2014-2015 Faculty Awards

Every year, three College of Business (COB) faculty members are given an award in three areas: Teaching, Research, and Service. This yea’rs recipients are:

Teaching

Dr. Summer Bartczak

Dr. Summer Bartczak

There are two items that stand out when looking at Summer’s teaching evaluations:

  1. Instructor was well organized and prepared
  2. Students learned a lot

Both were ranked BEST in the COB! In fact, a total of nine items were  ranked best in COB by the students.

Summer’s teaching included innovation efforts in all her classes in order to engage the students in learning the content and to improve their critical thinking skills so that they would be impactful during and after their time at UCA.
Summer also teaches junior and senior high school students during the summer at the Acxiom/UCA IT camp. These students have also reported that she is effective and highly respected.

Research

Dr. Doug Voss

Dr. Doug Voss

Doug has several research irons in the fire:

  1. 7 grants awarded with 1 pending
  2. 20 peer reviewed articles with over 70% in A tier journals
  3. 8 editorial reviewed articles
  4. 3 book chapters
  5. On the editorial/advisory board of four journals:
    Journal of Business Logistics
    International Journal of Logistics Management
    International Journal of Distribution & Logistics Management
    Journal of Supply Chain Management

Service

Dr. Stephanie Watson

Dr. Stephanie Watson

In the past 5 years, Stephanie has been involved in:

  1. 33 Local Community Activities
  2. Accounting Community Activities
  3. Accounting Professional Activities

Stephanie averages 27 service activities per year for each of the past 5 years. Her service has included organizations such as Bethlehem House, Conway Cradle Care, Conway Women’s Shelter, Beta Alpha Psi, and dozens of other activities.