For the first time the College of Business is presenting its Early Career Achievement Awards (ECAA) to 15 truly outstanding young alumni who have experienced significant professional success.  In May an email about the award was sent to current and retired faculty and staff, and to all COB alumni for whom we had correct email addresses.

Nominations began arriving soon afterwards and were reviewed by departmental teams in July. Honorees representing the different programs in the College of Business will be recognized on Friday, October 17, 2008. We hope you will attend the ECAA panel discussions from 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. on Friday, October 17, 2008 and join us to honor the recipients at the public reception which immediately follows in the lower level atrium.

Panel Discussion Locations:

• Accounting and Finance, Insurance and Law - Caterpillar Auditorium
• Marketing - COB Room 357
• Management and Quantitative Methods and MBA - COB Room 366

Learn more about this year’s honorees.

Illinois State’s College of Business (COB) has adopted BusinessWeek as a teaching tool in all Business 100 courses, which are required of freshmen and sophomore business students. A cover wrap featuring the COB was created for a special magazine edition featuring “Trouble at the Office? – Toxic Bosses, Work/Life Balance, Generational Tension.” It will be used for recruitment, as well as educational and development purposes.

“The special cover and the accompanying PDF will enable the college to highlight its excellence and programs with external constituencies in a different way,” said Director of Development Norris Porter.

Porter coordinated the project that gives students and faculty access to a significant amount of additional content and helpful resources on the BusinessWeek Web site. Faculty tie articles to topics being discussed in class through presentations, article summary journals, and in-class discussions.