In this challenging job market, good networking skills complete any serious job-hunter’s toolkit. That’s a good reason why more than 40 students and college community members attended the recent “Power Networking,” sponsored by Keller Williams Realty. The College of Business Administration’s Real Estate Student Association (RESA) hosted the event, in cooperation with the college’s Real […]
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Faculty Notes
Decision Sciences and Information Systems Knowledge Management: Systems and Processes, by Irma Becerra-Fernandez (PhD ’94), professor, and director and fellow, Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center, and Rajiv Sabherwalmy has been published by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Finance and Real Estate Helen Simon, instructor, and director, Capital Markets Lab and Beverly Z. Welber, assistant director, communications, Department of […]
Lively event broadens students’ awareness of the real estate sector.
Although real estate remains a challenge-filled industry, almost 100 Florida International University (FIU) students are now aware of the many opportunities afforded by the field, thanks to an interactive seminar hosted by the College of Business Administration. FIU’s Real Estate Student Association (RESA), in conjunction with Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Miami and Bank of […]
U.S. tries to keep struggling owners in homes.
A new $1.5 billion initiative aims to help homeowners threatened with foreclosure as the numbers show improvement. The government threw a $1.5 billion lifeline to unemployed and underwater homeowners on Friday, amid a new report suggesting the nation’s foreclosure crisis may be easing. Under the initiative, Florida and four other states that have seen home […]
Half of homes in South Florida sell for a loss.
Nearly half of South Florida homes sold in December did so at a loss, a 4 percent increase from the previous year and a “disturbing” sign for anyone with a home on the market. The data, released this morning by analysts at Zillow.com, evaluated sales by region, county and ZIP code — a measure that […]
Faculty Notes
School of Accounting Stephen Lin, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center Research professor; and assistant professors Abijit Barua and John (Changjiang) Wang, won a highly competitive “IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) Ready” award from the PricewaterhouseCoopers Charitable Foundation to fund their curriculum development proposal titled “Integrating IFRS in both accounting-major undergraduate and Master of Accounting […]
GetDegrees.com discusses distance education with Deanne Butchey, Assistant Dean, FIU College of Business Administration.
Deanne Butchey, Assistant Dean at Florida International University, joins us today to discuss distance education. Tell us about the distance learning programs offered at Florida International University. Florida International University offers a number of degree programs for which a student can receive an entire degree online. FIU Online offers online courses, certificates, undergraduate degrees, graduate […]
Employee Service and Recognition Awards Ceremony honors dozens.
Approximately 500 people attended the most recent Employee Service and Recognition Awards Ceremony, during which Mark Rosenberg, president of Florida International University (FIU), traced the history of the university by focusing on milestone events in increments of five years, matched to the equivalent years of service of those being honored. The theme of the event, […]
One day affords two opportunities for faculty to absorb new research.
Both the Finance and Real Estate Department and the Department of Management and International Business provided colleagues from across Florida International University (FIU) the chance to flex their intellectual muscles during two seminars held on November 6, 2009. Wayne Ferson, University of Southern California, confirms validity of Nobel Prize winning model. “The ‘Out-of-sample’ Performance of […]
Real estate investors help student organization rebuild.
Whether or not the local real estate market has rebounded, the Real Estate Student Association (RESA) at Florida International University (FIU) definitely has. Under the organization’s new executive board and its president, Dan Berkovitz, the group recently held its first 2009-10 school year event, titled “Investing in Commercial Real Estate,” and it was a “big […]