Board creates new scholarship for freshman accounting students

The Accounting Advisory Board has established a new scholarship for incoming freshman TU students interested in studying accounting. Entering freshmen can apply for the scholarship, which will provide $2,000 every year for up to four years. The scholarship will be awarded to two students each year starting this fall. Students may apply to for renew the scholarship for up to four years.

The board is made up of accounting and financial professionals, many of whom are TU alumni. The board helps the accounting department pursue its mission to provide graduates with a high-quality professional education that develops their knowledge and skills to and prepare them for professional licensure and success as contributors and leaders within the accounting profession or business.

Thanks to the Accounting Advisory Board for its continued support.

Lavender Fields Forever: Alumna becomes agricultural entrepreneur

Anne Davidson grew up in Baltimore, but always had a love for wide open spaces.

So it made sense when she and her husband Scott decided to purchase eight acres of rolling-hilled land in Garrett County, Maryland. But building a quaint home for retirement wasn’t enough for Davidson ’84 (BUAD), who has entrepreneurial tendencies.

“I’m always thinking of new businesses,” she says. “I started thinking, what can we do with it? How can we use this land?”

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Professor wins national award from American Marketing Association

Sarah Magnotta, Ph.D., Marketing, received the AMA Sales SIG Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, “Two Essays on the Recommendation Behavior of Multi-line Salespeople.”

The award is sponsored by the Steve Stagner Sales Excellence Institute at the University of Houston and is open to anyone having completed a doctoral degree within the past two years from an AACSB-accredited university. The primary focus of the dissertation must involve professional selling and/or sales management.

Magnotta’s research examines how and why multi-line salespeople may recommend particular products to their customers. Multi-line salespeople are those who are able to choose among overlapping, competing manufacturers’ products to make a recommendation to their customers.

The award will be presented to Magnotta during the American Marketing Association Summer Educators Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in August 2016.

Magnotta joined TU as an assistant professor of marketing in fall 2015. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and also has an MBA from Old Dominion and a bachelor’s from James Madison University. Her expertise is marketing strategy, personal selling and sales management. Before entering academia, Sarah was the marketing director for Maryland Office Interiors and the Director of Marketing for Chasen’s Business Interiors.

Student leaders celebrate successful year

Through the passion and hard work of CBE’s ambitious student leaders, the CBE Student Leadership Council (SLC) had a milestone year.

The organization comprised of leaders from each of the college’s 18 student organizations set out at the beginning of the 2015-16 school year to become more engaged in the college’s operations, be more visible and encourage more CBE students to get involved in student organizations.

The group held a strategic planning retreat in the fall where it crafted its vision for the future along with a new mission statement: The SLC advocates for a collaborative environment that transforms our community by: communicating our mission/story to various stakeholders, creating opportunities for connecting, and giving back to our community. SLC has made good on their community service commitment and then some.

The group held a canned food drive that brought in 250 cans for a local food pantry. The group also raised more than $600 for the CBE’s Forward Momentum Scholarship Campaign for Towson’s 150th anniversary. In March, the group took to the courts with a basketball tournament with 12 teams participating and raising more than $400. And in April, SLC hosted spaghetti dinner at The Green Turtle in Towson which netted an additional $267 for the scholarship fund.