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So You Want to Work in Sports? Alumni Panel Discussion

Join the Sports Business Circle for a dynamic discussion to learn everything you need to know to succeed in the sports industry from alumni. Panelists: Tanner Clay ‘15 – Director, Business Development at Charleston Battery Christian Jablonski ‘17 – Manager, Luxe Partnership Development at Houston Texans Brian Plexico ‘95 – Vice President, Baseball Systems at Tampa Bay…

An Inside Look at the Life Design Lab

The College of Charleston has introduced an innovative new program within the School of Business, encouraging students to take a more active role in shaping their futures: Design Your Life. This program is inspired by a concept developed by engineers at Stanford University, who sought to engage students with unclear futures in a more purposeful way….

Call for 2025 Howard F. Rudd Jr. Business Person of the Year Award Nominations

The Dean’s Office and the Alumni Association are accepting nominations for this year’s award recipient! This is a great way to celebrate our alumni leaders. The Howard F. Rudd Jr. Business Person of the Year Award recognizes a graduate who has made significant contributions as a business leader to industry or profession, community and alma…

CETL Offers Teaching Peer Review

Dear Faculty Colleagues, Are you looking for more resources to help you improve your teaching? A chance to get feedback on classroom innovations you are trying? An external peer review that you can include in packets for major reviews, including tenure and promotion? Please consider having a CETL Peer Review Partner observe your class! The CETL…

CofC Real Estate Graduates Gain Major Advantage with New Appraisal Institute Partnership

We have exciting news to share concerning the Carter Real Estate Center’s partnership with the Appraisal Foundation. The Appraiser Qualification Board has approved all graduates from the College of Charleston’s Bachelor of Science in Commercial Real Estate Finance Degree to receive credit towards all Real Property Appraiser designations. All Appraisal Institute professional designations (Trainee, Licensed…

Morgan Stanley and Cerifi Sponsor SIE Exam Training for Finance Students

Morgan Stanley and a company called Cerifi are providing 20 finance students with training (and paying fees) to take the Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) exam this semester. The kickoff meeting is scheduled for February 10th. The registered students are: Erin McNulty Lilian Kemp Nicholas Houck Teagan Jackett Shea Washburne Patrick Erickson Cathleen McKendry Reed Friesner…

Faculty in the News

Charleston’s 2025 tourism season expected to be busy As Charleston gears up for a bustling 2025 tourism season, WCSC-TV sits down with Daniel Guttentag, director of the Office of Tourism Analysis, to discuss what visitors and locals can expect. First day of tax filing opens, expert shares advice With tax season upon us, WCSC-TV interviews…

Belonging in Business team impresses at National Diversity Case Competition

Photo left to right: Lexi Redd, Helina Brown, David Byrd Our Belonging in Business team made an impressive debut at the 14th annual National Diversity Case Competition (NDCC) hosted by Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business on January 17–18. Competing against teams from 23 prestigious universities, the CofC team earned the Runner-Up Award in their…

Accounting Faculty Research Featured on the Cover of Today’s CPA Magazine

Accounting faculty are making headlines! Research by professors Billy VanDenburgh, Ph.D., Kimberly Tribou, Ph.D., CPA; and Mike Braswell, Ph.D. are featured on the cover of Today’s CPA Magazine for their analysis of the quality of tax-focused AI. Their article, “Assessing AI From a Tax Perspective, Part 1,” explores how Copilot, a commonly available AI tool,…

Article by Thomas Spade featured in TaxNotes

Thomas Spade, senior instructor of accounting, was featured in the January 20, 2025, edition of TaxNotes with his article, “Depreciation Recapture and the South Carolina Capital Gain Deduction.” In this article, Spade analyzes depreciation recapture, focusing on South Carolinaʹs longterm capital gain deduction, its legislative history, and arguments for and against its inclusion; provides an…

MBA Candidate Earns Volleyball Academic All-America Honors

College of Charleston middle blocker Caitlyn Callahan was named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators Volleyball Academic All-America Third Team. Callahan has a 4.0 grade point average while pursuing a master’s degree in business administration. She is the first CAA volleyball student-athlete to earn Academic All-America honors since 2019. The All-CAA First Team selection produced a career year…

Winter Edition of CofC Magazine Highlights Business School’s Success

Have you checked out the latest College of Charleston Magazine? The Winter 2025 edition highlights the incredible impact of the business school! Cover Story: Explore the success of the HTMT program and college alumni thriving in the hospitality industry like James London ’07, Catherine Dority ’99, Danetra Richardson ’12 and Marcus Hammond ’08. Feature Story:…

Spring 2025 Center for Student Learning Services

Originally sent by Christopher Korey, Associate Provost For Student Success and Lindy Coleman, Director, Center for Student Learning: The Center for Student Learning opens Tuesday, January 21 with the following services: Drop-in Tutoring for Math, Writing, Sciences, Business, Computer Science, Spanish, and German. See Drop-In Schedules here By Appt Tutoring for a variety of courses, including Psychology, Music, Art History,…

Beta Alpha Psi to bring 10 students to national conference

Next weekend, ten Beta Alpha Psi members and two faculty advisors will be attending the organization’s midyear meeting in Atlanta, GA. During the meeting, students will have the opportunity to network with accounting and business professionals, share best practices with other university chapters, and take part in community service projects. Beta Alpha Psi is collecting…

Thank You! / Various Data Points

The drop/add period for the Express I and full semester classes has ended. I wanted to send a quick note to you to THANK YOU for our continued partnership. Meeting class needs (for individual or groups of students), addressing student issues, and much more absolutely would not be possible without our collaboration and shared trust. …

Help us this Schottland Scholar Recruitment Season

Esta Shah, Jessica Madariaga, and Scott Greene are in full recruitment mode for the Schottland Scholars and would like your student recommendations. They would also love to send student ambassadors to attend your classes and present for 5 min at the start of class to verbally speak of the program to your students. If you…

Professionals studies alum gives back, empowers students through scholarship

Think about being just a few credits away from graduation and having to step away from school. The experience can be soul crushing. That’s exactly what happened to Suzette Timme ’84. As part of her elementary education major, Timme had to student teach for a semester. Outside work during this unpaid experience was strongly discouraged. In the end,…

Feb 12, 2025 – German-American Business Summit

Hope we’ll see you (and your students) at the Francis Marion Hotel on February 12 for GABS IX! FREE for students/faculty/staff. Check out our website for more details and registration info. https://go.charleston.edu/GABS Agenda and panel discussion topics: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Job & Internship Expo 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. – Break/Registration/Check-in 1:00 –…

Welcoming Ashley Redmond

Ashley Wieters Redmond is our new Director of Development for the School of Business. She will be working with Dean Paul Schwager and our development team to build and grow relationships with major and principal gift donor prospects for the School of Business. Ashley joins us after serving as the Vice President of Development and…

School of Business welcomes inaugural executive MBA cohort

Exciting times at the College of Charleston! The first-ever Executive MBA cohort has officially kicked off. This week, we celebrated the inaugural Residency Week—an incredible opportunity for our students to connect, learn, and immerse themselves in real-world business challenges. It’s inspiring to see the hard work of the entire team come to life as this…