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Next ITEE Meeting will discuss the topic: Posted: Dec, 2011
Striking the Right Balance: "Hard" and "Soft" Skills in IT and the Careers They Go With
What balance of skills are you looking for in new IT hires? How do you create a tradeoff between technical skills,
business skills, analytical skills, and people skills? Come to the ITEE and share your perspectives about how to
shape the next generation of IT professionals.
High School Networking Night
The Center for IT & eBusiness (CITe) is
hosting an informal networking event at The
University of Akron for juniors and seniors
from local high schools in Polsky room 567
on Monday, November 7th from 6:30 to 8:30
pm. The event will give high school students
a chance to interact with IS students, IS
faculty, and area IT executives to learn
more about career opportunities, programs
available at the university, and scholarship
information. Food and door prizes will be
provided.
New IS Faculty Member
Dr. YoungKi Park has joined
the faculty in the College of Business's
Management department. Dr. Park recently
received his Ph.D. in Information
Systems from the University of Southern
California and will be teaching the new
Business Analytics graduate course this
fall.
High School Networking Night
The Center for IT & eBusiness (CITe) is
hosting an informal networking event at The
University of Akron for juniors and seniors
from local high schools in Polsky room 567
on Monday, November 7th from 6:30 to 8:30
pm. The event will give high school students
a chance to interact with IS students, IS
faculty, and area IT executives to learn
more about career opportunities, programs
available at the university, and scholarship
information. Food and door prizes will be
provided.
ITEE Discusses the Topic:
Going Rogue IT Style: The implications
of rogue users inside and outside of the
organization
When a business unit
head doesn’t get something in the IT
budget, he circumvents policies and gets
it somehow. Another user is not
satisfied with the provided conferencing
system, so sets up a meeting at home
using Skype. With the exploding number
of choices available to end users
throughout the organization, are IT
policies and their enforcement becoming
a myth? Come to discuss the travails of
rogue users and what your peers are
doing about them.
IGB Seminar on Intellectual Capital
and International Business
The Institute for Global Business is hosting
a seminar on Intellectual Capital and
Internation Business Friday October 21st,
2011 at the Quaker Square Inn. The deadline
for registration is October 7th. For more
information, visit the
IGB
Homepage.
ITEE Discusses the Topic:
"Delivering and Promoting Innovative
Business Value"
As the use
of IT/IS to facilitate business processes
and compete better continues to expand, CIOs
must deliver innovative services and
communicate their value to the business.
Join the ITEE as we consider the changing
perceptions of IT/IS as a service provider
and its role in delivering business value to
the organization.
ITEE Discusses
the
Topic: "Virtualization: Performance and
Prospects"
Virtualization has
given IT departments an unprecedented
cost reducing tool through server
consolidation, streamlined business
continuity, and access to the cloud. But
questions remain: can virtualized
servers really scale? Has virtualization
delivered the promised ROI? Can and
should IT take the next step to
virtualization on the desktop? How might
virtualization facilitate business
agility and repositioning IT as a
service?
Second Annual IT Career Camp
IT Career Camp is designed for
rising high school juniors and seniors
from the Greater Akron area to work
together in groups and gain a better
understanding of the Information
Technology field. The camp was a five day event held on The
University of Akron campus from June
20-24th. Registration is currently
closed.
For more information on the event, visit
the ITCC
home page,
or email ua.itcc@gmail.com.
Second Annual IT Day
Information Technology Day provides an
opportunity for students to participate
in a scholarly event to advance
technology. Juniors, seniors, and
graduate students are welcome to submit
an abstract for poster presentation.
Students in the MIS as well as Computer
Science and Engineering programs will be
presenting, and the event will host
keynote speakers Rob Law (CIO, GE
Lighting) and AJ Hyland (President and
CEO, Hyland Software).
The event was held
on April 21 from 9am - 2pm in the
Student Union Ballroom. For more
information visit the
event home page.
ITEE Discusses the
Topic: "The Consumerization of IT and
Implications for the Organization"
With more than 80
tablet computers hitting the market this
year, and numerous smartphones and other
devices already proliferating, the
concept of a standard enterprise
computing infrastructure is being
stretched as never before. Come discuss
with your peers how you and they are
handling this avalanche of devices, and
what the implications are for
productivity, connectivity,
compatibility, security, architecture,
ROI, etc.
IT Shadow Day
Junior, senior, and graduate
students majoring in Information Systems
are invited to attend the IT Shadow Day
on February 22nd from 9 am to 1 pm.
Classes are cancelled in observation of
President's Day. Students will get an
overview of the IT department, tour the
facilities, and then shadow an IT
employee as they carry out their daily
tasks. Breakfast and lunch are provided,
students must arrange transportation.
ITEE Discusses
the Topic: "The Collaboration
Challenge"
For every team that has mastered making
platforms such as SharePoint the heart
of efficient and effective
collaboration, many others are mired in
emails, flattened by perpetually
circulating files, and amazed that
empowering technologies are now
imprisoning. Come to the ITEE and share
your successes and challenges in using
collaboration software to manage
documents and knowledge, improve team
communication and productivity, and
ultimately, to affect the bottom line.
ITEE Discusses
the Topic: "Assimilating Mobile
and Consumer Devices into the IT
Infrastructure"
With Androids and iPhones, Blackberries,
iPads, and the next wave of tablet
computers lurking in the shadows, IT
departments are racing to accommodate
the demands of executives down the line
to plug these devices into the corporate
infrastructure. While presenting
security and other challenges, they also
represent an opportunity for
"mobilizing" enterprise applications.
This ITEE session will be devoted to
discussing the implications of the new
wave of mobile and consumer devices.
Share your experiences and learn from
the experiences of your peers in this
discussion led by George Mehok, CIO at
Revol Wireless.
ITEE Discusses
the Topic: "Is your company ready
for Windows 7 and Office 2010
deployment?"
Microsoft recently announced that
Windows 7 has surpassed the 150 million
unit sales. That means 15% of all the
PCs in the world (nearly a billion) are
now running Windows 7, making the new
operating system (OS) the fastest
adopted OS in history.
But the
good news for Microsoft may not be the
same for your IT department. A PC
refresh will not only take time and cost
money, but proper planning and
prioritization with other complex
projects like deploying Office 2010 is
critical.
If these are some of
your IT dilemmas, IT Executive Exchange
(ITEE) will be holding a discussion on
September 10, 2010 that should be of
interest to you. The next ITEE meeting
will discuss some of the features and
best practices to help you make the
decision to upgrade to Windows 7/Office
2010 or not.
ITEE Discusses the Topic: "ITIL
and COBIT"
This session of IT
Executive Exchange
will address how
companies are
implementing
Information
Technology
Infrastructure
Library (ITIL) and
Control Objectives
for Information
Technology (COBIT)
frameworks. An
expert will seed our
discussion with
introductory
remarks, and we will
address questions
such as: How does an
IT organization go
about adopting and
integrating ITIL and
COBIT? How are they
different? Is it
expensive? What are
the challenges and
benefits of
implementing either
or both?
According to
Wikipedia, ITIL is a
set of concepts and
practices for
managing Information
Technology services,
IT development and
IT operations and
COBIT is a set of
best practices
(framework) for
information
technology
management created
by the Information
Systems Audit and
Control Association
(ISACA), and the IT
Governance Institute
(ITGI) in 1996.
First Annual Information
Technology Day:
This event showcased University of Akron
students advancing the frontiers of
information technology. For more details
please follow the link
http://www.cs.uakron.edu/ITDay.htm
Venue: Student Union Ballrooms B-E on
Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:00 am – 2:00
pm
New
CITE Board Member:
CITe is pleased to announce the addition of
Greg Cordray to the CITe Board of Directors.
Greg is the President of Keystone Technology
Consultants, Inc. of Bath, Ohio. Keystone
Technology Consultants is a privately held
firm operating in the computer networking
industry. Greg has a degree from the College
of Engineering at Ohio State.
New
CITE Board Member:
Dr. Sasi Pillay serves
as the Chief Information Officer at the NASA
Glenn Research Center. He is responsible for
advocating, managing, and implementing
Information Technology investments and
infrastructure. He also serves on the
Center's Strategic Management Council and
the Operations Management Council.
Dr. Pillay received his B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from Pennsylvania State
University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Computer Engineering from Case Western
Reserve University. He also has a Master's
degree in Management of Technology from the
Sloan School of Management at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ITEE Discusses
the Topic:
"Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: Learning
from Our Best and Worst IT practices"
Every IT/IS organization
has some IT processes that they are
particularly proud of, and others they would
like to (relatively speaking) sweep under
the carpet. In this working session, ITEE
members will share their best and worst IT
practices to enlighten, inform, assist, and
amuse the participants.
The meeting will be held on March 26,
2010. Please visit
IT Executive Exchange page for details.
ITEE Board
Members discuss the topic
"Managing IT Innovation"
This session of ITEE addressed how companies are using IT to
encourage innovation in their organizations. Are innovations brought to the
business from the IT side, or does the business side tell IT what to do? How do
firms ensure that they are not missing important new technologies? Who is
responsible for defining the benefits that are supposed to come from the
innovations, and who follows up to make sure they are realized?
The meeting was held on January 22, 2010. Please visit
IT Executive
Exchange page for details.
Anita Campbell listed on Forbes top 30
entrepreneurs to follow
Anita is a CITe Advisory Board Member and recently received distinction as one
of the top 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. Anita is the founder and
CEO of Small Business Trends.
Small Business Trends is a popular business blog, website, and community that
helps readers stay on top of trends in the small business market. Small Business
Trends was named to the 2005 and 2008 Forbes Best of the Web. In addition, Anita
is host of her own weekly talk radio/podcast program. Currently, Small Business
Trends has 29,453 followers listed.
New Advisory Board Member
Center for IT & eBusiness (CITe) is pleased to announce the acceptance of Sandra
L. (Sandy) Rapp to the CITe Advisory Board. Sandra is the Vice President and
Chief Information Officer of
OE Connection located
in Richfield. Sandy is a alumni of the University of Akron and holds an MBA in
International Business from the College of Business Administration!
Jim Sage was
named Chief Information Officer of The Year!
Congratulations
to CITe advisory board member Jim Sage for
winning the 2009 CIO of the Year Award for
the non-profit organization category awarded
by
Northeast Ohio Software Association (NEOSA).
Jim Sage has been Vice President for
Information Technology at The University of
Akron since December 2005. For the second
time, UA Information Technology Services was
named IT Team of the year for 2009 by the
NEOSA, on November 10th. The award
recognizes Information Services commitment
to student success as well as a dedication
to outreach activities that improve the
economic development of North East Ohio and
the entire state. NEOSA mentioned the team
support of university students, faculty,
staff, its engagement and community
initiatives like Akron's Wi-Fi and its
leadership in developing shared services.
What you need
to know to stay off the front page of the
WSJ ?
On any given day the Wall Street Journal
contains sad reports of firms that have
permitted data breaches, been victims of
computer crime, or in other ways have
suffered from insufficient computer
security. Declining stock prices, dropping
consumer confidence, monetary and trade
secret losses, civil and criminal
penalties—consequences can be dire. Come
share with your peers information about how
you perceive the latest threats and what you
are doing to combat them.
Previous
IT Executive Exchange (ITEE) meeting discussed the topic "Security". The meeting
held on November 13, 2009. Please
visit
IT
Executive Exchange page for details.
CITe Advisory Board is growing
Center for IT & eBusiness welcomes our new
members, Darren
Hudach
and Orysia D’Aurelio. Our new member Darren
Hudach is Director of Global Software and
North America Technical Support at
PerkinElmer, Inc.. Darren has been with
PerkinElmer for over six years. PerkinElmer,
Inc. is an American multinational technology
corporation.
Orysia D’Aurelio is the Managing Director of
Comsys, Inc. She has been with Comsys for
over 14 years. Comsys is a leading IT
services company with over 50 offices
throught the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and
the UK.
IT Executive Exchange meeting discussed
social networking tools.
IT Executive Exchange (ITEE) meeting
discussed the topic "New communication
methods – aggregation and the use of social
networking tools to foster new communication
methods." The meeting on September 18,
2009 started with a networking lunch at
1:00 pm and continued with discussions. Many
CITe advisory board members and local IT
professionals joined the meeting. ITEE
is a forum comprising a group of IT
Executives and College of Business
Administration professors at The University
of Akron that meet every six to eight weeks
to discuss pressing and leading edge issues.
What You Need to Know About Search Engine
Optimization (SEO) ?
At the last CITe
Lunch and Learn Series
Aaron Geh presented search engine optimization (SEO).
At a high level, students learned the basics
of SEO, including how it works and why it is
important. In addition, they learned why it
is so important to drive more qualified
traffic to the web sites, convert that
traffic to leads or sales, and then measure
success in real numbers. There was also a Q
& A for students after this
interactive session.
The Executive Business Forum featured
Quality Assurance and Software
Testing
The Center for IT and eBusiness hosted
the 3rd Executive
Business Forum at the University of
Akron on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 from 11:30
am to 1:00 pm. Our guest
William Lewis
presented testing and quality assurance
in the Agile world & how to infuse Test
Driven Development into the process. He also discussed the business impacts of
adopting Software Testing and Continuous
Quality Improvement & a practical roadmap
for implementation. IT executives,
professionals and academia also had chance to
get to know each other better during the luncheon.
IT Executive Exchange met for Leveraging
Cloud Computing!
Pie in the Sky or the Next Big Thing on the
Horizon? One of the fastest growing consumer
technology trends is cloud computing, where
data and software is housed in remote data
centers rather than on-site servers.
Microsoft's cloud computing data center in
Northlake Illinois is designed to hold up to
400,000 servers. Amazon is offering its
Elastic Computing Cloud service. The
Economist reports that “Google is said to be
operating a global network of about three
dozen data centers loaded with more than 2m
servers (although it will not confirm this).
Microsoft is investing billions and adding
up to 35,000 servers a month. Other internet
giants, such as Yahoo!, are also busy
building huge server farms."
These and other
firms are betting that IT shops will want to
move a great deal of their processing into
these ultra-efficient centers. This session
of the ITEE was held on Friday, June 12,
2009 and considered the pros and cons
of cloud computing in our unique setting of
NE Ohio.
Open Source Software. Does it work?
Does it pay? Will you regret it later?
Particularly in difficult economic
times, firms are re-assessing whether or not
it makes sense to use Open Source Software,
which appears to be significantly cheaper.
This session of the
IT
Executive Exchange included a range of
topics around Open Source, such as: how does
it fit into the overall software portfolio,
what are the (hidden) costs and benefits,
what are some of the tools and packages that
exist for various applications, security
issues, and other important factors. The ITEE began with a networking
lunch on March 27, 2009 from 1 pm to 2 pm and then took place
from 2pm to 4pm.
The Executive Business Forum
featured Umesh Ramakrishnan!
On November 10, 2008 The University of Akron
welcomed Umesh Ramakrishnan as he presented
his research at the CITe
Executive Business Forum. As a leading
headhunter for the Cleveland firm CTPartners,
Mr. Ramakrishnan has rare access to the
world’s top business executives who have
successfully climbed to the top of their
organizations. The discussion included how
to spot the most effective mentors, making the
most of networking, the advantages of taking
risks and many more inspiring, thought
provoking rules to guide a professional
career. A more detailed look at all of Umesh’s findings can be found in his new
book There’s No Elevator to the Top,
available on his website
www.noelevatortothetop.com.
Effective Benchmarks IT Can Use to Gauge
Success
Several effective IT benchmarks used by
large and small companies were discussed at
the last
IT Executive Exchange January 30,
2009. Local IT professionals talked about
how to balance the cost of maintaining
businesses’ internal IT systems with the
cost of new implementations and outside
projects, as well as the best ways to
measure end-user surveys. In addition,
attendees shared some important aspects they
consider before comparing their IT
performance with competitors. It was also
interesting to learn that many firms are
developing creative ways to link
compensation and IT metrics goals.
The Lunch and Learn Series was a great
success!
CITe hosted Anita Campbell for the
Lunch and Learn Series
event on October 16, 2008.
Our popular event started with a networking lunch
in the Murphy Room. Our guest speaker Anita
Campbell discussed the topic Web
2.0 and Social Media Strategies. Some
students won books by
answering questions during the presentation. Web 2.0
concepts have led to the development and
evolution of web-based communities and
hosted services, such as social-networking
sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs,
and folksonomies.
Click here to learn more about Lunch and
Learn Series.
What do new graduates expect from
employers?
CITe hosted another
IT Executive Exchange on November 7,
2008. The topic was "What do new graduates
expect from employers?" It was a different
format than usual, a panel of six students
fielded questions from real business leaders
and hiring managers who are trying to
prepare for the challenges they may face
when hiring “Generation Y.” The student
panel was also able to ask questions to
their potential future employers. It was an
exciting exchange and
definitely helped foster communication
between students and employers.
ITEE gathered to discuss the topic "Telecommuting"
The
IT Executive Exchange (ITEE) had a very informative
meeting September 12th, 2008. The topic of the
exchange was “Telecommuting” which followed a networking
lunch. Attendees shared the ways in which telecommuting
has helped their companies attract and retain employees
and benefit from significant cost savings. ITEE is
a forum for IT Executives and College of Business
Administration professors at The University of Akron
that meets about every six to eight weeks to discuss
pressing and leading edge issues.
"Business Intelligence" was the topic of ITEE
Meeting
CITe hosted another ITEE meeting this summer.
At 18th of July, 2008 ITEE members from industry and
academia came together for a networking lunch and
discuss the topic Business Intelligence in detail.
ITEE members discuss the topic "Mobility
and Mobile Computing"
IT Executive Exchange (ITEE)
had its regular meeting with the topic of "Mobility
and Mobile Computing". The meeting at 30th of May started with a networking lunch
and followed by the exchange.
CITe hosted John L. Mariotti
at an Executive
Business Forum!
At the forum
John
L. Mariotti presented his recent book The Complexity
Crisis — Why too many products, markets &
customers are crippling your company — and what to do
about it. The Executive Business Forum, organized by
the Center for Information Technologies and e-Business,
was a significant success and brought together
experienced professionals from industry and academia.
ITEE met to discuss the topic "Social Networks"
At April 11, 2008
IT Executive Exchange (ITEE)
had its regular meeting. Topic of this meeting
was "Social
Networks". Meeting started with a networking lunch at
1:00 pm and continued with discussions. ITEE is a forum
of group of IT Executives and College of Business
Administration professors at The University of Akron
that meets about every six to eight weeks to discuss
pressing and leading edge issues.
First Lunch and Learn Series on MS
Project Server 2007 was a great success
Boundless Flight, Inc. jointly presented an interactive
demonstration of MS Project Server 2007 with leadership
from the Project Management Office of Energizer Battery
Company on February 1, 2008. The product was
demonstrated by Collin Quiring, one of the top Microsoft
Project experts in the U.S. Energizer described their
business objectives in detail and then correlated how
Project Server is addressing those needs to keep their
world-wide engineering and management teams up to date
on major projects, all the way from proposal/approval to
product delivery.
Click
here to download the presentation.
Dr. Ramakrishna had a successful visit to The
University of Akron.
CITe was privileged to host Dr. H. V. Ramakrishna from
the School of Business, University of Redlands for two
captivating presentations for UA faculty and staff. The
first presentation on January 24th was about Developing
Relationships with International Universities,
particularly those in India. The second presentation
focused on GIS and spatial analysis and how to
incorporate them into a business curriculum.
IT Team and CIO Tope in Northeast
Ohio
Akron, Ohio, Nov. 19, 2007 —
The University of Akron's Information
Technology Services department and its
leader, Jim Sage, took top honors at the
annual CIO Forum of the Northeast Ohio
Software Association (NEOSA) in
Cleveland Nov. 14.
UA's IT organization was named the
non-profit IT Team of the Year — the
first university IT group to receive
this honor. Sage, vice president for IT,
was named Chief Information Officer of
The Year.
The team award acknowledges the group's
commitment to student success and a
dedication to outreach activities that
enhance the well-being and economic
development of Northeast Ohio and the
state.
In selecting UA, NEOSA recognized its
strategic objectives of engaged
leadership, infrastructure enabling,
seamless and secure access that empowers
the university community, creating a
collaborative environment and fostering
engaged outreach.
CBA Graduate Program Makes Princeton
List Again
The Collegeof
Business Administration
graduate program is "a best business
school" and "one of the best MBA
programs in the world," according to the
2008 edition of The Princeton Review's
Best 290 Business Schools. UA's College
of Business offers "a flexible and
comprehensive MBA program" and boasts an
"excellent reputation for business," the
Review said. This is the fourth
consecutive year that the CBA has been
included in the prestigious
Princeton list.
James
L. Sage Named VP for Information
Technology
Akron, Ohio, Dec.
19, 2005 — James L. Sage has joined
The University of Akron as vice
president for information technology.
The University of Akron's Board of
Trustees approved the appointment at its
December meeting.
Sage comes to the University from
American Teleradiology Management Group,
a medical services company in Chagrin
Falls, where he was executive vice
president of operations and technology.
He will be responsible for all of the
University's information technology
functions, including the departments of
applications services, hardware and
operating systems, networking services,
and learning technologies and
scholar/learner services.
“Our University has been widely
recognized as a technology leader,
including being ranked third in the
nation by Intel among wireless
campuses,” says University of Akron
President Luis M. Proenza. “Jim Sage's
extensive experience in information
technology will help ensure that we will
continue innovative uses of technology
to enhance teaching, learning, research
and business processes.”
Prior to his appointment at American
Teleradiology, Sage was executive vice
president and chief information officer
at Agilysys, an electronics and computer
systems distributor based in Cleveland.
His career also includes serving as vice
president over information systems at
OfficeMax in Cleveland and as vice
president of management information
systems at Camelot Music Inc. in Canton.
Sage earned a bachelor's degree in
industrial management and management
information systems from The University
of Akron. He also graduated from the CIO
Academy at Emory University.
He is a board member of the Northeast
Ohio Software Association and program
chair for the Society for Information
Management.
Sage and his wife, Pat, reside in Copley
with their daughters Britney and
Kristen.
Intel Ranks UA Third in U.S.
Wireless Access
Akron,
Ohio, Oct. 12, 2005 — The University of
Akron is a national leader in the use of
wireless internet technologies,
according to Intel Corp.'s second annual
survey on wireless Web access at U.S.
colleges and universities.
The University of Akron ranked third
nationally in Intel's ranking among 50
campuses with the greatest wireless
internet capability.
Only Ball State University and Western
Michigan University ranked higher than
UA. Other Ohio schools in the rankings
included Case Western Reserve University
(eighth) and the University of Dayton
(17th).
“The University of Akron has been known
for years as the most wired-for-wireless
public university in Ohio,” says UA
President Luis M. Proenza. “Now we have
achieved recognition that our efforts
are considered exceptional from a
national standpoint as well.
“Our campus network, with 950 access
points, allows the use of wireless
computers both inside the classroom and
outdoors on the campus' greens and
walkways, as well as at our Wayne
College branch campus and even at ourstadium,” Proenza explains.
The survey findings were based on the
percentage of each college campus that
is covered by wireless technology, the
number of undergraduate students and the
computer-to-student ratio for each
school. Data was gathered through
university interviews, review of public
documents and additional industry
sources; the “America's Most Connected
Campuses” ranking conducted by Princeton
Review and published in Forbes; and an
online survey that schools completed
between May 1 and Sept. 1, 2005, which
was conducted by the Center for Digital
Education and Intel.
CITe hosts
Seminar on Global Supply
Chain Strategy &
Technology
Friday November 18th from 7:30am to
1:00pm.
Recent trends such as globalization of
operations and markets, new information
technologies, international procurement
and increasing pressure from customers
has presented those in Supply Chain
Management (SCM) with a myriad of
challenges and opportunities. These
issues are the focus of “Global Supply
Chain Strategy and Technology,” a
half-day seminar sponsored by The
University of Akron College of Business
Administration’s Center for Information
Technologies and E-Business (CITE).
This seminar will address challenges
such as security, cultural differences
and technology and will provide
strategies on how to deal with them.
The seminar features an impressive list
of speakers from local and national
companies, who are experts in dealing
with global supply chain issues.
Tony Macisco, immigration and customs
enforcement, Homeland Security, is the
keynote speaker. His presentation,
“Supply Chain Security and Cargo
Importation into the United States,”
will illustrate how supply chain security helps the Department of
Homeland Security protect our nation and
still allows for the free-flow of trade
across international borders.
Other speakers at the event are David
Grubb, partner, Accenture; Perry A.
Trunick, executive editor,
Logistics Today magazine;
Greg Lloyd, chief executive officer,
Precision Software; Hu Huang, director
of international logistics, Kichler
Lighting; Jim Markiaris, vice president
of supply chain management, Invacare;
and Mary Ellen Mattison, business
development manager, JP Morgan Chase
Vastera.
CBA Lauded in Princeton Review Guidebook
Akron, Ohio, Dec. 9, 2004 — The University of Akron's College of
Business Administration (CBA) has been included in the 2005 edition of
The Princeton Review's Best 143 Business Schools.
The book provides
narrative descriptions of the schools to prospective students, and gives current students'
opinions on factors such as academics, admissions, career and placement assistance,
and student life and environment.
The guidebook noted that UA's business students
are proud that the college is focused on the latest business trends, and that it is one
of a few business schools nationwide with an e-business concentration.
“The greatest strength of the College of Business at The University
of Akron is the professors,” one student wrote.
The two-page review
also noted the College's Center for Information Technology and e-Business, Center for
Organizational Development, Fisher Institute for Professional Selling, Fitzgerald Institute
for Entrepreneurial Studies and Institute for Global Business.
“The mission of
the College of Business is to help our students hone their leadership skills and master a
creative and analytical approach to solving problems in the business world,” says Dean
James Barnett. “It is gratifying to see that the hard work of our faculty and staff is
being recognized by this prestigious guide to business schools.”
In
addition to CBA's recognition in the Best 143 Business Schools, The University of
Akron also has been included in the new edition of The Princeton Review's Best
Midwestern Colleges: 150 Great Schools to Consider.
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