College of Business maintains prestigious AACSB International Accreditation.

Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business and its School of Accounting have been reaccredited for a standard five-year extension by AACSB International, the longest-serving global accrediting body for business schools offering undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting. The business school was one of 17 universities in the United States to maintain […]

Faculty member Smith lends guidance on charting a course, and reaching a dream.

The road to a goal is an individual journey that requires persistence, careful planning and an occasional change of course. Using personal anecdotes, videos and audience participation, Antoinette Smith, a faculty member in the College of Business’ School of Accounting, gave an animated talk about choosing and following your own path to success before an […]

FIU welcomes PhD Pipeline founder, offers session focused on GMAT success.

The PhD Pipeline Program encourages minority undergraduates to consider pursuing a doctorate in business. On January 24, 2013, the program’s founder, Duke University business school professor Lucy J. Reuben, met with David R. Klock, dean of the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), to thank him and the college for their support. She […]

Graduates increasingly seize out-of-state career opportunities.

As the doors open to job opportunities outside the South Florida area, many students with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the College of Business are increasingly ready to pack their bags and head to other locales to achieve career goals or to take advantage of attractive job offers. According to Barry Shiflett, executive director, Bank […]

Academic opportunities shared through the PhD Pipeline.

Studies show that minorities, particularly Hispanics and African-Americans, are dramatically under-represented on business school faculties. Achieving greater equity, experts say, will begin with getting more minority students into the “pipeline”—the PhD study process. Antoinette Smith, a member of the School of Accounting faculty in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) has made […]

Faculty Notes: September 2012

School of Accounting Wendy Gelman, senior instructor, received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Faculty Convocation on September 27, 2012. Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor, and Barbara Perez-Deppman, College of Nursing and Health Sciences adjunct, co-authored the article, “Healthcare managers need to be collaborative leaders […]

Mario de Armas of PwC named School of Accounting Alumnus of the Year.

Some alumni return to campus for nostalgic reasons, to relive the “glory days,” to stay connected with friends or for other sentimental reasons. Mario de Armas (BACC ’85) comes back to Florida International University (FIU) to gather brilliant young graduates for his firm, the Florida offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he serves as market managing […]

Summer Commencement characterized by happiness and poignancy.

More than 1,000 students in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) graduated in Summer Commencement ceremonies on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. In the morning, 523 business students received their bachelor’s degrees; 511 graduate students, three of them new PhDs, graduated in the afternoon. Among the many special moments: FIU President Mark B. […]