Alex Smith learned a little bit about baseball this summer, but he learned even more about himself. The sophomore marketing and management major from Springdale, Ark., spent eight weeks this summer serving an internship at Camp Pontiac, a summer sports camp in upper New York state. Smith, an outfielder on the Eagles baseball team, served […]
University of the Ozarks senior Jose O'Connor believes his summer 2014 internship with an elite global company will serve as a springboard to a successful career in international business. O’Connor, an international business and economics major from Honduras, served a five-week internship this summer in Panama City, Panama, at the Universal Company for French Perfumes […]
Kurt Shemanske, 2014 University of the Ozarks graduate, recently secured a position working with the executive vice president of Dillard's, Inc. in Little Rock, Ark. as part of the Arkansas Fellowship. The Arkansas Fellowship is a two-year fellowship program designed to keep Arkansas’ best business graduates in the state by pairing a select group of […]
In three short years since graduating from University of the Ozarks with a degree in accounting and economics, Meagan Ponseigo finds herself as a freshly-minted certified public accountant for one of the top oil and gas companies in the world.
Dr. Robert Hilton, chair of the Division of Business, Communication and Government, at University of the Ozarks was presented with the prestigious John L. Green Award for Excellence in Business Education at the annual International Assembly of Collegiate Business Education's (IACBE) Conference in San Diego on April 8-11. Dr. Robert Hilton, chair of the Business, […]
University of the Ozarks was named the Corporate Business of the Year at the 2014 Clarksville-Johnson County Chamber of Commerce's 93rd annual Awards Banquet, held March 14 in the University's Rogers Conference Center. Dr. Bill Clary, associate professor of Spanish and coordinator of the Walton Arts & Ideas Series, was also named U of O […]
Leonel Cantu, a 1999 University of the Ozarks graduate and the branch manager for Regions Bank in Clarksville, was named the 2013-2014 Business Leader of the Year by University's Division of Business, Communication and Government. During a brief ceremony in the Baldor Business Building on March 17, members of the U of O business faculty […]
Dr. Rickey Casey, professor of management and business at University of the Ozarks, has been elected Region Six vice president for the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE). Casey’s term began Jan. 1 and will run through 2014. In 2015, he will become president of the IACBE Region Six assemblies, which includes Arkansas, Texas, […]
Students in Professor Deborah Sisson's Promotion Strategies class had the opportunity to put theory to practice during the Fall 2013 Semester as they competed to develop a marketing campaign for the Clarksville-Johnson County Chamber of Commerce. Sisson, assistant professor of marketing and business, divided the upper level marketing class into three teams of five students. […]
Katy Niskern's business degree from University of the Ozarks is quickly launching her toward her professional goal of becoming a certified public accountant. Niskern, who graduated with a double major in accounting and management from Ozarks in 2011, learned in early December that she had passed the fourth, and final, portion of the rigorous CPA […]