VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY LANGDALE COLLEGE of BUSINESS Special Edition 2012 CELEBRATING THE PAST andEXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE Into the Future: the New Health Sciences and Business Administration Building fter many years of work and much effort in full view enclosed in blue tinted glass with the A on the part of many people, VSU’s Health SEFCU logo etched in the front corner. There will be Sciences and Business Administration (HSBA) build- additional faculty offices, conference rooms, three ing will become a reality. It will serve as an advanced large computer classrooms, student gathering and academic facility to educate Georgia’s future health meeting rooms and a graduate classroom designed care professionals. The 140,000-square-foot four- to allow for group/team work. The first floor of the story structure will house six health science programs: HSBA building will include a 260-seat auditorium nursing (including a dental hygiene program with and nine classrooms that will be shared by all the Wiregrass Georgia Technical College), communica- programs. tion sciences and disorders, athletic training, exercise Given that health sciences and nursing will be housed physiology, social work and healthcare administra- in the new building, the opportunity for collabora- tion. The HSBA building will be located directly tion will be significant. The Langdale College of across from South Georgia Medical Center’s newly Business is developing a BBA degree in healthcare constructed parking deck on the Rea and Lillian administration and an online MBA in healthcare Steele North Campus at the corner of Patterson administration. The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Street and Pendleton Drive. (BLS) Occupational Outlook Handbook (2012) esti- The Langdale College of Business will occupy mates that employment of healthcare managers will the third floor of the $32 million facility while grow by 22 percent from 2010 to 2020. The Long- maintaining occupancy in Pound and Thaxton Halls. term Occupational Projections for the South Georgia The new building will accommodate the physical Workforce Investment Area (WIA018) for 2008-2018 space needs of the Langdale College for years projects an even greater growth (45 percent) in to come. The Southeastern Federal Credit Union employment of healthcare managers. The new pro- (SEFCU) Financial Trading Center (FTC) will move grams in healthcare administration will aid economic from its current location in Thaxton Hall to take a development as well as contribute to a higher quality more prominent position in the HSBA building. As of life for the South Georgians. one exits the elevator or staircase, the FTC will be PAGE 1 VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY LANGDALE COLLEGE of BUSINESS Celebrating Student Successes Beta Gamma Sigma Inducts 45 nduction into the Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society is the highest academic I honor that a business student can achieve. Forty-five students and faculty were inducted at the Langdale College of Business’ Honors Night Dinner on April 27th. To be inducted, undergraduate students must be in the top ten percent of their class and masters students must be in the top 20 percent of their class. The following students and faculty were inducted: Mary Agramonte Joshua Edwards Susan Kouril Cheryl Parlor Elvan Aktas Christopher Gaither David Kuhlmeier Bethany Smith Daffane Alred Aillyn Gildon James Landrum Jordan Stone Mathew Bailey Christine Grass Brian Leverett Allison Walega Ashley Blankenship Chelsea Griggs Alexandra Lichten Jennifer Walker Kathryn Butler Holden Hendricks Carrie Miller Nikki White Meagan Camp Laura Hewett Nathan Moates Amanda Whitford Anthony Combs JerKendra Holloway Natalia Morozova Robert Williams Attila Cseh Cameron Jahnke Allen Muncy Lindsey Wisenbaker Kristel De Groot Haley Janousek James Muncy Clinton Yager BreAnna Dean Jessica Johnston John Murray Barbara Durr Kella Kicklighter Brian Parker PAGE 2 Special Edition 2012 Celebrating Student Successes Beta Alpha Psi “Honors our Neighbor” This past February Beta Alpha Psi Mu Mu Zeta continues to earn awards at Zeta Chapter attended the Southeast the national level. They were recog- Regional Meeting in Raleigh, North nized as a distinguished chapter in Carolina. Although one of the smallest 2009 and as a superior chapter for chapters in the region, it competed each of the past three years. Superior in all three Best Practices categories status means going above and beyond and earned a 2nd and 3rd placing. the minimum chapter requirements The chapter also presented on the Through our professional meetings, creative and innovative ways to recruit such as our open house hosted by Hen- new members in a chapter operations derson and Godbee, LLP, and through session. community service events such as the blood drive to benefit the America Red During the past academic year, the Cross. Langdale College is proud of chapter hosted the Honor Our Neigh- their accomplishments and are working bor 5K/ 1 mile run/walk event. The hard to continue their success. purpose of the event which was held in January 2012 was to assist a local fam- Beta Alpha Psi is the honor’s organi- ily facing financial hardship especially zation which is open to accounting due to the illness. The event attracted and finance majors with at least a 3.0 approximately 100 runners and raised cumulative GPA. For more information $5,000. Our honoree was the Dallas on the Mu Zeta chapter please contact family, whose six year daughter is bat- Shawn Boltin, the 2012-13 Chapter tling leukemia. Mu Zeta was honored President ([email protected]) Beta Gamma Sigma to assist this family and plan on hosting or Dr. Ray Elson, Faculty Advisor is celebrating similar events in the future. ([email protected]). its Centennial Anniversary during 2012-2013 with a number of special programs. The Langdale College of Business Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter will also be sponsoring several activities throughout the year. Alumni inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma at VSU should be on the lookout for these activities. Langdale College of Business Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter is led by Dean Wayne Plumly who serves as Chapter President and Dr. Karin Roland who serves as the Chapter’s Faculty Advisor. For the first time in 2012- 2013, student vice-presidents will assist the faculty advisor with a number of projects throughout the year. PAGE 3 VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY LANGDALE COLLEGE of BUSINESS Celebrating Student Successes Valdosta State University’s 2012 SIFE team placed fourth among 494 SIFE teams nationwide at the SIFE National Exposition last month. Pictured are (Kneeling) Justin McGruder, (Front row L-R) Kai Powell, Ariel Powell, Anesa Barton, Joy Caldwell, Rederic Young, Jessica Moss, Valious Smith, (Back row L-R) Hilary Gibbs-faculty advisor, Travian Scott, Marcus Shine, Michael Oppel, Sean Branch and Diane Guess-faculty advisor. Not pictured but also attended: SIFE students Kelsey Hill and Courtney Sumpter, SIFE faculty advisor–Jeff Shipley VSU SIFE places 4th in the Nation aldosta State University’s 2012 Students in Free efited the community in ways that we may not know VEnterprise (SIFE) team placed fourth among 494 for years to come,” said Plumly. “SIFE advisors Hilary SIFE teams nationwide at the SIFE National Exposi- Gibbs, Diane Guess and Jeff Shipley have worked tion last month. tirelessly to give our SIFE students every opportunity to help others and themselves. ” The VSU SIFE team was recognized in the top four teams alongside students from Brigham Young Valdosta’s SIFE program is one of nearly 500 pro- University-Hawaii, Flagler College and the national grams in the United States. Participating students use champion,Belmont University. The exposition was business concepts to develop community service held from May 22 to May 24 in Kansas City, Mo. and projects that improve the standard of living for included two days of intense competition at the Kan- people in need. The culmination of the SIFE program sas City Convention Center. Outreach projects were is an annual series of competitions that provide a presented and judged by top business executives. forum for teams to present the results of their proj- ects and to be evaluated by business leaders who Dr. Wayne Plumly, dean of the Langdale College of serve as judges. Teams compete first at the regional Business Administration, said that the students spent and national levels, then at the international level months preparing for the event. when the national champion teams from each “All the volunteer hours that they managed despite country meet at the SIFE World Cup. full academic loads and working part-time have ben- PAGE 4 Special Edition 2012 Traveling with the team to the National exposition were SIFE Business Advisory board members and guests. During their stay they bumped into one of the members of the band “Foreigner.” Can you guess which one is the member of the band? IMA celebrates a new chapter First Annual he IMA Student Chapter is an meetings, electing and training of- Campus-wide T organization that is a recent ficers, launching a website, publish- addition to the Langdale College of ing newsletters, and participating Undergraduate Business Administration. IMA stands in community service projects. The Research for Institute of Management Ac- chapter toured the Lee Container Symposium countants. The goal of the student plant in Homerville and the SAFT Langdale College of Business chapter is to explore all the oppor- Battery plant in Valdosta. This past students presented their research tunities that management account-