The Carson College honored its first-generation students with a reception and panel discussion. “You belong here,” Stacey Smith-Colon, the Carson Center for Student Success’s assistant director of academic advising, told the audience. “WSU didn’t accept you by mistake. They had faith in your ability to do something no one in your family has done before, and that’s to earn a college degree.” » More ...

Tony Thompson, a new assistant professor of hospitality business management (career track), originally joined the Carson College in 2015 as the Culver hospitality relations manager. In this role, he developed industry connections and coordinated internship and graduate placement opportunities. His boss, Nancy Swanger, who was then the director of the School of Hospitality Business Management, saw something special in the way he could relate to people. One day she asked him to take over her classes; from then on, he discovered a love for teaching.

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As an integral part of Washington’s research-oriented land-grant institution, the Carson College of Business creates value for business and academic communities by hosting the annual Power Breakfast, Business Technology Symposium, and Walton Lecture events, along with industry speakers throughout the year. In 2021 a mix of globally competitive business leaders and entrepreneurs shared their professional insights through Carson College panels and lectures.

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Ryan Sommerfeldt, a new accounting faculty member, helps students learn how to clean and manipulate data to run various analyses and create meaningful data visualizations. He began teaching courses in data analytics and managerial accounting this year. In the spring, he’ll teach an introduction to managerial accounting course where students learn various skills that will help them generate and use accounting data for making business decisions.

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When the Carson College of Business developed a new sales program and began recruiting faculty, Alec Pappas took note from over 2,000 miles away in Tallahassee, Florida. His doctoral work at Florida State University focused on intraorganizational networks, business-to-business strategy, and sales. And he was heavily involved in the university sales program and had other professional sales experience.

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In July, the National Collegiate Athletic Association adopted an interim policy that allows college athletes to benefit financially from their name, image, and likeness. To help WSU athletes explore opportunities under the new policy, the Carson College of Business is offering a 1-credit entrepreneurship class, which is open to all student-athletes.

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The Granger Cobb Institute for Senior Living understands that balancing optimal senior health care with sound business practices can be difficult. That’s why the institute invites faculty from across the university to contribute expertise and insights to help train business students who will become future senior living leaders.

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When Perebotie Amughan stepped off the plane at the Pullman Regional Airport to a landscape of ripening wheat fields four years ago, she wondered “Where are the trees?”

Washington, in her mind, was a green place. She’d come from Arizona to study business in the state where Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks are headquartered, and she pictured a place of towering opportunities and lofty evergreens.

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Charisma Taylor, a hospitality business management major and WSU track and field athlete, earned a place among WSU’s top ten seniors in the athletics category. The award recognizes her accomplishments and involvement as a student-athlete. » More ...