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College of Business professor named editor of
Academy of Management Learning and Education
J. Ben Arbaugh is the publication’s first editor
from a non-doctoral university
OSHKOSH, Wis. – (1/3/08) J. Ben Arbaugh, professor of management at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Business, has been named editor of the Academy of Management “Learning and Education” journal. His appointment marks just the fifth time in its 67-year history that the Academy of Management has named a professor from a non-doctoral university to be an editor of one of their five journals. The honor also marks the first time a non-doctorial university professor has been named editor of the six-year-old “Learning and Education.”
“I honestly would not be the editor of this publication without the College of Business,” said Arbaugh, who earned his doctorate from Ohio State University and joined the UW Oshkosh College of Business faculty in 1994. “This is really the College’s honor, not just mine. The environment at the College provides me with a great medium to study online education at the graduate level. My research samples are large enough and the University is small enough to allow me to efficiently retrieve archival data. The research environment allows me to create control variables and multi-semester designs. Most importantly, my colleagues support my efforts in collecting data from their classes.”
The journal publishes academic research and reviews, essays and interviews regarding new ideas in management learning and education. In its sixth year, the publication is the most noted business education journal in the industry, often cited by national press, such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Business Week, as a premier resource for research and commentary on business education.
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has grown since its founding in 1871 to become the third largest comprehensive university in Wisconsin. With a fulltime enrollment of more than 12,700 (11,500 on campus) students, the university offers 74 associate, baccalaureate and master’s degree programs in the colleges of Business, Education and Human Services, Letters and Science and Nursing. UW Oshkosh serves as the educational, cultural and economic engine for 1.2 million citizens of northeastern Wisconsin.
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For more information or to set up an interview with J. Ben Arbaugh, contact Jaime Hunt at (920) 424-1398 or huntj@uwosh.edu.
