Awards and Achievements
Deborah F . Spake , Ph . D ., Honored with American Marketing Association Higher Ed Sig Lifetime Achievement Award
Deborah F . Spake , Ph . D ., Dean of the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship , was named a 2021 recipient of the American Marketing Association ( AMA ), Marketing for Higher Education Special Interest Group ( Higher Ed SIG ) Lifetime Achievement Award .
The Higher Ed SIG Lifetime Achievement Award honors a marketing scholar who has demonstrated distinct accomplishments and dedication to the area of higher education in the marketing discipline .
Wendy M . Tietz , CPA , CMA , Ph . D ., Receives Honorable Mention for the Bea Sanders / AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award
Professor of Accounting Wendy M . Tietz , CPA , CMA , Ph . D ., was the recipient of an Honorable Mention for the AICPA ’ s 2021 Bea Sanders / AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award .
Award recipients are accounting educators who play a large part in influencing and preparing future accounting professionals . Tietz , along with colleagues Tracie Miller Nobles of Austin Community College and Jennifer Cainas of the University of South Florida , were recognized for their work , “ KAT Manufacturing : Interactive Dashboard Projects for Integrating Data Analytics into Introductory Accounting .”
Tietz won the Bea Sanders / AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award in 2014 and 2017 , and earned honorable mention in 2018 and 2019 for the award . She also previously received the Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education , awarded by the Management Accounting section of the American Accounting Association . In 2020 , she received the prestigious American Accounting Association / J . Michael and Mary Anne Cook / Deloitte Foundation Prize .
Julia Levashina , Ph . D ., Research Listed Among “ The 16 Best Human Resources Books to Read in 2022 ”
An article by Professor of Management Julia Levashina , Ph . D ., was listed by VidCruiter as among “ The 16 Best Human Resources Books to Read in 2022 .” The article is titled , “ The Structured Employment Interview : Narrative and Quantitative Review of the Research Literature , 2013 .”
Haithem Zourrig , Ph . D ., elected as American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Fellow
Haithem Zourrig , Ph . D ., associate professor of marketing at the Stark campus , was elected as a 2022 Fellow by the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences in recognition of scholarly excellence and distinguished service .
Robert D . Hisrich , Ph . D ., Named Among Top 2 % of Researchers Worldwide in Stanford University Study
Robert D . Hisrich , Ph . D ., Bridgestone Chair of International Marketing & Director of the Global Management Center and International Programs , was among 29 Kent State faculty members named in the top 2 % of scientists in the world based on a recent study published by Stanford University scholars .
The report , published in the PLOS Biology Journal , evaluated more than six million scientists across 22 different fields and 176 sub-fields from 1996 until 2019 . The top 2 % list comprises the most-cited scientists who have authored at least five scientific papers during this period .
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