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2025 Faculty/Staff Success Stories 

• WalletHub features Professor Kuzey in 6 Best Installment Loans in 2025 

2024 Faculty/Staff Success Stories:

• Dean Gruys featured in Crain's
• Professor Kuzey Yilmaz featured on WalletHub 

2022-2023 Faculty/Staff Success Stories:

• Dr. Heidi Meier
• Anne Nelson
• Accounting Department Hosts Northeast Ohio IIA
• Vania Alvarez-Minah
• Dr. Kuzey Yilmaz Featured on WalletHub
• Weston Ideation Lab Staff Host Students from Georgia

2021-2022 Faculty/Staff Success Stories:

• Weston Ideation Lab Staff present at Deshpande Symposium Pre-Conference
• SBDC Staff Organize Trade Mission to Arab Health for Ohio Companies
• 2021 Golden Apple Awards: Dr. Ben Hoffman, Edward O'Donnell, Blaise Roncagli
• Dr. Pedro Gerum – business analytics and astrophysics
• Dr. Mark Holtzblatt – national teaching award
• Todd Morgan – CSU alumnus returns to teach

2020-2021 Faculty/Staff Success Stories

• Two Accounting Faculty Receive American Accounting Association Best Teaching Innovation Award
• Nate Ward and Thien Bui: Ohio Export Internship Program
• Dr. Jen-Yi (Jay) Chen: Interviewed by Scripps News Network
• Dr. Yinjie Shen: Co-authored paper selected as Best Public Interest by American Accounting Association Meeting of the Regions
• Three Business Faculty Recognized for Virtual Learning
• Three Business Professors Ranked Among Top 2% of Scientists by Stanford University
• Two Business Professors Earn Highly Cited Distinction
• Dr. Janine L. Spears speaks to Estate Planning Council of Cleveland
• Dr. Ping Deng to launch a special issue in the International Journal of Management Review
• Dr. Rama Jayanti On the Sound of Ideas, June 24, 2020
• Subrina Lu receives FSI Award for 2020-2021 Academic Year

2018-2019 Faculty/Staff Success Stories

• Dr. Ray Henry Interviewed by Crain's Cleveland Business about Virtual offices in the time of COVID-19
• 2019 Northeast Ohio Institute of Internal Auditors Educational Extravaganza: Accounting Department and EMBA Ethics Instructor
• Dr. Oya Tukel leaves behind a legacy
• 2018 Golden Apple Awards: 12 Faculty and Staff Honored
• Katie Van Dyke: Testifies in front of Congress about the Opioid Crisis and How it Impacts Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs

2017-2018 Faculty/Staff Success Stories

• Kim Ruggeri: Royal Wedding
• Dr. Andrew C. Gross: Honoring 50 Years of Service at CSU
• Mary Janis (Jan) Rose: 2018 Part-time Faculty of the Year, Department of Accounting
• Dr. Peter Poznanski: Honoring 27 Years of Service at CSU
• Dr. Janine Spears and Jim Deiotte: Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection Conference 2018
• Dr. Tracy Porter
• Dr. Iftikhar Sikder: October 2017 Best Paper Award, 19th International Conference on Digital Societies and Data Studies
• 2017 Golden Apple Award Winners: 6 Faculty Honored
• Dr. Wei Wang
• Nate Ward: Non-teaching Fulbright
• Ethan Holmes, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Cleveland State University SBDC

2016-2017 Faculty/Staff Success Stories

• Drs. Dixit and Javalgi
• Anne Nelson: Women of Influence
• 2016 Golden Apple Award Winners: 8 Faculty and Staff Honored
• Dr. Julian Earls
• Toni Paoletta

2015-2016 Faculty/Staff Success Stories

• Dr. Ji Eun Park
• 2015 Golden Apple Winners: Michael Niro, Jeff Susbauer and Nicole Zmij
• Lisa Sample

2014-2015 Faculty/Staff Success Stories

• Dr. Raj Javalgi paper awarded at AMA Educators Conference
• Jim D'Orazio speaks to AMA
• Dr. Haigang Zhou, recipient of CAFSA 2015 Distinguished Faculty and Staff Award
• 2014 Golden Apple Award Winners: Drs. Oya Tukel, Michael Polomsky and Mark Dobeck
• Research: Dr. Sreedhar Madhavaram