The Spring 2012 Career Fair will take place on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 in the SIU Student Center Ballrooms. Students will be able to interact with various employers from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The College of Business has put together five reasons why you should attend. [Read the full story]

The American Marketing Association, Chi Sigma Chi and SIU Campus Recreation are teaming up with Special Olympics Illinois to sponsor the 2012 Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge into Campus Lake at noon on Saturday, February 25. All funds will directly benefit those with intellectual disabilities within 10 counties in Southern Illinois. [Read the full story]

Current members of the SIU Alumni Association who wish to pursue graduate and professional degrees will have the opportunity to practice their test-taking skills with a Free Kaplan Practice Test given on SIU Carbondale’s campus, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. The Association will provide members with the following tests: LSAT (law school); MCAT (medical school); GRE (graduate school); GMAT (business school); OAT (optometry school); DAT (dental school); and PCAT (pharmacy school). [Read the full story]

The College of Business and the Business Placement Center is hosting a “Building Career Fair Success Seminar” on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in Rehn Hall, room 113 (Business Placement Center). [Read the full story]

The battle was on as hundreds of students converged at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for a two-phase test of their accounting knowledge and problem-solving ability at the 14th annual School of Accountancy Accounting Challenge. 400 students from 23 area high schools and community colleges vied on Feb. 10 for bragging rights, trophies and SIU Carbondale scholarships. [Read the full story]

Nearly 400 students from 23 area high schools and five community colleges will be in attendance at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s 14th annual School of Accountancy Accounting Challenge. The event, featuring tests of skills and knowledge for individuals and teams, is set for Friday, Feb. 10, at the Student Recreation Center’s small gym. [Read the full story]

The inaugural Grad Bash ‘12 will be part celebration, part resource and information sharing. Grad Bash is set for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Feb. 16, in the Student Center Ballrooms. The event will provide a “one-stop shop” for all students graduating in 2012. [Read the full story]

Cheryl Burke Jarvis, Associate Professor of Marketing, recently attended the Annual Board Meeting and Academic Meeting for the Center for Services Leadership (CSL) in Phoenix, Arizona on Jan. 26 and 27. The CSL is based at Arizona State University, and is the premier joint academic-business research center in the world focused on “services science,” with the goal of creating and distributing knowledge about how to compete strategically through the profitable use of services. [Read the full story]

Four College of Business students were selected to receive a Textbook Scholarship from the SIU Alumni Association. The Association awarded over $15,000 in textbooks and supplies to 35 SIU Carbondale students on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Business students who were recipients of the scholarships included: Faith Freeman (senior, accountancy), Bryce Williams (junior, Business Administration), Stephanie Cessna (sophomore, accountancy), and Michael Henderson (sophomore, business-undecided). [Read the full story]

College of Business academic advisor, Darla Huff, recently took a ten-week hiatus from advising duties for an adventure in Uberlandia, Brazil. She traveled with her husband Jonathan, who was assigned a sabbatical for his company, Dow AgriSciences. Uberlandia is located in South Central Brazil. [Read the full story]