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FACULTY AND COLLEGE NEWS WSU Vancouver and Tri-Cities Offer WSU Four-Year Degrees Washington State University is moving ahead to offer four-year baccalaureate programs at its regional campuses in Vancouver and Tri-Cities, expanding educational opportunities for undergraduate business students statewide. While both campuses have offered junior- and senior-level coursework since the late 1980s, the new initiative will allow them to add lowerdivision courses as well as general education requirement classes. At WSU Vancouver, freshmen and sophomores who have expressed an interest in majoring in business will be able to start at that campus this fall, says Jane Cote, business program director there. “We anticipate between 30 and 40 of these new classes will be business students,” she says. That represents about 20 percent of the total new freshmen and sophomores, a percentage that aligns with the business student population in the total WSU Vancouver headcount. That is also in line with numbers and percentages expected at WSU Tri-Cities at its campus in Richland, according to Interim Chancellor Dave Lemak. The start date for new entering freshmen and sophomores at WSU Tri-Cities is fall semester 2007. “The Tri-Cities campus has a strong co-enrollment program already in place with Columbia Basin College and students have enjoyed a seamless transition to WSU Tri-Cities and into the business program,” says Lemak. The new four-year program on the campus will appeal to students who want their undergraduate education to be at one location, he says. He also sees the four-year program at Tri-Cities as possibly becoming a “destination program” with appeal to students statewide seeking specialty business programs. He anticipates that accounting at his campus will become increasingly popular. Other business majors available at Tri-Cities are management information systems, management and operations, and business administration. At Vancouver, students can major in accounting, marketing, finance, management information systems, human resources/management, management and operations, and business administration. Master of business administration degrees are available at both campuses, as are active business student clubs, internship programs at local and regional enterprises, career fairs, and numerous student services With the move to the four-year program, Cote envisions the Vancouver business program becoming “even more solidly a part of the fabric of the community as faculty numbers grow and the four-year program becomes mature.” The Tri-Cities will continue to co-employ faculty with Columbia Basin College to teach 100- and 200-level course. Vancouver will depend to a large degree for the next few years on the teaching services of adjunct professors (professionals from industry with high qualifications) to teach lower division classes. Teachers WSU Vancouver and programs at both campuses meet the standards set by the AACSB, The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the accrediting body for the WSU College of Business. Vancouver accounting alumna Kristen E. Lynch, CPA (’02 Accounting, ’05 MBA) is hard at work preparing to teach the first Accounting 230 course, Introduction to Financial Accounting, at her alma mater starting in August. The assistant audit manager for the Washington State Auditor’s Office in Vancouver scrutinized textbooks to find the best one at the most affordable cost. She says she will work through every assignment herself before presenting it to her students, and will bring her real world auditing experiences into the classroom. “It’s important to me to inspire my students to be as excited about learning as I am about teaching them,” says Lynch. “This is a great opportunity for me to invest in someone and watch their growth. I’m very pleased to be part of the new four-year program.” —bev makhani 38 WSU College of Business
Outstanding Award Winners Outstanding Faculty, Teaching: Claire Latham, Associate Professor, Accounting, WSU Vancouver Outstanding Faculty, Research: Joe Valacich, Professor, Information Systems Outstanding Faculty, Service: Jean Johnson, Professor, Marketing Outstanding Staff: Janet Reid, Management and Operations and Serry Bauer, Office of Technology Outstanding Graduate Student, Teaching: Michael O’Fallon, Hospitality Business Management Outstanding Graduate Student, Research: Michael O’Fallon, Hospitality Business Management and Christoph Schneider, Information Systems Dean’s Distinguished Award: Glenn Crellin, Washington Center for Real Estate Research 2006 College of Business Awards Pictured: Back row (left to right): Glenn Crellin, Joe Valacich, Janet Reid, and Christoph Schneider. Front row (left to right): Serry Bauer, Michael O’Fallon, and Jean Johnson. Teaching Innovation Grant Recipients John Becker-Blease, Assistant Professor, Finance, WSU Vancouver Stergios Fotopoulos, Professor, Management and Operations Jean Johnson, Professor, Marketing K.D. Joshi, Associate Professor, Information Systems Nancy Swanger, Assistant Professor, Hospitality Business Management Len Trevino, Assistant Professor, Management and Operations Pictured (left to right): Jean Johnson, Nancy Swanger, and Len Trevino. Dean’s Excellence Fellows Bintong Chen, Professor, Management and Operations Mark Fuller, Professor, Information Systems Jerry Goodstein, Professor, Management and Operations, WSU Vancouver Yany Gregoire, Assistant Professor, Marketing Dogan Gursoy, Assistant Professor, Hospitality Business Management Jean Johnson, Professor, Marketing Gene Lai, Professor, Finance Chris Plouffe, Assistant Professor, Marketing, WSU Vancouver Dennis Reynolds, Associate Professor, Hospitality Business Management Gregory Rose, Assistant Professor, Information Systems, WSU Vancouver Rick Sias, Professor, Finance David Sprott, Associate Professor, Marketing Tom Tripp, Associate Professor, Management and Operations, WSU Vancouver Joe Valacich, Professor, Information Systems Pictured: Back row (left to right): Joe Valacich, Rick Sias, Bintong Chen, and Yany Gregoire. Front row (left to right): Dennis Reynolds, Jean Johnson, Mark Fuller, Dave Sprott, and Gene Lai. Dividend 39
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