Student Professional Development > Professional Speaker Series

It's important for students to learn from professionals in the business world. In addition to frequent presentations by professionals in classes, the College of Business has two sources of support for its Professional Speaker Series in business and economics.

The Stella Horton Alsey and Howard Alsey Lecture Series in Business was endowed to bring distinguished speakers in the areas of business and economics to the Arkansas State University campus. In October, 2002, this series brought Jeffery Birnbaum, business analyst for Fortune Magazine and CNN, to speak on business ethics in light of the Enron and other corporate accounting scandals.

One goal of the Horizon Institute of Technology of Arkansas State University is to bring to campus distinguished speakers in the area of management information systems. These presentations are for top level business executives as well as business students at ASU. In March of 2003, John F. Rockart, Director of the Center for Information Systems Research, visited ASU. He is the George and Sandra Schussel Distinguished Lecturer of Information Technology at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

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