Lana Nino is a tenured Associate Professor, having taught at Whittier for the past nine years, after having also taught at Whittier as a visiting instructor for two years from 1990 to 1992. Lana is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Riverside. Her Ph.D. in Higher Education, focusing on business education, is anticipated in June of 2012. Besides having earned a M.S. in Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1991, Lana has certifications as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and completed the Advanced Executive Program at the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University in July 2000.

Having spent six years in public accounting, she has also held chief financial officer positions at two technology companies and accounting management positions at two large retailers. At Whittier Lana teaches most of the college’s accounting courses focusing on financial and managerial accounting. Lana also taught Freshman Writing Seminar once, several different accounting electives over the years toward the accounting concentration, a course in Globalization and Business Ethics, and a one-credit course (Leadership Practicum) each semester which coordinates the leadership of student business groups (Business Leadership Group, Students in Free Enterprise, and Rotaract).

Service to the college included serving on the Educational Policies Committee for two years, and the Whittier Scholars Council for three years. She has participated in long-term strategic planning committees formed by the President and the Board of Directors for several terms. She currently serves on Faculty Executive Committee as Vice Chair of Faculty for academic year 2011-2012.

Over the past nine years Lana has participated in seven conferences including two international presentations in Ireland and Slovakia. She recently had two publications addressing issues in business education in the American Journal of Business Education and in The Business Review, Cambridge. One of her publications in 2007 addressed rate of adoption of the international accounting standards. She has also co-authored one paper on business outsourcing with her colleagues in the department, in 2004.

She also has served on the board of directors of the Intercommunity Counseling Center in Whittier and Real-Time Ordering in Fullerton, CA.