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The entire Winter Commencement ceremony is now online. The Walker College of Business, along with the College of Health Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, and Hayes School of Music, honored its graduates during the 2 p.m. ceremony held Sunday, Dec. 12. Several photos from both graduation ceremonies are now online at flickr.com.
Today was the final day of exams for Appalachian State. The exam period was twice extended due to winter storms. The Spring semester begins January 10. Stay warm.
The Board of Advisors for the Finance, Banking and Insurance Department recently met. The board assists in setting, and accomplishing, the goals and objectives of the department.
Pictured are: Back Row - Greg LeNeave, Hunter Widener, Allison Boyle, Jim Harrill, Mary-Louise Roberts, Jay Offerdahl, Adam Hoover. Front Row - David Marlett, Chris Jones, Jason Triplett, John Coffey, Mike Joyce.
Not pictured: Rick Price, Wade Reece, Paul Taaffe, Jonathan Taylor.
Last October, Walker College professor Dr. David Marlett traveled to Suzhou, China to lecture on Risk Management and Insurance. The program was organized through Nanjing University MBA Program, one of the top five such programs in China. The focus of the lecture was on insuring damage from catastrophes and the role of the government in financing and mitigation.
Dr. Marlett taught a group of 50 MBA students, as well as visited historical and cultural sites in Suzhou. In addition, many of the students were interested in the financial crisis in the U.S. so Dr. Marlett did his best to overview the situation.
The Sunday, Nov. 22, issue of the Winston-Salem Journal included a front-section photo of Raley Hall. The photo was taken by Gordon Schenck when the business building opened in 1991. It is part of an exhibit at Wake Forest University.
Schenck, a Greensboro native and Charlotte resident, is an architectural photographer by profession. His job is to photograph buildings from the most compositionally advantageous angles and, literally, in the best light.
The task, simple in concept, is not necessarily simple in practice, and Schenck has clearly mastered it, judging by the 73 color and black-and-white photographs that make up his show "By Assignment and By the Way," which takes a retrospective look at his work over at the past 45 years.
The August 2008 issue of NC Magazine includes a community focus on Watauga County. The special package of stories includes photos centered on Appalachian State.
You can download the entire magazine free from its website. [PDF]
Among the articles is one describing Walker College's Center for Entrepreneurship. Here's an excerpt.
The center orchestrates much more than just directing students to Web sites and fi lling out reams of paperwork. It conducts several workshops and events where successful entrepreneurs share their experiences. Those events have connected more than 350 entrepreneurs together with students. Furthermore, the center holds an annual contest, Pitch Your Idea in 90 Seconds, pushing students to use their creativity and provide a model for future experiences.
"There are some tangible concepts and practices like how to develop a business plan, but there's also a lot of exchange of ideas and creativity, probably more so than in a lot of business classes," Toney said. "We encourage students to come to the courses with their own business ideas and to use their interests as the genesis for projects."
Dr. Lyle Schoenfeldt has posted online several photos from this summer's Holland Fellows trip to China. You can see them here.
Robert G. Darst, member of the Walker College Business Advisory Council, sends greetings from Macchu Picchu, Peru.
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