| Week of November 30, 2005
NIU Holiday Closure Information |
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| Week of October 28, 2005
Ethics Training |
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| Week of October 3, 2005
NIU's College of Business makes "America's Best Colleges and Programs 2006" |
NIU's College of Business has made the "America's Best Colleges and Programs 2006", as recently published by U.S. News & World Report:
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| Week of September 19, 2005 Welcome the New Faces to Barsema Hall! |
| Welcome the new faculty and staff to the Barsema community! To begin getting to know these new faces and making new connections, visit http://www.cob.niu.edu/whatsnew/newpeople_fa05.asp. |
| Week of August 26, 2005 Barsema Hall Pride featuring Dennis Barsema |
| A message from Dennis Barsema, welcoming students to a new semester and advancing Barsema Hall Pride.
To see this video, visit http://www.cob.niu.edu/barsema/BarsemaPSA.mpg. |
| Week of July 18, 2005 Business & Technology Solutions Show |
| The 2005 Business & Technology Solutions Show will be held August 23-24. This event will include a free Northern Illinois University Alumni Luncheon on August 23, 2005 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The event is open to all NIU graduates and faculty.
To register or for more information about the Show, visit http://www.btshow.org/show.index.html or call 312-993-0393. For a flyer on this event, visit NIU Alumni Luncheon 2005. |
| Week of June 20, 2005 NIU Business Professors -- Raising the Bar |
| Northern's business professors continue to earn recognition for their teaching, research, and community service activities. Most recently, NIU faculty in Finance, Marketing, and Management have been recognized for the following:
Gerald Jensen, Professor of Finance, John Banko, Assistant Professor of Finance, and University of Richmond Finance Professor Mitch Conover co-authored a research paper entitled "The Relationship between the Value Effect and Industry Affiliation." This paper discusses value investing and the interrelationship between the higher historical returns (known as "value effect") produced by firms and the industry in which a firm operates. The authors' paper has been accepted for 2006 publication by The Journal of Business, which is published and produced by the University of Chicago press. The Journal of Business publishes only the highest quality papers in all business disciplines. This paper represents the first NIU paper ever accepted for publication in University of Chicago's The Journal of Business. Denise Schoenbachler, OTA/Off the Record Research Professor of Marketing, Geoffrey Gordon, OTA/Off the Record Research Professor of Marketing, and Tim Aurand, Associate Professor of Marketing, won the Emerald Insight Literati Club 2005 Outstanding Paper Award for their co-authored research paper entitled "Building Brand Loyalty through Individual Stock Ownership." The paper was published in The Journal of Product and Brand Management (November 2004). Courtney Hunt, Assistant Professor of Management, was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (OBTS). As the recognized leader for 31 years in teaching and learning in management disciplines, OBTS publishes the Journal of Management Education, hosts Doctoral Initiatives for Ph.D. students, and holds several regional conferences. For a complete listing of these and other important NIU College of Business highlights, visit www.cob.niu.edu/highlights/achievements.asp. |
| Week of June 13, 2005 EXCEL Award Recipients Honored at Ceremony |
| On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, two NIU CPA Review candidates who successfully passed the computer-based exam were honored at the Illinois CPA Society Awards ceremony held at the Standard Club in Chicago. To be eligible to receive the EXCEL Award, Illinois candidates must have finished within the top 5% nationally and achieved a score of 90 or above on all sections of the exam. In addition to achieving a score of 90 or above on all sections of the exam, EXCEL Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards are granted to the top scoring Illinois candidates.
To learn more about the NIU CPA EXCEL Award Winners, visit http://www.cob.niu.edu/whatsnew/niucpaexcel_may05.asp. View this slide show of the May 2005 ICPAS banquet. |
| Week of May 16, 2005 Second Annual COB Barsema Hall Clean-up Day A Big Success! |
| The College of Business held its second annual Barsema Hall Outdoor Clean-up Day on Wednesday, May 4, 2005. Approximately 25 people--students, faculty and staff--participated in cleaning and sprucing up the grounds. Ice cream and a variety of toppings were available for "build your own" sundaes in the atrium for all those who donated their time for this event.
We wish to thank all of those who put forth the effort to help make the event a success. Thank you for showing your Barsema Pride! Click on the link to view these candid photos.. |
| Week of April 11, 2005 ELC Receives $16,000 to Support Firm-Specific Student Team Projects |
| The college's Experiential Learning Center (ELC) has received $16,000 in Venture Grant Funds. The Venture Grant, awarded by the NIU Foundation Grants Committee, is an annual grant that provides funding for "innovation, including ... interdisciplinary focus, collaboration, community outreach ..." as examples.
The college's ELC office plans to use the grant monies to support ELC student teams as the students apply their learning and imagination to solve actual business issues faced by actual firms. The ELC student team members earn course credit for their efforts and receive guidance from faculty throughout the semester-long project duration. This academic year, the ELC will apply the $16,000 Venture Grant dollars to student team-based projects associated with both for-profit and non-profit organizations such as: The Village of Forest Park, EigerLabs, Ag Tech, and the Mental Health Association RRV .For more information about ELC projects and student teams, visit the Experiential Learning Center Website. |
| Week of April 4, 2005 NIU Executive Club Raises $65,000 for Student Scholarships |
| During its November 2004 gala fundraiser, the college's NIU Executive Club raised $65,000 in one night in support of undergraduate business scholarships. A two-year scholarship, the NIU Executive Club Scholarship, is awarded to outstanding NIU business students who apply for and meet the criteria associated with this scholarship. Along with receiving a specific dollar amount, scholarship recipients benefit from internship opportunities during their junior and senior years and from mentoring relationships with successful business professionals. NIU Executive Club members--all successful NIU alumni and established business professionals in the Chicago area--provide the scholarship monies, internships, and mentorships.
The NIU Executive Club is one of two college membership-based alumni clubs, with the Rockford Alumni Club being the other membership-based club. Both alumni clubs capture the extensive breadth and depth of their members' professional experience in Illinois' vibrant business community, one of the most dynamic in the country. |
| Week of March 7, 2005 APICS Student Organization Wins Regional Case Competition |
 American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) Student Organization Members: Erica Creen, Brandon Dirksen, Parveen Usman, and Heath Wood. These APICS student members--all OMIS majors--won the 10th Annual APICS Regional Student Case Competition held on Saturday, February 5, 2005. The case involved a Midwestern manufacturing plant of a large automotive parts supplier where performance lagged and the plant faced possible closure. The student teams created and presented their recommendations to save the plant from closure in the face of time and resource constraints. Facing their own time constraints, the student teams had only from 9:00 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday to create their solutions and finalize their presentations. On Saturday, all student teams presented their solutions to more than 200 conference attendees and a panel of APICS judges.
The NIU APICS chapter members won first place competing against 13 APICS student chapters from schools such as University of Illinois, Ball State University, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, and University of Houston. NIU's APICS faculty advisor is OMIS professor Dr. Charles Petersen. Pictured from left to right: Erica Creen, Tom Maley (Vice President of Education - Fox River Chapter), Brandon Dirksen, Charles Petersen (Faculty Advisor), Heath Wood, Mike Loughman (President - Fox River Chapter), and Parveen Usman. |
| Week of February 14, 2005 The Motley Fool Comes to Barsema in April |
| The Motley Fool are to be featured on April 7, 2005 at the spring Executive Speaker Series, presented for NIU College of Business Alumni. Brothers David and Tom Gardner (The Motley Fool) are dedicated to educating, amusing and enriching individuals in search of financial truth. Click here for details and to reserve your VIP pass for this exciting event. |
| Week of January 24, 2005 NIU-Rockford B.S.B.A. Open House |
| Would you like to complete a B.S. in Business Administration in two years? Would you like to benefit from highly knowledgeable faculty? Now you can at NIU's Rockford campus. Attend an open house on Thursday, February 17, 2005 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the NIU-Rockford Outreach Center to learn more about the program. For more informaltion, visit http://www.cob.niu.edu/bsbarockford. |
| Week of January 17, 2005 Experiential Learning Center (ELC) 2004 Student Teams and Faculty Team Receive the Educator Award for 2004 |
| The Educator Partner Award for 2004 was awarded by Family Shelter Service (FSS), a non-profit agency providing support for victims of domestic violence. The Spring and Fall 2004 ELC student teams created the first-ever online victim advocacy and client information database for FSS. Microsoft donated the software for this important project. The student teams' work was guided by faculty team members Chuck Downing, OMIS Associate Professor; Luis Flores, Management Professor; Jack Marchewka, OMIS Associate Professor; and Chang Liu, OMIS Associate Professor. The OMIS student team members are: Joe Cabe, Mario Donini, Ray Haas, Candance Smith, Stephen Sobon, Steve Storm, Leon Weed, and Michael Zitella. |