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Department of Business Administration

Charles Briggs, Ph.D., Chair

Office: 213 College of Business Building

Phone: (504) 286-5173

Email: cbriggs@suno.edu

Professors: Simeon Okpechi, Ph.D., the Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes Endowed Professor in Business Entrepreneurship; Igwe E. Udeh, Ph.D., Dean and Alvin James Lawson Endowed Professor of Business; Victor Ukpolo, Ph.D.

Associate Professors: Charles Briggs, Ph.D.; Adrine Harrell-Carter, DBA

Assistant Professors: Faisal Al-Khateeb, Ph.D.; Yun Doo Lee, Ph.D.; and Krishna Poudel, Ph.D.

Program Description:

The Business Administration Department offers a program of study leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting, Entrepreneurship and Management. The Department provides an education that equips students for today’s increasingly competitive business landscape. Students are nurtured to become innovators, effective leaders, ethical decision-makers, and demonstrate proficiency in research. Graduates continue to have successful careers in business, industry, education, government and nonprofit organizations. Many also pursue graduate and professional degrees. Our full-time faculty members are actively engaged in scholarly research and frequently publishing in premiere peer reviewed journals.

BADM Vision:

The vision of the Business Administration program is to create unique, dynamic, and vibrant programs that will significantly contribute to the economic and social development of the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area by providing ethically sensitive, cutting-edge training for business professionals and to take advantage of business opportunities in areas where New Orleans has a comparative advantage. Graduates who are innovators, leaders and have interpersonal skills will participate at a more competitive and professional level in the economic growth of New Orleans as tax paying citizens.

Mission Statement:

The mission of the Department of Business Administration is to support the mission of the College of Business & Public Administration by offering high quality education for degree in Business Administration with concentrations in: Accounting, Entrepreneurship and Management. The Department functions as part of a public, historically black institution that support the delivery of quality education, research excellence and community services. In addition, the department also offers service courses that are required by all programs in the College of Business & Public Administration and some other programs outside of the College. The Department is committed to serving the education needs of the entire student population and the business education needs of the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan Area.

Learning Goals and Objectives

Ethics: Student will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of ethics and its application in the decision-making process.

  • Objective: Students are able to differentiate between what is ethical and what is unethical.

Communication: Student is able to apply effective communication skills in a professional environment.

  • Oral Communication Objective: Student is able to prepare and deliver an effective business presentation.
  • Written Communication Objective: Student is able to produce well-written documents.

Analysis: Student is able to analyze and solve problems in an organizational setting.

  • Objective: Student will apply discipline-based principles in addressing organizational problems.

Technology: Student is able to understand the importance of technology in organizations.

  • Technology Understanding Objective: Students will understand available technology.
  • Technology Application Objective: Students will use available technological tools in various tasks.

Other Program Goals: The Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Administration addresses the issues of business formation and economic growth in the New Orleans area by providing students with the skills required for a career in any of the functional areas of a business or for successfully starting and operating a business. By combining a broad liberal arts training with discipline-specific coursework, the Business Administration program gives the student the skills necessary for working as managers in small and large businesses and successfully starting and operating a business, including critical thinking, effective speaking and writing, preparation of budgets and financial statements, preparation of business plans, obtaining financing for business ventures, managerial expertise, research and analytical capabilities. The program contributes to the economic development and growth of the State and the New Orleans area by accomplishing the following goals:

  1. Graduating students who are literate in the use of computers.
  2. Graduating students who are ethically sensitive and aware.
  3. Preparing students to operate as managers and corporate entrepreneurs.
  4. Preparing students to organize, manage, and operate their own business by providing them with management and organizational skills, training in business plan preparation, and knowledge of how to obtain financing for new businesses.
  5. Exposing students to problems and challenges encountered in operating an actual business. This objective will be achieved through hands-on projects.
  6. Contributing to the development of those sectors of the New Orleans economy where New Orleans has a comparative advantage.

Major:

Students choosing Business Administration as a major must choose a Concentration from one of the three areas below:

  1. Accounting
  2. Entrepreneurship
  3. Management

The coursework for the first two years are the same, for every concentration, with a few exceptions. Students take their concentration courses in their junior and senior years.

A major in Business Administration consists of 45 hours of General Education courses, 36 hours in the CBA Business Core, 30 hours in the major, and 9 hours of non-business and free electives, for a total of 120 semester credit hours.