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Aikta Marcoulier, director, Colorado Springs Small Business Development Center, recently was named a 2013 Rising Star by the Colorado Springs Business Journal. The SBDC operates as a part of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Business and offers business consulting and training that assists small businesses in El Paso and Teller counties. Marcoulier [...]

David Weiss, associate professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Jeff Ferguson, professor, College of Business, will co-chair a University of Colorado Colorado Springs General Education Goals implementation task force. The two will be tasked with helping implement a plan to have a 24 credit hour across-campus curriculum that supports student learning goals under the [...]

The Journal of Organizational Change Management recently recognized a trio of University of Colorado Colorado Springs’ College of Business faculty members for having one of the 10 most highly cited articles in the past 25 years of the journal’s publication. John Milliman, Andrew Czaplewski, and Jeff Ferguson – all professors in the College of Business [...]

Sara Qualls, Kraemer Family Professor of Aging, Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, received the Mentorship Award from American Psychological Association Division 12, Section II (Society for Clinical Geropsychology). The award was presented last month at the APA Annual Convention in Orlando, Fla. … University of Colorado Colorado Springs faculty members were [...]

The Institute of International Education in New York, N.Y., recently selected the University of Colorado Colorado Springs to participate in a program designed to increase higher education ties between U.S. and Indian colleges and universities. UCCS was one of only five U.S. colleges selected for the 2012 India initiative of the International Academic Partnership Program. [...]

She has been active in the sports industry in Colorado Springs since 1996.

The University of Colorado Foundation has named Megan Fisher to be assistant vice president for development, effective July 1. Fisher will lead UCCS development activities and manage the foundation’s local staff. Fisher has served the University of Colorado Foundation as a development officer since 2006, in which time she has been a key contributor to UCCS’s [...]

Aikta Marcoulier, former director of partnership marketing for Professional Bull Riders Inc., will serve as the new director of the Colorado Springs Small Business Development Center at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Venkat Reddy, dean of the College of Business, announced Marcoulier’s selection May 15 after reviewing more than 100 applicants during a six-month [...]

Charlene Boudreau has been promoted to associate director of the Sport Management Program in the College of Business at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as an instructor and field work coordinator for the program. Eric Olson, director of the program, also announced the appointment of Olympian Garrett Klugh and Dave Askinas, [...]

Venkat Reddy, dean of the College of Business at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, recently was selected as one of 15 directors to form the new governing board of the Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Springs Regional Economic Development Corporation. The groups formally announced an agreement Dec. 15 to unify [...]

Impending changes in the health care system require that managers be prepared for creative leadership – and 12 Colorado Springs-area health care managers stand ready. Collaboration between the UCCS College of Business and health care organizations serving Colorado Springs resulted in a non-degree certificate program specifically designed to train health care professionals new to supervision, [...]

Martha Jo Sani, a senior instructor emerita and highly regarded reference librarian at the College of Business Library at the University of Colorado Boulder, died Friday, October 7, 2011, in Boulder. She was 76. Born May 26, 1935, in Versailles, Mo., to Judge G. Logan Marr and Jocelyn Martha Kanatzar Marr, she received her bachelor’s [...]

A global economic recession, led by financial problems in Europe, is likely, according to the organizers of the UCCS Southern Colorado Economic Forum. But forum organizers Tom Zwirlein, professor in the College of Business, and Fred Crowley, senior instructor in the College of Business, believe the U.S. is less likely to feel the full effect [...]

The three University of Colorado business schools (Boulder, Colorado Springs and Denver) recently celebrated a landmark occasion, the first Tri-Campus Business Alumni Networking Event. It was the first time the three CU business alumni offices collaborated to bring together alumni from all the schools for networking, learning and fun. More than 100 alumni attended the [...]

Gene Abrams, professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, recently was honored by the Mathematical Association of America. Abrams and Jessika Sklar of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., received the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award in recognition of their article “The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian.”  The Allendoerfer [...]

Students can finish University of Colorado Colorado Springs degrees in four high-demand fields by completing the final two years of coursework online beginning this fall. Students can now complete degrees in business, criminal justice, nursing and allied health without traveling to campus, said Venkat Reddy, executive director of online program development. Throughout the spring and [...]

A welcome reception for four leaders new to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus or in new positions is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sept. 21 in Dwire Hall 204, the Haehn Community Room. Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak invited the campus community to a reception to welcome Greg Augspurger, director, Student Success Center; Robb Pike, vice [...]

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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Business wants to help aspiring entrepreneurs get a jump start on their business ideas. UCCS will offer an online course, the Practical Entrepreneurship Program, in coordination with the Business StartUp Institute, Colorado Springs. The program features curriculum developed and presented by Tom Duening, El Pomar Chair of [...]

The director of undergraduate programs for the College of Business at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs has a new title. Greg Augspurger now is director of advising and orientation. He will be responsible for universitywide academic advising and new student orientation and will report to Barbara Gaddis, executive director of the Division of Student [...]

Students studying finance or international business at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs will have the opportunity to study euros in addition to dollars as part of a new dual-bachelor’s degree program with the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany. Beginning this fall, UCCS students may earn degrees from both UCCS and the [...]