NEWS

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University School of Business student Alexander Peterson received a scholarship from Delta Mu Delta, a business honorary society.

    Peterson is one of 58 students nationwide who have been awarded a scholarship from Delta Mu Delta. Peterson was awarded a $500 national scholarship. He’s the first student from Northern to receive the Delta Mu Delta scholarship at the national level.

    The Delta Mu Delta is an international honor society in business… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University will kick off its fall 2021 Noon Forums on Wednesday, Sept. 15, in the Williams Library Round Room.

    Dr. Jon Schaff will be the featured speaker at the noon event, titled “America’s Unfinished Business.” Schaff is director of the new Center for Public History and Civic Engagement, which opened at Northern this fall.

    Schaff’s Noon Forum is being delivered as a lead-in to the… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University is now offering an online Spanish-International Business dual-degree option. 

    Both the International Business and Spanish degrees are already offered online. Now, they have been re-worked into a dual-degree… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University faculty member Dr. Hannah Walters has been named Vice President of Marketing for the Marketing Management Association.

    Walters was voted unanimously into the role, which starts her on the officer’s track for the national academic organization. Her term will run through the end of the MMA 2022 Spring Conference, when she will move to President Elect.

    Walters is assistant professor of marketing at Northern. She received her bachelor’s degree from Dakota Wesleyan University, her master’s from the University of South… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University Phi Beta Lambda students did very well in the recent virtual State Leadership Conference competition. 

    Each of the nine NSU PBL members placed in at least one competitive event. As a team, NSU PBL came away with 10 first-place awards, seven second-place awards and one third-place award.

    All of the students now qualify to compete at the upcoming virtual National Leadership Conference.

    “I’m thankful for the… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – The 2021 Northern State University Research, Scholarship and Creativity Forum will take place April 21 in the Jewett Regional Science Education Center.

    This annual forum is a venue in which Northern undergraduates can present their research or scholarly activities. Oral presentations will be 11 a.m.-12:20 p.m., with the poster session 1-2 p.m.

    The keynote address, set for 12:20-1 p.m., will be delivered by Craig Whippo, associate professor of biology at Dickinson State University. Whippo’s speech is titled “Undergraduate Research Across the… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – An article by Northern State University faculty members Drs. Kristi Bockorny and Hannah Walters has been accepted for publication in The Transnational Journal of Business.

    The article, titled “The Relevance of a Liberal Arts Education to Business School Graduates: An Assessment of Alumni,” will appear in the journal’s June edition. Bockorny and Walters collected survey data from a sample of business alumni in order to assess their perceived relevance of a liberal arts education to their business degree.

    Bockorny is associate professor of… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University has ranked high in the country and state for its online international business degree on two educational websites.

    On a couple of websites for 2021, Northern ranks high for the online bachelor’s degree in international business:

    ·According to more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Two faculty members from the Northern State University School of Business had a case study accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Ethics Education.

    “Hiring Ethics: A Case of Undue Influence in Employee Selection,” by Drs. Sal Villegas and Kristi Bockorny, will be part of JBEE’s Volume 17. According to the abstract, the case study examines a real-life situation in which a bank manager’s… more

  • ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University Assistant Professor of Management Dr. Sal Villegas recently published two collaborative journal articles.

    The first, “Avoiding digital marketing analytics myopia: Revisiting the customer decision journey as a strategic marketing framework,” appears in the Journal of Marketing Analytics, and can be viewed here.

    According to the article abstract, Villegas and co-author Dr. Matthew Vollrath build on seminal marketing thought to propose a conceptual framework… more