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Brock joins School of Business as dean An expert in marketing, management, and organizational behavior has been named dean of the School of Business at Pacific Lutheran University. James L. Brock, 63, has had a distinguished career in higher education administration, teaching, and writing. He has been the dean of business schools in Pennsylvania and Montana and has been a corporate marketing executive. PLU Provost Patricia O’Connell Killen announced the appointment in mid-March. “Jim Brock brings just the expertise we need to provide proven leadership to our talented business faculty and to take full advantage of our new facilities in PLU’s Morken Center for Learning and Technology,” Killen said. Brock sees the position as an opportunity to “help galvanize the PLU School of Business and strengthen the high quality reputation that PLU carries regionally and nationally.” “The challenge and the great opportunity in coming to PLU is providing continuity of leadership on three levels: inside the business school, in the interface between the business school and the larger PLU community, and with several external constituencies, including alumni, employers and business leaders in the region, and prospective students,” he said. Brock served 11 years as dean of the Sigmund Weis School of Business at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, stepping down last year to return to teaching. He was vice president of marketing at Pacific Steel & Recycling, a steel and distribution company in Great Falls, Montana from 1991 to 1996. He was business dean at Montana State University for five years beginning in 1987. Prior to that he was a marketing professor at Montana State for seven years and held academic posts at Oakland University in Michigan and Michigan State University. Brock has written many articles for scholarly journals and presented numerous conference papers. Most recently, he coauthored an article for publication on awareness and redemption behavior with respect to credit card reward programs. He earned his Ph.D. in Marketing from Michigan State University, his MBA at San Francisco State University, and his bachelor’s degree in marketing from University of California (Berkeley). Brock succeeds William Frame who has served as interim dean of the PLU School of Business since September. NEWSUndergrads meet alumnus in China
“The students really appreciated the opportunity to see a PLU graduate working in an international setting," Barnowe said.
Alumni updatesMr. Jeffrey K.H. Niu (MBA/TIM ‘03), now
a Ph.D. degree candidate at Bowman was also re-elected
for the fifth year as the Chairman of the IT and Emerging Technology Skills
Advisory Panel for the Soine has also
been
appointed on the Executive Board of the Washington Wildlife and
Recreation Coalition,
a coalition of 130 business and environmental groups (from Boeing and
Microsoft to Green Peace) founded by Governor Mike Lowery and Dan
Evans, and they successfully raised $100 million for parks, trails,
waterfront easements, and farmland preservation efforts affecting every
city and county in
Washington. He has helped dedicate many of these parks and trails
throughout
the state. Stig-Asbjørn Pedersen,
former PLU undergrad, is currently working on completing his MBA and
master thesis. Pedersen started his bachelor degree in business at Bodø
College University in 2003. He completed two out of three years in Bodø
before attending PLU in 2005 as an exchange student. After completing
his bachelor degree, Pedersen carried on with his MBA in Bodø, and will
complete this in December 2008. His thesis will focus on the
differences between US and Norwegian print and advertising in
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Faculty accomplishmentsCongratulations to Dr. Susan Harmon, marketing professor, for being the 2008 recipient of the Regency Advancement Award! MBA students visit national business magazine
MBA students, led by Professor Quoc Pham, visited The
Saigon Times during their 10-day international experience in “We met with the editor—a
fascinating man who had a broad perspective of the changes in Vietnam over the
past 20+ years. He spoke not only to business and journalism issues, but also
to broader changes in Vietnam culture.”--Harmon Click here for The Saigon Times article on their visit. Papacek and Ramaglia retireGeorgia Papacek, Assistant to the Dean, and Dr. Judy Ramaglia, Professor of Accounting, will retire at the end of May. Papacek has served as Assistant to the Dean for 15 years. She looks forward to traveling and welcoming a new grandchild to her family. Ramaglia has been a professor at PLU for 26 years. She looks forward to traveling the US with her husband Tony, as well as spending some time in Italy.
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