Samford's Brock School of Business Annouces; Professor Emeritus
May 9, 2008
Brock School of Business Contact: Kara Kennedy, Director of External Affairs, 205-726-4070, kkennedy@samford.edu
Birmingham, Ala. – Samford’s Brock School of Business recently announced faculty promotions and tenure decisions for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Dr. Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke has been promoted to Professor of Management Information Systems in the Department of Accounting and MIS.
Dr. Stefan Norrbin has earned tenure. Norrbin also serves as chair of the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, and is the Dwight Moody Beeson Professor of Business.
Dr. Betsy Bugg Holloway has earned tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor of Marketing in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing. Holloway also serves as the Hackney Family Research Fellow.
Dr. Franz T. Lohrke has earned tenure. Lohrke also serves as the chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing, and will serve as the Brock School of Business Advisory Board Research Fellow for 2008-2009.
Dr. Robert W. Servicehas been promoted to Professor of Management in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing.
Dr. David Loudon, has earned tenure.
Samford University’s Board of Trustees also voted to bestow the honor of Professor Emeritus upon Dr. Marlene Mints Reed, former acting dean and professor in the Brock School of Business. This designation is awarded to retired members of the faculty who have attained particular distinction in their academic career. Reed is only the second professor in the Brock School’s history to receive this distinguished honor. The other recipient of this honor was Dr. William Geer, the first dean of the School of Business at Samford. Reed retired from Samford at the end of the 2004-2005 academic year. She and her husband reside in Waco, Texas.
About the Brock School of Business at Samford University:
The renaming of the Samford School of Business to the Brock School of Business in December 2007 is the latest in a long history of achievements for business education at Samford, which has offered degrees in business and commerce since 1922. In 1965, the School of Business was established to offer both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business. Alabama’s first part-time master of business administration degree program was established at Samford, and the first MBA degrees were awarded in 1967. The master of accountancy degree was approved in 1995. The business school was fully accredited by AACSB International in 1999, a recognition earned by less than 10 percent of business schools worldwide.