Ivy Alexander
Department Secretary
Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis and Accounting and Management Information Systems
(205) 726-2677
ilalexan@samford.edu
Room 212 Dwight M. Beeson Hall
Ivy joined Samford University in June 2006 and currently serves as secretary to the Departments of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis and Accounting and Management Information Systems. Through her role in the School of Business, she provides support to full-time and adjunct faculty, including functions involving student organizations and faculty development.
Ivy is a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where she earned a Master’s degree in Social Work, and Judson College, where she earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion. She is currently considering post-graduate studies.
Prior to coming to Samford, she held a variety of positions primarily in non-profit and faith-based organizations. She briefly taught undergraduate social work and sociology courses at her alma mater Judson College, where she was Instructor of Behavioral Science. In addition, she has been a community workshop facilitator, family resource center director, family life education director, and media center director for several churches. She has also assisted pastors, consultants, speakers, and college deans, registrars, and department heads in a variety of disciplines.
Ivy has a long history both professionally and avocationally in the publishing field. In addition to being a freelance desktop publisher and editor, which she continues to enjoy, she was an assistant editor with several organizations including: LifeWay Christian Resources and Boone, Inc. Most recently, she compiled and edited several books in the health resource series by Omnigraphics, Inc. Ivy is a published author with articles and reviews appearing in the Journal of Family Ministry, Christian Single magazine, the American Baptist newspaper, the Marion Times-Standard newspaper, and Antiques Monthly.
Ivy feels blessed to be in a position of service in order to free up those whom she serves to be all they are called to be.
Faculty & Staff
Administration
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate & Executive Education Programs - Kara Kennedy
Director of External Affairs - Robert Blakely
Major Gifts Officer - Franz Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing - Stefan Norrbin
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis - John Knapp
University Professor and Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership and Director, Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - Carrie Anna Pearce
Director, Academic Internship Program - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University & Assistant Professor of Finance - Ivy Alexander
Department Secretary-Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis - Doshia Bennett
Secretary to the Dean - C. Hope Dahlke
Executive Assistant to the Dean and Chief of Staff - Gretchen Dorsey
Academic Advisor - Kathey Gassner
Program Assistant - Undergraduate Programs - Yolanda Long
Assistant to the Associate Dean - Lucy Phillips
Program Assistant - Graduate and Executive Education Programs - Ginger Robertson
Department Secretary - Marketing, Management, and Economics - Azalea Hulbert
Department Secretary - Accounting and Management Information Systems
Department of Accounting & Management Information Sytems
- James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - William H. Belski
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Sharon S. Jackson
Assistant Professor of Business - Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
Professor of Management Information Systems - Dennis W. Price
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Douglas L. Smith
Associate Professor of Accounting
Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - Stefan Norrbin
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis - Jennings B. Marshall
Professor of Economics - Jeremy Thornton
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Social Entrepreneurship Program - Onsurang (Onnie) Norrbin
Assistant Professor - Melissa Woodley
Assistant Professor of Finance - Thomas W. Woolley
Professor of Statistics
Department of Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing
- Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate & Executive Education Programs - Franz T. Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University and Assistant Professor of Finance - Charles M. (Chad) Carson
Assistant Professor - Betsy Holloway
Associate Professor of Marketing and Hackney Family Research Fellow - Steven T. Jones
Associate Professor of Finance - Archie Lockamy, III
Margaret Gage Bush Professor of Business and Professor of Operations Management - David L. Loudon
Professor of Marketing - Robert W. Service
Professor of Management
- Dr. Marlene M. Reed