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TWO FACULTY RETIRE
JEFFREY BROOKMAN, Ph.D
Dr. Jeffrey (Jeff) Brookman taught graduate and undergraduate courses in corporate finance, investments, and international finance. His finance experience is from working at Columbia Sportswear and Fidelity Investments. After realizing his career at Columbia Sportswear was not fulfilling, Brookman concluded that receiving his Ph.D. and going into teaching was what he truly wanted to do to “contribute to society, provide a comfortable living and have some reasonable level of status.” Brookman’s favorite part about teaching was connecting with students, especially in his Introduction to Finance class.
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“That is where it is easiest to see students understand finance and the power of time value of money,” Brookman said. “It is fun to see the lightbulb go on, so to speak. I like the time value of money quote that goes something like, ‘those who understand interest make it, and those who don’t, pay it.’”
In retirement, Jeffrey plans to travel and learn history by experiencing the places where it happened.
SANDRA SMITH, Ph.D
Dr. Sandra Smith joined the marketing faculty at Idaho State University in the fall of 2005. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition, she also holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in French from the University of Wyoming. Sandra’s research and teaching interests are centered on consumer behavior.
Prior to entering academia, Sandra was a Healthcare Administrator in the U.S. Air Force, serving part of her time in the military as the Resource Management Officer at the Air Force’s second largest clinic at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. She also worked for AT&T as a market administrator in Wyoming.
Smith said, “I feel so lucky to have worked in such an amazing place, where my colleagues were also my friends. The one thing that bound us together as a close-knit community, however, was the common deep commitment to engaging on a personal level with our students and furthering their pursuit of knowledge, and encouraging life-long learning.”
