The faculty at Anderson excels at establishing student-faculty relationships, conducive to a rigorous yet collegial learning environment. Anderson is proud of its diverse faculty and honors our faculty and their accomplishments.

Recent Faculty Accomplishments

Dr. Jeanne Logsdon
Professor Jeanne Logsdon is the recipient of the 2008 Faculty Community Leadership Award. Faculty must have demonstrated leadership in enhancing the Anderson School of Management's visibility and relations with the business community by creating connections, providing leadership and being actively involved in the business community.

Professor Jeanne Logsdon has been a faculty member at Anderson since 1989. During her tenure she has received numerous accolades from colleagues and students. She was recently honored by being selected as Fellow of the International Association for Business and Society. She has held the Jack and Donna Rust Professorship of Business Ethics since 2003, in recognition of her excellence in teaching and research in the area of business ethics. Dr. Logsdon recently co-authored a book entitled, Global Business Citizenship: A Transformative Framework for Ethics and Sustainable Capitalism.

"She is found by her students to be enthusiastic and even passionate about teaching and the subject of business and society," said Department of Organizational Studies Chair Jacqueline Hood. "Thanks to her documentation of Anderson's school-wide efforts, Aspen Institute ranks Anderson 18th in the world (4th among small MBA programs) for social and ethical impact in its "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" recognition."

Professor Logsdon has served as Anderson's Faculty Chair, Chair of the Dean's Review Committee, Chair of the Budget Review Committee, and as Anderson's representative to The Washington Campus Program, among her many service activities. Professor Logsdon received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.

Dr. Karen Patterson
The Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico is pleased to announce that Dr. Karen Patterson, one of its newest faculty members, was recently nominated for the Health Care Management Division Best Paper Based on a Dissertation award from the Academy of Management.

Patterson's paper is based on her dissertation which focuses on the evolution of institutional entrepreneurship within alternative medicine in healthcare. She received recognition on her paper at the 2007 Academy of Management Meeting in Philadelphia on August 3-8. There were a total of three nominees for the award. The Academy of Management is a not-for-profit global organization of professionals who are engaged in research and teaching dedicated to the advancement of management thought and practice.

Patterson was pleased to receive recognition for her work. "It's very validating that the wider intellectual community recognizes both the theoretical and imperial implications of my work," said Patterson.

Patterson first joined Anderson in 2006 as a visiting professor in the Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management department and was hired on as a full-time professor starting this fall. She is currently teaching MGMT 498, Strategic Management.

Dr. Craig White
Craig White, Grant Thornton Professor of Accounting at the University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management, has been chosen as a director of the board of the New Mexico Society of CPAs (NMSCPA).

The NMSCPA is the premier professional association for certified public accountants in New Mexico. It started out with six members in 1930 and now boasts a membership base of more than 1,500.

Members of the association are CPAs in public practice, industry, education or government, or they may be students enrolled in a qualified accounting program at one of New Mexico's colleges or universities.

White teaches the taxation of individuals and business entities. His research interests include: electronic tax administration, tax systems' role in encouraging innovation and marriage tax penalty/subsidy.

Dr. Joni Young
Accounting, Organizations and Society, through ScienceDirect, has recognized Anderson School of Management Professor Joni Young for her research naming one of her publications among the Top 25 Hottest Articles downloaded from January through March 2007. Young's article, "Making up users," appeared in Accounting, Organizations and Society volume 31, Issue 6.

Accounting, Organizations & Society is a major international journal concerned with all aspects of the relationship between accounting and human behavior, organizational structures and processes, and the changing social and political environment of the enterprise.

Its unique focus covers such topics including the social role of accounting, social accounting, social audit and accounting for scarce resources; the provision of accounting information to employees and trade unions and the development of participative information systems; processes influencing accounting innovations, the social and political aspects of accounting standard setting and many other related subjects.