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Kansas State University achievements

2004 Business Administration

 

* The College of Business Administration has awarded Jeffrey Katz, professor of management, the Edgerley Family Chair in Business Administration, the college's second faculty of distinction chair. The Edgerley Family Chair is the second chair endowed by Paul B. and Sandra Edgerley to the college. October 2004

* Diane Swanson received the Outstanding Business Ethics Educator Award at the recent 2004 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International Teaching Business Ethics Conference in Boulder, Colo. The conference brings business ethics experts together to help develop and implement effective ethics education programs. Swanson is associate professor of management and as the von Waaden business administration professor at K-State. She is also chair and founder of the Business Ethics Education Initiative, an effort championing the need for ethics in business school curricula. August 2004

* The K-State College of Business Administration will be leading a collaborative effort to boost international business education in Kansas, as well as opportunities to sell Kansas-made products internationally, all with the help of a $163,000 Business and International Education Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Co-directors of the grant are Jeff Katz, professor of management and director of K-State's Center for Leadership, and Roger McHaney, associate professor of management. The two-year effort is about providing international business education to enhance student awareness, faculty-business interaction and encourage international trade opportunities. May 2004

* Chwen Sheu, K-State professor of management, has been appointed to the Paul B. Edgerley Chair in Business Administration, the college's first Faculty of Distinction Chair. Edgerley, a certified public accountant and managing director of Bain Capital in Boston, Mass., is a 1978 graduate of the College of Business Administration. Sheu is nationally and internationally recognized in the field of operations management with a focus on supply chain management. April 2004

* Aaron Siders, senior in marketing at Kansas State University, Wichita, received the North-American Interfraternity Conference 2004 Undergraduate Award of Distinction, also known as the "Ironman Trophy." Siders was presented the award at the conference's award dinner April 25 in Washington, D.C. He was one of only seven individuals chosen nationally for the distinction. Selection for the award was based on the candidates' overall leadership and excellence in the advancement of fraternity ideals, according to the conference. Individuals were nominated by fraternities, campus advisers and other undergraduates. According to its mission, the conference is a national body focused on "advocating the needs of its member fraternities through enrichment of the fraternity experience, advancement and growth of the fraternity community and enhancement of the educational mission of the host institutions." The conference has approximately 350,000 undergraduate members located on 800 campuses throughout the United State and Canada. April 2004