EWU CBPA Newsletter | Spring 2017

2017 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

DEAN’S CORNER

Greetings from the College of Business and Public Administration!

The 2016-17 academic year has been a busy one, filled with exciting and innovative programs and events. Our students and faculty have been engaged in a variety of activities designed to enhance the educational experience by applying knowledge learned in the classroom to real-life interactions with local business leaders. From networking with members of the business community at Beta Alpha Psi’s “Meet the Professionals” event, to competing in the CFA Institute Research Challenge, to demonstrating their entrepreneurial spirit at the “Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition,” CBPA students have been engaging in opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom.

In the community, CBPA students have been engaged in various types of applied consulting or planning projects with both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including Cheney Train Depot, Cheney as a Destination, Coop Farm Incubator, GPS Business Application, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Cheney Entertainment Complex, River’s Wish Animal Rescue, Childhood Saved, Spokane Symphony, University District Proposed High-Rise, Urban Village Cheney, Spokane Tribe: Business Plan for Twin Rivers Resort & Marina Restaurant, Spokane Urban Indian Center, Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce, Spokane County Meals on Wheels, City of Liberty Lake, Zak Designs, KD Wood Art Studio, M2 Sourcing, Plaza Bank, Waid’s Restaurant

and Lounge, Araya’s Vegetarian Place, Loomis House B&B, Skymania, Spectra Décor and the Greater Hillyard – Northeast Planning Alliance (GHNEP).

Our faculty members actively contribute their time and talents to local and national professional and community organizations via consulting or other volunteer services, including for the Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce, Symphony board of trustees, EWU Center for the Arts, University District, Downtown Spokane Partnership, PICC Employment Placement, United Health Services Credit Union, Clearwater Paper Company, Port of Longview, Port of Kalama, Community House on Broadway, Food Bank, Steelscape, St. Rose School, Children’s Discovery Museum and Araza Natural Beauty.

Engaging with the business community results in positive employment prospects for our EWU College of Business and Public Administration alumni. A recent survey of business graduates discovered the following: • 83 percent found jobs within six months of graduation; • 49 percent had salaries that exceeded $40,000; • 28 percent were pursuing a graduate degree; and • 26 percent had an internship while at EWU. After graduation, our CBPA students are impacting the business world through their leadership.

Examples of employers include: AM Hardware, Ameriprise Financial, Avista, Boeing, Brooksource Technical Youth, City of Yakima, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, Comerica, Department of Labor, EWU, Eide

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Bailly, Enlightium Academy, Kmart, Market Vision Advertising, Nordstrom, Payroll Network, Pepsico Frito Lay, Scottrade, Spokane Indians Baseball Club, State of Washington, Stay Alfred, STCU, Travelers, Unico Properties LLC, Unisys Corporation, United State Postal Service, Washington State Auditors Office, Wave G, Zones Inc., and Zulily, amongst others.

In this edition of the College of Business and Public Administration Newsletter, we shine the spotlight on entrepreneurship. This is an exciting time for Spokane-area entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial ventures are emerging and thriving, students are learning that they can shape the world through the creation of new organizations, and universities in the region continue to innovate as they strive to support the vitality of the broader ecosystem. This fall, we added the new entrepreneurship major and minor to our curriculum.

In addition, the EWU Center for Entrepreneurship has been creating and hosting events to support, develop and celebrate entrepreneurship within our community.

I hope that you enjoy the newsletter and learn more about how CBPA is creating opportunities for students to enhance their education by connecting with local business leaders and professionals through our programs, activities and events.

Danny R. Arnold, Interim Dean College of Business and Public Administration

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CBPA EVENTS 2016-2017

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Students, faculty and staff in the College of Business and Public Administration participate in a variety of special events throughout the year. Our events provide opportunities for students to engage with Spokane business and community leaders, sharpen networking skills, and have fun outside of the classroom.

On Sept. 20, 2016, Beta Alpha Psi kicked off the academic year with their “Meet the Professionals” event, which provided students with an opportunity to network with local business professionals in a casual environment at Manito Park.

The Urban and Regional Planning Department hosted their annual chili cook-off Oct. 21 where students, alumni, members of the advisory board and faculty gathered to show off their culinary skills with a variety of chili and international dishes. In addition, the group celebrated Dr. Zovanyi’s retirement after 30 years with EWU! On Nov. 9, the Accounting Department presented the annual E. Clair Daniels Symposium at the Davenport Hotel. This year’s guest speaker was “The Productivity Pro®,” Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE. Stack is a top speaker on productivity and a Fortune 500 consultant on productivity in the workplace.

The Center for Entrepreneurship presented the Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition, with student teams competing for a share of $5,000 in total prizes. The first qualifying round was held Nov. 15, and the second qualifying round was March 14. Finalists from these two rounds will advance to the Eagle’s Nest Finals in May 2017.

On Nov. 16, finance students competed in the local round of the 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. Students work in teams to research and analyze a publicly traded company. Each team writes a research report on their company with a buy, sell or hold recommendation and may be asked to present and defend their analysis to a panel of industry professionals.

On March 6-9, 2017, members of the Urban and Regional Planning Department hosted the Northwest Region TTAP and BIA Symposium at the Historic Davenport Hotel.

The annual Celebration of Entrepreneurship Breakfast was held March 9, 2017. With a theme of “Entrepreneurs Everywhere,” this year’s celebration was bigger than ever.

In addition to recognizing the 2017 “Entrepreneur of the Year,” we also celebrated the contributions of two “difference makers” who represent the rich variety of experience and expertise that inspire entrepreneurs to make a difference in our community.

Upcoming events: May 18, 2017 Eagle’s Nest Pitch Contest Finals, Showalter Hall June 2, 2017 41st Annual Drive for Excellence Golf Tournament

MeadowWood Golf Course, Liberty Lake, Washington

1 p.m. Shotgun Start More information: ewu.edu/cbpa/drive-for-excellence June 15, 2017 CBPA Annual Awards Ceremony

SEWC 122, 4-6 p.m.

June 17, 2017 CBPA Commencement

Spokane Veterans Arena, 10 a.m.

August, TBD Beta Alpha Psi Summer Barbecue

FACULTY RECOGNITION, HONORS AND AWARDS

Kerry Brooks, associate professor and director, urban and regional planning, received the Governor’s 2016 Smart Communities Award, City of Spokane for his work on the Spokane Pedestrian Master Plan.

Taryn Fletcher, Program Director & Lecturer of Business and Marketing Education, Plan 2 CTE Certification, and MOS Certification, was awarded the 2016 Washington State Business Education Association (WSBEA) Merit Award – Four Year University.

Margo Hill, assistant professor, urban and regional planning, was recognized by President Cullinan for serving as co-chair of the ODI Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, leading a series of listening sessions and small group workshops, “Awaken the Classroom,” working on the EWU/tribal MOU, and working on the Lucy Covington Center and Oral History Project.

Morris Kalliny, associate dean and associate professor of international marketing co-lead a twoday teaching effectiveness seminar for AACSB International in Tampa. He also presented “How to be an effective associate dean at a small-tomidsize business school” at the AACSB associate dean’s conference. He was awarded Best Paper at the seventh global Islamic marketing conference held in Morocco.

Richard Peng, assistant professor, operations management, was recently appointed as an associate graduate faculty at University of North Texas, and he will be serving on the dissertation committees for PhD students at UNT. Peng also had two research projects accepted by the 2017 Production and Operations Management Society annual conference.

CBPA PROGRAM UPDATES

Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis (IPPEA) The EWU Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis was created in 2002 to provide data and analysis about a variety of factors in the region that will be useful for businesses, communities and others as they plan for the future. The IPPEA is under the leadership of Patrick Jones, executive director. The Institute manages the EWU Community Indicators Initiative, which turned 10 years old in October 2016.

The initiative serves a variety of public and private interests that rely on the data from specific trends websites to make key planning decisions.

2016 projects include the Skagit County Trends and Spokane Public Facilities District. The Institute maintains indicator sites in Spokane, Walla Walla, Benton Franklin, Grant County, Kootenai County and Chelan-Douglas Trends. Further contract work includes Facilitator of the Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health, Facilitator of the City of Spokane Economic Strategy and providing data and analysis for an Empire Health Foundation grant.

In addition to his contract work, Jones serves the community as chair of the city of Spokane Mayor’s Advisory Council on Economic Vitality, and also makes presentations to the Greater Spokane Incorporated (GSI). www.ewu.edu/ policyinstitute Northwest Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) The Northwest Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) is a program funded with Cooperative Agreements by the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) to assist tribes in developing transportation resources, infrastructure and development opportunities for Northwest Tribes.

Northwest Tribal Technical Assistance Program is administrated by the Urban Planning Program at Eastern Washington University. The TTAP is supported by the

U.S. Department of Transportation through Federal Highway Administration under a five-year cooperative agreement.

Under the leadership of Dick Winchell, chair, and Rowena Yeahquo, director, the TTAP provides technical assistance for tribes to implement good practices in all areas of community building such as transportation, traffic safety, economic development and tourism.

In September 2016, TTAP participated in the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) National Conference. Yeahquo also serves as an executive board member for AIANTA. Dick Winchell and Margo Hill presented papers at the 2016 Washington Tribal/State Transportation Conference, which was held Sept.

28-29. Hill presented her paper, Basics of Federal Indian Law for Planners, and Winchell, Michael Cardwell and Andrew Strobel presented Government to Government Structures for Effective Tribal Participation in Transportation Planning and Implementation.

At the National Tribal Transportation Conference, Oct. 4-6, 2016, the NW TTAP coordinated the safety track that included presentations on Data Driven Safety Planning; Road Safety Audits (RSA); Systemic Traffic Safety Strategy; and Public Health and Traffic Safety on Tribal Roads.

NW TTAP and the EWU Urban and Regional Planning Program have been setting up online courses for tribal transportation planning. Two trainings began this winter, with a short webinar to introduce the software and how to complete the course.

See ewu.edu/ttap for more information.

Business & Marketing Education/ Plan 2 Program Taryn Fletcher, Director of Business & Marketing Education (BME), Career & Technical Education (CTE), Plan 2 (business and industry route), and

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MOS Certification, reports that since spring 2016, more than 200 students have obtained 508 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certifications; 12 students have even obtained MOS Master Certification through BUED 376.

BUED 376 is a five-credit, online electiveopen to all EWU students with junior standing. It is the first course of its kind in academia where the focus in workplace communications through the use of computer applications. Students are finding MOS certification to be a valuable advantage in the competitive job market.

Luke Kemper a senior who completed his finance degree Fall 2016, enhanced his résumé by earning Microsoft Office Specialist certificates in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. He had multiple interviews scheduled with Fortune 500 companies after graduation that listed MS Office as a required skill.

“I can say with complete confidence that having these MOS certifications has helped me land these interviews,” said Kemper.

“Nearly all, if not all, of the positions I applied for had ‘experience to advanced knowledge with MicrosoftOffice and Microsoft Excel’ as absolute requirements for the positions. The more advanced you are with Microsoft Excel for finance positions, the more likely you would be to land the position.”

Senior Anthony Brommer, an accounting major, agrees. “In many accounting jobs they require a certain knowledge of Microsoft programs. They have found that it is hard to judge how well someone knows the programs whenthey state that they are proficient on their résumé. Taking this class actually helped me get a summer internship at UTC Aerospace Systems since they are mostly looking for an in-depth knowledge of Excel. My manager has told me that thisclass was one of the reasons he hired me.” Anthony recently was offered a fulltime position at UTC Aerospace Systems.

For more information about the business and marketing education program, visit ewu.edu/cbpa/programs/businessandmarketing-education.

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CBPA NEW FACULTY AND STAFF Danny Arnold, DBA, Interim Dean Danny Arnold joined Eastern as interim dean of the College of Business and Public Administration Nov. 1, 2016. Arnold comes to us with a tremendous amount of higher education leadership experience and has served many years as dean in multiple business colleges, including New Mexico State University, Frostburg State University, Missouri State University and Stephen F. Austin State University.

Jill Ericson, PhD, Director of CBPA Graduate Programs Jill Ericson joined the College of Business and Public Administration in January 2017.

Ericson comes to us with a wealth of experience in higher education and will be involved in the development, marketing and operations of CBPA graduate programs. She earned her EdD in social and philosophical foundations of education (emphasis in adult and continuing education) from Rutgers University and her MPA in health policy and management from Seton Hall University. Ericson has held education management positions at Northern Arizona University, Seton Hall University and, most recently, Weber State University.

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Arezoo Davari, PhD, Assistant Professor of Marketing Arezoo Davari has a doctorate degree in marketing with a merchandising minor. Most recently, she was an instructor in the department of marketing and logistics at the University of North Texas. Davari received her MS in executive management from the University of Tehran, and a BS in business economics from Shahid Beheshti University.

Her research has been published in the Journal of Social Business, Journal of Product and Brand Management, and the Journal of Strategic Marketing.

Davari has presented papers at the conferences of the American Marketing Association Educators, Academy of Marketing Science and the Society for Marketing Advances.

Maggie apRoberts-Warren, Lecturer in Economics Maggie apRoberts-Warren is a PhD candidate in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Her educational background includes an MA in international economics and a BA in economics from UCSC. Her research has focused on lending standards, bank risk-taking and monetary policy, which explores the relationship between monetary policy, commercial bank lending standards, and the probability of bank default.

She has taught classes at UCSC and served as a consultant with Worth Publishers in assisting online content development for EconPortal. Her area of teaching includes macroeconomics, monetary economics and banking.

Xianghui (Richard) Peng, PhD, Assistant Professor of Operations Management Xianghui (Richard) Peng has a doctorate degree in management science with a minor in logistics and supply chain management. Most recently, Peng was a Teaching Fellow in the Information Technology and Decision Sciences Department at University of North Texas. He earned his MBA in operations management and supply chain management from the University of Texas at Dallas, and the bachelor’s degree in information engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is member of the American Society for Quality, the Decision Sciences Institute, The Institution for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the Production and Operations Management Society. His research articles have been published in journals including International Journal of Production Research, Operations Management Research and Quality Management Journal. His research and teaching areas include operations management, quality management, supply chain management and business analytics.

Robert “Zeke” Sarikas, PhD, Associate Professor of Accounting Robert “Zeke” Sarikas has a doctorate degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He also received a master of accounting science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master of professional accounting (MPA-

CBPA taxation) from the University of Texas at Austin, a BBA in accounting from the University of Oklahoma, and a BA in geology from Saint Louis University.

In addition, Sarikas holds the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation. His research interests include international and U.S. accounting, auditing, business and taxation accounting for the energy industries. His teaching interests include international accounting and taxation, oil and gas accounting and taxation, financial and magerial accounting. He has an extensive research portfolio published in such journals as the International Journal of e-Collaboration, Accounting & Taxation, Emerging Markets Review, International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Advances in Accounting and many others.

George Kenyon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Operations Management George N. Kenyon has a doctorate degree in business administration from Texas Tech University with a major concentration in production and operations management and a minor concentration in statistics. He also holds an MS in management science from the Florida Institute of Technology and a BS in engineering technology from the University of Houston. Kenyon is professionally certified as a Lean Green Belt by the Institute of Industrial Engineering, SAP Solutions Architect, and Production Planning and Scheduling.

He was previously an associate professor of management at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. His work experience includes such companies as Hewlett Packard, Aspen Technology, Boeing and Rockwell International. He likes understanding how things work and

solving problems by employing both a qualitative and quantitative approach to research, through theory building, data analysis and model building methods. His principal areas of research are in the fields of supply chain, operations and quality management and he uses a variety of settings ranging from manufacturing, to service systems, agriculture and others.

Alex Mann, Lecturer and Practicing Professional Planner, Urban and Regional Planning Alex Mann earned his MS in human centered design and engineering from the University of Washington.

He received his bachelor’s in landscape architecture from Washington State University, where his senior thesis, Produce, Place, Patterns: Finding a Place-based Pattern Language Through Bioregionalism, Rhizomic Association and Food, won the 2010 Washington Chapter, Society of Landscape Architects Honor award.

At the University of Washington, Mann directed a grant-funded, online psychotherapy intervention study for individuals with alcohol addiction and suicidal ideation. He has also developed and conducted industry research for companies such as Intel Corporation and Microsoft. He has a wealth of professional experience in project planning and landscape design.

Mann has served in various clubs and committees, including as organizer of the Manito/Cannon Hill Neighborhood Clean-Up project. He has also been involved in many professional community planning projects in and around Spokane and Seattle.

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Heather Gangi, Lecturer in Accounting Heather Gangi has a master of accountancy from Auburn University, Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, in Auburn, Alabama.

She has a BS in accounting from Metropolitan State University, and she earned her BA in English at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She has served as lecturer of accounting at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, and as accounting instructor at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, Minnesota. She also taught accounting courses at Hennepin Technical College and at the Minnesota School of Business. Gangi has extensive professional experience, having worked as a senior financial analyst at Medtronic Inc., a senior financial analyst/GAAP consultant at Cargill Inc., and audit/tax senior at Ernst & Young LLP. Zilong (Monica) Lin, Lecturer in Accounting Monica Lin has a master of accountancy from the University of Northern Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in library science from Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China. She is a CPA candidate, in the process of obtaining her Washington State CPA license. Lin has previously taught accounting at EWU. She has extensive professional experience in financial accounting, having worked as a senior loan accountant at Sallie Mae, controller at Quality Food Services and as staff accountant and general ledger accountant for various companies.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM This fall, the College of Business and Public Administration introduced new entrepreneurship major and minor degrees. The Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration – Entrepreneurship major is designed for those students with career objectives that involve starting new businesses, working in a startup or early growth business environment, or for those interested in working in small or family businesses. The course of study introduces students to the entrepreneurial mindset while developing entrepreneurial knowledge and skills necessary to business startup and early growth. Students will learn to tell a compelling story about their business, to give a powerful pitch, to develop and analyze the value proposition of a business, to develop and refine the business model that will drive growth, to understand the financial processes of startup and to write a business plan.

The minor in entrepreneurship is designed to help students who have an idea, a product, an innovation, unique expertise or a solution to a real-world problem that they want to develop into a new business. Students will learn about the core challenges facing entrepreneurs and the ways that entrepreneurs think about and approach these challenges.

Courses develop competencies such as how to discover and evaluate new business opportunities, how to pitch and build support for your new business, how to finance the new venture, how to develop a strong business model, and how to craft a powerful business plan.

Our entrepreneurship program is supported by the EWU Center for Entrepreneurship, which exists to support, encourage and develop members of the EWU community who have an idea but need help to transform it into a venture. The Center is supported by a generous grant from the Herbert B. Jones Foundation. The $82,000 grant

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was awarded over a three-year period to develop strong foundations for an experiential curriculum in entrepreneurship. The money is dedicated to sending faculty to the University of Florida’s experiential classroom training for entrepreneurship educators, and funding an annual “pitch” competition for students with significant prize money.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVENTS Eagle’s Nest Pitch Competition In qualifying rounds, teams of up to four EWU students present their original business idea to judges and receive valuable critique and feedback.

This “elevator pitch” style develops the students’ ability to deliver a persuasive presentation in a real-world environment. Judges score each team and the top teams advance to the Eagle’s Nest Finals in May 2017, where the teams will present their business plan/idea in a more in-depth, Shark Tank-like format. A total of $5,000 in prizes will be distributed. The first qualifying round was held Nov. 15, 2016.

Four teams qualified for the contest finals, with Jess Walker and Christine Burns taking first place with their

“MissApp Case.” The second qualifying round was held March 14, from which another four teams were selected to move onto the finals. Contact entpcenter@ewu.edu for more information about the Pitch Competition.

EWU Celebration of Entrepreneurship Breakfast The Celebration of Entrepreneurship breakfast took place March 9. Along with honoring our newest entrepreneurs of the year, we also awarded the inaugural Entrepreneurial Difference Makers awards to two area entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneurial Difference Maker award recognizes the founders of area businesses that may or may not fit the traditional high investment potential model of new venture creation, but which are distinguished by the differences they make to lives in the Spokane region. This is an opportunity to celebrate our theme of “Entrepreneurs Everywhere,” which recognizes that entrepreneurs come from all backgrounds and experiences, and impact cannot always be measured in financial returns alone. Additionally, we announced our newest recipient of the Robert G. Schwartz scholarship in entrepreneurship.

Our Entrepreneurs of the Year were Corey Ross and James Walters, founders of Finagraph. This was an especially exciting year for the award because Ross is an EWU graduate. Finagraph is a tremendous success, and likely to announce even bigger news in the near future. Ross and Walters brought their backgrounds in finance and programming together to create a truly disruptive company within the financial reporting space.

Our first inaugural recipient of the Entrepreneurial Difference Makers award was Betty Wolf, founder of the Pioneer School - an educational entrepreneur. Wolf was introduced by a remarkable young woman who attended the Pioneer School, Brooke Martin. Martin is also a successful entrepreneur in her own right, as founder of IC Pooch and its spinoff affiliate - and she will be graduating from high school this year. Wolf has been providing unique education opportunities to gifted- and highly capable learners for 37 years!

Our second inaugural recipients of the Entrepreneurial Difference Makers award were sisters Monica Simeon and Marina TurningRobe, founders of Sister Sky

CBPA products. Sister Sky was introduced by our own Carolyn Wika. Ms. Simeon and Ms. TurningRobe are members of the Spokane Tribe, and have not only played a significant role in mentoring other native entrepreneurs, but created a separate business for the purpose of giving back to their community.

Our recipient of the $1,000 Robert G. Schwartz Scholarship for Entrepreneurship was Christine Burns. She is a remarkable young woman who placed first in our first round qualifier for the Eagles’ Nest Pitch Contest. This scholarship supports and encourages students who display a passion for entrepreneurial activities, and an interest in pursuing a degree in entrepreneurship.

Area entrepreneurs and angel investors were quite encouraging of the

Congratulations to Xinyu (Eddy) Wei, a fall 2016 MBA graduate who will begin his PhD in management science with an emphasis in operations management at the University of North Texas this fall. Wei greatly appreciates the PhD program research support he received from CBPA’s Xianghui (Richard) Peng, PhD, as well as strong doctoral program references from Abrahim Soleimani and Dean Kiefer.

University of North Texas awarded Wei an impressive tuition benefit and $20,000 stipend. We wish him luck and are confident that he will stay in touch with us.

MissAppCase that she and partner Jess Walker pitched in the contest.

Finally, we recognized the top three video pitch entries to the Northwest Entrepreneur Competition, which will take place April 13 at Whitworth University. Visit our website for more information.

Experiential Classroom The Herbert B. Jones grant provides funds for EWU to award all-expenses paid faculty scholarships to attend the University of Florida’s experiential classroom seminar, a three-day seminar to support faculty with entrepreneurship, innovation, and/or creativity course development and theory. This past fall, Heidi Connole, Atsushi Inoue, M. Dave Gorton and Fred Liu participated in the experiential classroom seminar.

WSU LEIGH LECTURE A group of five EWU faculty members and 12 EWU current students reunited with four former Eastern undergrads (current WSU graduate students) to enjoy a lecture by Edward Prescott, PhD, Nobel Prize in economics recipient from 2004, at the annual WSU Leigh Lecture. What a fun time!

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US NAVY SELECTS DSCI STUDENTS FOR JOBS

Recently, several students in Jeffrey Culver’s data analysis course were recruited by the Naval Acquisition Development Program (NADP) to interview for jobs analyzing contracts for procurement by the Navy. An EWU alumni recommended our students for consideration, based on our students having taken added courses in decision sciences such as forecasting. Five of seven students interviewed were given second interviews, and three of the them went to Bellingham to discuss securing a position with NADP. The salary range is $42,802$52,355 with a benefits package second to none. Congratulations to all who participated!

“Diana Ortiz, current MBA student, not only earned a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Master Certification, but she took the more difficult industrycertification route to become MOS Excel Expert Certified. She is one of seven students in my course that focuses on workplace communications who became MOS Excel Expert Certified and one of 12 students who is MOS Master Certified since spring 2016. The industry-recognized certification is in high demand in the accounting profession and will help distinguish her from her peers.”

Taryn Fletcher Director and Lecturer: Business & Marketing Education | Plan 2 CTE Certification| MOS Certification

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GOLF CLASSIC

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The EWU College of Business and Public Administration’s 41st Annual Drive for Excellence Golf Classic will be held June 2, 2017, at MeadowWood Golf Course in Liberty Lake. Proceeds from the tournament provide support for the College’s scholarship funds. Since its inception in 1976, the tournament has raised in excess of $250,000 through the generous support of the EWU alumni, employees and community members who participate in the event.

MeadowWood Golf Course is an 18-hole par-72 championship public golf course located in beautiful Liberty Lake, Washington (18 miles east of downtown Spokane).

MeadowWood is a Robert Muir Graves designed, Links style golf course. Opened in 1988, MeadowWood is mainly an open course with strategically placed trees, bunkers and water features. With a varying set of tees, it can be enjoyed by golfers of all skill levels. In 1996, Golf Digest ranked MeadowWood “One of the Top 10 Best Public Golf Courses in the State of Washington.” The tournament is hosted by Eastern alumnus Bob Scott, MeadowWood head golf professional, PGA. 2016 Drive for Excellence Golf Classic sponsors included: ALSC Architects, Avista Corp., Budke Consulting, Caterpillar, CliftonLarsonAllen, Columbia Bank, DCI Engineers, Desautel-Hege Communications, Down River Grill, Eide Bailly LLP, EWU Foundation, Garco Construction, Kalispel Tribal Economic Authority, Kalispel Tribe & Northern Quest, Kiemle & Hagood, McKinstry, McNaughton & Nate Insurance Group, MillerCoors/Odom Corporation, Moss Adams, MW Consulting, Northwest Farm Credit Services, Rahn Wealth Management, State Bank Northwest, US Bankcorp, UTC Aerospace, Wagstaff Inc., Washington Trust Bank and WSECU. This year, we’ve made it easier than ever to sign up with new online registration!

Visit our Drive for Excellence Website to register online: ewu.edu/cbpa/drive-forexcellence.

If you have any questions, please contact Amy Shadd at 509.828.1223, or email ashadd@ewu.edu.

STRATEGIC PLANNING Recently, members of the Student Advisory Council, Dean’s Advisory Board, and College Executive Committee met to begin work on updating the college’s strategic plan. The group discussed the college’s Mission and Vision, and began work on creating a strategic plan.

CBPA RETIREMENTS 2016-17

Congratulations to the following CBPA faculty and staff members who retired this year: Debra Jennings, Administrative Specialist, Dean’s Office, 41 years of service Chin Kuo, Lecturer of MIS, 27 years of service Karen Morley, Student Advisor, CBPA, 20 years of service Gabor Zovanyi, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, 30 years of service

EWU SERVICE MILESTONES 2016-17 Congratulations to the following faculty members who recently celebrated milestones with EWU! Dave Bunting, professor/department chair, Economics, 45 years of service Dean Kiefer, professor/department chair, Finance & Marketing, 15 years of service Vince Pascal, professor, Marketing 15 years of service Bruce Teague, professor, Management 10 years of service Dick Winchell, professor/department chair, Urban & Regional Planning, 30 years of service Duanning Zhou, professor/ department chair, Information Systems & Business Analytics, 15 years of service

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