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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING
Chairperson:
Professors:
Donatus Amaram, Venkatapparao Mummalaneni
Associate Professors: James Phillips, Andrew Feldstein, Jun Sang Lim
Assistant Professors: Elin Cortijo-Doval, James Damico, Christopher Doval,
Kim Gower, Mark Kunze, Yun Lee, David Schein.
Clinical Faculty:
Kenneth Newman, Richard Stafford, Albert Thweatt, II, G. Alex Weimer
Description of the Department
The Department of Management and Marketing provides students with opportunities to
develop competencies in areas of Management and Marketing. Major degree programs are offered
in Management and Marketing and a concentration is available in the area of Human Resources
Management. The curricula in the Department of Management and Marketing are designed to produce
students who will be able to succeed in a highly competitive, global society.
Objectives of the Department
• To develop in students an appreciation of the requirements involved in the management of
complex organizations, and to engender excitement to pursue careers in management and
marketing.
management and marketing functions at all levels of an organization.
• To develop in students, an appreciation for career opportunities in management and marketing.
• To increase the use of instructional technology by faculty and students for application to the
institutions, government, business industries, and other organizations.
• To teach students to have a global perspective of business and other organizations with particular
emphasis on the requisite skills needed for effective management and marketing in different
cultures.
• To develop students’ sensitivities to ethical and moral responsibilities in the conduct of their
organizational and personal functions.
• To instill in students a belief in the value of lifelong learning.
business, and of the interrelationship, between management and marketing and other disciplines.
• To encourage scholarly contributions to knowledge, sharing of scholarly information, and efforts
to remain at the leading edge of management and marketing research so that faculty can provide
the highest quality instructional services to students.
• To encourage scholarly contributions which facilitate faculty contact with professionals who can
provide management and marketing opportunities to students so that students can succeed as
managers in a changing global society.
• To assure faculty and student involvement and participation in professional, service, community
and business organizations.
• To provide community service in the areas of management and marketing.
• To increase departmental visibility in the surrounding community in order to stimulate an
awareness and appreciation for the services offered by the Department.
• To promote service which improves the Department’s accomplishment of its goals, provides new
opportunities for the Department, and helps ensure that the Department looks to the future
and changes with the environment.