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2017 ANNUAL REPORT Where Creativity Begins<br />
SYKES COLLEGE OF BUSINESS<br />
SYKES COLLEGE OF BUSINESS<br />
A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN<br />
Dear Friends and Supporters,<br />
It is a pleasure to provide you information about this past year’s<br />
activities at the Sykes College of Business. We are very proud of all<br />
the good work and progress in this academic year. One of the<br />
challenges in writing this is that we have many noteworthy items<br />
and not enough space to cover them all in this annual report. The<br />
Sykes College of Business is continuously growing, strengthening<br />
and gaining greater academic reputation every year. This past year<br />
we hired more than 15 new faculty and staff and our enrollment as<br />
of Fall 2017 peaked above 3,300 students. Our ranking at no. 78 in<br />
Bloomberg Businessweek maintained our status among the best<br />
MBA programs in the country (only three universities from Florida<br />
were ranked)<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=1"> 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Where Creativity Begins SYKES </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=2"> A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Dear F</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=3"> SECURING OUR STATURE One of the Elite Bus</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=4"> PEOPLE FIRST Sykes Welcomes New Scholars </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=5"> Sridar Gogineni, Ph.D. Deanna H</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=6"> PEOPLE FIRST Sykes Welcomes New Scholars </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=7"> Stacey Schetzsle, Ph.D. Yanyan Shan</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=8"> TEACHING EXCELLENCE Impact and Engagement </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=9"> their previous coursework and research had formed</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=10"> TEACHING EXCELLENCE Innovation Seniors Launch </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=11"> investors so they can expand in 2018 to other Flo</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=12"> DYNAMIC PROGRAMS Offering Innovative Curriculum </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=13"> Solving the Technology Needs of Tomorrow The Syk</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=14"> SCHOLARSHIP Faculty Impact and Engagement </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=15"> UT Professors Work with Dairy Associations Since </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=16"> SCHOLARSHIP Selected Faculty Publications Bl</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=17"> SCHOLARSHIP Summer Research Grants The fol</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=18"> PARTNERSHIPS Centers at UT Engage and Innovate </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=19"> TECO Energy Center for Leadership Speaker Series </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=20"> PARTNERSHIPS Centers at UT Engage and Innovate </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=21"> seeing positive results,” said Jeff Skowronek, as</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=22"> PARTNERSHIPS External Board Appointments Arl</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=23"> Sykes College of Business Dean’s Advisory Council</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=24"> AWARDS AND ACCOLADES A Year of Remarkable Achieve</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=25"> CEO Magazine ranked Sykes College of Business MBA</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=26"> ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Ronice Barlow, Executive MBA M</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=27"> Q: What are your feelings regarding your experien</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2017 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04385ab?page=28"> Sykes College of Business 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., B</a>