Every student and member of the faculty and staff at West Virginia University will have access to a digital subscription of the Wall Street Journal through the end of the academic year, thanks to a sponsorship by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics.
The business school worked with WVU Libraries and the Wall Street Journal to make the sponsorship happen.
You may not know it, but West Virginia University is home to one of the most storied and historically significant programs of its kind in the nation.
The Master of Science in Industrial Relations and Human Resources program, commonly known as MSIR and housed in the WVU College of Business and Economics, was the focus of a 60th anniversary celebration over the weekend in WVU’s business school. For the program that became fully operational in 1958 — only seven years after WVU created the College of Commerce that would become B&E — program alumni and students came together to celebrate MSIR’s history, success and evolution.
A team of graduate students from West Virginia University showed
its knowledge of industrial relations and human resources by winning the graduate
student division of the inaugural West Virginia SHRM Classic Case Competition.
The team, all of whom are students at the College of Business and Economics,
won the competition during the WVSHRM annual conference in Bridgeport Oct. 8-9.
Today’s business world has an unmistakable demand to quickly and efficiently make goods and services available wherever and whenever they are needed. That demand was the springboard for the creation of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University in the fall of 2014.
The College of Business and Economics will host a hospitality tent on October 6 in Tent City below Milan Puskar Stadium. Alumni are welcome to stop by the tent for food and camaraderie starting at 10:00 a.m., two hours before kickoff. The Mountaineers will take on the Kansas Jayhawks in the Homecoming Game.
Inspiring and supporting young entrepreneurs as they pursue their dreams, Nesha Sanghavi is paying it forward in the form of a major gift to the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics.
The West Virginia University College of Business and Economics hosted the 17th West Virginia Business Hall of Fame on August 28 at The Greenbrier. This year’s inductees included Linda Arnold, founder and former chairman and CEO of The Arnold Agency, Charleston, West Virginia; Andrew J. Paterno, CEO of Centurion Insurance Services, LLC, Charleston, West Virginia; and Brad Smith, chairman and CEO of Inuit, San Francisco Bay, California.
Javier Reyes, B&E Milan Puskar Dean, has announced the appointments of Dr. Elizabeth Vitullo to
“Our business school is evolving, and it’s important to have the right people in the right places to meet and anticipate the demands of the college,” said Reyes. “Dr. Vitullo will become part of the operation of the Dean’s Office in her role as Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives. In this role, she will work to make sure that we look around the corners, that we have someone looking through the windshield and not the rearview mirror. Liz will help B&E align resources in the college and connect them across campus and with partners outside of the university to ensure that we continue to provide excellent learning experiences and produce top quality research, while responding to global business challenges and opportunities.
The former students of a staple in the West Virginia University Department of Accounting are giving back to the College and University to honor his work and to look to the future of the industry. The gift is given in honor of Professor Robert S. Maust, who retired in 2013 after more than 50 years at theCollege of Business and Economics and made a tremendous impact on the lives of countless accounting students.
Among those former students is John Wilson, a 1989 Master of Accountancy graduate, partner at Schmidt & Wilson LLC in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, and owner of Cox Well Service, LLC, in Spencer, West Virginia, worked directly with Maust as a graduate assistant during his time at WVU, and said Maust helped shape his career. Recently, Wilson made a generous gift to establish an endowed scholarship fund, the Professor Robert Maust Scholarship. Recipients of the Professor Robert Maust Scholarship must be undergraduate students enrolled full-time at B&E and majoring in accounting.
