Samford's Brock School of Business Announces additions to Staff and Faculty
September 24, 2009
Brock School of Business Contact: Kara Kennedy, Director of External Affairs, 205-726-4070, kkennedy@samford.edu
Birmingham, AL-- Samford University’s Brock School of Business announces additions to staff and faculty.
Sara Helms, Ph.D. joins the Brock School of Business faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis. Dr. Helms teaches principles of economics, public economics and in the Evening MBA program. Dr. Helms also does research in several areas of interest including applied microeconomics and public policy, volunteer behavior, charitable giving, education policy and public health policy. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the faculty at the Brock School, she was on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Last year, she was named the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year at UAB.
Darin White, Ph.D. comes to the Brock School of Business from Union University where he served for 15 years, most recently as the Director of Research for the McAffee School of Business. Dr. White has authored numerous articles on strategy and leadership, and has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Business Ethics, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing and Journal of Strategic Marketing. He possesses a great deal of applied business research experience in the areas of strategy and leadership having consulted for a number of national and regionally recognized organizations. Demonstrating the breadth of his leadership abilities, Dr. White also coached the men’s soccer team at Union to a national championship in 2003. Dr. White also has received a number of honors including the Civitan’s Outstanding Male Citizen and recognition by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Sherri Spurling will serve the Brock School of Business as Undergraduate Academic Advisor. Ms. Spurling comes to the Brock School after serving five years as the Minister of College Students and Single Adults at Brookwood Baptist Church. She is a graduate of Samford University and holds a Masters of Theological Studies from Samford’s Beeson Divinity School.
“The Brock School of Business has the goal of offering a stellar education to our students. We have a wonderful, highly achieved and expert faculty and staff who are exceptional in their respective fields, and who go above and beyond the call of duty to help us achieve our goals,” said Beck A. Taylor, dean of the Brock School of Business.
About the Brock School of Business at Samford University:
The renaming of the Samford School of Business to the Brock School of Business in December 2007 is the latest in a long history of achievements for business education at Samford, which has offered degrees in business and commerce since 1922. In 1965, the School of Business was established to offer both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business. Alabama’s first part-time master of business administration degree program was established at Samford, and the first MBA degrees were awarded in 1967. The master of accountancy degree was approved in 1995. The business school was fully accredited by AACSB International in 1999, a recognition earned by less than 10 percent of business schools worldwide.
