Outstanding Grad: Vladimir Munoz
For Vladimir Munoz, attending the College of Business was a no-brainer. Munoz, a finance concentration, fondly recalled his first visit to CSU during a trip with his DECA club from Thornton High School.
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Outstanding Grad: Pierce Edwards
Some people are drawn to a career in finance and real estate to tackle a challenge. Others see the fields as an opportunity to leverage skills in quantitative analysis in pursuit of high earning potential. Pierce Edwards was drawn to the fields because they offer an opportunity to help others.
Outstanding Grad: Charlotte Epting-Schillinger
Getting a new perspective on the world is one reason people pursue higher education. Spending four years discovering different ideas, people, and passions expands our intellectual and personal horizons and shapes us in ways we never imagined. Those new perspectives are one of the most important things College of Business Outstanding Graduate Charlotte Epting-Schillinger is taking away from her time at CSU.
Outstanding Grad: Rachel Powner
As a sophomore in the College of Business, Rachel Powner had a problem: she liked her classes too much. She was trying to pick from one of 10 business concentrations to focus on and couldn’t make up her mind.
Spring 2020 Outstanding Graduates
Every student overcomes obstacles and triumphs over academic challenges on their path to commencement. Meet some of the College's graduates and share their journey to graduation.
Outstanding Grad: Sara Godfrey
Godfrey entered the College of Business without a clear picture of where her academic journey would take her. But, when she took intro to financial planning at the end of her sophomore year, something about it clicked in a way she hadn’t expected.
Outstanding Grad: Caleb Thetford
As a freshman, Caleb Thetford's most intimidating challenge was less common than most: “It was a bit of a jump to go from a class of one to a class of 32,000.”
Accounting faculty rank No. 1 in Colorado for research productivity
For the second year in a row, the College of Business’s Department of Accounting is No. 1 in Colorado in the Brigham Young University accounting research productivity rankings. The department also ranked highly in several specific research categories, including No. 4 for tax research and No. 12 for experimental managerial accounting research.
Breaking the Chain: Using Business to Stop Wildlife Trafficking
College of Business Associate Professor John Macdonald was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the ways business methodologies can be used to disrupt and prevent illegal wildlife trafficking.
Learning from experience
From Fortune 500 executives to recent grads, College of Business women have covered a lot of ground in the working world. Here, they share the insights that helped them move forward in their careers.