Barbara Nichols Passes Away

Barbara Nichols, longtime wife of SSU's first president, Ambrose Nichols, died last week. Her daughter Eleanor remembers her fondly in a special obituary in this week's NewsBytes. A service in her honor will be held on campus soon. At right, Barbara and Ambrose in a 1995 photo by B. J. Fundaro.

Three Deans on Campus Soon to Review
School of Business for Accreditation

Starting Sunday, Feb. 26 through Wednesday, March 1, a team of three deans acting as a Peer Review Team will arrive for an official visit to determine whether the Department of Business Administration's academic programs (undergraduate and graduate) meet the standards for accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.

The PRT will be touring the campus, meeting with campus and community constituents and students and evaluating the campus and business school programs. PRT members may address faculty and staff as they tour campus or during their walk to their next scheduled meeting for a brief discussion.

AACSB International accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in management education and all business programs in the CSU system are either accredited or undergoing accreditation.

The PRT members visiting SSU include:

1. James Weeks (PRT Chair), Dean, Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2. Moustafa Abdelsamad, Dean, College of Business, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
3. William Moore, Dean, Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University, Salisbury Maryland