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 […]
Zach Doty, a 2012 Ozarks graduate from Waco, Texas, is currently working as a digital marketing specialist for Forthea Interactive Marketing, a thriving full-service internet marketing firm in Houston, Texas. Zach Doty, a 2012 Ozarks graduate is a digital marketing specialist for one of the top advertising agencies in Houston. Doty, who majored in marketing […]
University of the Ozarks Professor of Management and Business Dr. Rickey Casey has been elected as vice president of the Arkansas College Teachers in Economics and Business (ACTEB). Casey will become the organization?s president in September of 2014. Casey was elected during the ACTEB’s 62nd annual conference, held last week at the University of Central […]
University of the Ozarks will host students from area high schools for its annual business conference on Wednesday, Oct. 23. The conference is a comprehensive competitive events program sponsored by the University’s Division of Business, Communication, and Government and its two co-curricular student organizations, Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) and Enactus. Participants […]
Bishop Bass and Whitney Lewis, two University of the Ozarks business students, are spending their summer helping the Clarksville-Johnson County Chamber of Commerce with community marketing efforts. Bass, a junior management major from Greenwood, Ark., and Lewis, a senior management/administration major from Clarksville, Ark., are both working with Chamber CEO Travis Stephens this summer to […]
A new international business degree has been added to the University of the Ozarks' curriculum. The University’s Board of Trustees approved the new major during its annual Spring meeting in April. The bachelor of arts in international business degree will be added to the course catalog for the 2013-2014 academic year. According to the University’s […]
In just a few weeks, four University of the Ozarks students will have the rare opportunity to hear and meet some of the country's top movers and shakers in the financial and economics field. Dru Evans, Kurt Shemanske, Gerardo Navarrete and Gerrad Unger will join Political Science Professor Gilbert Parks at the third annual Global […]