EWU CBPA Newsletter | Volume 2, Fall 2017

CBPANEWS Volume 2

DEAN’S CORNER It is with great pleasure that I welcome the 20172018 academic year as dean of the College of Business and Public Administration. Since joining Eastern in July 2017, I have learned a great deal about EWU and the CBPA, and received tremendous kindness and support from faculty and staff, for which I am deeply grateful.

As the start of the academic year approaches, I am looking forward to welcoming students and faculty back to campus, and to working together on a number of exciting initiatives for the CBPA. In this issue of the College of Business and Public Administration newsletter, we look back at the many recent accomplishments of CBPA faculty, staff, students and alumni. We will also welcome our new faculty, and preview the new and exciting programs which are offered for the first time in 2017-2018, including the new undergraduate degrees in business analytics and data analytics, a new partnership with Microsoft, and the launch of our new graduate program, the master of professional accounting (MPAcc).

I hope that you enjoy this issue of the CBPA newsletter, and share your thoughts and suggestions for continuous improvement of our college. I look forward to working with our CBPA faculty, staff, students, alumni, and strive to fulfill our mission, “to develop students who think critically, act ethically and contribute to evolving public and private sector environments."

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

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UNIQUE COLLABORATION WITH MICROSOFT:

EWU and Microsoft made the joint announcement Aug. 24 at EWU Spokane.

(L to R): Kristin Rhodes (Microsoft), President Mary Cullinan, Matt Minton ’93 (Microsoft), Keith Boyd (Microsoft) and Provost Scott Gordon.

We are excited to work with Microsoft to offer students a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Data Analytics, one of the fastest-growing and highest-demand professions in the world. Under this collaboration, courses from the Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) in data science will be integrated into the final year of curriculum for students studying analytics in EWU’s College of Business and Public Administration.

EWU is currently the only university in the world to have the MPP data science credential combined with a degree.

“Eastern is delighted to work with Microsoft on this program,” said EWU President Mary Cullinan. “By collaborating with the private sector, Eastern can address significant needs in professional and technical areas. The Microsoft initiative is a wonderful model of how we can work together.”

Senior class cohorts will take challenging hybrid courses taught by EWU faculty utilizing Microsoft courses. Students will earn a BS in data analytics as well as a professional distinction certificate in data science from Microsoft.

“We’re proud to see EWU engage with our MPP for data scientists,” states Anthony Salcito, vice president for education, Microsoft. “The Open edX on Azure scalable platform, the rigorous curriculum, and the industry credential from Microsoft, combined with an academic degree from Eastern, will give graduates a distinct advantage in securing the jobs of the future that are most in-demand.”

“This will move Eastern into the forefront of analytics education,” said EWU Provost Scott Gordon. “Students taking this curriculum will have the job-ready skills to be a part of the digital transformation impacting business and industry sectors worldwide.”

Worldwide, rates of completion for online courses are less than 10 percent.

At EWU, learning outcomes will be higher as a result of students receiving the support of their instructors and classmates to successfully finish the program as part of their degree.

EWU will roll out the program this fall with a few students who are eligible.

The first full enrollment cycle will begin fall 2018 so that Eastern has time to market and recruit for the program. For more information about this exciting opportunity: ewu.edu/mpp.

UPCOMING EVENTS

CBPA EVENT RECAP SPRING/SUMMER 2017

Oct. 27, 2017 6 p.m.

Students, faculty and staff in CBPA participate in a variety of special events throughout the year. Some highlights of recent events include:

Nov. 7, 2017 5:15 – 8 p.m.

Urban and Regional Planning’s Annual Chili Cook-off EWU Spokane Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition Qualifier Round #1 EWU Spokane, SCRS Court ewu.edu/entrepreneurship/pitch-contest

Nov. 14, 2017 E. Clair Daniels Symposium 11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. featuring Stephanie Marston DoubleTree by Hilton – Salon V, Spokane City Center Tickets: wscpa.org Feb. 13, 2018 5:15 – 8 p.m.

Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition Qualifier Round #2 EWU Spokane, SCRS Court ewu.edu/entrepreneurship/pitch-contest

March 8, 2018 Celebration of Entrepreneurship Breakfast 7:30 – 10:30 a.m. Spokane Convention Center ewu.edu/entrepreneurship/celebration-breakfast-2

May 17, 2018

Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition Finals EWU Cheney, Showalter Auditorium ewu.edu/entrepreneurship/pitch-contest

May 31 – June 1, 2018

ISASE-MAICS 2018: The 4th International Symposium on Affective Science and Engineering and the 29th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference EWU Spokane www.isase-ke.org/conferences/isase2018

June 1, 2018 1 p.m. start

Drive for Excellence Golf Classic MeadowWood Golf Course, Liberty Lake ewu.edu/cbpa/drive-for-excellence

June 14, 2018 4 – 6 p.m.

CPBA Annual Honors and Awards Program EWU Spokane, Auditorium

June 16, 2018

EWU Commencement Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena

2 p.m.

National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) – April 6 – 8, 2017 The economics department sent five students (Mitchell Clements, Chris Watkins, Corey Smith, Allison Harvey and Donya Quarnstrom) to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Overall, 58 EWU students and six faculty advisors traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, where students had the opportunity to present their research and to interact with students and faculty from around the country.

Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition Finals – May 18, 2017 Top qualifiers met in a “Shark Tank” format to pitch their ideas to a panel of local business professionals and compete for cash prizes. Victoria Simboli, an EWU senior, was awarded the $2,500 cash first prize for her idea, a portable firewall device named J.A.K.E, which is designed to protect users of public Wi-Fi. Overall, $5,000 was awarded in prize money to seven finalists. The Herbert B. Jones Foundation and Consolidated Electrical Distributers, Inc. were major sponsors of the event. The Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition will become an annual tradition at EWU, and is open to all EWU students with a business idea that they would like to develop.

Drive for Excellence Golf Classic – June 2, 2017 EWU faculty, staff, alumni, members of the local business community and friends enjoyed a day of friendly competition and fundraising at our 41st Annual Drive for Excellence Golf Classic. The event was held at the beautiful MeadowWood Golf Course in Liberty Lake. Title sponsors for the 2017 event included Garco, Riverview Mill Ranch and UTC Aerospace Systems. The event raised more than $13,000 for scholarships.

CBPA Honors and Awards – June 15, 2017 More than 45 honors/awards were presented to CBPA students. In addition, 13 students were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Honor Society of AACSBInternational and 13 students were inducted into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Economics Honor Society.

Beta Alpha Psi Annual Barbecue – Aug. 8, 2017 Beta Alpha Psi kicked off the fall recruiting season with their annual summer barbecue at Manito Park. Students had the opportunity to network with local business professionals in a casual atmosphere while enjoying a beautiful day at the park.

THE BUSINESS OF ANALYTICS Large-scale data collection is everywhere. The pace of data collection is getting faster every day. Data on just about every aspect of our world is tracked and stored in a database somewhere. Analytics takes this data and transforms it into a narrative of meaning and provides insights into meaningful patterns within recorded data.

Analytics uses data to attempt to answer questions such as why or how it happened.

What can you do with a degree in Analytics?

There is great demand for those with analytics skills. The McKinsey Global Institute (a private-sector think tank) notes that, based on surveys, 48 percent of executives say it’s harder to find and retain data and analytics talent. McKinsey also projects there will be a shortage of 1.5 million managers and analysts who will know how to utilize big data to make effective decisions in the U.S. by 2018.

A recent search matching just the word “analytics” on LinkedIn.com found more than 84,000 open positions in the U.S. More than 20,000 were in the three west coast states and 3,600 were in Washington state. Another search found almost 2,000 junior or entry-level positions in the greater New York City area alone, posted in a 30-day period!

According to Glassdoor.com, data scientist is rated the best job in America for 2017, with a median base salary of $110,000. Analytics ties in with many career labels, which show quite a range of entry-level and early-career average salaries on Payscale.com:

NEW DEGREE OPTIONS FOR FALL 2017 Business Analytics – Bachelor of Arts in Business Business Analytics – Minor Data Analytics – Bachelor of Science Data Analytics – Minor Master of Professional Accounting (MPAcc) EWU’s MPAcc program was created to best prepare graduates with practical professional education that will yield long-term success in today’s highly educated accounting workforce. Our 36 (quarter-system) credit MPAcc will help accounting bachelor’s degree graduates meet the college credits requirement to sit for the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination.

Data scientist

< 5 years

$89K

5-10 years

$107K

Data engineer

< 5 years

$86K

5-10 years

$110K

Data analyst

< 5 years

$54K

5-10 years

$63K

Statistician

< 5 years

$66K

5-10 years

$81K

Data manager

< 5 years

$49K

5-10 years

$62K

New! Corporate Training Minor

Data architect

< 5 years

$85K

5-10 years

$106K

Business analyst

< 5 years

$57K

5-10 years

$66K

Business analyst (IT)

< 5 years

$62K

5-10 years

$78K

The corporate training minor is designed for students with career objectives that involve training the trainer; educating company new hires; preparing employees for company changes; leading continuous improvement workshops or Kaizen events; creating training videos-online, mobile apps, internal videos, etc.; or coaching customers in processes or products.

Much closer to home, the Navy Civilian Recruiting team has not been waiting for the EWU analytics minor students to graduate. They have been actively recruiting and hiring graduates of the data analytics and business analytics minors currently offered by presenting to the forecasting classes in the fall and spring quarters before the students graduate.

INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC POLICY AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (IPPEA) The Institute’s latest indicator project, Yakima Valley Trends, will officially launch Nov. 11, at an event sponsored by the Yakima Valley Chamber of Commerce. The site will feature 145 indicators over 11 categories. Many indicators will be available at the sub-county level. This is the 10th indicators project co-developed and maintained by the Institute since 2006.

For more information: MPAcc@ewu.edu 509.828.1260

Business and Marketing Education/ Plan 2 Program BUED 376, Multi-Media Design moves to BUED 425, Workplace Communications Using Computer Applications.

Since the program’s inception, EWU students have earned 885 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certificates as follows: Word Core: 356, Excel Core: 346 PowerPoint: 80, Outlook: 6, Access: 18 Word Expert: 19, Excel Expert: 24 Master Certified: 36

CBPA NEW FACULTY AND STAFF Ahmad Tootoonchi, PhD, Dean, College of Business and Public Administration Ahmad Tootoonchi joined Eastern Washington as dean of CBPA in July 2017 after 28 years of service at Frostburg State University as faculty, chair of the management department, associate dean of the College of Business, dean of the College of Business, and interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. Tootoonchi has a PhD in leadership and human behavior. He received the Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching from College of Business in 1997, and from Frostburg State University in 1998 and 2003. Tootoonchi is co-author of the book titled Guiding Principles for Leadership and Professional Success (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2016), and has published numerous papers in various refereed publications and made several presentations at national and international conferences. He has also conducted leadership development workshops/ seminars for business, not-for-profit and government organizations; nationally and internationally. He has been an active member in professional organizations and received several awards as track chair, program chair and organizer of national and international conferences for Academy of Business Administration, Atlantic Marketing Association and International Academy of Business Disciplines (IABD). He has served IABD as program chair, 2003 to 2005 and president, 2007 to 2012 (www.iabd.org).

He is chief editor for two peer-reviewed publications: the Journal of International Business Disciplines (www.jibd.org) and the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (www.ijir.net).

He is currently serving on the board of directors of the International Academy of Business Disciplines.

Tru Hoang Cao, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics Tru Hoang Cao earned his PhD from the University of Queensland in 1999. He then spent his postdoc at the University of Bristol and the University of California at Berkeley. Cao most recently taught as a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. Cao is co-founder and chair of Information Science of John von Neumann Institute, Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City. His past positions include chair of Information and Communication Technologies, Scientific Council of Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City (2009 to 2012) and school vice dean (2002 to 2007). In 2007, Cao was in charge of his school’s World Bank-funded project proposal that then resulted in the school’s ABET-accredited programs in computer engineering and computer science, respectively since 2011 and 2012. He was also one of the founding members of the IEEE Vietnam Section established in 2007. Since 2009, he has been holding the visiting professorship at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Cao is currently a Steering Committee member of PRICAI and PAKDD, has served as program committee co-chair for ICADL 2007, PACIS 2012 and PAKDD 2015, and program committee member for more than 100 international conferences. He has published one research book, six edited books, seven book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences in the fields of conceptual structures, soft computing, semantic web, data mining and machine learning.

Rajeev Dwivedi, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics Rajeev Dwivedi has a doctorate degree in E-Business strategy from the prestigious I.I.T. Delhi, India. He holds an MTech in future studies and planning from the School of Data Science and Forecasting, DAVV, Indore, India. He also holds an MS in applied physics (Opto Electronics) from SGSITS, Indore, India. Dwivedi was previously an affiliate professor with Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA and associate professor with IMT Ghaziabad (CDL), India. He also served as PhD program director for the IMT Group of Institutes (Dubai, Ghaziabad, CDL, Hyderabad and Nagpur). Dwivedi has supervised five PhDs and almost 100 graduate dissertations in IT Strategy in USA and India. He has rich experience as a researcher, teacher and consultant in the United States, Middle East, India and Africa. His research has appeared in publications including the Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, and AMCIS Proceedings. Dwivedi currently serves as editor/editorial board member and reviewer of almost 25 different outlets in the area of IT management.

CBPA NEW FACULTY AND STAFF Jason Scully, PhD, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Jason Scully received his PhD from the Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning Program at the University of Washington. He most recently worked on land use and mapping projects for the Northwest Seaport Alliance and the Seattle Department of Transportation at the UW Urban Form Lab. There, Scullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research was in the intersection of urban planning and public health. Scully applied an urban planning perspective to the epidemiological fields of neighborhood effects, social determinants and health inequalities. His research utilized data from global positioning systems (GPS), travel diaries and geographic information systems (GIS) to examine where people live, the places they visit, and the routes used to get to those places. He currently has two manuscripts under review for publication based on this work. In addition to his research experience, Scully served as a teaching assistant at the University of Washington at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Scully also has professional experience from his employment at the Urban Land Institute, where his work focused on communicating core urban planning and real estate topics to practicing real estate developers and related land use professionals. In that capacity, Scully co-authored and edited a number of books, magazine articles and case studies. Scully has received numerous honors and awards, including the Outstanding Student Award from the University of Washington, Department of Urban Design and Planning, and the Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program Tuition Award from the University of Washington.

Mengzhong Zhang, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor of Public Administration Mengzhong Zhang earned his PhD from Rutgers UniversityNewark in 2004. He previously served as an associate professor at the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, UMass Boston, and associate dean for International Programs at the School of Public Affairs & Administration (SPAA) at the Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey. Zhang was previously a research professor and director of the Chinese Executive Master of Public Management program at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland College Park (UMCP). Zhang also has international experience, serving as assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Zhang played the role in launching co-chair of Section on Chinese Public Administration of American Society for Public Administration. During the past years, Zhang has had more than 50 publications (books, book chapters, papers and articles) in Chinese and more than 40 in English. He has had the honor of teaching in more than 15 universities in China (some are top 10 universities). He has lectured in more than 20 universities in China, including Peking University, Fudan University, Nanjing University and Wuhan University.

FACULTY PROMOTIONS Congratulations to the following CBPA professors who were recently promoted: Kerry Brooks, PhD, Urban and Regional Planning Morris Kalliny, PhD, Marketing Ning Li, PhD, Public Administration

FACULTY RETIREMENT Congratulations to Vance Cooney, PhD, associate professor of MIS, who recently retired after 18 years of service to EWU.

FACULTY EMERITUS Congratulations to Gabor Zovanyi, PhD, professor of urban and regional planning, who was recently granted emeritus status.

Zovanyi served as professor of urban and regional planning from 1986 to 2016.

He gained recognition as an important scholar in the field of growth management; was a dedicated teacher throughout his career; and supported community service, service to the university and to our planning profession. He earned his PhD in urban planning at the University of Washington, MURP from San Diego State University and a BA in economics from UCLA. Among many publications, Zovanyi published two texts that helped define growth management in relation to planning law, the environment and growth management, making assessments that challenged the profession: The No Growth Imperative: Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth (2013); and Growth Management for a Sustainable Future: Ecological Sustainability as the New Growth Management Focus for the 21st century (1998, 2001). Zovanyi served as graduate student advisor at EWU with excellent results and supported HUD grants to fund minority and underrepresented students during a 10-year period. He served many years on the department personnel committee and on the college personnel committee, always representing fair and unbiased assessment.

FACULTY RECOGNITION

2017 CBPA HONORS, AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP

Maggie apRoberts-Warren, assistant professor of economics, successfully completed her dissertation titled, Essays on Credit Risk and Lending Standards in Loan Markets, and received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Frances B. Huston Award Recipients

Justin Bucciferro, associate professor of economics, was selected by the President’s Committee on Diversity to present his work Diversity and Inequality: Metrics and Meanings during Diversity and Inclusion Week 2017.

Arezoo Davari, assistant professor of marketing, received the Best Paper Award (2016), Product and Brand Management Track, at the Society for Marketing Advances Conference in Atlanta for her paper entitled, Investigating the Determinants of Store Brand Image for Online Retailers.

Lei Dong, assistant professor of accounting, was recognized for outstanding author contribution in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for her publication Are Investors Influenced

by Accounting Presentation Format and Announcement Prominence of Special Items? which was published in Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research.

Robert Johnson – In nominating Johnson for this prestigious award, Duanning Zhou, PhD, remarked,“Bobby is not only a smart student but also a dedicated, humane leader of the next generation.

Bobby participates in a wide variety of activities, and offers many contributions to his field, the university and the local community.”

Johnson successfully published a peer-reviewed paper concerning the use of Raspberry Pi, which he traveled to Otsu, Japan, to present at conferences including the Ninth International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (IFSA-SCIS2017), one of the well-established, major AI academic conferences in the world.

Hung Nguyen – David Bunting, PhD, and the economics department nominated Hung Nguyen for the Frances B. Huston award, writing, “Hung has engaged fully during his tenure at EWU serving as a Bonsor research assistant, as a mathematics tutor and as a PLUS group facilitator. The quality of work as well as the work ethic he has shown in classes and in research projects during these past years is admirable and refreshing. His commitment and passion for tackling complex research topics have been superlative. To find these sorts of skills, at this early career stage, is uncommon and very welcome. He will now carry with him all these amazing qualities to the University of Washington where he is going to start the master of science in computational finance and risk management.”

Thao Vo – Arsen Djatej, PhD, introduced Huston award recipient Thao Vo. Thao graduated summa cum laude with dual majors in professional accounting and management information systems. In his introduction, Djatej spoke about how Vo and his family came to the U.S. from Vietnam, and how Vo was able to overcome early hardships to achieve his success. Vo excelled academically at EWU, making the dean’s list each quarter since he started here in 2014, and maintaining a current overall GPA of 3.92.

Dean’s Leadership Endowed Scholarship

Atsushi Inoue, professor of information systems and business analytics, received a recognition award at the International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) 2016 in Dhaka Bangladesh.

Michelle Abunaja, urban and regional planning major – has been accepted into EWU’s prestigious McNair Scholar’s program, and she worked with Kerry Brooks, PhD, this summer on a cutting-edge air quality measurement and analysis project. Abunaja has also completed planning internship and community service work, where she completed the ADA transition plan for the city of Othello in summer 2016. Abunaja serves as secretary of the Planning Students Association and on the CBPA dean’s Student Advisory Council.

Bruce Teague, associate professor of management, was invited to VU Amsterdam as a guest lecturer in September 2017. He also served as a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School during fall 2017.

Macey Weitz, marketing major – is a member of Mu Alpha Theta and the national honors society. Weitz’s passion for leadership started in elementary school, with a desire to be a person that others look up to. Weitz currently serves as the captain of the EWU track and field team, and has recently been selected to be the president of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee for next year. She currently volunteers at the East Central Community Center, and the Special Olympics in Cheney.

National Honors Claire Miller,graduate student(MURP) is the recipient of the 2017 Judith McManus Price Scholarship, a prestigious, National American Planning Association Award.

CBPA Honors, Awards and Scholarships

Michelle Abunaja, Undergraduate Professional Achievement Award, Len Zickler Scholarship Sarah Adams,MBA Honors Jameila Al Shabaley, MBA Honors Bader Alanazi, MBA Honors Christine Burns, Robert Schwartz Entrepreneurship Scholarship Shane Carrigan, Bonnie and Nate Narrance Economics Scholarship John Chatburn, Urban and Regional Planning Graduate Scholar Award Daniel Clark, Francis Schadegg Memorial Scholarship Jacob Clay, MPA Honors Certificate Jennifer Heimbigner, MPA Honors Certificate Amy Hilland, Urban and Regional Planning Graduate Community Service Award Jace Hochwalt, H. George Fredrickson Award and the Graduate Community Service Award Justin Jochim, MPA Honors Certificate Kylee Jones, King and Jan Cole Scholarship Sierra Larkin, National Business Education Association Award of Merit Alejandro Limon, MPA Honors Certificate Matthew Lower, AICP Outstanding Graduate Award Connor McVay, Aretas & Kittiemae Dayton Economics Scholarship Jennyfer Mesa, Urban and Regional Planning Undergraduate Community Service Award Claire Miller,Francis Schadegg Memorial Scholarship Holly Miller, Aretas & Kittiemae Dayton Economics Scholarship Kayla Nelson, Terry Novak Public Service Award Susan Nelson, Terry Novak Public Service Award Brittany Pica, MPA Honors Certificate Ethan Porter, AICP Outstanding Undergraduate Award

Emily Rash, Aretas & Kittiemae Dayton Economics Scholarship Lydel St. George, MPA Honors Certificate Isaac Swanson, Urban and Regional Planning Undergraduate Scholar Award Jessica Torres, MPA Honors Certificate Mary Tracey, APA Scholarship Emily Wavra, Nate Narrance Economics Scholarship Xinyu Wei, MBA Honors Lorene Winters, H. George Fredrickson Award Coral Wonderly, Urban and Regional Planning Graduate Professional Shelby Yada, MPA Honors Certificate Kristin Zitterkopf, MBA Honors

Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Honor Society of AACSB-International Inductees: Sarah Adams Jameila Al Shabaley Bader Alanazi Nathan Carlson Nathaniel Chapman Nathan Collier Lisa Faulkner Taylor Larsen Corey Rois Corey Smith Teanna Smith Xinyu (Eddy) Wei Kristin Zitterkopf

Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Economics Honor Society Inductees: Benjamin Antolin Mitchell Clements Kyle Damon Mario Gonzalez Jamie Haggard Holly Miller Steven Ochman Kevin Ruiz Corey M. Smith Rachel Swindell Nikolaus Taylor Taylor Webb Kayla Marie Willms

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING PROJECTS Margo Hill, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, received a grant in the amount of $156,440 from Washington Tribal Traffic Safety for Target Zero Planning Demonstrations. Hill’s research was selected for presentation at the Wessex Institute of Technology, Urban Transportation Conference in Rome, Italy. She was selected for oral presentation at the conference Sept.

5–7, and her article, Creating a tribal culture of traffic safety, will be published in the WIT Press.

Dick Winchell, PhD, professor of urban and regional planning, was awarded more than $1.1 million (over five years) by Montana State University for the Small Urban, Rural and Tribal Center on Mobility project.

The research will focus on issues such as enhancing access to public transportation services, implementing innovative multimodal solutions, exploring alternative transportation such as ridesharing, adapting “smart city” innovations to small communities, and increasing active transportation modes, such as walking and cycling.

Kerry Brooks, PhD, professor of urban and regional planning, was awarded $900,000 (over eight years) by the Washington State Department of Transportation for community engagement and placemaking.

CBPA CAREER SUCCESSES: Nickson Hatungimana, MBA graduate, was hired by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as a contract specialist.

Anthony Brommer, a senior majoring in professional accounting, was recently hired into a permanent position at UTC Aerospace, after completing an internship with them.

Erin Muat, a junior majoring in professional accounting, was recently selected for and internship at KeytronicEMS.

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS One of the ways in which CBPA students serve the university and the community, is through the activities of student organizations. Here are some highlights from our student organizations:

Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Fraternity

AKPsi is a professional co-ed business fraternity committed to developing well-trained, ethical, skilled, resourceful, experienced business leaders. Patricia Nemetz-Mills, PhD, serves as faculty advisor. AKPsi participated in more than 50 professional, service, social, “rush,” leadership, and career events in the past year.

On April 26, EWU’s Eta Phi Chapter of AKPsi was awarded the President’s Cup for EWU's Student Excellence Awards. This award is for an organization on campus that is highly engaged in community service, maintains high academic standards, has high membership engagement, and encourages student involvement and success at EWU.

Beta Alpha Psi BAP is a professional, co-ed fraternity working to enhance the education of accounting, finance and management information systems students through professional networking, professional activities and leadership experience.

Members of Beta Alpha Psi volunteered 242 hours at the Spokane County United Way – volunteer income tax assistance tax site. Along with volunteers from Spokane County, they prepared more than 4,700 free returns for low- to moderate-income individuals, families and elderly people. This year, the program brought $4.9 million in returns back to our community, including $1.6 million in earned income tax credits.

Beta Alpha Psi sponsor events throughout the year, designed to provide members with the opportunity to network with members from professional business community. Popular events include the Meet the Professionals networking event and the BAP Summer BBQ. For more information: ewubap.org

EWU Economic Society

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Eastern Washington University College of Business and Public Administration

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The EWU Economic Society is an academic student club which hosts a variety of events including guest speakers, career workshops, movies and social event. Nicholas Larsen, PhD serves as faculty advisor. In March, the Society sent 10 students and four faculty to Washington State University to attend the Leigh Lecture conducted by Edward C. Prescott, PhD, the 2004 Nobel Laureate. In May, the society funded the travel of three members to attend and present their research at the Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference.

A number of graduating Economic Society members also got accepted into graduate programs—including PhD Economics at Utah State and PhD Public Policy at the Ohio State University.

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