Dean’s Message
Greetings Wildcats! We are proud to share the 2022 edition of Voyage with you. This year, we highlight the many accomplishments and successes of our first-generation and neo- traditional students, alumni, faculty, and staff. We are proud of all our students, and we know that our first-generation and neo-traditional students face additional challenges and barriers to their success; challenges and barriers that CB is uniquely suited to help students overcome. One exemplar of the CB experience is the story of this year’s Boeing Northwest Case Competition winners, team No Chain, No Gain. The team was comprised of traditional, first-generation, and neo-traditional students based online and at different CWU centers across the state. They had not met before the competition and met face-to-face for the first time after it concluded. The team leveraged its different life experiences to produce a presentation to Boeing executives that bested competitors from the University of Washington, Western Washington University, and Portland State University. The victory made CWU the winningest institution in the competition’s history. What are the key ingredients to this success? Dedicated faculty, staff, and alumni committed to our students. In these pages, we celebrate the retirements of Dr. Bob Carbaugh, professor of economics, and Shirley Hood, senior secretary of the Economics Department, who had long, successful careers teaching and serving students. We highlight the critical contributions of alumni like Julie Back, who sets the standard for giving back by supporting and mentoring new generations of students. And, we applaud the trails being blazed by recent first- generation and neo-traditional alumni like Julie Penwell, Courtney Klingbeil, and Luiz Hernandez Talavera, whose stories inspire current students to achieve their goals and dreams. There is something special here in the College of Business, and we are proud and privileged to get to work with these students every day. I hope their stories inspire you as much as they do us. Go ’Cats! Jeff
Jeffrey Stinson
Jeffrey Stinson, PhD Dean, College of Business
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS MISSION We launch students toward a better future by engaging them in industry-relevant, student-centered programs driven by strong partnerships between students, faculty, staff, and business professionals.
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