Spring 2008 issue of Terry Magazine - (Page 12)

quickbites leCture CirCuit CynTHiA CooPeR WorldCom Whistleblower and Author speaking March 4 at the student Learning Center during terry’s Leadership speaker series, former worldCom Vice president of internal audit Cynthia Cooper said everyday decisions determine our ethics. “Sometimes students say, ‘What are the chances that I will be faced with COOPER something like this?’ Hopefully, you will not ever be faced with something like what we saw at Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco. But when you stop and think about it, we are all faced with ethical decisions every day. And I am convinced that character is not forged at the crossroads of some major decision or event in our lives. I very much think character is built brick by brick by brick, decision by decision throughout our lives.” Chairman and CEO of CompuCredit Corp. Kicking off terry’s Leadership speaker series on Feb. 1 at the student Learning Center, hanna shared his application of the golden rule to general business practices. “I know it sounds hokey, but the better you treat your customers and employees, the more likely you are to keep them.” DAviD HAnnA (BBA ’86) group of 28 students from Terry’s Leonard Leadership Scholars Program traveled to New Orleans in January to assist in the city’s ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina. These student leaders worked in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, as did a group of Terry MBA students who spent part of the summer of 2006 building homes in the Upper 9th ward of New Orleans. “Leadership scholars Brooke Burlingame and Kramer Johnson have family members in the region who were affected by Katrina,” says Lauren Berardicurti, who formed a nine-member student committee to plan and organize Terry’s most recent New Orleans project. “Over two years have passed since Katrina made landfall, and there is still much work left to be done.” Chris Crittensen, president of the 2008 leadership scholars class, was grateful for the opportunity to put what they’re learning at Terry into practice. “Hurricane Katrina demolished more than just homes,” says Crittensen. “It destroyed the will of some of the most Leonard Leadership Scholars say their goal is to bring disadvantaged. We hope we can create a both construction assistance — and a sense of hope — to ‘Big Change’ not only in the possessions the displaced people of New Orleans. of the needy but in the hearts of the poor by providing hope where it was destroyed.” The students worked on two homes, and were able to meet one of the families. “At the end of the last day, we gathered around the family as they told their story — a story of despair, but also of hope,” recalls Bailey Pouns. “They had lost their home in the storm, and since then they have lost other close family members in tragic accidents. However, they are loyal to their city and culture and want to see change in the future.” ■ A Leadership Scholars continue Terry outreach in New Orleans JiM LienTz The state of Georgia’s first COO speaking at terry third thursday on Nov. 15 at the executive education Center in Buckhead, Lientz discussed accountability during his lecture on the challenges and achievements in managing the state government of georgia. “An individual came to me during a part of that process and said, ‘You know these people are worried about their jobs,’ and I said, ‘Good!’ Isn’t that neat —I worried about my job for 35 years, aren’t you worried about your job? I worried about how I could do it better, I worried about how I could improve it, I worried LIENTz about how I could work with other people to make things better, and all the things that I think people do in the private sector on a daily basis. So it actually focused their attention and they delivered excellent results for us.” ■ 12 • Spring 2008 speCiaL MIS faculty rank No. 2 for scholarly productivity terry’s management information systems faculty is ranked second nationally for scholarly productivity in its field. the ranking is part of the third annual Faculty scholarly productivity index, which its developer claims to be the only objective measure of faculty productivity that assesses an institution’s research strength without using reputational surveys. the ranking is based on a calculation of the number of professors a college has in an academic discipline like Mis, the number of books and research articles they have written, the number of times other scholars have cited them, and the awards, honors and grant dollars they have received. “this recognition is consistent with other measures of research excellence that the faculty in the Management information systems Department has been credited with over the years,” says Dean robert t. sumichrast. “it’s also reflective of the high level of research taking place throughout the terry College.” terry’s Mis Department is ranked second to the eller College of Management at the university of arizona. the university of Missouri at st. Louis, Virginia tech, and the university of illinois at Chicago ranked third through fifth of the nine schools ranked at the top of the Mis index. a total of 13 doctoral programs at uga, including Mis, are ranked in the 2007 index. seven ph.D. programs in the College of education are ranked. the other six are housed in the Franklin College of arts and sciences and the College of agricultural and environmental sciences. ■ The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index is compiled by Academic Analytics, a for-profit company owned in part by the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The index is publicly accessible through the Chronicle of higher education web site at chronicle.com/stats/productivity. Terry College of BuSineSS http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity

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