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Behn Appointed Head of Accounting and Information Management
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September Events
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Congratulations to Bruce Behn on his recent appointment as head of the Department of Accounting and Information Management. Behn is the Ergen Professor of Business in the College of Business Administration and a faculty fellow in the Center for Business and Economic Research. 
Women are a relatively rare sight in the top ranks of business school administration; they comprised just over 18 percent of U.S. business school deans in 2011. But that is changing as schools are aggressively working to bring female faces to the table. The Wall Street Journal asked executive search firms and current deans to name the industry's current shining and rising female stars — those who either have made it or are well on their way. Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Management Professor Annette Ranft in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Business Administration is a Wall Street Journal shining star.
CNN highlighted a recent UT study that shows students who plan on obtaining a four-year degree in college shouldn't take five or six years to do it. The study, from the College of Business Administration's Center for Business and Economic Research, found that people who earned bachelor's degrees within four years received, on average, higher wages than those who earned similar degrees within six years. 
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Alum Spotlight  Dyersburg, Tennessee, native Dena White vonWerssowetz is a two-time graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Business Administration and a rising star at Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. She is a 2007 graduate with an undergraduate degree in finance and a 2009 graduate of UT's full-time MBA program, concentrating in marketing and supply chain management. Read More |
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Faculty Spotlight  Randy V. Bradley, PhD, lecturer in the UT College of Business Administration's Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, is well-known and admired by the students on campus. In addition to his work inside the classroom, Bradley serves as faculty advisor for the UT chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants and the UT Love United Gospel Choir. He has served as a representative and recruiter for the College of Business Administration at various conferences and has served on the college's technology committee and the UT Commission for Blacks. Read More |
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Student Spotlight  Rising senior Cicely Rufus may be an accounting and information management major, but her specialty appears to be performing balancing acts. In addition to the rigorous demands of her coursework (in which she maintains an honors GPA, Rufus serves as president of UT's chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants, pledge education director of Alpha Kappa Psi (the business fraternity), and a member of People of Style and Education. She also is a charter member of Women Empowerment Knowledge and Nurture. Read More |