Integrity in Business: Topic of DSU Business and Ethics Forum
Integrity in Business: Topic of DSU Business and Ethics Forum
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Dixie State University's Udvar-Hazy School of Business will host the final Business and Ethics Forum series of the 2014 fall semester this Thursday, December 4, at 12 noon, featuring a presentation on integrity in business by DSU Associate Professor of Accounting Dr. Nate Staheli.
The Business and Ethics Forum is held in the Boeing Auditorium (Room 121) of the Udvar-Hazy Business Building. DSU students, faculty and staff, the entire Washington County business community, and the general public are all invited to attend. Admission is free.
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Staheli's presentation, entitled "I'm not Raising Cattle, I am Raising Young Men," will draw from how his life's experiences strengthened his integrity, both personally and professionally. Staheli will share some early childhood memories on the family farm and how those experiences continue to govern his thoughts and actions in the business and academic world. Staheli, who is also a senior partner at Staheli & Jacobsen CPA, will also discuss the importance of having ethical behavior in academics, and how that ethical behavior played a role in his Doctoral work.
The DSU Business and Ethics Forum is held every other Thursday throughout the fall and spring semesters, with each guest lecturer speaking on business matters in their respective professions and how ethics are introduced into the discussion. The Forums will return to its regular bi-monthly schedule for the 2015 spring semester beginning in January.
The bi-monthly forum, along with campus' Institute for Business Integrity, was created by former DSU president Dr. Robert Huddleston in 2006, as a way to integrate ethics into the curriculum, and have it serve as a blueprint to ensure that students graduate with a set of ethical tools to help them get along in the professional world.
In 2006-07, Dixie State's business program sought initial accreditation with the high profile Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In order to become accredited with the AACSB, ethics were required to be integrated into the college's business curriculum. As a result, each business class on the DSU campus now includes an ethical component.
Dr. Huddleston noted that the business forums will give students – and current and prospective local business owners – an added dose of ethics training that is so sorely needed into today's business world. His hope is that by the time students leave Dixie State, they have been exposed to enough ethical cases that, when they get out in the workforce, they will have the wherewithal and the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing, even when their job might be on the line.
The Dixie State University Institute for Business Integrity is a partnership between the DSU Udvar-Hazy School of Business, the Small Business Development Center, the Washington County Economic Development Council, and the St. George Area Chamber of Commerce.
For questions regarding the DSU Institute for Business Integrity forums, contact Dr. Huddleston at huddleston@utahtech.edu or 435-652-7740.
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Dixie State University's Udvar-Hazy School of Business will host the final Business and Ethics Forum series of the 2014 fall semester this Thursday, December 4, at 12 noon, featuring a presentation on integrity in business by DSU Associate Professor of Accounting Dr. Nate Staheli.
The Business and Ethics Forum is held in the Boeing Auditorium (Room 121) of the Udvar-Hazy Business Building. DSU students, faculty and staff, the entire Washington County business community, and the general public are all invited to attend. Admission is free.
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Staheli's presentation, entitled "I'm not Raising Cattle, I am Raising Young Men," will draw from how his life's experiences strengthened his integrity, both personally and professionally. Staheli will share some early childhood memories on the family farm and how those experiences continue to govern his thoughts and actions in the business and academic world. Staheli, who is also a senior partner at Staheli & Jacobsen CPA, will also discuss the importance of having ethical behavior in academics, and how that ethical behavior played a role in his Doctoral work.
The DSU Business and Ethics Forum is held every other Thursday throughout the fall and spring semesters, with each guest lecturer speaking on business matters in their respective professions and how ethics are introduced into the discussion. The Forums will return to its regular bi-monthly schedule for the 2015 spring semester beginning in January.
The bi-monthly forum, along with campus' Institute for Business Integrity, was created by former DSU president Dr. Robert Huddleston in 2006, as a way to integrate ethics into the curriculum, and have it serve as a blueprint to ensure that students graduate with a set of ethical tools to help them get along in the professional world.
In 2006-07, Dixie State's business program sought initial accreditation with the high profile Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In order to become accredited with the AACSB, ethics were required to be integrated into the college's business curriculum. As a result, each business class on the DSU campus now includes an ethical component.
Dr. Huddleston noted that the business forums will give students – and current and prospective local business owners – an added dose of ethics training that is so sorely needed into today's business world. His hope is that by the time students leave Dixie State, they have been exposed to enough ethical cases that, when they get out in the workforce, they will have the wherewithal and the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing, even when their job might be on the line.
The Dixie State University Institute for Business Integrity is a partnership between the DSU Udvar-Hazy School of Business, the Small Business Development Center, the Washington County Economic Development Council, and the St. George Area Chamber of Commerce.
For questions regarding the DSU Institute for Business Integrity forums, contact Dr. Huddleston at huddleston@utahtech.edu or 435-652-7740.