Available Items to Claim

We still have several pieces of art as well as miscellaneous items up for grabs. Please see attached photos. If you are interested, please contact Hayden Smith (smithhl1@cofc.edu). If not claimed by 1/19 we will offer it to the rest of campus

Rénard Harris Joins the School of Business

Rénard Harris will be joining the Management faculty as an associate professor. Harris recently served as the College’s Vice President of Access and Inclusion and the Chief Diversity Officer. His primary responsibilities were to raise the visibility of the institution’s diversity efforts by building collaborative relationships, unifying the campus by educating and highlighting the core…

Meeting Reminders!

First School of Business Meeting – Thursday, Jan 12th at 3pm in Beatty 115 Let us know if you’d like to add anything to the agenda. 2nd Retention Meeting with the Provost – Tuesday, Jan 17th at 3pm in Beatty 115 (online option will be available and announced shortly) See you there!

The Best Ideas

Welcome to 2023 – it’s a new year and it promises to be a different year. I’m hoping different in a good way. Higher education, and the world, has been significantly disrupted over the last few years – you know that better than most. It’s been said that “we can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s…

Syllabus Guides & Calendars

As you put together your syllabus, be sure to: Make sure you follow the College of Charleston Syllabus Policy. Also see the SB Handbook in TEAMS for specific SB syllabus policy information. Pay attention to the college calendar (and appropriately integrate your final exam at the scheduled time). Make sure your assignments align with the…

New and Improved Faculty and Staff Breakroom!

If you’re looking to get out of your office for your lunch break or a cup of coffee, come down to Tate 206 (the kitchen)! The space includes a new refrigerator, coffee maker and seating. We thank Barbara Green for spearheading and sourcing these new accommodations for us.

Celebrating Cistern Standard Recognitions

The College of Charleston embraces a culture that supports our Core Values. The Cistern Standard is a recognition program that provides a way for the College to build on this culture and spotlight employees who embody behaviors in accordance with our Core Values. Employees may recognize a fellow employee of any title or department at…

Call for Proposals – Faculty Research and Development Committee

The College of Charleston Faculty Research and Development Committee is now accepting proposals for Faculty Research and Development Grants for the award period for May 16th – August 15th, 2023. The deadline for submission of proposals is 5 PM on Monday, January 16th, 2023. Updated proposal guidelines, forms, and examples of successful proposals are available…

Resolutions

As we prepare for the new year – 2023, really? – it’s a time when we each reflect and think about what we would like the next year to look like. How do we want to be better? How do we want to improve? What do we need to do differently? To what do we…

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Joyous Kwanzaa! Remember:

Congrats to the Class of 2022!

Congratulations to the Class of 2022! Our colleague Mark Buono ’81 served as the commencement speaker and was given an honorary degree. View the entire commencement ceremony below.

Grading with Rubrics

I am embarrassed to admit this, but for the first time this semester, I used the rubric feature in OAKS Assignment. I loved it, and am kicking myself for all the years I graded the hard way. If you grade a lot of written projects in OAKS Assignment, you really should give the feature a…

Thank you, Barbara Green!

After three decades of service, we’ll miss seeing Barbara’s face around the School of Business. Thank you so much, Barbara, for all you’ve done for us over the years! Get your goodbyes in before her last day on the 20th!

Maroon Memories: Christian Pabon

Submitted by Lancie Affonso As we wrap up another semester, I am proud of our SB December graduates, especially our first generation MSPS graduates and wanted to share some “maroon memories” photos and a great plug for our Global Scholars Program from: Christian Pabon: INTB /LACS (linked-in) Activities and societies: CofC Global Scholar: TAU Sigma…

MBA Program Receives National Recognition from Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune

The College of Charleston School of Business has recently been named among Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2022-23 Best Business Schools list for its Master of Business Administration program. The MBA program has also made Fortune’s 2022-23 Best MBA Programs list. Read more on The College Today.

Mentoring Matters

I’ve been reminded this week of a favorite survey outcome, periodically reported in Inside Higher Ed. Here’s a 2019 version: Faculty mentors provide students exceptional educational benefits (opinion) (insidehighered.com) This morning a faculty colleague dropped in for help finding student home addresses in MyPortal. Why? Because at the end of the semester, he sends a…

BPS Graduate Featured on The College Today

Rob Concannon – a Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS) student who many recognize as president of the South Carolina Stingrays – left college over two decades ago to focus on his career in the sport of hockey. Now he’s graduating with his bachelor’s degree on Saturday. Concannon says that all of the professors he’s studied…

Recent Faculty Research

Here are two publications I lifted this week from a Management and Marketing email thread: Dr. Angela Passarelli’s recent Human Resource Management publication, “Communication quality and relational self‐expansion: The path to leadership coaching effectiveness”, is now available online. (ABDC A*, 6.235 IF). Dr. Ivana Milosevic had a recent acceptance, in Journal of Small Business Management, “The process…

Winding Down

Graduation is Saturday, the holidays are approaching, and soon it will be 2023. How did that happen? A lot happened in 2022, but the world seemed more “normal” than in 2021 and certainly more than 2020. But it was certainly an unusual year for all of us in the School of Business. We got through…

Nominate Students for Programs and Scholarships

We need your help! Encourage students to take advantage of opportunities in the business school. Several programs provide students the chance to get engaged beyond the classroom , and some of those programs select next year’s cohort right after the new year (e.g., Market Process Scholars, Investment Program, and Schottland Scholars). It is also time…