Category Archives: College News

The American Accounting Association will award UCF professor Greg Trompeter and co-authors Jeffrey Cohen and Kim Westermann with the 2022 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award for their paper, “PCAOB Inspections: Public Accounting Firms on Trial” published in the Summer 2019 issue of Contemporary Accounting Research. The AAA award will be presented Aug. 1, at the […]

MAN-dalorians Team Wins $3,500 from Verizon for Customer Service App Idea By ERIKA HODGES Business Knights and Baby Yoda made a winning team at this semester’s Great Capstone Case Competition. The MAN-dalorians team, featuring members Katherine Cueto (Integrated Business), Jack Boos (Finance), Hannah Thomas (Marketing) and Kenneth Colón (Accounting and Finance), earned first place and […]

Four College of Business students have been named as 2021-22 recipients of the Order of Pegasus, UCF’s most prestigious student award for those who display incredible academic achievement, university involvement, leadership and community service. During their time at UCF, Trinity McCall-Peaks, McKenna Melville, Jaylen Brown and Scott Wolfe coached and mentored other students, won athletics […]

by: Marisa Davino Fairways to Leadership is a new RSO at UCF that aims to promote diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace while providing education and professional opportunities to its members. Leadership is at the forefront of the program whose mission is to develop the leadership abilities of college students from diverse communities using […]

This past summer marked a significant change for college athletes as the NCAA voted to allow them the opportunity to benefit from their name, image and likeness. While it’s certainly a significant change in the NCAA’s approach and rulemaking, what will it mean for most student athletes, especially those outside the big conferences and revenue-generating […]

Five business seniors who dubbed themselves Team Senioritis earned $3,000 in scholarship funding and the top spot at this semester’s Great Capstone Case Competition with their recommendation that competition sponsor Verizon utilize 5G network technology to improve airport security. Graduating seniors Ryan Bis, James Smith, Anthony Tran, Talia Vasquez and Katarina Vue pitched their plan […]