Management and Information Systems Faculty selected as Outstanding Teaching Award Finalist

By: Kent State University
 
KENT, Ohio - Oct. 7, 2014 - PRLog -- College of Business Administration Instructor, Gregory Blundell, Ph.D., selected as Outstanding Teaching Award Finalist for 2014.

Blundell is a Management and Information Systems instructor at Kent State’s Stark Campus.

During his time as an instructor in higher education, both in South Africa and with Kent State, Blundell’s proudest accomplishment is the meaningful and enduring connection he established with his students each and every semester. This connection is affirmed by the fact he has been nominated by his students for the Distinguished Teaching Award every semester since he started at Kent State Stark, and was named a finalist for the award in 2011/2012.

Blundell has students who purposefully choose his classes from the freshman level all the way through to their senior year and beyond into graduate school. Students regularly seek his counsel well into their careers, which reinforces his belief that he truly does make a difference in their lives while achieving his own personal goals of imparting as much knowledge and wisdom as he can to his students.

Blundell received his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Kent State University in 2014. His part-time and full-time teaching career spans more than 20 years and at Kent State, is accredited to instruct 14 courses:

·         DKS: First-year Experience

·         Exploring Business

·         Business Statistics

·         Principles of Management

·         Business Finance

·         Using Information Systems to Solve Business Problems

·         Principles of Operations Management

·         Dynamics of Leadership

·         Human Resource Management

·         Individual and Group Behavior

·         Totally Quality Management

·         Global Business Management

·         Employee Training and Development

·         Integrated Business Policy & Strategy

The Management and Information Systems department at Kent State’s College of Business Administration offers two programs with undergraduate and graduate degrees. Business Management focuses in leading and managing people with exposure to management functions. Computer Information Systems focuses on the creation and supervision of computer information systems.

Other finalists of the OTA award include:

·         Beth Campbell, Department of Sociology

·         Melissa Dyer, College of Nursing

·         Laurie Pesarchick, Department of Modern and Classical Languages

·         Dan Ross, Department of Geography

·         James Trebing, School of Communication Studies

Kent State University’s Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA), sponsored by the University Teaching Council, honors full-time, non-tenure-track and part-time faculty who consistently demonstrate extraordinary skills in classroom teaching. Each year, three finalists are presented the award.

For more information, visit http://www2.kent.edu/utc/index.cfm.

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Kent State University’s College of Business Administration is one of only 180 colleges or schools of business worldwide to achieve dual accreditation in both business and accounting from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International, the global accrediting body providing specialized accreditation at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral level.  The College of Business Administration is home to 4,502 students, the second largest college of business in Ohio.  The college boasts a satellite office of Kent State University’s Career Services Center dedicated to business students, and operates the Global Management Center, the Center for Information Systems and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation all propelling scholarly research, establishing innovative industry partnerships and providing outreach to Northeast Ohio and beyond.

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