Growing up in Bastrop, Cheryl Lee never thought she’d serve on the City Council. But the fourth generation Bastropian will become the city’s first African American female council member when she is sworn in to office in May.
A cross-disciplinary team of business and engineering students from Prairie View A&M University recently traveled to Houston to attend the inaugural HBCU Bain & Company Case Clash at Bain & Company’s Houston office. The visit included a full day of programming, starting with a networking breakfast with employees (Bainies) of the global management consulting firm, [...]
Kishwar Joonas, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing in the College of Business at Prairie View A&M University, delivered the keynote address at the inaugural ceremony of the Association of Indian Management Scholars International Conference on Management in Indore, India.
Nearly 84 percent of all US certified public accountants are caucasian and just 2 percent are Black, according to a report published in 2019 by the Association of International Certified Public Accountants. In an effort to encourage a more racially diverse accounting ecosystem, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has recently announced its collaboration with the Deloitte [...]
As the world approaches the two-year mark of the start of the pandemic, more and more opportunities to return to pre-pandemic activities are becoming available. Prairie View A&M University student Kendall Brown, a finance major, has just returned from his study abroad trip to Spain. Brown was the first PVAMU student to travel internationally for study since [...]
Born in Drolshagen, Germany, Felicitas Loske is not your typical Prairie View A&M University MBA graduate. As the mother of three young children, she enters the next stage of life with three degrees in hand and a Gib niemals auf (never give up) spirit to inspire others. She came to the U.S. as an exchange high school [...]
Prairie View A&M University students recently squared off against Texas Southern University students for the annual Black Employee Network Phillips 66 Business and Engineering Diversity Case Competition. The competition returned in 2021 after a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Six students from PVAMU combined to take first and second place in the event.
Prairie View A&M University has had the good fortune of a faculty member deeply embedded in the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators for many years, and this year, ACME honored Kishwar Joonas, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Business at PVAMU, as its 2021 Outstanding Educator. Joonas has been a past president of ACME and treasurer for three [...]
Mohammad Shahab Uddin, who graduated from Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) in 2017 with a master’s degree in accounting, has received the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship, allowing him to continue his studies in the United Kingdom (UK). The Bangladesh native is pursuing a doctorate in entrepreneurship and circular economy at the University of Essex’s Business School.
Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) College of Business (COB) hosted an engaging discussion with Robert Kaplan, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and PVAMU President Ruth J. Simmons last Thursday, September 9. The hour-long virtual conversation consisted of an informal interview, with questions posed by President Simmons about the state of the local and national economies, [...]
