News & Events
Fall 2012 News
October 29, 2012: School of Business Administration names "2012 Alumnus of the Year, Niall J. Gannon"
Investment manager Niall J. Gannon has been selected by the School of Business Administration as its 2012 Alumnus of the Year. Gannon, Citadel Class of 1990, executive director of Wealth Management at The Gannon Group in Clayton, Mo., will be honored at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, at the School of Business Administration's Alumni Reception.
Learn more about Gannon and this prestigious award at, http://www.citadel.edu/root/biz-2012-alumofyear.
October 9, 2012: School of Business Administration is featured in The Princeton Review's "Best 296 Business School" 2013 edition
The Citadel School of Business Administration is an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. The Citadel is a featured school in the new 2013 edition of its annual guidebook "The Best 296 Business Schools."
"We consider The Citadel School of Business Administration one of the best institutions a student could attend to earn an MBA," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president/publisher. "We selected the schools we profile in this book – 280 of which are in the U.S and 16 are international – based on our high regard for their academic programs and our reviews of institutional data we collect from the schools."
Learn more information about this special honor at, http://www.citadel.edu/root/best-business-school-2013
October 1st: The Citadel Chapter of the FMA National Honor Society was established
Dr. Iordanis Karagiannidis and Andrew Munnerlyn, the chapter's first president established the FMA National Honor Society within the CSBA.
The Financial Management Association National Honor Society recognizes undergraduate and graduate students that have demonstrated superior scholarship and achievement in the area of finance at colleges in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. It is the only international organization that that specifically rewards outstanding academic performance in the disciplines of finance and financial services.
For more information about the FMA National Honor Society, visit, http://www.citadel.edu/root/bastinlab-fma.
The Citadel School of Business Administration and The Mentor Association welcomes Patricia Bergmann to the role of Mentor Coordinator.
Carl Betterton has been elected to the position of President-Elect of The Citadel Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Dr Betterton will follow the current President to become Chapter President in Fall 2013. Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 and is the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. The Citadel Chapter was established in 1979. Each year the chapter invites into membership graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines at The Citadel who have shown sustained superior academic performance. Citadel student and faculty members are eligible to apply for a number of scholarship and fellowship opportunities, literacy grants, study abroad grants, and other awards. In the coming year Phi Kappa Phi will award $1,000,000 in such awards.
Dr Betterton also represented The Citadel's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi as a delegate to the biennial governance convention of this national honor society in August. The convention took place in St Louis and included elections of national and regional officers, budget approval, changes to bylaws, and other business as well as professional development sessions.
Dr. Iordanis Karagiannidis published his article "The effect of management team characteristics on risk-taking and style extremity of mutual fund portfolios" in the September issue of the Review of Financial Economics.
The Rotary Club of Charleston gave Dr. Earl Walker the "Service Above Self" award in July for bringing so many Rotarians to that chapter's club.
Professor Cindy Bolt-Lee was named "Professor of the Game" at The Citadel's football game against Charleston Southern on September 1. Drs. Liz Arnold and Bob Riggle won the award on September 8 when the Bulldogs played Georgia Southern.
For second year, The Citadel named top public college in the South
For the second consecutive year The Citadel is ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report in its Best Colleges rankings.
Released in September, the rankings put the college at No. 1 among the top public universities in the South. In addition, the School of Engineering has cracked the top 20 nationally, moving up from No. 21 last year to No. 17 this year for best undergraduate engineering programs.
The Citadel is ranked in the regional universities category of colleges because it offers a full range of undergraduate and master's degree (Citadel Graduate College) programs.
In its other rankings, U.S. News ranked The Citadel No. 8 for best value in the South. The best value takes into account a school's academic quality, based on its current U.S. News Best Colleges ranking, and the 2011-12 net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of need-based financial aid. The higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the deal.
Among both public and private universities in the South, The Citadel ranks No. 5. The public and private colleges in the category are ranked by region against their peers because in general they tend to draw students most heavily from surrounding states, according to the rankings.
"U.S. News & World Report confirms what we have known all along—The Citadel is a preeminent institution with excellent academics and a tradition of developing principled leaders," said Citadel President Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa. "We are proud to be No. 1 again, and we are particularly proud of our alumni for their commitment to what we do."
In the regional universities rankings for public and private colleges, The Citadel has the highest rate of alumni giving at 30 percent.
Ron Welch, dean of the School of Engineering, said the U.S. News rankings come on the heels of other recent accolades, including receipt of the Robert Ridgeway Student Chapter Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for best student chapter in the nation.
"Being No. 17 and in the top 20 in the nation is an incredible honor," Welch said. "It fully recognizes the quality of our students and alumni as well as the faculty that mentor them to become the engineers who significantly impact society. The ability of our students to study hard, to compete hard, and to work hard when they volunteer their time and talents for community service projects develops the type of engineers that the public, and our peer institutions, expect.”
The 2013 Best Colleges guidebook will be on newsstands Sept. 18. The rankings can also be viewed online at www.usnews.com.
Summer 2012 News
Professor Cynthia Bolt-Lee won the Best Paper Award at the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum, SEAAA (Southeastern American Accounting Association) 2012 with a paper entitled "Introductory Financial Accounting: Teaching from a Fraud Perspective".
In March, Professor Lancie Affonso gave a presentation on his paper "Student Learning with Web and Mobile Apps" at a Course Technology conference in San Antonio, TX.
Professors Sam Berry and Carl Betterton gave a presentation at the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (SEDSI) entitled "Quantifying Uncertainty in Weighted Average Cost of Capital - A Student Exercise Using Monte Carlo Simulation".
Professor Robert E. Freer, Jr. has been awarded a research grant by the Charles Koch Foundation. The money will cover the cost of hiring two grad assistants for the next academic year.
Dorothy Perrin Moore, CSBA Emeritus Professor of Business Administration, recently published the book "WomenPreneurs: 21st Century Success Stories". This one of a kind book provides valuable tools for faculty teaching management, entrepreneurship, and women's studies and for directors of professional development workshops. The five chapters cover career and life strategies across a broad spectrum. Click here to learn more about the book.
Cadet Nathan Conley was selected for the Charleston Marine Container Scholarship
Spring 2012 News
The Citadel School of Business Administration (CSBA) is hosting a non-partisan forum on fiscal responsibility on Thursday, January 19 from 1-2pm in Bond Hall #165. All faculty, staff and cadets are welcome to attend. Featured Speakers are Mark Sanford, David Walker and Robert Bixby
Only hours before the Republican presidential debate in Charleston, this non-partisan public forum will focus on a key election issue: the rapidly rising federal debt and what can be done about it. The panel will discuss the federal government’s trillion-plus annual deficits and possible solutions that include cuts in defense and non-defense spending plans, changes in Social Security and Medicare, tax reform and improvements in the congressional budget process.
THE SPEAKERS:
- Mark Sanford, former governor and a former member of Congress from South Carolina
- David M. Walker, founder, president and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative, and former comptroller general of the United States
- Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition and member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Task Force on Debt Reduction
Fall 2011 News
November 9 - The business school honors Robert S. Adden as Alumnus of the Year. Learn more about the reception and the award here.
October 11 - The business school hires director for Bastin Financial Leadership Lab. Learn more about Dr. Iordanis Karagiannidis.
October 7 - The Citadel School of Business Administration hosted two book signings for Citadel graduate and author Marvin H. McIntyre's new book “Insiders.” Learn more about the book signing.
September 22, 2011 - SC Economics is partnering with The Citadel to do their part in making economic education even more accessible to teachers, students, and parents of the Lowcountry with the opening of the new Citadel Center for Economic Education. Learn more about the partnership.