Toll has served in this capacity for the last seven years and is responsible for all Campbell’s product lines at Walmart.  Walmart is Campbell’s largest global customer and represents $1.8 billion in sales.  Toll currently serves on the Board of Directors of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and the Advisory Board for University of Arkansas.  A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he attended Old Dominion University and received his bachelor degree in marketing.  After graduation, Toll played professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs.

The Let’s Can Hunger competition asked participants to create a business plan detailing how they would create hunger awareness and relief in the upcoming academic year in their community. NNU’s team competed against teams from across the U.S. and plans were judged on sustainability and overall impact.  Toll will address the student body and discuss the mission and culture at Campbell, his own personal career path, lessons learned along the way and Campbell’s partnership with SIFE in the Let’s Can Hunger challenge.  A question and answer session will follow the presentation.

This event is free and open to the public in the Helstrom Business Building’s Harter Lecture Hall located at 804 E. Dewey in Nampa.  NNU SIFE will provide bins to collect canned food donations.  For more information, please contact SIFE advisor Dr. Mark Emerson at memerson@nnu.edu.

SIFE is an international non-profit organization active on more than 1,400 university campuses in 48 countries. SIFE teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that focus on market economics, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, personal success skills and business ethics.

Five School of Business faculty (Dr. Ron Galloway, Dr. Karen Jones, Dr. Jeff Lineman, Dr. Steve Mountjoy, and Dr. Bill Russell) attended the annual Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA) conference held October 15-17, 2009, in Rogers, Arkansas. The conference highlights included keynote speaker Rollin L. Ford, Walmart’s Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer.  Tours were also offered to Walmart’s Innovation Lab, as well as the Distribution Center. Walmart, based out of Bentonville, Arkansas, boast itself as the world’s largest retailer with 2.5 million associates (employees).

Dr. Bill Russell presented papers entitled “A Wesleyan Paradigm for Teaching Business Ethics in Business Schools,” “Law: Use of Regional Economic Research as an Alternative for Writing Papers,”  as well as co-presenting with Dr. Randy Ataide, Director of the Fermanian Business Center at Point Loma Nazarene University (San Diego, California), on “Engaging the Business Community.”  Dr. Russell was also presented with the award for the Best Practices in Ethics and Law.

Dr. Jeff Lineman serves on the CBFA Board of Directors and chaired the Awards Committee for the conference.

The CBFA conference was hosted by John Brown University.

Article contributed by Karen Jones

Faculty advisor Ann Thompson-Crabb said the Accounting Club, “gives students real life experience in accounting, and provides a better understanding of business while serving our community.”  Jake Allen (pictured), President of the Accounting Club notes, “We get students together as accountants to learn more about it . . ., and to see how accounting in the real world may work.”    

The Accounting Club plans to sponsor several speakers through the school year as well as creating a panel of recent graduates to discuss their transition into the working world. Annette Elg, Simplot CFO, is already scheduled to be a guest speaker later this year.  The club also plans to provide accounting services to small businesses in the area. Last year, the club assisted a local church with its financial records.

Jake Allen commented on the picnic, “It was great to see so many new faces of people who are interested in the club and want to help participate in our activities.”  The Accounting club meets each Tuesday at 11:00 AM in Helstrom room 201.

“Delta Mu Delta is a national honor society established in 1913 to recognize students in accredited business schools for their high academic achievement in a baccalaureate or masters degree program. Over the last 80 years, Delta Mu Delta has grown to its current membership of more than 200 active chapters, approximately 117 of which are ACBSP members, with more than 105,000 individual members.”**   NNU has been a member of Delta Mu Delta for ten years, since the business programs have been accredited by ACBSP.

One of the criteria for the Star Chapter Award is student submission of an application for the National Scholarship Program.  Business Major, Ashley Mormon, received a 2009 Delta Mu Delta Scholarship worth $2,000 from a total of $30,000 scholarship monies awarded to 25 students.  She also won a $1,000 Delta Mu Delta Scholarship the previous year.  Additional students willing scholarship monies from Delta Mu Delta include; Jacklyn Travis, 2007 Honorable Mention, $100 award; Andrew Ellestad, 2006 Honorable Mention, $100 award;  and Ashley Jerome, 2006 Honorable Mention, $100 award.***     

Pictured are Jeff Lineman, former STEP Director and Faculty Advisor of NNU Delta Mu Delta, and Rhonda Gray, Executive Secretary for the School of Business and Recording Secfretary for NNU Delta Mu Delta.
 
*     http://www.deltamudelta.org/chapter.officer.award.program.star.php
**   http://www.acbsp.org/p/cm/ld/fid=21
*** http://www.dmd-ntl.org/scholarship.programs.winners.php

Jeff Lineman, Contributor

The following projects are a part of the improvements;

• Amphitheater connection between Culver and Dooley (see picture)
• Circle Drive seal coat and restriping, including sidewalk replacement for safety (see picture)
• Relocation of Holly sidewalk east of Emerson to provide a safer walking surface (see picture)
• Sutherland remodel – energy efficient dual pane windows
• Dooley remodel – energy efficient dual pane windows, restroom renovation, and “living room” refurbish (see picture)
• Culver remodel – same as Dooley, remodel of main lobby
• Renovation (carpet, counter tops, appliances, paint, etc) of “Colorado” duplexes and “Holly houses”
• Baseball backstop reinforcement and expansion
• Near completion of the fence on the south perimeter of the campus
• New roofing on Olsen Apartments and Corlett Hall
• Williams Hall – three new offices, air conditioning, carpet and roof resurfacing
• Emergency generator – to provide continuous campus network operation in the event of power failure

Our thanks to School of Business faculty Dick Van Schyndel and Britton Hall for improving our campus environment.

“Janet L. Yellen took office as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on June 14, 2004. As a 2009 voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, Dr. Yellen brings her District’s perspective to policy discussions in Washington.  [She] is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley where she was the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics and has been a faculty member since 1980.

“The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco provides wholesale banking services to financial institutions in the nine western states through its head office in San Francisco, branch offices in Los Angeles, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, and a cash processing office in Phoenix. As the nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve System formulates monetary policy, serves as a bank regulator, administers consumer protection laws, and is fiscal agent for the U.S. government. The Twelfth District is the largest in the Federal Reserve System, encompassing 36 percent of the nation’s land area, and 20 percent of its population, employment, and the nation’s personal income.”

Quotes taken from http://www.frbsf.org/federalreserve/people/officers/yellen.html

The School of Business in the Helstrom building is leading the way with all of its classrooms equipped with smart boards.  The rest of the campus is close behind, with a total of 80% of classrooms with smart boards. The Business Department also has two computer labs for its students and the campus has another three larger labs, and two smaller labs in the freshmen dorms.

More and more class assignments and tests are being posted and completed electronically through an online platform called Blackboard. Blackboard allows students to turn something in from anywhere in the world as long as an internet connection is available.  A student also gets 250 megabits of data storage on his or her personal network which can be accessed through any internet connection. If a student saves information in class and desires to continue work later, he or she can simply log on to the network and download the file from any internet connection. 

NNU also has great technical support for students, from the first day they enroll in a class until they graduate. I personally work in the Technical Response Center and help students use campus technology and understand the network and services.  Students also get great discounts on purchases of technical services and products like Verizon and Dell. 

Students who want a competitive edge in the workplace when they graduate will find a technological environment at NNU that affords them the best opportunity for preparation.

Contributed by Justin Kellerer

Editor’s Note;   Justin recently returned from a Summer ministry in South Korea.  His work with youth helped him complete the NNU cross-cultural experience requirement, and stretch his understanding of the world around him.

Department majors met Thursday, September 4 for an orientation to this year’s school initiatives.  Dr. Steve Mountjoy was introduced as the Acting Dean for this school year.  Students also welcomed new faculty member David Chaplain, Associate Professor of Economics, and met staff members as well.  Majors were informed of the business clubs which exist as opportunities for experience and resume building; SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise), FMA (Financial Management Association), AMA (American Marketing Association), and the Accounting Club.  New initiatives for the coming year include a change from Blackboard to Angel instructional platform, the use of clickers in selected classes, development of ePortfolios for each business major, and branding NNU as a University of significance in the Treasure Valley and beyond.  Former Dean Ron Galloway is preparing a proposal for a Ph.D. program, and exploring opportunities for study abroad.  Ongoing activities include enhancing this blog in terms of purpose and appearance, the use of BusinessWeek in many classes, Delta Mu Delta honor society, meaningful internships for all majors, and augmenting cross-cultural opportunities for students. 

This blog remains the your best source of current and useful information from the NNU School of Business.  Create a bookmark for this site and check back often.

“Janet L. Yellen took office as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on June 14, 2004. As a 2009 voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, Dr. Yellen brings her District’s perspective to policy discussions in Washington.
Dr. Yellen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley where she was the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics and has been a faculty member since 1980.  “She graduated summa cum laude from Brown University with a degree in economics in 1967, and received her PhD in Economics from Yale University in 1971. She received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale in 1997, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown in 1998, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Bard College in 2000.

Dr. Yellen has written on a wide variety of macroeconomic issues, while specializing in the causes, mechanisms and implications of unemployment.

Contributed by Mark Emerson