November 12, 2004
Scholars invested with professorships
CBA professors invested were Bill Barnett, Ph.D., J.D., as the Bank One Distinguished Professor of International Business; Wing Fok, Ph.D., Dean Henry J. Engler, Jr., Distinguished Professor in Management; Cecily Raiborn, Ph.D., Fr. Joseph A. Butt, S.J., Distinguished Professor in Accounting; and City College Professor Barbara Ewell, Ph.D., Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English. |
The Loyola community joined together to celebrate the investiture of faculty members in the College of Business Administration and City College at an investiture ceremony on October 29.
Those CBA professors invested were Bill Barnett, Ph.D., J.D., as the Bank One Distinguished Professor of International Business; Wing Fok, Ph.D., Dean Henry J. Engler, Jr., Distinguished Professor in Management; Cecily Raiborn, Ph.D., Fr. Joseph A. Butt, S.J., Distinguished Professor in Accounting; as well as City College Barbara Ewell, Ph.D., Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English.
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Walter Harris, Jr., PH.D.; Dean of College of Business Administration J. Patrick O'Brien, Ph.D.; Dean of City College Marcel Dumestre, Ed.D; and Dean of University Ministry Edwin L. Gros, III, S.J., were on hand to offer well-deserved congratulations.
Bill Barnett, Ph.D., J.D., joined the faculty of Loyola in 1974 and is an associate professor of economics. He received a Ph.D. in economics at Michigan State University and a J.D. from Loyola. He has won several teaching awards, including the College of Business teaching and advising awards and Loyola's Dux Academicus award, the highest honor a professor can receive for excellence in teaching and scholarship.
The Bank One Professorship of International Business is one of several professorships funded by Bank One/Chase to promote excellence in teaching and scholarship in the field of Business Administration.
Wing M. Fok, Ph.D., is a professor of management in the CBA. He received his undergraduate education from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. in operations management from Georgia State University. Fok served as M.B.A. director from 1994 until 2002, and he is currently area chair of management and legal studies. Fok was chosen by his students to receive the outstanding teaching award multiple times in the College of Business.
In 2000, a committee of alumni from the College of Business Administration began a project to raise $120,000 to endow professorships in honor of the Rev. Joseph A. Butt, S.J., and Dean Henry J. Engler, Jr.
Cecily Raiborn, Ph.D., is a professor of accounting. She received her Ph.D. in accounting with a minor in management from LSU. Prior to joining Loyola in 1985, Raiborn was an associate professor at Texas Woman's University and has also taught at the University of Texas at Arlington, and Texas Christian University. Raiborn has co-authored numerous widely used accounting textbooks and has published many refereed articles.
This professorship is also funded through CBA alumni efforts.
Barbara C. Ewell, Ph.D., is a professor of English in City College. She received her B.A. from the University of Dallas and her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Ewell has taught at Newcomb, the University of Mississippi, and Fordham University, as well as at Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile, where she was a Senior Fulbright Fellow. She was a founding member of the women's studies programs at Loyola and the University of Mississippi. She received the Dux Academicus Award for faculty excellence.
The Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professorship in English was endowed with a leadership gift from Dorothy Harrell Brown, Ph.D., professor of English emeritus in City College, and contributions by more than 70 donors in honor of Brown.
