Faculty Accolades
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 Ng Selected
for Fulbright
Pin Ng has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board as one of the U.S. Scholars for the 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar Program on Lecturing/Research to the Hong Kong Baptist University. This is a 10-month grant that starts in September 2007. One of the program’s objectives is “To promote mutual understanding and benefit through contributions to host countries and, upon return of grantees to the United States, to home institutions and/or networks of professional colleagues.” |
Promotions
Joseph
Anderson to professor of management – Anderson is a
valued teacher in the College of Business. He was awarded the
presidential Centennial Teaching Award in 1999-2000, and was FCB
Teacher of the Year in 1998-1999. He has also been voted MBA Teacher
of the Year four times since 1998. He is rigorous, demanding, yet
highly admired by his students. His teaching interests include
International Management, Entrepreneurship, and graduate level
Organizational Behavior and Management courses. Anderson’s research
focuses on business case writing and pedagogical research. His seven
publications since promotion to associate, as well as being awarded
Researcher of the Year for FCB in 1998-1999, demonstrate his
commitment to continued scholarly output.
Allen Atkins to professor of
finance – Atkins teaches graduate and undergraduate
courses in finance at the College of Business and his students
consistently rate him as a top professor. He has served as the chair
of the College of Business Curriculum Committee for the past three
years and also served as the NAU representative to redesign the
Optional Retirement Plan for the Arizona University System. Atkins
has over a dozen refereed journal articles in various respected
scholarly journals. His current research work is in the area of
foreign currencies and the U.S. Social Security System.
Wendy Campione to professor of
economics – Although Campione teaches many different courses,
she especially enjoys reaching across the campus to teach principles of
economics to students of nearly every discipline. In 2004 she won the
President’s Award for Diversity in recognition of her efforts to enhance
communication and understanding among all students both inside and
outside the classroom. Her research focuses on labor economics,
workforce planning, and corporate compensation, recruitment, and
retention policies. Her most recent publication was published in the
Journal of Applied
Business and Economics.
Chris Scherpereel to associate
professor with tenure, management – Scherpereel is recognized
for both teaching and research excellence. He was awarded FCB Teacher of
the Year for 2006-2007 for his dedication and commitment to student
learning. Scherpereel maintains learning is not a spectator sport and
this belief is reflected in his hands-on, experiential approach to
teaching. This philosophy has been implemented in the FCB’s highly
successful team-taught integrated business core course
BizBlock.
Scherpereel is widely published in both nationally and internationally
recognized journals and received the FCB Bilby Researcher of the Year
for 2004-2005.
Susan Williams to associate
professor with tenure, management – Williams is dedicated to
student learning. She teaches operations management to both our
Flagstaff and Interactive Instructional Television students. She
developed a highly successful, new course in Project Management. Her
primary research interests are in public policy applications of
operations research.
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FCB Teacher of
the Year
The FCB Promotion & Tenure Committee and the dean
selected David Allen, associate professor of finance, as FCB Teacher
of the Year for 2007-08.
His dedication to students, both inside the
classroom and with the Student Managed Investment Fund, are
indicative of excellence. Allen is a valued member of the FCB
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Bilby Series Continues
Professor Anil Bera of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign presented in the FCB’s Bilby Speaker Series on “Spatial Econometrics: From the Beginning to the Frontiers of Spatial Econometrics” on March 16.
–Kenneth
S. Lorek
The Ralph M. Bilby Professor
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Retirements
John Haney, clinical professor of CIS. Haney’s employment with Northern Arizona University has spanned 17 years. His faculty appointment as clinical professor with The W. A. Franke College of Business began in 1999. A previous faculty appointment as instructor was from 1983 – 1988. He served another 4 years in various technology positions at NAU.
 Max Jerrell, professor of economics – 26 years. Jerrell has made a sustained, extraordinary contribution to our students, the community, our college and university. He has excelled in the research environment and brought that research knowledge into the classroom where it helped his students.
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 Neil Jacobs, professor of management and CIS – 22 years. Jacobs has embodied the spirit of The W. A. Franke College of Business during his time with Northern Arizona University. He is demanding, not only of his students and colleagues, but of himself. He is dedicated to student learning. Scores of alumni have reported that Jacobs challenged them to do their best and expected no less, and believe they owe their success, in large part, to this experience.
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Our students and the university community have benefited tremendously from the many contributions they have made throughout their careers.
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Beverly Amer, sr. lecturer of CIS, was chosen as a winner in the
International Telly Awards competition. Her educational video work has received recognition for eight years in a row.
The winning program
features McDonald's and the way they approach menu innovation. The
academic focus is on the use of business statistics to help guide the
market research and new product development process. The video gives
students a behind-the-scenes look at the McDonald's new products
research test kitchens and provides interview comments from key
executives who depend on the research results for product decision
making.
T.S. Amer, professor of accounting, and Jo-Mae Maris, associate professor of CIS, presented a paper titled “Information Technology Exception Messages – A Preliminary Investigation of Compliance with the Normative Standards of Warnings” at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the
Western Decision Sciences Institute held in Denver April 3 - 7, 2007.
Nita Paden, professor of marketing, presented a workshop titled “Creating and Using Marketing Plans in Small Businesses” on February 28 for the
National Association of Women in Business, Northern Arizona Chapter.
Larry Watkins, professor of accounting, and Roxanne Stell, professor of marketing, presented a paper titled, “Motivating Students for Life Success,” at the International College Teaching and Learning Conference in Mazatlan, Mexico in March.
The highlight of their trip was the time spent with three exchange students. These university students, Antonio uardado-Kelly, Isabel Reyes-Robles, and Diana Jimenez-Santillan are from the Monterrey Tech University. They were on exchange at NAU last fall.
As guests of Antonio, Professors Stell and Watkins attended a traditional Mexican Fiesta, toured the Monterrey Tech campus, strolled The Market, and visited a 19th century Cathedral (of the Immaculate Conception) in old Mazatlan. “Thanks to these students and their families our Mazatlan experience was wonderfully rich, we experienced so much more than the typical tourist.”
In December 2006, Professors Stell and Watkins also traveled to central Mexico with their personal travel escort, friend and recent CBA graduate, Isaac Gastelum-Munoz.
During the trip Stell and Watkins, along with Isaac’s girlfriend, brother and cousins visited many beautiful colonial cities (e.g. Queretaro, San el,Guanajuato) in central Mexico. “This was an extraordinary trip thanks to the generous hospitality of Isaac’s cousin. It was extremely helpful having escorts that spoke Spanish and provided numerous history lessons for us.”
Eric Yordy presented his paper “Using Student Development Theory to Inform Business Law Curriculum and Pedagogy” at the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference and was awarded “Best Interactive Presentation.”
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Faculty Leave Proves Beneficial for Mexican
Farmers
“The poor farmers of Mexico have a lot of obstacles to overcome before they can earn a decent profit from their operations.” This is how Gerry Schmaedick, senior lecturer in International Business and Economics sums up the situation he found in his recent assignment as manager of an economic development project in southern Mexico.
“Lack of efficient sources of credit and fragmented, inefficient markets are two of the biggest hurdles they must overcome. Our project was aimed mainly at improving the access these farmers have to reliable markets that pay good prices for their crops.”
Schmaedick managed a team of six Mexican professionals and four support staff funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. “In addition, we worked with the farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices that preserve the water, soil, and forest resources these producers depend on for their future livelihood.”.
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