March 10, 2008
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Dear Management Majors:
The Rucks Department of Management faculty extends its best wishes for your academic success this semester.
This letter describes the various programs offered by the department and reports on many newsworthy items.
THE DEGREE - As a management major, you have a choice of three concentrations. You may focus your management studies in the human resource area, the entrepreneurship area, or maintain a more generalist orientation by simply selecting the management option. Your degree will be designated management, regardless of the option you choose.
UPPER-DIVISION HONORS IN MANAGEMENT - The Rucks Department of Management is pleased to announce the availability of an upper-division honors program for qualified management majors. This program is aimed at providing superior students enrolled in management with the opportunity to achieve Upper-Division Honors Distinction. We invite qualified students to apply.
Eligibility - Sophomore-level students majoring in management with an overall grade point average of 3.5 or above are invited to apply for admission to the management department Upper-Division Honors Program. As a part of completing the required honors course of study, students will demonstrate their competence in the management field by completing a senior thesis/project. Additionally, to receive the Upper-Division Honors Distinction, students must achieve, after their sophomore year, at least a 3.3 grade point average and no grade lower than a “B” in any honors course.
Recognition - Students successfully completing the Upper-Division Honors Program in management will be recognized through the designation Upper-Division Honors Distinction on their LSU transcripts.
To apply for admission to the Upper-Division Honors Program in management or to obtain additional information for the various management curricula, contact Professor Courtland M. Chaney, Honors Adviser, 3158B Patrick F. Taylor Hall, Rucks Department of Management, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-6312, Telephone: 225-578-6151.
SIGMA IOTA EPSILON (SIE) CHAPTER PLANS TO INDUCT NEW MEMBERS - The Rucks Department of Management is pleased to support the LSU chapter of Sigma Iota Epsilon (SIE), a national honorary and professional management fraternity. SIE’s general purposes are to encourage and recognize scholastic excellence and to promote cooperation between the academic and applied areas of management. The LSU chapter is designated Epsilon Rho and is one of more than 60 active chapters according to the national organization.
Juniors and seniors with an overall grade point average of 3.25 and above are eligible to join SIE. If you are interested in learning more about SIE please contact the faculty adviser, Professor Tim Chandler, mgchan@lsu.edu. Eligible students will be contacted during the fall semester each year.
SHRM - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION - As you enter the business and professional world, you will find that membership in various associations is expected and can be advantageous. To provide you with a head start in this area and to further develop your professionalism, the department supports an LSU chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
SHRM (formerly the American Society for Personnel Administration), founded in 1948, is the largest professional society in the world devoted exclusively to personnel/human resource management. This nonprofit association of personnel, human resource, and industrial relations professionals now serves more than 225,000 members in the United States and more than 125 foreign countries. There are more than 575 affiliated professional chapters in the U.S. and abroad, including offices in China and India.
SHRM’s student program was created in 1965 to promote mutually beneficial interaction between HRM students and practitioners. The program now includes more than 430 affiliated student chapters and nearly 11,000 student members.
Membership in SHRM and the LSU chapter of SHRM provides access to a wealth of Web-based information, timely publications, opportunities to meet and interact with human resource professionals, and a chance to compete for local and national scholarships. Many of the members obtain part-time jobs in the form of paid internships and/or other job leads through this association. For more information, contact Courtland M. Chaney (3158B Patrick F. Taylor Hall), faculty adviser to the LSU chapter of SHRM.
SHRM at LSU APPLIES FOR NATIONAL SUPERIOR MERIT AWARD - For the 19 th consecutive year, the LSU chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management is applying for a Superior Merit Award from the national organization. The merit award, which recognizes the chapter's achievements in professional development and other programs, is received by roughly 10-15 percent of all university chapters nationwide.
GBR-SHRM SCHOLARSHIP - The Greater Baton Rouge Society for Human Resource Management (GBR-SHRM), a professional association of HRM practitioners in the Greater Baton Rouge Area, provides a $1,000 scholarship each fall and spring semester to the HRM student graduating with the highest grade point average. The award is presented at the end of the semester as a graduation gift to recognize academic scholarship and professionalism. This semester’s recipient is Savanna Christina Ordoyne. Congratulations from all of us!
MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES AWARDS - The Rucks Department of Management has recently identified this year's recipients of the department's awards for academic excellence. Savanna Christina Ordoyne will receive a plaque for academic excellence in Human Resource Management, Nicholas James Foreman will receive the award for excellence in Entrepreneurship, and Brad David Doucet will receive the award for General Management. Congratulations to all of you on your achievements to date and best of luck with your future endeavors.
TIGER TWELVE NOMINEES - As stated in the Louisiana State University Commitment to Community, LSU is an interactive community in which staff, faculty and students “pursue truth, advance learning and uphold the highest standards of performance in an academic and social environment.” We are a community that values individual development and the creation of bonds that extend beyond the time spent at LSU as students and employees. This commitment is recognized each year by selecting students who are committed to the LSU community. The group is called the Tiger Twelve. The Rucks Department of Management recently nominated five students for recognition as members of the Tiger Twelve. They are Damona Banks, Darien Dabney, Mary L. Hutson, Brett T. Meador, and James Luke Sanders. Congratulations on your nomination and best of luck with the selection process!
DEPARTMENT NOMINATES STUDENTS FOR PHI KAPPI PHI RECOGNITION - The LSU Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi recognizes an outstanding senior and junior each year. The Rucks Department of Management has nominated Darlene R. Couglin for recognition as the outstanding junior and Brad D. Doucet for recognition as the outstanding senior this year. We congratulate you and wish you the very best with your academic and professional endeavors.
JAMES R. REDDOCH AWARD RECIPIENT SELECTED - Shannon Taylor, a doctoral student in the management department, was selected for the 2007-2008 James R. Reddoch Award for Teaching Excellence as a graduate student in management. The award is given in the name of Jim Reddoch, an LSU graduate, administrator, and management professor who retired from LSU after more than 40 years of professional affiliation and service.
UNDERGRADUATE MANAGEMENT ADVISER WILL CHANGE - After serving as the undergraduate adviser for management majors for almost 25 years, Professor Courtland M. Chaney will end his role as adviser effective August 2008. Professor Laura Wolfe will assume the duties of the undergraduate adviser and honors adviser with the start of the fall 2008 semester. Chaney will continue as faculty adviser to the SHRM chapter and as internship coordinator during the 2008-2009 academic year. Beginning August 2009, Wolfe will assume all advising duties and become the management internship coordinator.
CRISIS MANAGEMENT COURSE APPROVED - Management 4600, Crisis Management, was recently approved as a new course in the management department and will be offered during both the summer and fall semesters in 2008. This management seminar covers the entire range of crisis management activities including pre-event prevention and preparedness, event management, and post-event restoration and recovery. While the focus of the course will be on crisis management for organizations, the management process in equally applicable to communities. Crisis management previously had been taught at LSU as Disaster Science Management (DSM) 4600. Beginning this year DSM 4600 will be cross-listed with MGT 4600 and will become a regularly offered course in the fall semester. For more information, contact the instructor, Professor Courtland Chaney.
FACULTY NEWS
After 17 years at LSU, Professor Kevin Mossholder will leave LSU to return to Auburn University where he worked before coming to LSU years ago. We wish Professor Mossholder the very best on this next stage of his career.
Professor Courtland Chaney, who holds the J. Trigg and Bettye Baskin Wood, Jr. Endowed Professorship, was re-elected to the board of directors of the Greater Baton Rouge Society for Human Resource Management during its November 2007 elections. His second consecutive term on the board started in January of 2008.
CAREER SERVICES - The LSU Career Services is open to all LSU students, faculty, staff, and alumni. For career planning and co-op education services, interested parties should go to B-1 Coates Hall or call 225-578-1548. Placement services and general information may be obtained in Patrick F. Taylor Hall, room 1502 or by calling 225-578-2162.
LSU FLORES MBA PROGRAM AND FOCUS - The college offers three distinct paths leading to the MBA degree – the 22-month Full-Time Flores MBA, the 24-month Professional Flores MBA track, and the 17-month Executive Flores MBA track. Each path provides the same course content, while incorporating different goals and schedules. In each of the tracks, students learn to apply modern business management principles to a wide range of decision-making situations. Students achieve capacities to balance quantitative and qualitative aspects of decision making and also become more sensitive to the legal and ethical issues that so frequently confront modern business management. The program of study for the full-time MBA degree consists of 52 credit hours of course work, 15 of which are elective. Students have the option of specializing in the areas of finance, information systems and decision sciences, internal auditing, marketing, or tailoring their degrees toward a customized specialization. For more information visit mba.lsu.edu or contact Stephanie Hedge by calling 225-578-8892 or sending and e-mail to shedge@lsu.edu.
Courtland M. Chaney, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Academic Adviser
