Our faculty are academically and professionally accomplished in the business world, and they are particularly focused on faith integration and why it’s crucial in business. Great teaching takes top priority with their considerable expertise in current research and practices serving to enhance their instruction. The entire business curriculum is built around the idea of learning by doing, and they constantly develop unique ways to teach through this method. Most of all, they love working with college students. These caring professionals trust students with difficult material because they are there in the process, believing in the student’s ability to overcome challenge and achieve mastery.

 

Michaelia Black

Michaelia Black, EdD, CPA

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Specialty: Managerial Accounting & Analytics
School of Business | Location: SOB 306 B
Phone: (423) 473-1175
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Guy Deloach

Guy Deloach, DBA

Associate Professor of Business
Specialty: Operations Management / Strategic Management
School of Business | Location: SOB 305
Phone: (423) 614-8169
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Amy Russin

Amy Dummer, MBA, CPA

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Specialty: Auditing
School of Business | Location: SOB 203 B
Phone: (423) 614-8667
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Kathy Estes

Kathy Estes, PhD

Associate Professor of Finance
School of Business | Location: SOB 203C
Phone: (423) 614-1177
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Shane Griffith

Shane Griffith, DBA

Dean for the School of Business / Professor of Business
School of Business | Location: SOB 306F
Phone: (423) 614-8160
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Hermilo Jasso

Hermilo Jasso, PhD

Professor of Economics
Specialty: Economics
School of Business | Location: SOB 206J
Phone: (423) 614-8161
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Erica Leggett

Erica Leggett, MBA

Executive Secretary to the Dean of the School of Business
School of Business | Location: SOB 306F
Phone: (423) 614-8160
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Randal Miedaner

Randall Miedaner, JD, CPA

Assistant Professor of Business
Specialty: Accounting, Tax, & Business Law
School of Business | Location: SOB 306C
Phone: (423) 614-1176
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Lillian Parsons

Secretary to the School of Business & MBA Program Assistant
School of Business | Location: SOB 306H
Phone: 423-614-8694
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Holly Perleoni

Holly Perleoni, DBA

Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Business | Location: SOB 306H
Phone: (423) 614-8694
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Allison Pierce

Allison Pierce, PhD

Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Specialty: Healthcare Administration & Human Resources
School of Business | Location: SOB 203D
Phone: (423) 614-8164
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Jaimme Preston, MBA, LNHA

Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Specialty: Healthcare Administration & Marketing
School of Business | Location: SOB 306E
Phone: (423) 614-8543
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Beth Seymour

Beth Seymour, CPA, DBA

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Specialty: Non-Profit and Governmental Accounting
School of Business | Location: SOB 306D
Phone: (423) 614-8224
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David Smartt

David Smartt, PhD

Associate Professor of Business
Specialty: Management / Business Ethics
School of Business | Location: SOB 203G
Phone: (423) 614-8622
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