CBPA 2019 Spring Newsletter

2019

Volume 1

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Welcome to the spring 2019 issue of the College of Business and Public Administration newsletter! It gives me great pleasure to share many of our college’s recent activities and success stories. Part of our college’s mission is to develop students who contribute to the evolving public and private sector environments. Through engagement and interaction with the business community, local government, tribes and global society, we create opportunities that not only benefit our students, but also contribute to the health and prosperity

of our community.

In this issue of CBPANews, we highlight some of the new and innovative ways in which our faculty, staff and students have been working with businesses to make a positive impact in our community. One example is The Ideathon, a collaboration with Microsoft and Greater Spokane Inc. in which employers, students, faculty and staff participated in an interactive, problem-solving sessions to address the skills gap related to data analyst and data science roles facing employers, and how to create a stronger Data Analyst talent pipeline in Eastern Washington. Ideas generated during the event will ultimately benefit students and employers in the fast-growing field of analytics.

CBPA students often have opportunities to participate in service learning activities, where they are able to work on real-life projects. Recently our students worked with and provided services to Spokane County, the Associated Press Western Election Center and Washington state. Through curricular and co-curricular activities, students managed investment portfolios and created and pitched business ideas.

Further, our students traveled nationally and internationally to participate in symposiums, conferences and competitions.

In addition, our college is fortunate to have the support of an active College Advisory Board. This year we combined our two advisory boards (Puget Sound and local) into one advisory board with representation from both sides of the state. We were honored to add several new members to the board this year. Our Advisory Board members bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from a variety of business disciplines, and they work to support the college in initiatives ranging from strategic planning to special events and fundraising.

It is with great pride that I share with you some of the recent success stories from our CBPA faculty, staff, students and alumni. As always, I invite you to contact me if you have any comments, suggestions or stories that you would like to share.

Sincerely,

Ahmad Tootoonchi, PhD Dean, College of Business and Public Administration

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ONLINE MBA Recognizing the needs of the modern learner, Eastern Washington University is pleased to announce a 100 percent online MBA program, offering careerboosting academic excellence delivered in a flexible online format that is ideal for working professionals.

EWU’s online Master of Business Administration can be completed in as few as 11 months at a tuition price of $14,880, making it one of the most affordable MBA programs in the Northwest. It is designed to ensure tomorrow’s business leaders are equipped to face new and complex challenges in an evolving global marketplace.

Students may focus on a broad base of essential management skills with an MBA in general business or choose from high-demand concentrations in finance, accounting, or global business to prepare for higher-level roles as business management professionals and leaders.

Enrollment is now available at online.ewu.edu.

EWU is one of the only schools in Washington to offer an MBA program that is 100 percent online, providing convenient access to the same quality business education that EWU’s oncampus students have received for more than 50 years.

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CAREER CENTER Jessica Berwick, MS Career Advisor, CBPA

EWU’s Career Center offers students the support, resources and expertise to help them excel in achieving their professional goals.

Students should be building their resume and experience in conjunction with their academic degree. The Career Center offers support in the following areas: • Resume and cover letter writing • Job and internship search • Interview preparation and mock interviews • Choosing a major or career • Career development courses • Salary and benefit negotiation Professional development events and individual career advising are offered on the Cheney and Spokane campuses. Virtual appointments and phone consultations can be arranged for students and alumni who are outside the immediate Cheney and Spokane area.

For more information and online career resources visit: https://sites.ewu.edu/ careercenter/

FACULTY MILESTONES The following CBPA faculty members received service pins in recognition of their years of service: Wendy Eager, senior lecturer in management, 20 years; Jack Gambill, senior lecturer in accounting, 10 years; Kerry Brooks, professor of urban and regional planning, 5 years Wensheng (Vinson) Cai, lecturer of finance, 5 years; Nathaniel Greene, lecturer of economics, 5 years; Nicholas Larsen, associate professor of economics, 5 years; Ning Li, professor of public administration, 5 years.

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GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

Over the summer, Atsushi Inoue and Dave Gorton traveled to Mie University in Tsu, Japan to conduct the second entrepreneurship seminar titled, “From Idea to Pitch,” with a diverse group of graduate and undergraduate students.

The purpose for the course, delivered in both Japanese and English, is to introduce Mie students to sound ideation and communication techniques for a startup company idea. The culminating activity was a pitch contest presented before a panel of outside judges. The seminar was an exchange activity related to the Agreement on Academic Cooperation and Exchange, between the College of Business and Public Administration and the Mie University Graduate School of Regional Innovation Studies. The purpose of the agreement is to facilitate faculty, staff and student exchanges, foster joint research and educational activities and create joint lectures and symposia. Travel costs were funded under a grant obtained by Mie through the efforts of Norihiro Nishimura, VP for Social Cooperation, Regional Area Strategy Center. We are excited about this collaboration, and continue to work on ideas of mutual interest between EWU and Mie. Aaron Kriewald, a student in International Business 470, traveled to Macerata, Italy to participate in the X-Culture Symposium. Students in IBUS 470 participate in X-Culture by working on business projects with groupmates from around the globe.

Teams who score highly on their projects, receive high peer evaluations and produce good reports are invited to apply to attend the symposium. For the symposium, students create and present real-world business strategies that are evaluated by the companies themselves. Aaron chose to create a business strategy for the Macerata Opera Festival, and his team won the competition! Aaron’s trip was funded, in part, with an award from the Provost’s Student Travel/Conference award.

UPCOMING EVENTS Swoop’s Scholarship Scramble will be held at Circling Raven Golf Club on Friday, June 7. Teams will enjoy golfing one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Courses in the U.S., while raising money to fund scholarships for CBPA students. For more information and to register your team, please visit our website at EWU.EDU/SCRAMBLE. On June 13, we will celebrate the end of the academic year at our annual CBPA Honors and Awards Program. The event will be held in the EWU Center auditorium (SEWC 122) from 4 – 6 p.m.

This year’s Commencement for the College of Business and Public Administration will be held at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena on Saturday, June 15 at 9 a.m.

CBPA RECENT EVENTS

In August, the EWU Center for Entrepreneurship hosted Grow Your Sales With E-Commerce, a workshop sponsored jointly by the Small Business Association Pacific Northwest Region and Amazon. Small business owners engaged in panel discussions and presentations about how e-commerce can help small companies grow sales and attract new customers.

Bruce Teague, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and associate professor of management and Jeremy Field, northwest regional director of the Small Business Association.

EWU Urban and Regional Planning Program recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Urban and Regional Planning Program and the 40th anniversary of the Master of Urban and Regional Planning. The celebration and scholarship fundraiser event was held on Oct. 5 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Spokane City Center. Planning faculty, staff, alumni, students and friends joined for an evening with dinner and music in honor of the people and projects from EWU that have helped transform communities throughout the Northwest and beyond.

In October, Dr. Wanthanee (Tam) Limpaphayom and the Bellevue College Business Leadership Club welcomed guest speakers Bryan Bonham and Daniel Beasley from the Microsoft Minecraft Education Department to discuss the business model of Minecraft education. The event was held on the EWU at Bellevue College, with a live broadcast to EWU Cheney campus.

Faculty and students from the

professional accounting program joined industry professionals at the annual E. Claire Daniels Symposium on Oct. 15. The event was co-hosted by EWU and Gonzaga University. The keynote speaker was Ms. Christine Botosan, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) board member, and award-winning professor and researcher.

On Oct. 17, guest speaker Mysheallie Irby, people operations analyst at Apptio in Bellevue, Wash., visited students in human resource management (HUMR 328).

The CBPA Leadership Development Series, an interactive panel discussion with top business executives, was held on Oct. 18. This event was open to all EWU students, faculty, and staff, and provided an opportunity to learn about the personal journeys and professional success of top executives including Sue Horton, President and CEO of Wheatland Bank, and Roger Junkermier, president of Cerium Networks.

The STEM Career Fair was also held on Oct. 18 on the EWU Cheney campus.

Participating employers included: Chief Architect Software, Clearwater Analytics, Exotic Metals Forming Company, Fast Enterprises, Inland Imaging, MultiCare Health System, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, and Washington State Department of Ecology.

On Oct. 23, Mr. Yi Ping Chan, who has served in multiple companies as principal, interim CEO, CFO and other director positions, spoke to students in Multinational Peoples Management (MGMT 471) at our EWU at Bellevue College campus. Mr. Chan spoke about his experience in managing global work force in several Asian countries.

The Urban and Regional Planning Program hosted their annual Chili Cook-Off on Nov. 9. Students, faculty, staff, advisory board members and

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members of the community participated in this family-friendly event. This year’s event included a silent auction, with proceeds going to fund travel and activities for the Association of Student Planners.

On Dec. 7, CBPA faculty, staff, students and community members gathered at the annual Holiday Open House to celebrate the accomplishments of the year and to honor our recent retirees; Stephen Shervais, associate professor of management information systems, and Dave Gorton, director of outreach for the EWU Center for Entrepreneurship.

In January, the EWU Career Center collaborated with JC Penney for the Suit Up Professional Dress Event. Students and recent alumni were invited to shop at JC Penney during this special event, and received a 40 percent discount on professional attire and accessories.

Professional staff were on hand to help students select styles and sizes in a fun and festive setting which included prize drawings for $2,000 in gift cards to JC Penney, provided by Washington State Employee Credit Union (WSECU).

On March 6 we hosted the Part-Time and Summer Job Fair. Students learned about part-time and summer employment, internships, and volunteering opportunities while practicing their networking skills.

Entrepreneurial students from across the university participated in the Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition Finals, on May 17, competing for a share of $14,000 in prize money. Teams competed in qualifying rounds earlier in the year which culminated in the finals. In preparation for the competition, students worked in teams to create and pitch their business ideas to judges from the local business community. Students participated in a variety of workshops designed to help them formulate their business plan and learn how to effectively pitch their ideas to investors. For more information: https://sites.ewu.edu/entrepreneurship/ students/5000-pitch-contest/

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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

SERVICE LEARNING

SERVICE LEARNING

EWU Young Professionals Network The EWU Young Professionals Network hosts a variety of events throughout the year, designed to provide opportunities for students and professionals at all levels to network and engage with other Eagle alumni in the community. Recent events included Speed Networking – Master Your Elevator Speech in which participants engaged in an evening of one-on-one structured networking. They practiced networking, learned to get acquainted with new people and broadened their networks.

Auditing students recently participated in a service learning opportunity with Spokane County.

The students participated in the Guardian Mentoring Program audits conducted by Spokane County, and were able to engage in actual audit work, bringing relatability and understanding to their course material. EWU students helped reduce the backlog of audits from nine weeks to three weeks in just one quarter, and two students who participated have agreed to continue their audit work as volunteers. Spokane County is excited to continue this partnership with EWU and our students.

More than 250 EWU students staffed the Associated Press Western Election Center, helping to provide clients all around the world with immediate results of voting in the general election. A number of students also helped AP gather late returns from many counties in the states covered. Participating in this event provides students with a unique look into the complexity of how one major part of our journalistic infrastructure makes a huge impact on public understanding of what is truly happening in the world.

Finance students in Vinson Cai’s Portfolio Management class received a check for $3,782.15 to the EWU Foundation, representing a share of earnings from their SIP portfolio. The SIP portfolio is sponsored by D.A. Davidson Investment of Great Falls, Montana, a regional investment banking firm. Each year, the students manage a $50,000 portfolio, and any earnings above 5% are split between EWU and D.A. Davidson. Funds earned through this program are used to build the endowed balance for the Bill Wynd Scholarship.

Three IRS-certified student volunteers from the Beta Alpha Psi chapter of Eastern Washington University contributed 75 hours at the Spokane County United Way – Volunteer Income Tax Assistant tax site. The organization prepared more than 4,985 returns for low to moderate income individuals, families and seniors. Their efforts resulted in bringing $5.8 million in returns back into our community.

ALUMNI SUCCESS Staci Huffman ’09 BAB professional accounting, won $29,201 on the television game show, Jeopardy! She sealed the win in the Final Jeopardy round with her “What is Aida?” response to the Opera category question. Congratulations, Staci!

Seth Dinardi, ’16 BAB professional accounting, was recently promoted at Nicholas Knapton from staff B accountant to staff A accountant.

Sara Reiter, ’17 BAB management, worked as an intern at Washington Trust Bank while a student at EWU, and is now a relationship associate, wealth management and advisory services at the Portland office. Sara recently reached out to promote upcoming internship opportunities at Washington Trust Bank for current EWU students.

Jason Clerget, ’05 BAB Marketing, has updated his position to principal, founder and CEO of Propaganda Creative. Clerget was previously managing partner. Clerget also serves on the CBPA Advisory Board.

Sherry Carbary was named president of Boeing China in February 2019. Carbary previously served as vice president and program manager for the Boeing 2nd Century Human Resources initiative.

Carbary holds an MBA from Seattle University and a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from Eastern.

STUDENT CAREER SUCCESS Kayle Williams, senior professional accounting major, accepted and started a position with Eide Bailly as a Seasonal Administrative Assistant.

Brian Johnson, senior professional accounting and management information systems major, accepted and started an internship with Eide Bailly.

Haley Sandberg, senior professional accounting major, accepted an internship with Stauffer and Associates this academic year, and will complete a summer internship with Larson Gross, a CPA firm in her hometown of Bellingham, Washington.

Jason Nazzaro, ’18 BAB Finance and current MBA student, was recently hired as a financial analyst at Precision Tax Relief in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Daniel Black, senior economics and mathematics major, was selected for the Washington Legislative Internship Program.

Ben Stadtmueller, senior professional accounting and finance major, was hired by BDO for a tax internship for winter 2019.

Colin Fay, senior professional accounting major, was hired by BDO for a tax internship for winter 2019.

Chad Larson, MPAcc student and Beta Alpha Psi President, has accepted an audit role with CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) in Bellevue, Washington.

CBPA STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Fraternity At the Principled Business Leadership Institute (PBLI) 2019 Convention in Reno, EWU members of AKPsi enjoyed educational events that enhanced their leadership skills. They learned their way around the exciting city of Reno while experiencing newfound friendships.

Improving the Eta Phi Chapter and enhancing its leadership was the ultimate goal of those attending from Eastern Washington University. Earlier in the year, Nick Elliot, Big Sky Manager of CED, spoke about developing professional skills.

In addition to the PBLI, AKPsi participated in many professional, service and career events, including: • Bonfire to greet the new school year • Connection Night • Dodgeball • Green Bluff Touring • Friendsgiving/Secret Santa • Bowling • Buffalo Wild Wings Fundraiser • Spill the Cocoa and Games • Big Sky Manager of CED Presentation • PJ Brotherhood To learn more about Alpha Kappa Psi, visit our website: https://orgsync. com/97735/chapter Association of Student Planners The Association of Student Planners is the student-run educational, social and volunteer association for both graduate and undergraduate students in the Eastern Washington Urban and Regional Planning program. This April, 11 students attended the National Planning Conference in San Francisco. This trip was made possible by the generosity of the planning community and the efforts of ASP officers and members, who organized a wildly successful silent auction at the annual Urban and Regional Planning Department’s Chili

Cook-Off and petitioned ASEWU for supplemental funding. The group raised over $4,000 for airfare and lodging costs for the conference. ASP also received a scholarship from the APA Inland Empire Section that contributed to travel costs.

At the conference, student planners had the opportunity to interact with professionals from all over the country as well as to experience the urban environment of San Francisco. Students enjoyed networking, expanding planning knowledge, and representing Eastern Washington University at the largest planning conference in the country.

To learn more about the Association of Student Planners, visit our website: https://orgsync.com/99614/chapter Beta Alpha Psi Professional Fraternity EWU’s Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) chapter has been very active this year. Networking events such as “Meet the Professionals” connect BAP members with local employers interested in hiring EWU accounting, finance and information systems students and graduates as interns and employees. Many of these professionals are proud EWU alumni.

Service events such as the Arc of Spokane Clothing Drive provide opportunities for BAP members to serve the community.

EWU’s BAP chapter recently cohosted BAP’s Regional Meeting with Boise State University on April 5-6. In addition, BAP hosted their primary spring networking event, the Spring Banquet, on May 9th. EWU business students, accounting faculty, Accounting Advisory Board members, and other accounting professionals and their guests attended.

The banquet included dinner, networking opportunities, a distinguished speaker and a raffle of multiple CPA review courses and other items. For more information on other activities and how to get involved, visit our website: https://www2.ewu.edu/cbpa/programs/ accounting/beta-alpha-psi?mode=full

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EWU Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization a member of C-E-O Global

In February, we established the EWU chapter of C-E-O. C-E-O is a global club for university students interested in entrepreneurship. Katherine Bozarth and Ryan Halterman, both fellows from our Technology Commercialization Academy, are the student founders. Prior to starting the EWU chapter of C-E-O, Katherine and Ryan traveled to Kansas City and attended the 2018 Global C-E-O Conference in order to gather knowledge and information as well as to network and form new collaborative relationships within the C-E-O community.

EWU C-E-O offers leadership roles on campus, introduces members to successful entrepreneurs and prepares members for the challenges they’ll face in starting new organizations! EWU C-E-O will help students with their friends, their network and their career. EWU C-E-O creates opportunities to build connections with students at other universities, to attend the C-E-O Global Conference in Tampa, Florida, and to engage with entrepreneurial students across the Northwest and around the world! EWU C-E-O is open to all EWU students. For more information, see our website: https://sites.ewu.edu/ entrepreneurship/students/c-e-o-club/

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THE IDEATHON

Data Analytics and The Future of Work On Friday, Oct. 19, 70 employers, students, faculty and staff participated in The Ideathon, an event sponsored by EWU in partnership with Microsoft and Greater Spokane Incorporated. The Ideathon was an opportunity for students to interact in a problem-solving capacity with members of the business community, centered around evolving the way we work together for the benefit of students, employers and the community.

Eastern Washington employers are facing a skills gap related to data analyst and data science roles. Participants in The Ideathon explored ways in which government, employers and education might work together to boost the pipeline of people with data analytics skills who are ready to work in eastern Washington.

Participants gathered on the EWU Spokane campus planning studio for a one-day, interactive co-creation session to ideate around ways to address this problem space and create a stronger data analyst talent pipeline in Eastern Washington. In addition to professional networking and learning new problemsolving skills, participants had the opportunity to put their ideas into action in follow-up partnerships among students, educators, and employers. Ideathon activities included: • An update on the future of work from Karen Kocher, general manager of 21st Century Jobs, Skills & Employability at Microsoft • Design thinking/co-creation sessions, with prizes for the most popular ideas • Plenty of opportunity for networking and open discussion The event was a great success and

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we are exploring ways to develop and implement ideas generated by the participants. The winning idea, “Gigternships,” is already being developed in two different ways. Microsoft is working with the Upwork platform to develop “Gigwork,” a program for students near graduation to develop skills needed in an online project-oriented work environment.

Some of CBPA’s data analytics and business analytics students are currently alpha piloting this program. Additionally, the EWU Career Center is working with CBPA Data Analytics to develop shortterm, online-managed, project-oriented student internships initially focusing on data analytics.

To learn more about The Ideathon and about our analytics program, please visit our website: https://www2.ewu.edu/cbpa/ programs/analytics

FACULTY ENGAGEMENT Brown Bag Seminars The CBPA Faculty Development Committee regularly hosts brown bag seminars, which encourage faculty to share their research on a variety of topics. Through these conversations, we advance research productivity and collaborations and link our quality research with teaching excellence at our college.

In a series of presentations, William Martin, assistant professor of marketing, discussed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Most recently, he discussed path analysis, the most widely used application on SEM. Relationships involving latent constructs and observed variables were discussed, as well as mediation and moderation analyses.

Laura Tate, lecturer in urban and regional planning, recently presented her research in actor-network theory, a part of socio-technical systems theory. This research considers the role of channeling power and shaping relationships over time.

Eldonna Shaw-Davis, management instructor, discussed connecting the business community to the classroom.

Faculty Professional and Community Engagement Dr. Bruce Teague, interim management department chair, associate professor of management and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship served on the organizing committee for the 4th Annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference and PhD Consortium, which was held in Nantes, France in April 2019.

CBPA faculty served on editorial review boards for various peer reviewed journals and conferences including: Global Journal of Management and Marketing, International Journal of Fuzzy Set Valued Analysis, Oxford Journal of Intelligent Decision and Data Science, Society for Marketing Advances Annual Conference.

CBPA faculty facilitated voter registration and served as mail-in ballot count observers for the mid-term elections.

Susan Megaard, professor of accounting, updated all of her courses with the major tax legislation that was enacted at the end of 2017 through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which has not been fully covered in any of the taxation textbooks.

Wensheng Cai, lecturer in finance, serves as a student research team advisor for the annual CFA Institute Research Challenge. The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual, global competition that provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis.

Goitom Tsegay, professor of marketing, participated at the 2018 annual Africa Day forum of the African Chamber of Commerce in the Pacific Northwest. The African Chamber of Commerce in the Pacific Northwest promotes US exports to Africa.

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GRANTS FUNDED FISCAL YEAR-TO-DATE 2019 The Institute of Public Policy received over $243,000 in funding, including: AWB Institute data set of time trends for 21 indicators for WA counties $76,250 Maintain the Benton Franklin Trends Web Site $63,000 Chelan Douglas Trends Web Site Maintenance $25,000 Greater Columbia ACH facilitation, evaluation and data services $20,500 Spokane Community Indicators and Initiative Site Maintenance $19,700 Port of Walla Walla Trends 18-19 $19,000 Yakima Valley Trends Web Site Maintenance $17,500 Compilation of Aerospace Data for Spokane County $3,000 Urban and Regional Planning received over $185,000 in funding, including: Tribal Traffic Safety $92,506 Spokane Regional Site Selector $61,291 Environmental Finance Center $31,250 In addition, Urban and Regional Planning faculty and staff continue to work on ongoing multi-year grants, including: Small Urban Rural and Tribal Center on Mobility (SURTCOM), which combines the talents of the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, and the Tribal Planning Programs at Eastern Washington University into an organization that can enhance mobility in small urban, rural and tribal communities and areas. The SURTCOM grant is a multi-year award of an average of $233,400 per year, for 5 years.

WSDOT US 395 North Spokane Corridor, a multi-year grant which allows for $900,000 in funding, is focused on developing the US 395 North Spokane Corridor Placemaking and Community Engagement Program. The program focuses on placemaking and community engagement with neighborhoods abutting the future U.S. 395 North Spokane Corridor and the type, size, and location of the Children of the Sun Trail. Through placemaking and community engagement, the NCS Place team facilitates cooperation, communication of neighborhood visions, linkages to places, Children of the Sun Trail connections, and promotes overall neighborhood vitality.

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PROTOTYPING AND WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS GRANT

The Center for Entrepreneurship has been awarded a $140,000 grant by the Herbert B. Jones Foundation that will largely support student prototyping and customer-discovery research. The grant will also provide funding to support our new Women in Entrepreneurship initiative for at least 3 years.

The grant will fund acquisition of a broad base of prototyping supplies, including a new industrial caliber 3D printer that is capable of producing working, pre-production prototypes. The grant will create an annual $8,000 fund for our pitch competition semifinalists to draw on as they develop their ideas. Our Technology Commercialization Academy will also benefit from strong customer discovery and prototyping support.

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GIVING JOY

CBPA RETIREMENTS

As part of the National Day of Giving in November, EWU celebrated Giving Joy Day 2018. This is a fabulous way of acknowledging what people are doing in support of their communities, and encouraging individuals and organizations to help others in meaningful ways. One of the areas that is highlighted by Eastern is giving to scholarships. Tuition, books and fees for a single academic year is now over $7,300 per student. This does not include room and board or other living expenses, which takes the total to over $21,000 annually. Gifts to scholarships make it possible for students to focus on their studies, rather than on how they’ll pay for their education.

EWU Alumna, Shirley Cheramy, has established a new endowed scholarship for students within the College of Business and Public Administration. Cheramy was the first woman in the U.S. to be promoted to the position of office managing partner in any of the ‘Big 8’ accounting firms. It was the professors at Eastern, including Robert Bender and Arnold Carlson, who inspired her to enter the accounting profession. This decision afforded her significant opportunities and a successful career. Shirley shared that her gift is given in recognition of the academic foundation and support that she received at Eastern, and is intended to provide financial benefit, recognition and encouragement for women who are also pursuing careers in public accounting. Her generous gift will provide a $4,000 award each year to a woman entering the field of public accounting.

The first scholarship benefited a student during this academic year. We thank Shirley, and the other generous alumni and friends of the College of Business and Public Administration at EWU who support our students with their financial gifts.

For more information on providing scholarship support, or contributing in other areas, please contact Ken Tucker, Director of Philanthropy, at 509.359.7030 or by email at ktucker10@ewu.edu. Thank you.

Amy Shadd, Editor Eastern Washington University College of Business and Public Administration

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Stephen Shervais, associated professor of management information systems, retired Jan. 1, 2019, after 19 years with EWU Dave Gorton recently retired after 18 years with Eastern.

Mr. Gorton most recently served as director of outreach for the EWU Center for Entrepreneurship.

During his time at Eastern, he also served as a senior lecturer in accounting and management, and as the MBA director.

Nancy Birch, professor of decision science, will retire after 31 years of service.

Birch joined EWU in 1988 as an assistant professor, and has served as a professor since 1998. She chaired the Department of Accounting and Information Systems from 2005 to 2009. Birch was recently awarded emeritus status, and will be recognized at the annual CBPA honors and awards program on June 13.

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