chaired the board of Allegany County's American Red Cross and serves on the board of Partners with Russia.

Professor Bates' most important roles are husband to Barbara and father to two grown children.

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