College
CEO Magazine ranked the Carson College of Business online MBA and executive MBA programs as No. 38 out of 78 and No. 22 out of 57 in its 2024 rankings of global recognition. The executive MBA moved up in the rankings from No. 26 in 2023.
Students
Felicia Adesope
Charlisse Leger-Walker
Thomas Wieland
Carson College students Felicia Adesope (’24 Accounting, Mgmt. Info. Sys.), Charlisse Leger-Walker (’24 Busi. Admin.), and Thomas Wieland (’24 Music, Finance, Intl. Busi.) were recognized in the top 10 seniors at WSU for 2024. The WSU Alumni Association selects those students who represent the highest standards in specific aspects of the college experience in terms of academics, athletics, campus involvement, community service, and visual and performing arts.
The School of Hospitality Business Management recognized the following students at the fall and spring graduation celebrations: Elizabeth Jackson, December 2023 Outstanding Senior; Tu Le, May 2024 Outstanding Senior; Madeline Mickas, May 2024 Outstanding Academic Award.
Karin Yoshida is the first Granger Cobb Institute for Senior Living student to receive the 2024 LCS Foundation University Scholarship for students pursuing careers in senior living. She is a junior pursuing a major in hospitality business management with a minor in senior living management.
Alumni
Muzi Liu
Uchila Umesh
Jeff Joireman
Alumna Muzi Liu (’23 PhD), assistant professor of marketing at Marist College, won the Best Paper Award at the 2024 National Conference in Sales Management for her paper “Whether Salespeople Should Be Held Responsible for Late-Paying Accounts: An Investigation Into Controlling Customer-Directed Deviance.” Coauthors included Carson College marketing professors Uchila Umesh, Jeff Joireman, and Bryan Hochstein, associate professor of marketing at the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business.
Faculty/Staff
Emiliano De La Rosa
Michelle Chapman
Corey Cook-Garrison
Michelle Chapman and the Carson Career Amplifier program were awarded honorable mention for the National Association of Colleges and Employers 2024 Career Readiness Excellence Award. Chapman is assistant director for student engagement and career development at the Carson Center for Student Success. In July, Chapman and Student Engagement Coordinator Corey Cook-Garrison presented a session at the Suitable Career Pathways conference on how they are leveraging Suitable data to improve student outcomes and boost student engagement. Emiliano De La Rosa (’24 Finance, Entrep.) also spoke at the event about how he transformed his involvement on and off campus with the help of the Career Amplifier program.
Amrita Lahiri, assistant professor in the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship, was awarded the 2024 Library Excellence Award for her enthusiastic support of library instruction in her business students’ coursework. The award recognizes a non-library WSU faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries.