Dean's Message

Welcome:

Our College of Business offers excellent business programs that embrace analytical thinking, technology, and the tools necessary for our graduates to compete and succeed in a global economy. The Dean’s office coordinates the operations of the three baccalaureate degree programs—Accounting, Business Administration and Computer Information Systems and the one associate degree program—Business Administration offered by the College of Business.

We have an outstanding faculty and degree programs. We are accredited by AACSB International, the world’s premier crediting agency for business programs. In achieving this recognition, we have joined an elite group of fewer than 10% of the best business colleges throughout the world.

Congratulations are again in order for our highly competitive student chapters.  Our Computer Information Systems (CIS) students won the 2009 National AITP 2009 Database Design competition and walked away with a 1st place in Systems Analysis and Design and 1st and 2nd Place in Database Design during the 2008 AITP Region III competitions.  Computer Information System graduates have consistently placed in the top brackets of national competitions for systems analysis & design, applications development and database design.  Our Phi Beta Lambda chapter attended the Louisiana State Leadership Conference at a competitor school and garnered 16 first places, 7 second places, and 2 third places in 38 events.  At the national meetings in Anaheim, CA in June 2009, chapter members placed 7th in business law, 9th in financial concepts, and a 4th in human resource management among the 1,776 students attending.  Another student placed in the top 15 in the Future Business Executive contest.  Members of the Students in Free Enterprise chapter completed 9 projects ranging from teaching economics to second graders to how college students should approach ethical dilemmas.

In the middle of the summer, we submitted our AACSB Maintenance Review to retain our prestigious accreditation from this international organization.  While the final decision will be made after the visitation team comes in late September, we are confident that they will be pleased with our progress over the five years since our last visitation.

This summer, we supplemented our normal offerings with something special.  The College of Business directed and developed the curriculum for a summer camp to bring high school students to NSU in hopes of generating interest in technology and sciences.  The Cyber Forensics Camp brought 48 rising juniors and their teachers to campus for a week of classes on collection of digital evidence, use of biology and chemistry techniques to assist in digitally processing evidence, global positioning, and computer security.  The week culminated in student teams making presentations to local judges of the criminal evidence they had collected about a missing cheerleader.  The camp was marketed and sponsored by the Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City.

Over the next year we look forward to expanding our outreach to Bossier Parish Community College with whom a Memorandum of Understanding was signed to allow their students to take our upper division courses at their location.  We have also signed an agreement to offer the business administration degree at Barksdale Air Force Base starting in the fall.  Bothof these agreements extend the marketing of our college to a more fertile recruiting area. 

Thank you for your support and interest.

Jerry L. Wall, Ph. D. SPHR
Dean & Professor of Management