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READY FOR BUSINESS Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship Dr. Janet Ratliff (Class of 1991, 1992) has a passion for teaching college students about the world of business and does so by giving them lessons rooted in the real world. “I believe that by actively engaging students in their major and allowing them to experience their skills in action, students will develop confidence in their abilities going forward,” Ratliff said. Ratliff has been a lifelong Eagle, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration from Morehead State in 1991. Her family has deep roots at MSU as well. She met her husband, Dr. Garrick Ratliff (Class of 1991, 2013), at MSU. Garrick is the assistant director for guidance counseling at MSU’s Craft Academy for Excellence in Science & Mathematics, a dual-credit academy for exceptional Kentucky high school students. He works with Craft Academy students to help them 20
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adjust to college classes and living on campus, and plan for their futures. Their son, Garrison, is a junior double-majoring in business management and finance. After earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1992, Janet became an instructor of marketing at MSU and later became the director of the Center for Economic Education. In 2008, she earned a Doctor of Leadership in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Kentucky. In 2018, she was named the Elmer & Donna Smith Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and director of the Booth Entrepreneurship Center.
