Swart & O'Dor Awarded BB&T Grant

Dr. William Swart, Professor in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, and Mr. Richard O’Dor, Director of the Business Communication Center in the College of Business were recently awarded the BB&T Active Learning and Leadership Development Incentive Grant.

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Dr. William Swart

Mr. Richard O'Dor

Mr. Richard O’Dor

They will receive the $1,000 grant based on their proposal to document the impact that their joint work (ongoing for several years) to provide communication consulting and coaching to online MBA student groups while working on semester long research projects has on the development of the student transformative leadership abilities.