Another important development is that the JHJ School Business participated with Howard University to develop the entrepreneurship regional center under the PNC Foundation grant (PI - David C Yen). There will be a national center located at Howard University (Washington DC) and 3 other regional centers located at Morgan State University (Baltimore), Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta) and Texas Southern University (Houston). The JHJ School of Business at TSU is responsible for the following six states including OK, AR, MI, MO, LA and Texas and each year will receive around $500,000 for a five-year period. This five-year project funded by PNC Bank will set up the centers in several geographical areas to be responsible for assisting the local small business development; expanding innovative educational opportunities; improving students’ experiential and service learning; awarding faculty to publish more papers/articles in the subject area of entrepreneurship, small business, local economic development; developing more networking opportunities for students with external stakeholder; and enhancing student’s extra-curricular activities. The assistance of Madam President’s and Madam Provost’s allowed the JHJ School the fortunate opportunity to receive the following 2 grants. The first grant (PI - Dr. Zahid Iqbal) is Title III grant (around $450,000) to develop a financial trading lab in the 2nd floor. This lab will be mainly used by the Accounting and Finance students in general, and the students enrolled in the future banking leadership program (FBLP) in particular. The center will house Bloomberg terminals which can be used to provide students an opportunity to learn more about in the investment and financial trading subject areas. The 2nd grant opportunity is the HEERF grant (PI - David C. Yen) is planning to be used to set up a multipurpose lab to help students to learn subject areas as cyber security, identity theft, digital marketing and information auditing control. Plans for the lab will be equipped with the latest information technologies including cloud computing, information security, enterprise resources planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and IT governance areas. In terms of the curriculum development, several innovation grant proposals were also submitted in the areas of cybersecurity, digital media, production/operation management, and FinTech to request for the funding support for area faculty to develop the innovative curriculum. Hopefully, the JHJ School will receive good news later from the university. Two students were nominated by the School to join the June 3rd-June 5th HBCU Business Deans roundtable student summit 2022 - “Developing and Owning the Success Mindset” sponsored by Deloitte Touche at Deloitte University in Westlake Texas. Congratulations to Ms. Kendra Bridges and Mr. Mohammed Durvesh. Both students are accounting with a decent GPA will represent the JHJ School of Business to join this important event. The JHJ School of Business hosted the 29th Annual Southwestern Business Administration Teaching Conference (SWBATC) virtually on February 17 – 18, 2022. Dean David Yen kicked off the conference with the opening remarks. The theme of this year’s conference was “Get prepared to leverage academic teaching tools using cloud during uncertain times.” This year, we had three Keynote speakers – Ms. Sonia V Gupta, Managing Director at Accenture in Applied Intelligence, Ms. Sonia Ghelani, business manager at Texas Instruments for Sitara™ microcontrollers, and Dr. Marvin L. Reid, Jr., Central State University College of Business Department Chairperson and Associate Professor of Management Information Systems. Dr. Reid is also the Program Manager for the Central State University HBCU C2 Coding and App Development Initiative supported by Tennessee State University and Apple, Inc. and the Apple Community Initiative Educator (CEI) Ambassador. There were 29 presentations by over 60 participants from 12 universities. The JHJ School of Business graduate students
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