Faculty Accolades
Faculty Accolades
Tom Palmer,
Business Law (’74-’00)
In late 2004, Tom and Gretna Palmer left Flagstaff to
serve a humanitarian aid mission in Indonesia. It didn’t take them long
to get their feet wet, literally.
Soon after they arrived, a tsunami devastated the
region. Partnering with groups like the United Nations, the World Health
Organization, the Red Cross, and Islamic Relief, the Palmers spent the
next year-and-a-half administering help to hundreds of thousands in the
predominantly Muslim nation.
As Indonesia’s Humanitarian Aid Director for the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a full-time volunteer position,
Tom Palmer, 63, said it was both an eye-opening and moving experience.
Bilby Series Continues
Kenneth S. Lorek,
The Ralph M. Bilby Professor reports that on Sept. 22,
Professor Patrick R. McMullen
of Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of
Management presented a
paper titled: "Modern Search Heuristics for Intractable Optimization
Problems" in the CBA’s
Bilby Speaker Series.
Neil Jacobs,
Kathy Savage, and
Chris Scherpereel
had their case, "PFSweb at the Strategic Tipping Point," accepted for
the upcoming issue of the
Case Research Journal.
The Journal remains a highly selective and demanding outlet for the very
best cases and case-oriented papers. Over the past three years, its
acceptance rate has averaged less than 16 percent.
Nita Paden, professor in the College of
Business Administration, represented NAU at a national chapter officer
training workshop called "Partnering For Success" for The Honor Society
of Phi Kappa Phi Aug. 5-6 in Portland, Ore. Paden currently serves as
vice president of the NAU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. The workshop was
designed for participants to share ideas and to learn strategies for
making their respective chapters operate at maximum efficiency.
Nancy Wilburn
and Bob Kilpatrick,
professors of accounting, had an article, "Off-Balance-Sheet Financing &
Operating Leases: Impact on Lessee Financial Ratios," accepted for
publication in
The RMA Journal
for its Dec. 2006–Jan. 2007 issue.
Visiting from China
Hongguang Jia,
associate professor – Fujian Normal University – CBA faculty mentor,
Kevin Chiang
Lin Yan, lecturer –
Fujian Normal University – CBA faculty mentor, Russell Crook
Staff Action
New Staff
Scott Hoefle, M.B.A., coordinator, CBA Office of
Academic Services
Jenny Staskey (’89 ACC), director of undergraduate
programs who came to the CBA from the School of Hotel and Restaurant
Management.
Cindy Thompson, administrative assistant – Dean’s
Office
Staff Changes
Deidre Frank, program coordinator – Career
Development Office
CBA IT Update
Richard Toeniskoetter, CBA IT manager, reports that
they have close to 3,000 student accounts for this semester.
This past summer saw several major changes, which
included:
- full deployment of Sun Global Desktop (SGD) in place
of Citrix
- rebuild of the CBA web site
- continued transition to Windows Server 2003 from 2000
- migration of all production UNIX servers to Solaris 10
- migration of all Oracle databases to Oracle 10gR2
- roll out of our first version of the CBA Information
Kiosks
- re-imaging of all lab computers with the latest software versions
and patches.
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