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The mission of the Falls School of Business is to create an environment that will enable and encourage our graduates to be:

  • Professionally competent through understanding the knowledge base of their discipline and possessing the ability to apply analytical and problem-solving skills to organizational problems
  • Ethically sensitive.
  • Informed by the Christian ideal of servanthood.


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Our mission is realized through a commitment to teaching excellence and genuine concern for each individual student, and is supported by a faculty commitment to continuous professional development and service to the community. The school offers majors in accounting, economics, finance, management and marketing. In addition, there are joint majors in music/business, math/economics and a business administration major available to students interested in double majors. Within each major there are opportunities for students to further specialize through the availability of a number of concentrations. These concentrations (listed by major) include:

  • Accounting — none
  • Business Administration — available only as a complementary major
  • Economics — Economic Policy; Globalization
  • Finance — Investments; Entrepreneurship
  • Management — Organizational Management; Not-for-Profit Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Global Business
  • Marketing — eBusiness; Marketing Strategy & Tactics; Marketing Communications; Global Business
Marketing Communications; Global Business A wide selection of minors are available to all students, whether their major is inside or outside of the Falls School of Business. These minors include:
  • Accounting
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Global Business
  • Not-for-Profit Leadership
  • eBusiness
  • Entrepreneurship

The undergraduate and MBA programs of the School of Business are fully accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). The Master of Accountancy and Doctor of Business Administration programs have been designed to meet ACBSP guidelines and will be submitted for accreditation as they are in operation long enough to qualify for the ACBSP accreditation process.

Faculty
Kenneth D. Armstrong
Professor of Business;
B.S., Olivet Nazarene University;
M.B.A., Central Michigan University;
Ph.D., Northwestern University [1990]
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Jeffrey M. Buck
Assistant Professor of Marketing
MBA Program Director
B.S., M.B.A., Ball State University;
PhD, The University of Mississippi [2001]
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Carolyn R. Caldwell
Adjunct Professor of Accounting;
Freshman Experience Coordinator
B.S., Anderson University;
M.A., Indiana University [1996]
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Michael Edward Collette
Vice President For Enrollment Management And Information Systems/University Registrar;
Associate Professor of Management
B.B.A., M.S., University Of Wisconsin-Whitewater;
Ed.D., Indiana University [1977]

A. Osh ElNaggar
Associate Professor of Accounting
B.S., M.B.A., Indiana University;
Ph.D., University Of Kentucky [1996]
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Laura Falco
Assistant Professor of Marketing
B.S., Houghton College;
M.S.M., Roberts Wesleyan College [2003]
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R. Glenn Falls
Professor Emeritus of the Falls School of Business
B.A., Anderson University;
M.B.A., D.B.A., Indiana University [1952]
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Jerrald Mark Fox
Associate Professor of Business And Economics
B.A., Anderson University;
C.F.P., College For Financial Planning;
M.B.A. Indiana University,
Ph.D., The Union Institute [1985]
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Cindy A. Gibson
Associate Professor of Marketing
B.S., M.B.A., Texas A&M University;
EdD, Oklahoma State University [2001]
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Rebecca A. Haskett
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
B.S., M.B.A., Ball State University [1996]
EdD, Indiana University
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Gregory Dean Heberling
Associate Professor of Business And Economics
B.S., M.B.A., Ball State University [1978]
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Doyle John Lucas
Associate Professor of Business And Economics
DBA Program Director
B.A., Anderson University;
M.B.A., Ball State University;
Ph.D., Indiana University [1984]
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Mark E. Motluck
Assistant Professor of Accounting and Business, C.P.A
B.B.A., Loyola University of Chicago;
J.D., University of Miami [2000]
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Cynthia Lash Peck
Associate Professor of Business, CPA
B.S., M.B.A., Indiana University [1988]
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Francis O. Pianki
Associate Professor of Business Administration
BSChE, University of Connecticut;
MSChE, University of Arizona;
M.B.A., Pepperdine University [1998]
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Barry Clinton Ritchey
Professor of Economics
B.A., Kent State;
M.A., Kent State;
Ph.D., Syracuse University [1991]
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Kent T. Saunders
Associate Professor of Finance and Economics
B.S., Ball State University;
M.A., Ph.D., Clemson University [2001]
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Terry Truitt
Associate Professor of Business And Economics
Dean, Falls School of Business
B.S., M.B.A. University Of North Alabama;
C.M.A., Ph.D., Mississippi State University [1995]
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Charles N. Waldo
Professor of Marketing
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., St. Louis University [1992]

Michael D. Wiese
Professor of Marketing
B.S., Olivet Nazarene University;
M.B.A., Oral Roberts University;
Ph.D., Loyola University-Chicago [1990]
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