Mizzou Business Online
March 2009
Even during a financial crisis, the Trulaske College of Business has a mission – spanning instruction, research, service, and economic development – to fulfill. We also need to maintain contact with our various stakeholders, including you. We intend to do both as best we can during this challenging period. In particular, we will make instructional quality and research productivity our highest priorities. Read more
Chase Daniel, an undergraduate business student with an area of emphasis in finance, was named one of 15 National Football Foundation 2008 Scholar-Athlete Award winners. An $18,000 post-graduate scholarship accompanies the award. Read more
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Donors and scholarship
recipients met at the
Davenport Banquet.
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The Herbert J. Davenport Society celebrated its 20th anniversary at its annual banquet on Friday, October 24, 2008. Gary Forsee, president of the UM System, was the featured speaker. “This is a very special year for the Davenport Society,” says Duncan Matteson (BS BA ‘56), who was chair of the Society in 1989, the year the college’s donor-recognition organization was founded. Read more
Based on feedback from everyone involved, the Cornell Leadership Program (CLP) has earned a grade of A! Funded through the generosity of Harry and Ann Cornell, the intent of the CLP is to attract energetic, high-potential students to MU’s Trulaske College of Business and to provide them with educational and professional-development experiences that will help them become leaders in business. Read more
Prior to the end of the For All We Call Mizzou campaign on December 31, 2008, the University of Missouri surpassed its $1 billion fund-raising goal. By raising $1.039 billion, MU became the first and only public university in Missouri to raise $1 billion in private support. The Trulaske College of Business also surpassed its goal of $70 million. During the campaign, alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and business partners have donated more than $82 million to the college. Read more
As the nation’s current financial crisis accelerated last September, 14 students from the Trulaske College of Business participated in a field trip that had been planned during the previous several months. Visiting Wall Street in New York City, the students learned firsthand about the daily operations of the financial firms that are crucial to the global economy. Read more
Joseph Hegger joined the college as director of the Jeffrey E. Smith Institute of Real Estate in November 2008, succeeding Sam Goldman who resigned the position last May. The institute’s mission is to provide educational opportunities in real estate to students of the college and to members of the professional real estate community. Read more
Register now for the 2009 Emerging Issues & Trends in Real Estate Forum
The MU School of Accountancy has moved upward in the national rankings of accounting programs. The 27th annual Public Accounting Report survey, published in October, ranked the school’s master’s program at #15 and the PhD program at #19 nationwide. Read more
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About the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business
The Trulaske College of Business, founded in 1914, today enrolls more than 4,000 undergraduate students and 340 graduate students. The college has four academic units – Accountancy, Finance, Management, and Marketing – with 62 full-time faculty members. The college offers an undergraduate degree in business administration, an MBA degree, a 150-hour program that confers both undergraduate and master’s degrees in accountancy, and PhD degrees in both accountancy and business administration. The college takes great pride in its graduates. More than 31,000 alumni are contributing their expertise to the public and private sectors in every state in the U.S. and in a host of foreign countries.
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Last Edited: 3/25/2009