THE POLYTECHNIC WAY
Faculty Snapshots:
School of Business Kathleen Mays, D.B.A. Dean, School of Business | Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship Dr. Kathleen Mays earned a Doctor of Business Administration from Anderson University and a Master of Business Administration in Management at Troy State University. She returned to LeTourneau in 2019. “Entrepreneurship is the running theme, the mindset, that all of our business students are introduced to, in year one. Engaging with them, and the entire business faculty, as they explore the entire creative business process, from ideation and trial & error, to actual business creation, and making the pitch, is incredibly rewarding. Having worked at LeTourneau for years, and returned, it feels like home—and it’s more ‘LeTourneau’ than it’s ever been. Over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of working with a cross section of LeTourneau business & engineering students in our entrepreneurship classes, so I get to see the inspiration and legacy of R.G. LeTourneau come to life in such a modern, tangible way. Our engineers are exposed to foundational business principles as applied to tech-based companies, and nothing is more ‘Christian polytechnic’ than seeing the lightbulbs go off in a fresh way as they begin to see the path to bringing inventions to the marketplace."
Beverly Rowe, Ph.D., C.P.A. Professor of Accounting “The Bible says, ‘Acknowledge Him in all your ways,’ and at LeTourneau, I can freely acknowledge Christ in everything I do. Not only freely, but I am expected to do that. That gives me great joy and lets me walk the path that God has called me to walk. It allows me to use the gifts that God’s given me to build things here, to serve him.” Dr. Beverly Rowe holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in Management from Purdue University. Her undergraduate background is in theatre. She returned to LeTourneau in 2016. “I do a whole lot more than teach accounting. Yes, I teach accounting. Yes, I prepare accounting students to get ready for a career. I help them find internships, I help them guide into those careers, but more importantly, I am called to help them learn more about how to walk with Christ, how to mature in the Lord, how to follow Him, how to trust Him when they really don’t have a clue what’s going on, and God has let me live that out. I can speak it with experience—my pathway looked pretty zig-zaggy, but God had a plan, and it was a pathway. I can honestly say to them, ‘Don’t be really concerned about whether God’s going to use this or do that or you have to do it this way because He doesn’t waste anything. There is nothing that will happen in your life that will ever be wasted.’” PHOTOGRAPHY BY GRANT BRIDGMAN & JEREMIAH SHEPHERD
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