 | | | | College of Business Faculty Shine at Awards Ceremony
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This years faculty and staff award winners include Rene Reitsma, Steve Lawton, Clay Dibrell, Steve Landis, Mark Clements, (Front row): Nancy King, Mark Pagell, and Tom Dowling. | After a year of transition and growth, the College of Business took time out to honor its employees at its 2004 Faculty and Staff Awards Dinner held on April 29 at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center. The event, sponsored by the College’s Business Advisory Council (BAC), drew BAC members, emeriti faculty and employees and their spouses.
“We successfully hired six of seven open lines, delivered nearly 58,000 student credit hours to 2400 majors, 490 minors and 1525 other students,” said College of Business Dean Ilene Kleinsorge. “We initiated the entrepreneurship minor, made numerous improvements to our options, agreed on a set of learning objectives, made 94 presentations and had another 21 manuscripts accepted for publication,” she said.
In all, ten awards in seven categories were presented. Assistant Professor Nancy King received prestigious title, Newcomb Fellow for meritorious performance. King was acknowledged for her superior performance, work ethic and “relentless” advocacy for the importance of business law. She was instrumental in getting business law included in the MBA program. She receives strong evaluations from students. King also has a steady stream of cyber law research that has yielded more than seven publications in respected business law journals over the past three years. Her spirit of continuous improvement in her contributions to the strategic objectives of the College was also acknowledged.
King, along with Associate Professor Steve Lawton and Instructor Tom Dowling, were recognized for their Service to the Sustainability Business Initiative and its impact on the College’s strategic plan. Lawton’s and Dowling’s leadership and vision have laid the foundation for the initiative. King, on her own initiative, developed a turnkey course module that ensured all students received instruction on the link between sustainability and business law.
The Excellence in Scholarship Award went to Associate Professor Mark Pagell. Pagell has published more than 20 peer reviewed articles on topics such as supply chain management, operational responses to environmental uncertainty and human resource issues in operational environments. His research has been published in premier scholarly outlets and he has won awards for best Operations Management paper at the Academy of Management meetings in 2001 and 2003, as well as the best paper published in the Journal of Operations Management in 2002.
Associate Professor Rene Reitsma received the Outstanding Faculty Service Award for his service to the College. He was instrumental in leading the Undergraduate Program Committee in evaluating the Colleges core set of courses. He has served on the Faculty Senate and the University Bicycle Committee. Reitsma is active in his research, in designing MIS curriculum and in interacting with alumni.
Assistant Professor Clay Dibrell won the Byron L. Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dibrell was acknowledged for his consistently high ratings from students. According to his nominator, “he sets high standards and is rigorous in his evaluations. He is a well-organized, engaging teacher who cultivates a supportive learning environment.” Dibrell was also noted for his gift in teaching, his productivity as a researcher, and his contributions to the college by serving on major committees.
Development engineers Steve Landis and Mark Clements were co-recipients of the Exemplary Service Award for their excellence in service and performance. As part of the College’s Business Solutions Group, the duo has led the design and implementation of OSU’s online catalog and schedule of classes, the OSU Extended Campus website and underlying database, the School of Education student tracking web service and database system and many more projects including the College’s website content management system. They mentor student interns and are considered experts in their field, recently teaching a training program for ODOT developers.
The Gazette-Times Leadership Award went to Ray Brooks for his leadership for the College and University, his profession, and the community-at-large. Brooks is chair of the COB Scholarship Committee, an advisor for the Investment Club, coordinator of the Finance Option, advisor to the Economic Impact Study for the OSU Athletic Department and more. He has served on the student chapters committee and the board of directors for the Financial Management Association. He has also had leadership roles for the Midwest Financial Association. In the community, he has served on the board of directors of the Benton County Library Foundation and completed five years on the board of directors of the United Campus Ministry, and more.
In closing, Dean Kleinsorge commented, “…working towards a new vision and mission is more like running a marathon than a sprint,” she said. “We have much work ahead of us and the right people to make it happen.”
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