STUDENTS VOLUNTEER FOR NEW
LIFT PROGRAM
Some 275 Culverhouse student
volunteers have signed up for a new
community outreach program at the
College. The LIFT initiative is helping
the unemployed and underemployed
build career-worthy skills and teaching
young children that business school can
be fun and cool.
Accounting lecturer Lisa McKinney
leads the Learning Initiative and
Financial Training program that
launched in August 2014. McKinney and
David Hose, an accountancy graduate
student, brainstormed on how to
share business-related job skills with
Tuscaloosa’s off-campus community
and from there, the LIFT program was
born. They have not looked back, and
they continue to find ways to improve
the program as they serve diverse
participants, ages 16-65.
INSURANCE STUDENT GROUP
WINS FIVE AWARDS
The Epsilon honorary chapter of Gamma
Iota Sigma, made up of members of the
Alabama Insurance Society, won five
international chapter awards at the
Gamma Iota Sigma conference in Dallas,
Texas, in October. The five awards were in
alumni relations, chapter management,
community service, membership
development and public relations.
Six board members attended the
conference to receive the awards:
Suzanne Christiansen, president;
Amanda Norem, vice president; Abigail
Rehfeld, secretary; Scott Huisinga,
treasurer; Griffin Jennings; and Daniel
Smith. For more about the chapter visit
www.gammaiotasigma.org.
ACCOUNTING FRATERNITY WINS
GOLD AWARD
The University of Alabama’s Beta Alpha
Psi chapter, the national honorary
accounting fraternity, is one of 15
chapters across the nation to receive
a Gold Award in the “Gold Challenge”
sponsored by KPMG LLP and the KPMG
Foundation. The competition allowed
Beta Alpha Psi members to test their
media skills. They submitted a five-minute video explaining why their
chapter is tops in the nation. Each of
the 15 gold award chapters received
$2,500.
FINANCE STUDENT MAKES
BLOOMBERG HALL OF FAME
William Prester, who is majoring in
finance, ranked in the top 5 in the
Americas on the Bloomberg Aptitude
Test and is currently featured on
Bloomberg Institute’s Hall of Fame.
ACRE STUDENTS WIN REAL
ESTATE INNOVATION AWARD
The University of Alabama and the
Culverhouse College of Commerce
have partnered with the Institute of
Real Estate Management to advance
real estate management education
and careers. This new collaboration
that includes the UA chapter of IREM,
Alabama 43, will help students network
with working professionals. Alabama
Chapter 43 recently received one of
seven national, prestigious Innovation
Awards from IREM for its commitment
to student outreach.
IREM provides students at
Culverhouse with teaching materials
including textbooks to help develop
curriculums as well as making IREM
information easily accessible to students
through the College’s website.
Two Culverhouse graduates were
recently awarded for efforts while
pursuing their degrees. ACRE intern
Kevin Perkins became one of the
youngest members to earn his Certified
Property Manager (CPM) designation.
Robby Waldrop, who specialized in real
estate as a student, was recognized as
the National Student of the Year.
The Department of Economics,
Finance, and Legal Studies, housed
within Culverhouse, offers a Bachelor of
Science in finance with a specialization
in real estate. The Manderson Graduate
School of Business offers a Master of
Science in finance, with a specialization
in real estate.
CALLING ALL FORMER
CULVERHOUSE COLLEGE OF
COMMERCE AMBASSADORS
The current Culverhouse Ambassadors
are looking to build a network of former
ambassadors to foster relationships
inside and outside the walls of the
STUDENT NOTES
CULVERHOUSE STUDENTS SHINE HERE AND ABROAD