All eight College of Business faculty members nominated this year for indefinite tenure and/or promotion have been approved, Dean Ilene Kleinsorge announced May 19.
Advancing to associate professor and receiving indefinite tenure are Keith Leavitt (management), Michelle Barnhart (marketing) and Jeff Barden (entrepreneurship), and also earning indefinite tenure is Associate Professor Seunghae Lee (interior design).
Don Neubaum (entrepreneurship), Zhaohui Wu (international business) and Jimmy Yang (finance)
have been promoted to professor, and Aaron Lewis (international business) has been elevated to senior instructor I.
Tenure and promotion require a lengthy college and university review process culminating with final approval granted by the university provost/executive vice president.
With students moving in, the Oregon State University Marching Band waiting outside and activity picking up all around campus, three College of Business Faculty members were honored as part of University Day Tuesday.
Ping-Hung Hsieh, Associate Professor and Director of Global Business Analysis, and Brenda Sallee, Head Academic Advisor for the college, were each honored with OSU Faculty and Staff awards.
Ping received the International Service Award, which recognizes exemplary, on-going contributions of OSU faculty and staff to the internationalization of the university by enhancing student, faculty, and staff awareness and participation in international education, research, and related activities.
Sallee was given the OSU Academic Advising Award, recognizing undergraduate academic advising by professional faculty rank as well as fixed-term academic rank faculty whose primary role is advising and acknowledges advising as a profession making a pivotal contribution to the OSU community.
Later in the event, Don Neubaum, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty, took part in the keynote panel on inspiring campus conversation around innovation.
Also participating were Associate Provost for Academic Success and Engagement Susie Brubaker-Cole and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts Susana Rivera-Mills. James Cassidy, senior instructor for crop and soil science, moderated the panel.
Neubaum spoke about the College of Business’ culture, and how the college has focused on hiring faculty who fit where that culture is heading.
“We hire great scholars, faculty who are passionate about undergraduate education,” Neubaum said. “If you hire the right people, the rest can take care of itself.”
