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Ronald McNeil, Dean of the College of Business and Management welcomes these new faculty members:
Michael Small, associate professor of Business Administration, was an associate professor of decision sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University before returning to UIS, where he had previously been a member of the Business Administration faculty from 2000 to 2002. He has also taught at the University of New Haven College of Business, East Tennessee State University College of Business, and Cleveland State University College of Business. Small served as chief budget analyst to the Ministry of Finance, Government of Barbados, and was a management consultant to the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity. His teaching interests include operations and technology management, decision sciences, and project management and statistics. His research interests focus on managing manufacturing and information technology projects, benchmarking, quality management, and production and service operations management. Small earned the B.A. in economics at the University of the West Indies; the M.B.A. at Howard University, Washington, DC; and the D.B.A. in production and operations management at Cleveland State University. |
Jeffrey Blodgett, associate professor of Business Administration, comes
to UIS from the University of Mississippi, where he was associate professor
of marketing in the School of Business Administration. His teaching interests
focus on various aspects of marketing and retail as well as e-commerce
and consumer behavior. His main areas of research include consumer complaining
behavior and perceived justice, the effect of physical surroundings on
consumer satisfaction, and cultural values and their effect on consumer
behavior. His professional activities include serving as a reviewer for
the Journal of Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and Complaining Behavior.
Blodgett earned the B.S. in finance, investment, and banking at the University
of Illinois; the M.B.A. in marketing at Illinois State University; and
the Ph.D. in marketing and organizational behavior at Indiana University. 