Department Vision

BUSINESS, ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT

Dr. Don E. Eskew, Chairperson; Dr. Shah M. Hasan, Director, MBA Program Department Office: Room 419, Roush Hall

Department Vision

The faculty and staff of the Department of Business, Accounting and Economics at Otterbein College strive to create regionally acknowledged, leading edge business education programs for both undergraduate and graduate students. These programs focus on the development of an integrative and interdisciplinary curricula within the department, while increasing our connection with the liberal arts components of the college. At the undergraduate level we strive to be the number one business program among liberal arts colleges in the midwest and at the graduate level we strive to be the top private school program in central Ohio. We establish structures and processes to develop faculty as educators, scholars, and citizens. We also develop our students so as to meet their personal goals and bring to fruition their innate potentials. We encourage a culture of quality in all we do and hold our students and ourselves to the highest ethical, academic, and good citizen standards.

The mission of the Department of Business, Accounting and Economics is to prepare students for lifelong learning necessary to provide value to themselves, the workplace, and society. Our efforts flow from the liberal arts orientation of the College. We are guided in our efforts by the principles of:

Acquisition of Knowledge and Lifelong Learning

Instilling students with the excitement that comes from joy of discovery and the acquisition of new knowledge along with the recognition that learning will continue throughout their careers.

Independent Accountable Decision-Making

Preparing students for professional careers or graduate school by giving them the technical, analytical, research, and communication skills needed to become effective business leaders sensitive to many constituencies and insistent on accepting accountability for their actions.

Diversity

Sensitizing students to a global world in which the appreciation for culture and intellectual diversity is essential

Ethics

Furthering a value based approach that emphasizes probity and ethics in both professional and personal lives.