1. Jones College Faculty Meeting April 24, 2015

2. Personnel Recognition
Retirement
Kay Blasingame-Boike, BCEN
Ken Tillery, MGMK
Service Award--15 Years
Martha Balachandran, BCEN
Charlie Baum, ECFN
Tim Greer, INFS
Steve Morris, INFS
Service Award--25 years
Kim Sokoya, Dean’s Office
Earl Thomas, MGMK
Jo Zietz, ECFN

3. New Hires
ACTG:
Stephen Salter, Incoming Chair (PhD—U of South Carolina)
Audrey Scarlata, Assistant Professor (PhD—U of Kentucky)
ECFN:
Heather Rhodes, Assistant Professor (PhD—U of Alabama)
INFS:
Rohit Valecha, Assistant Professor (ABD—U of Buffalo)
MGMK
Ralph Williams, Assistant Professor (ABD—Kennesaw State U)
BERC
Murat Arik, Director (PhD—U of Connecticut)

4. Other Personnel Updates
ACTG
Sandy Benson, returning to regular faculty
Becky Heath, departing
BCEN
Rachel Wilson, departing
ECFN
Karen Mulligan, departing
Will continue to work with Provost on replacement positions
Possible reassignment of positions depending on enrollment or other strategic priorities

5. BAS Building Renovations
Sales Lab Additional Work
Movement of Trading Room
Renovation of Previous Trading Room
Bell Street Executive Education Center
S278 Studio

6. University Budget Tuition increase—if any, it will be small
Enrollment—still uncertain
No slack in E&G (permanent) budget
Stay tuned…

7. Developing Students: Reengineered MBA New MS in Finance
ABM in ECON, FIN, CIS
BIA Concentration in CIS
Quest for Student Success
Course Redesign
Professional Development and Career Fairs
Orientations and Exit Interviews
“Three Touch” Initiative
New CUSTOMS Format
Dual Enrollment
Dale Carnegie Initiative
Real Estate Renaissance
Non-Profit Summit and Speaker
Assurance of Learning
Business Plan Competition
Finance Competitions
BAP Deloitte Competition

8. Developing Faculty:
By-Laws
Reorganization
AACSB 2016 Review
Community College Outreach
Statewide Business and Consumer Outlook Indices
Faculty at Guangxi
39 Journal Articles
50 Presentations

9. Awards Charlie Apigian:
nominated for “Educator of the Year” Award by Nashville Technology Council
named “Buddy Gibb Volunteer of the Year” for Special Kids, Inc.
Michelle Beauchamp: Best Paper at Society for Marketing Advances Conference (Marketing Education)
Robert B. Blair: Distinguished Service Award for service as President of the National Association for Business Teacher Education
Kay Blasingame-Boike: “Outstanding Postsecondary Teacher Award” from Tennessee Business Education Association
Monica Davis: named Faculty Fellow by Learning, Teaching and Innovative Technologies Center
Tim Graeff: Named as a Fellow for the Marketing Management Association
Virginia Hemby-Grubb: ARBE-DPE Service Award at Business Education Research Conference held during the NBEA Convention

10. Awards
Don Lester:
“Homer L. Saunders Mentor Award” at the SBI Conference
Best Paper Award at SBI Conference (Theoretical Paper)
Bill McDowell:
Best Paper Empirical Paper Award at SBI Conference
“Homer Saunders Outstanding Paper Award” at Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ASBE) (With Don Lester and Josh Aaron)
Sherry Roberts: Distinguished Alumna Award from Central Methodist University
Paula Thomas: 2014 MTSU Foundation Career Achievement Award
Rachel Wilson: Best Paper Award at SBI Conference (Experiential Learning)

11. Developing Friends:
New Development Director
“Wink” Midgett Faculty Awards Program
Community Engagement
“Closing” Gifts Emphasis

12. Developing the Brand: New Magazine Enhanced Marketing: Special Events
Print
Broadcast
Social Media
Special Events
Visits and Speeches

13. Thank You!