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Show Business department provides many dynamic offerings SUU's department of business has grown and developed amazingly over the Russia next year for the experience of a lifetime. past year. ACBSP accreditation has signified a new benchmark of success In addition to SUU's Russian program, the department has also launched a allowing the department to distinguish itself as a leader·among its peers in feasibility study to establish a sister university relationship in an other part of attaining lofty standards of excellence. Graduating seniors have scored in the the world with UNIVA which is a five-campus system of 8,000 students in 93rd percentile of 38,000 graduating business majors nationwide in business Mexico. This is just the beginning, says Salmon. In the next few years, administration and accounting. This leveling exam, offered from Princeton, SUU's department of business will have educational liaisons in all major is a litmus test of Southern Utah University's quality. Our SIFE (Students in world markets. Free Enterprise), PBL (Professional Business Leadership), and DEX (Delta NAFTA relations, newly emerging markets of the Common Wealth of Epsilon Chi) teams h ave all gleaned top regional and national honors. In Independent States, and other global trends are no longer strictly textbook short, innovation, creativity, and down to earth "shoe leather" has afforded studies but real life classroom experiences. Even traditional classroom studies the department an image worth noting. go beyond textbooks to include the latest technologies to enhance education According to Dean of Business, through foreign exchange com pu ter modules, global business strategy Technology and Communication Robert 0. Salmon, the business department is simulations, export simulation software, proud of the sterling example the and internet con versations with people accounting program continually from all over the world. exemplifies. This past year, the Master of SUU's international program offers a specialty for business students and a Accountancy Program graduated 24 wellminor for students from other disciplines prepared budding professionals, as well as 46 undergraduates. Combining the on campus; there is something for everybody. "Come on in and check us graduate and undergraduate program, accountancy is the largest program on the out," says Salmon. This year, the department created an SUU campus. The accounting program is interdisciplinary degree program in becoming renowned in southern Nevada economics. This degree will allow and along the Wasatch Front areas for the highly successful Annual Continuing students to pursue studies in economics in more of a liberal arts framework that may Professional Education Conference for extend into such diverse areas as school CPA's. Dean Salmon says, "The greatest reform, welfare policy, environmental indicator of the accounting program's regulation, and health care. success is the recurring recruiting visits The degree also provides the from several "Big Six" international opportunity to study more traditional accounting firms, large national firms, subjects such as financial economics and regional and local accounting firms, and international trade. The requirements for local businesses. Our graduates compete the degree include 45 credits in very well with graduates from other larger economics courses, and 25 credits in institutions and for that performance, we allied fields of the student's choice. are most proud." "We're also pleased to offer highly The international business program was prolific extended day offerings, such as the begun in September of 1993. The program class presented by internationally was perfected after the Russian acclaimed adjunct faculty member, Renn student/faculty exchange. Within the last Zaphiropoulos, " says Salmon. "Mr. year, three business professors and four Zaphiropoulos has developed a marvelous students transversed the globe from SUU course, offering unique insights into the to the International University of Moscow organizal:ional psyche entitled, 'Elegance and back. A group of students and faculty in Business'." This is a course for the will return to Russia with Sasha Volkov, thinking individual, who will participate former SUU Russian coordinator, in June. and thrive in the free enterprise of This will be another beginning in the American organizations. creation of global friendships as SUU's "We continue to make great strides in department of business welcomes more the more traditional areas of business exchange students and Alla Paroyatnikova, including marketing, management, PhD., as the new coordinator of Russian finance, business education and small Renn Zaphiropoulos brings a stellar reputation to the business affairs. The department of business will business," says the dean. also be sending SUU exchange students to departm ent. Someday, you'll be an alumnus of SUU, too Since the first system for organizing alumni by class at Yale University in 1792, there have been many important even ts in the field of alumni administration. For students, the hidden benefits that alumni and the alumni association offer are well worth the hunt. Director of Alumni Relations Dan Portwood, said "The sole purpose is to make people feel good about the institution - to be emotionally charged when they complete their stay. Education is the focus of the alumni association." Since 1913, organized alumni work has strengthened upper division institutions and established a standard by which that institution is judged. SUU is, as is every school, influenced by the people that come and go. Alumni want to see the school improve in quality and status amongst other institutions; playing a large role in this effort is the duty of the alumni. I Besides providing financial support to the institution, alumni a lso positively affect the educational aspect of a university. That subsequent improvement reflects not only the alumni, but the students currently attending the school as well. At SUU, the alumni administration is an advocacy in addressing various roles and alumni are in essence, said Portwood, the "coordinator between the past, present, and future. " There are several ways that the alumni association at SUU will immediately influence the students. The alumni will soon offer an SUU credit card to students, faculty, the Cedar City community and family members of SUU students that will feature low interest rates and no annual fee. A percentage of every charge will go toward scholarships. The association will also be reducing the fee for an SUU license plate to $20. All proceeds from th ese sales will go toward scholarship funds that will in turn benefit alumni's children and grandchildren. They are also preparing a data base to produce an alumni-student directory. Portwood said that this would facilitate the communication process and noted that approximately 75 percent of students don't have contact with the school. If anyone, students, faculty members, or community members, know of any SUU alumni or former students who aren't receiving university news, or are "lost, " please encourage them to let the Alumni office know. Alumni associations have played an important part in the shaping of many institutions and, Portwood maintains, it will continue to do so at SUU through programs like those the SUU association has planned. |