Kent State University Executive MBA Student Announced Scholar of the Month

KENT, Ohio - Feb. 17, 2016 - PRLog -- Willie H. Oglesby, III, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Public Health and current Executive MBA student at the College of Business Administration was announced the February 2016 Kent State Scholar of the Month.

“Dr. Oglesby is absolutely brilliant,” said Laurie Walker, program director of the Executive MBA program at Kent State’s College of Business Administration. “The Executive MBA program is honored to be represented by such a prestigious student and professor.”

Oglesby came to Kent State in 2009 from the University of South Carolina where he served in several research and administrative roles in the School of Public Health and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Health Sciences. He is a practice-based scholar who uses community-engaged research methodologies to examine and strengthen the systems, methods and policies that promote community health. His research and expertise includes community health needs and assets measurement, sexuality and reproductive health, and economic evaluation of health interventions with recent work focused on lifestyle medicine and substance abuse.

Oglesby has worked on a career total of more than $26 million in externally funded projects, including more than $7 million as principal or co-principal investigator. He is a reviewer for several leading academic journals in public health and medicine, including serving as executive editor of the Global Journal of Medicine and Public Health. He is a former policy consultant to the National Academies of Practice and is currently a member of the Lifestyle Medicine Committees for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the American College of Preventive Medicine. In 2010, he was named Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Oglesby received all three of his degrees – a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science in Public Health and a Ph.D. – from the University of South Carolina.

Kent State’s Scholar of the Month recognizes faculty researchers and scholars whose recent work has had an important impact on their professional fields and has brought exposure to the university. Each month, a different college will have the opportunity to nominate a researcher/scholar for this recognition.

For more information about the Executive MBA program at Kent State University, visit http://business.kent.edu/degrees.

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Kent State University’s College of Business Administration is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) and one of the largest colleges of business in Ohio.  The college has more than 4,300 students representing 50 countries with over 89 full-time faculty from16 countries.

The college grants undergraduate through graduate degrees, and is one of only three colleges in Ohio with a comprehensive Ph.D. program.  The MBA program is offered with nine concentrations and five dual degree options. The Executive MBA program offer two tracks: one targeting corporate professionals and the other healthcare executives.  The M.S. in Accounting and M.A. in Economics are specialized master’s degrees for those seeking advanced study in these disciplines.  The college boasts nine undergraduate majors, 12 minors and a Professional Sales Certificate program.

The college is listed as a Best Business School by Princeton Review, ranked as a Best Business College by U.S. News and World Report, one of only 23 accounting programs worldwide to be endorsed by the IMA (Institute of Management Accountants), ranked Top-Tier for Executive Education in North America by CEO Magazine and ranked fourth by the SEF (Sales Education Foundation) in Ohio for Professional Sales Education.

The college boasts an onsite Career Services Center and International Programs Office dedicated to business students, and operates the Global Management Center, the Center for Information Systems and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation all propelling scholarly research, establishing innovative industry partnerships and providing outreach to Northeast Ohio and beyond.

Media Contacts:

Michelle Parrish Manning, Director of Marketing Communications, (330) 672-2717, mparris3@kent.edu

Bri Figley, Marketing Communications Specialist, (330) 672-1279, bfigley2@kent.edu