The School of Business allows students who are interested in business, but unsure what particular area they want to pursue, the opportunity to start classes and explore their options. You take the same business core courses required of all business majors as you decide on a major.

Learn more at Undeclared Majors

Foundational Courses in business

Students majoring in areas other than business who want to augment their studies with foundational business courses should consider a grouping of courses that introduce you to the principles of accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management and statistics.

These pre-professional courses may be of particular interest to nonmajors who may wish eventually to enroll in a graduate program in business.

Learn more about our Pre-professional Studies in Business

 

Business minors

Business and nonbusiness majors alike may broaden their academic experience by pursuing one of 10 academic minors in the School of Business.

We offer minors in accounting, business administration, economics, family business, finance, international business, management, marketing, quantitative analysis for business, and sports management.

Learn more at Undergraduate Minors in Business

Also available is a minor in leadership. This 18-hour minor, which offers a curriculum spanning academic schools at the university, is open to all degree-seeking students, regardless of their majors.

As associate dean at Jacksonville's Davis College of Business, James provided leadership and support of initiatives tied to the overall vision and mission of the college, including:

• collaborating with faculty to promote excellence in teaching and scholarship
• enhancing the availability and use of technology
• promoting international initiatives
• boosting positive relationships among the university and corporate communities
• creating a climate conducive for leadership development among students, faculty and organizational employees

 

James was also Jacksonville’s director of Leadership Development Portfolios, an electronic platform she designed and maintained for the storage and tracking of graduate leadership development portfolios in order to monitor student progression in portfolio development.

Prior to becoming associate dean, James was an assistant (then associate) professor of management in the Davis College of Business. In 2009, she MSL Consulting to provide individuals and organizations with the tools, guidance and expertise needed to promote personal growth and development; improve organizational resilience and adaptability; and enhance overall leadership and sustainability.

James has developed and facilitated a number of leadership development seminars, organizational development practicums and individual enhancement workshops and certificate programs. She is the leadership program designer and primary workshop facilitator for the hallmark “Leadership Matters” program jointly developed by Jacksonville University-Davis College of Business and the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce-Jacksonville Women’s Business Center.

From 2001 to 2005, while working on her doctorate, James was a research assistant, teaching assistant and course developer at Florida State. Prior to that she was a business education teacher from 1996 to 2001 at Grand Ridge School in Marianna, Fla.

James earned her Ph.D. in business administration from Florida State in 2005, majoring in organizational behavior and minoring in human resource development and behavioral dynamics.

She earned her master’s degree in business education (2000) and her bachelor’s degree in business administration (1993) from Florida A&M University; she also minored in accounting.

Vision

The St. Bonaventure University School of Business seeks to be recognized as the premier Franciscan business school, one that excels in business education, applied scholarship, and impactful engagements with the regional, national, and global communities in which we live.

Mission

The St. Bonaventure University School of Business develops responsible leaders for the greater good and the bottom line. Our school is inspired by educational excellence in the Catholic Franciscan tradition to develop, for the increasingly complex world of business, critical and ethical thinkers who value discovery, global community, belief in the goodness of life and the God-given worth of every individual.

Values

The following Franciscan values are uniquely linked to our Franciscan mission and are incorporated into our curriculum and service learning initiatives.

• Contemplation: To think deeply, to ponder, to meditate, to consider, to study, to plan, to ask “what does it all mean?” is to be a contemplative.
• Love: To learn … not for the sake of accumulating knowledge alone, but so that knowledge can be applied to the betterment of others.
• Respect: To be a “global village” in which people of all social classes, races, nations and beliefs live, accept, and attempt to understand and support one another.
• Joy: To believe that the God who made the world is a good God, that the world and the people in it are good, and that whatever difficulties we face, it’s all going to work out for the best; to look at life through a positive lens.
• Peace: To uncover the injustices which are the roots of hatred and violence; to prepare ourselves with knowledge, skill and love to promote a better world; to truly be an “instrument” of God’s peace.
• Compassionate Service: To volunteer, to help, to seek opportunities to be of assistance to others; to give of our time with a sense of humility and a desire to make the world a better place; to see education as a means of being able to serve our fellow human beings.

   

The School of Business Advisory Council, composed of school alumni, works with the dean, faculty and students in support of the school's vision, mission and values.

Officers:

• Chair: Connie Monteleone Whitton, Class of 1973, president and CEO, Whitton Consulting Group, LLC, Manlius, New York
• Vice Chair: Matthew P. Cullinane, '06, American diplomat, United States Foreign Service, Boyds, Maryland.

Members:

• Erik R. Addington, '91, chief financial officer, ExodusPoint Capital Management, LP, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Paul C. Hilbert, '65, CPA (retired), Onyx Advisors, LLC, Ellicottville, N.Y.
• Laurie R. Krupa, '82, managing director wealth management, Bank of America, Oradell, N.J.
• Mike Lawhead, '15, vice president, portfolio manager at Bank of America Private Bank, New York
• Kevin B. McNamara, '02, chairman, Millington Lockwood Business Interiors, East Amherst, N.Y.
• Lisa Melton, '91, senior vice president of marketing, AAA Northeast, Providence, R.I.
• Sean M. Rickard, '05, director, Mindseeker, Inc., Charlotte, N.C.
• Arthur H. Roberts, '68, VP & director of HR (retired), Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.
• Richard R. Rynone, '80, president & CEO, Rynone Manufacturing Corp., Waverly, N.Y.
• Julie Sheedy, '90, chief marketing & engagement officer, Loretto, Syracuse, N.Y.
• Mari L. Snyder, '90, director of economic empowerment, SAFE Center for Human Trafficking Survivors, University of Maryland.
• John F. Stitt, '98, president, CMO, KA-BAR Knives, Inc., Olean, N.Y.