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Message from the Dean

Bob Wood

 

I’ve been thinking about numbers as we transition from the shortest month of the year to one of the longest. This month also marks our annual transition to Daylight Saving Time. The older I get, the hour of sleep lost in the spring always seems to be greater than the one eventually returned in the fall.  As we consider those numbers, I’d like to share a few more.

 

  • 1 Outstanding Paper Award received by Ron Tsang, DBA student at the Association for Marketing and Healthcare Research Conference, March 2018.  Six MCOB faculty have also received outstanding paper awards since 2013. 
  • 2 MCOB students, Carl Thomas and Joshua Crownover, are the current and immediate previous University of South Alabama SGA Presidents.
  • 3 Members of the initial DBA cohort that graduated in 2017.
  • 6 The number of Alumni Fellows named in the initial class in 2017, the College’s 50th anniversary.
  • 7 New AACSB-accredited semester-abroad partnerships developed since 2014.
  • 11 2018 Mitchell Scholars. They join 23 other scholars currently in the scholarship program.
  • 12 Bloomberg Terminals installed in the Saint Financial Analysis Center in 2015; 159 students earned certification since installation.
  • 18 Competitive faculty summer research grants awarded since 2014.
  • 19 MCOB undergraduate students making presentations at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) and Society of Business, Industry, and Economics (SOBIE) conferences since 2013.
  • 29 DBA student presentations at conferences including Academy of Management, Association of Marketing Theory and Practice, Southern Management Association, and others.
  • 40 Consecutive years that the MCOB has hosted the Alabama School of Banking.
  • 45 The percentage of MCOB faculty with at least one Australian Business Deans Council A* or A cohort publication over the past five years.
  • 62 Professional development opportunities sponsored by the Professional Readiness Engagement Program (PREP) during its first three semesters.
  • 195 The number of business professionals on nine MCOB advisory councils representing over 160 companies.
  • 209 Peer-reviewed journal articles published by MCOB faculty over the past five years.
  • 1,200 Basis points: the Jaguar Investment Fund’s excess return versus the S&P 500 since its inception in October 2015.
  • 1,347 Continuing education hours earned by accounting, legal, and real estate professionals at the 2017 Gulf Coast Real Estate & Economic Education Conference sponsored by the MCOB Center for Real Estate and Economic Development.
  • $3,250,000 in IRS refunds from over 2,000 tax returns prepared by VITA students between 2013 and 2017.

A couple of more numbers as I close this month’s column. When the students return from spring break, there will be four weeks of classes in the spring semester, a week of final exams, and graduation. Speaking of graduation, our youngest graduate in the history of the College will receive her degree on May 5. More on her in the next issue.

 

Bob

 

 

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