Internal Updates: March 2025

From the Communications Team...

❤️Thank you to our incredible faculty and staff who participated in our first Pack to Give Back Day—by spreading the word, showing support, and even volunteering on the day! With over 300 volunteers from FAU and our community, we packed 98,000 meals in just 6 hours to help fight hunger in Palm Beach County. Your compassion and teamwork made this effort a powerful success. Go Owls! 

We would like to extend a warm welcome to two new staff members who have recently joined the Dean's Office:

• Michelle Hemery, Assistant to the Dean
• Anabel Borges, Dean’s Office Coordinator

Please join us in welcoming Michelle and Anabel to our team!

🎓Spring Graduation Ceremonies will be held on May 1st, 2025, at Live Oak and the Carole & Barry K. Auditorium.

• Undergraduate Ceremonies:

  • 9:00 AM: ONLY Undergraduate
  • 1:00 PM: (Accounting, General Studies, General Business, Economics, & Health Administration)

• Graduate Ceremony: 1:00 PM (Graduate, Traditional & Executive)

From the Dean's Office...

🏆Reminder: FAU 56th Annual Honors Convocation

• Date: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
• Time: 4pm - 5pm
• Location: University Theatre - Boca Raton Campus

No RSVP required

🚨The Dean's office has been working on updating the Unit Continuity of Operations Plan (UCOOP) and Unit Emergency Response Plan (UERP). We have a calling tree in place but there is also a simple way to sign up for emergency alerts from FAU. We encourage all faculty and staff in the College of Business to sign up for this.

Please see the instructions below:

1. Log into Workday and click on the menu at the top left of your screen.
2. Then select Personal Information and click on External Links - FAU Alert System.
3. Enter your information and hit submit.

Because Emergency Planning at FAU is of critical importance, we appreciate you taking the time to do this.

✂️Come celebrate a new partnership between Florida Atlantic and TBC Corporation! TBC Corporation has made a generous gift donation to name the 108F Study Room in the Schmidt Family Complex - now known as the "TBC Corporation Study Room!" This event will include a ribbon cutting for the Executive Education study room, followed by a cocktail hour and networking. Attached is the event flyer and below are the event details:

• Event Name: Wise Connections: Florida Atlantic Owls and TBC Corporation Business Networking Event & Ribbon Cutting
• Date: Thursday, April 10
• Time: 4 - 6 PM
• Location: Schmidt Family Complex, Executive Education Atrium

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by clicking here by April 1.

If you have any questions, please contact Lacey Taylor laceytaylor@fau.edu.

Thank you!

We are excited to celebrate the growth and achievements of our colleagues with the following well-deserved promotions:

• Sonia Villanti, stepping into the role of Finance Coordinator.
• Melanie Perla, advancing to Assistant Director, Strategic Academic Resource Planning and Analysis.
• Lacey Taylor, now Associate Director of Special Events and Community Relations.
• Kimberly Paulus, taking on the responsibilities of Executive Director and Assistant Dean of Student Academic Services.
• Dr. Marc Rhorer, becoming Associate Dean for Academic Programs.

These promotions reflect their hard work, dedication, and the significant impact they have made within the college. Congratulations!

We are delighted to share some exceptional news about one of our newest Marketing Professors, Abhijit Guha. His contributions to the field are making a significant impact.

• Professor Guha has been appointed as an Associate Editor at the prestigious Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. This is a testament to his expertise and leadership within the marketing academic community.
• Furthermore, his groundbreaking research paper, co-authored and titled "Generative AI and Marketing Education: What the Future Holds," has been honored with the Outstanding Journal of Marketing Education (JME) Article of the Year Award. This recognition underscores the paper's innovative insights and its relevance to the future of marketing education.

Please join us in extending our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Guha on these remarkable achievements.

The College of Business is proud to announce that two of our outstanding students will be recognized at the upcoming Honors Convocation Ceremony:

• Gabriella Figueiredo Borges (Management, Leadership Concentration) – 2025 University Scholar Award Recipient.
• Alexander Aranda (Economics, AI Applications Minor) – 2025 Allen E. Smith Undergraduate Researcher of the Year.

Congratulations to Gabriella and Alexander on these well-deserved honors!

Peer-Reviewed Research

Jian Cao and Joe Rakestraw, Associate Professors in the School of Accounting, Kellie Carr (FAU Ph.D. Graduate) at Western Michigan University, and co-authors, have had their paper titled, “Local Office Non-Audit Tax Fee Dependence and Audit Quality: A Tax Client Relationship Perspective" accepted for publication in Managerial Auditing Journal (AJG 2).

Abhijit Guha - Professor, Marketing Department, with co-authors, have had their paper titled, "Getting the most for a penny: How retailers can best use left-digit effects" published in the Journal of Retailing (AJG 4).

Len Trevino, Professor & Program Director, International Business, Management Programs, with co-authors, have had their paper titled, "Support for sustainable development goal 5 and social performance: The role of diversity targets, work-life balance practices and female representation" accepted for publication in Human Resource Management (AJG 4, FT 50).

Ye Zhang, Associate Professor, Marketing Department - Hospitality Management, with co-authors, have had their paper titled, "Gain frame appeals more to loyal customers" published in the Annals of Tourism Research (AJG 4).

Ye Zhang, Associate Professor, Marketing Department - Hospitality Management, with co-authors, have had their paper titled, "Rethinking work-life integration: empowering talent in emerging hospitality and tourism work paradigms" published in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (AJG 3).

Ye Zhang, Associate Professor, Marketing Department - Hospitality Management, with co-authors, have had their paper titled, "A complex adaptive system analysis of emerging tourism work paradigms" published in Current Issues in Tourism (AJG 2).

Public Scholarship Research

Steven Carnovale, Associate Professor, ITOM - Logistics Managers' Index 

Rebel Cole, Lynn Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor, Finance - Banking Initiative at Florida Atlantic: Uninsured Deposits to Liquid Assets and Uninsured Deposits to Total Deposits 

William Luther, Associate Professor, Economics - Monthly Inflation Report at Florida Atlantic

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