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facult y & staff updates
Retirees
FACULTY NEWS & UPDATES ALEX BOLINGER, PH.D.
Deb Gerber
Gerber was part of the Idaho State
The Associate Professor of Management
UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICER
experience for almost 20 years and has
was elected to be the Communications
spent 11 of those years serving the College of Business. Gerber graduated
Director of the Western Academy of
from Idaho State with two degrees in accounting and marketing. Her plans
Management (WAM). WAM is a regional
for retirement are to tend to her husband and to travel. This upcoming
branch of the international Academy of Management, which is the largest academic organization for
year, she has planned a trip to Italy. “I will miss the people I worked with
management scholars in the world.
the most. The College of Business has been very kind to me,” she said.
BURCH & BOLINGER Management professors Tyler Burch, Ph.D. and Alex Bolinger, Ph.D. published
Gail Hunt
Hunt has been with the College of Business
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
since 2014 and has become a staple in life at
an article in Management Teaching
the College. Hunt says that when she retires, she plans to “do a little
Review
activity
volunteer work and a little more of all the fun things in life.” Hunt also
that they use to teach the principles
says that she will miss the students the most. “I will miss their enthusiasm
about
an
in-class
of delegation and empowerment. The activity involves
as they make their way into new and exciting opportunities and I will
designing a pen holder using MegaBloks.
miss seeing them grow in their abilities, professionalism, self-confidence KARL GEISLER, PH.D. The “Hate
economics Crimes
professor’s
and
paper,
Minority-Owned
Businesses” was published in the Review of Black Political Economy. Geisler found that hate crimes in a county reduce the number of minority-owned businesses there. MCCARDLE & SPECK Marketing professor Sandra Speck, Ph.D.
and social consciousness. I am constantly amazed and deeply proud of the students we have in the College of Business.”
Michele O’Brien-Rose ACCOUNTING PROFESSOR
When O’Brien-Rose retires this spring, she will have been here for seven years. Upon retiring, she plans on helping her husband with a new business he’d like to start and volunteer more for Junior Achievement as well as
and former professor Jie McCardle,
possibly substituting for K-12. Her piece of advice for students is “When
Ph.D.’s paper “A Comparative Study of
you are out there job-hunting, search for something you’re passionate
Social Comparison, Materialism, and Subjective Well-being in the U.S., China,
about doing. If you’re not loving what you do and looking forward to being there every day – consider
Croatia, and India” was accepted for December publication
whether it’s time to do something else. Life is too short to be working at something that does not
in the Journal of Business Diversity.
bring you joy and fulfillment.”
