Business Department

Faculty

Department Chair: Jeff Price

Tim Carlson, Gene Crume Jr, Alfred Lee, Wendy Martin, Walter Lopez, Kilee Simpson, Rob Southgate, and Bill Young

Vision

The curriculum aims to teach students to:

• Strive to learn concepts of business as principles for thinking rather than facts to be memorized for tests and then discarded
• Think in an analytical, systematic manner as they approach business situations and the problems encountered by growing, changing organizations
• Accept change as an ongoing way of life and learn how to identify, adapt to, and create change with the goal of becoming "difference makers"
• Approach each business situation with a sound system of ethics and values
• Strive for excellence in written and oral communication skills in order to compete with the best graduates of the premier schools of business
• Learn hands-on, practical business techniques proven by practitioners in real-life business situations
• Learn how to synthesize their Christian faith with their academic learning, to become mature, balanced, successful executives

Mission

The department offers a state-of-the-art business program designed to do the following:

• Teach students the interrelationships of their business courses while helping them integrate basic concepts into a comprehensive system of thought
• Provide broad foundations of business theories, principles, practices and ethics needed to excel in business
• Train students to be competent problem solvers by encouraging inquisitiveness and analytical reasoning
• Develop personalized faculty-student relationships through mentoring, advising, counseling and tutoring