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 […]
What do you think of when you hear the word "slave?"? Many people in the U.S. may think that slaves are found only in other parts of the word - primarily in Africa, Cambodia, or Asia. Or they may associate the word with the southern U.S. cotton plantations of the 1800s, and think that slavery […]
Less than two years after graduating from University of the Ozarks, Dorisel Talavera finds herself in her dream job with one of the top companies in the world. Talavera, who earned a degree in marketing and management from Ozarks in 2011, is living in Managua, Nicaragua, where she is a marketing and communications consultant for […]
Carol Spieckerman, president and CEO of the retail strategy firm newmarketbuilders, has been named the University of the Ozarks' 2012-2013 Business Leader of the Year by the University's Division of Business, Communication and Government. Spieckerman, a Bentonville, Ark.-based retail and brand thought leader, speaker, strategist, and author, spoke at U of O on Feb. 13 […]
One of the most useful assets any college graduate can list on his or her resume is the internship experience. It is in fact just that: actual experience, as opposed to book or classroom knowledge. Ozarks senior Bill Eldridge is spending the summer in San Francisco in an internship for Glam Media. The trick is […]