Ellen M. Walk is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Richmond. She is the Academic Program Director of the Information Systems degree programs in the School of Continuing Studies, a growing department with approximately 200 majors and 20 faculty members. She enjoys teaching the Principles of Information Systems to students in the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business as well as the School of Continuing Studies, and specializes in teaching Database Management Systems, Computer Hardware and Systems Software, and Programming.

Ellen graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1977, with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. She received a Masters in Business Administration in 1983 from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. She is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Omicron Delta Epsilon, and Beta Gamma Sigma. From 1977 to 1987, she worked in R&D, Information and Plant Operations at Philip Morris U.S.A. While pursuing her doctorate at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, she was recipient of the 1988-89 AACSB National Doctoral Fellowship.