School of Business

Awards go to faculty, staff and students

KU Business School graduate student Patrick McClelland received three awards from the University for his academic achievements.

Many members of the School of Business community received recognition for their work last semester.

Among the awards presented to faculty was the new Gordon Fitch Faculty Service Award, given in recognition of retired professor Gordon Fitch. The inaugural award went to Chuck Krider. The Bubb Award was presented to Greg Freix and Parker Lessing. Bill Beedles received the Beta Gamma Sigma Outstanding Educator Award. Miker Ettredge received the PhD Outstanding Mentor Award. Melissa Birch was awarded the Graduate Business Council MBA Outstanding Professor Award and the Undergraduate Business Council Outstand Educator Award was presented to Mark Haug.

Among Business School staff, Mary Ann Traiger received the Beth Bovee Staff Excellence Award. Toni Dixon and Mary Boatright were presented Staff Person of the Year Awards.

Among graduate students, four doctoral students and four master’s students received honors, along with a dozen graduating seniors. Click here to view the entire article.

Congratulations to these outstanding faculty, staff and students of the KU School of Business.

Wall Street Journal to promote partnership with KU

The KU School of Business will soon be included in a promotional effort by the Wall Street Journal.

“A large majority of our business student readers subscribe to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) through a coordinated program such as the one set up by the KU School of Business,” according to Michelle Powell. Powell, with Dow Jones, the parent company of WSJ, is creating a promotional piece highlighting the Academic Partnership program offered by the Wall Street Journal.

Since last spring, The Wall Street Journal has been available free to all KU students as part of the Student Senate’s Newspaper Readership Program. The Student Senate provides the funding for the program, but the initiative to bring the WSJ to campus was started by the Business School’s Undergraduate Business Council, which pushed for the paper for nearly three years. As the spring semester began, more than 400 students had signed up for an online subscription. According to Powell, that number has now grown to more than 675.

Powell said there were 44 schools nationally participating in the Academic Partnership program. Her brochure will highlight the program and the ways professors can use the WSJ in the classroom. The brochure will include list KU, along with our Business School logo, as one of the partners that succeeded in gaining student involvement.

For more information visit the School of Business website.