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Eagle Investment Group distinguishes itself at Quinnipiac competition
04/21/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio – A quartet of Ashland University Eagle Investment Group students recently earned second-place honors in the Quinnipiac Global Portfolio competition’s Undergraduate Value Division. Jacob Boerner, Jessica Kritschil, Jacob Koehler and Justin Stritmatter submitted EIG’s portfolio results and then presented to a panel of judges, distinguishing themselves and EIG among the 150 colleges and universities involved in Quinnipiac’s Global Asset…
Eagle Investment Group: Real-life experience for university credit
04/19/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio – There’s no right or wrong in the trading room on the first floor of the Ashland University College of Business and Economics. “Essentially,” said Assistant Professor of Finance Dennis Witherspoon, “I’m their coach.” And Witherspoon’s “team” is the Eagle Investment Group, a student-led, student-run organization that manages roughly $1.8 million of the University’s investment portfolio. It is not, Witherspoon said, a co-curricular…
10 are named 2020-2021 Emerson Scholars
03/18/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio -- Ten students from Ashland University’s Dauch College of Business and Economics have received recognition and a scholarship as Emerson Scholars for 2020-21. These students are typically recognized at an annual campus luncheon which was impossible during the pandemic. Still, we honor them for their outstanding academic success. This year’s group of 10 students include:
Atwell is Smucker scholarship award winner
ASHLAND, Ohio – Whitney Atwell, an Ashland University student from Mansfield, was named The J.M. Smucker Co. Scholarship award winner for the academic year 2020-2021 at the recent virtual AU Student Institute of Management Accountants meeting. Atwell is a 2018 graduate of Madison Comprehensive High School and plans to graduate from AU in December of 2021 with a major in accounting and a minor in religion. The $2,500 scholarship was presented by Joyce…
AU Sport Management students work at the NFL Super Bowl LV Fan Experience
02/19/21 ASHLAND, Ohio – There’s nothing like Tampa, Florida in February – especially when the Super Bowl is in town. That’s what 11 students from the Ashland University Sport Management Department found when they headed south to volunteer at the NFL Super Bowl Fan Experience. Led by Dr. Lance Kaltenbaugh, the group -- Kimmy Gayhardt, Kevin Huber, Allison Jacobs, Brian Lippiatt, Jessie Mayne, Drew Mills, Justin Moore, Kristen Ogle, Mia Rader, Nick Sparr and…
AU Sport Management students volunteer at Super Bowl Experience
02/04/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio – Students from the Ashland University Sport Management program are in Tampa Bay, Florida volunteering at the Super Bowl Experience this week. AU faculty member Dr. Lance Kaltenbaugh is joining students Kimmy Gayhardt, Kevin Huber, Allison Jacobs, Brian Lippiatt, Jessie Mayne, Drew Mills, Justin Moore, Kristen Ogle, Mia Rader, Nick Sparr and Amanda Stewart.. In addition to volunteering at the Super Bowl Experience at Julian B. Lane…
AU faculty, students offer free tax prep through VITA
2/3/21 ASHLAND, Ohio – Faculty and students in the Ashland University Dauch College of Business and Economics are again offering free tax preparation through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. The program, which is designed to assist in tax preparation for those who are eligible and allows for free e-file of federal and state returns, will have a few adaptations this year because of COVID-19. “Instead of open hours for clients to get…
Author, educator Christine Whelan to deliver McKnight Life Calling Lecture
ASHLAND, Ohio – It’s difficult, Christine Whelan admits, to be “the happiness professor in a pandemic.” But, she says, a pandemic might just be the “perfect time to figure out your purpose.” And that is, in part, the message Whelan will bring to the Ashland University community on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m., when she delivers the 2021 McKnight Life Calling Lecture, “Do the Next Right Thing: Purpose in Times of Uncertainty”. The lecture, which will be offered in a…
AU’s International MBA ranked among the top programs in the country, state
12/16/2020 ASHLAND, Ohio – Ashland University’s International MBA program has been ranked among the top 25 in the country by the online guide Great Business Schools. The AU program came in at 18th nationwide, third in Ohio and tops among Ohio’s private colleges and universities. The guide noted Ashland has what is “considered one of Ohio’s best international business MBA programs” and pointed out its 12-month completion and two study abroad trips as notable…
AU seniors impress in worldwide GLO-BUS business simulation
12/03/2020 ASHLAND, Ohio -- Five Ashland University Business Capstone students scored in the top 2 percent in a field of approximately 3,000 teams from 150 colleges/universities participating in the worldwide GLO-BUS simulation. GLO-BUS is a completely online exercise where teams of students run companies that are in a neck-and-neck race for global market leadership in two product categories -- wearable video cameras and sophisticated camera-equipped…
