DR. ACHAMPONG IS APPOINTED ACADEMIC DIRECTOR AT PENN STATE

Dr. Francis Achampong has been appointed the Director of Academic Affairs at Pennsylvania State University - Mont Alto. He holds authority delegated by the Campus Executive Officer (CEO) for all academic functions of the campus within the campus service area. The DAA is responsible to the CEO for providing leadership for all academic matters including the faculty. The DAA acts as the principal deputy of the Campus Executive Officer in his or her absence or as delegated by the Campus Executive Officer.

He is author of a seminal textbook on workplace sexual harassment law. Dr. Achampong's book is the only work that devotes several chapters to landmark developments such as third-party and same-sex sexual harassment and the only one that goes beyond merely discussing workplace harassment prevention to discussing risk management of liability for sexual harassment. It also discusses esoteric rules that apply to federal sector sexual harassment complainants. He is listed with the Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys as an insurance expert and appears in Who's Who in American Law. He has been featured in several press reports, especially during the Clinton-Lewinsky saga.

Formerly of the Department of Entrepreneural Studies and professor of Business Law and Insurance at Norfolk State University's Business School, one of about 300 business schools accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and also Of Counsel in the Norfolk law firm of Shelton and Malone, his work has also been cited by a Federal District Court in Reid v. O’Leary, 1996 WL 411494 and his expert opinion relied on by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Bias v. Advantage Intern., Inc., 905 F.2d 1558, at 1562.

His work has been cited by authors in articles appearing in 36 International and Comparative Law Quarterly at 377, 87 Virginia Law Review at 384, 69 FordhamLaw Review at 1274 and 1588, 19 Yale Law and Policy Review at 535, 78 North Carolina Law Review at 799 and 1573, 61 University of Pittsburgh Law Review at 675, 2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 179.