D. W. Johnston School of Business
Chair: Nan Wakefield
Office: D. W. Johnston Center, Room 216
Telephone: 931-363-9853
E-mail: nwakefie@utsouthern.edu
Full-Time Faculty
Professors: Austill, Thomas
Associate Professors: Brown, Jones, Killen, Wakefield
Assistant Professors: Greene, McAdoo, E. Smith
Instructor: Ford
Adjunct Faculty: Asadi, Cox, Doss, Franklin, Nkulu, Williams
The D. W. Johnston School of Business was founded in 1994 to provide a focal point for the business program of the University. The School is named in honor of Daniel Webster Johnston, a highly respected Nashville businessperson and trustee of Martin Methodist College.
The D. W. Johnston School of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree, and the Bachelor of Science (BS) in Sport Management. These degrees are offered in keeping with the University of Tennessee Southern's vision and mission respectively of:
- Providing undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs grounded in the liberal arts and sciences that are designed to prepare students for careers and lives of continued learning;
- Promoting a diverse and globally conscious learning community that nurtures intellectual, spiritual, social and personal growth;
- Serving the region through educational, social, and cultural programs.
The vision of the D. W. Johnston School of Business is to be recognized as the leading business educational center for the south central Tennessee region.
The mission of the D. W. Johnston School of Business is to reach individuals and organizations to strengthen, grow, and sustain them by offering a progressive business program that combines professional preparation with a strong liberal arts foundation. The BBA is offered on campus in a traditional setting as well as a night or hybrid setting. This program prepares qualified students for a variety of professional careers in business, government and non-profits, and includes major areas in accounting, management information systems, management, and sport management. The Business program provides excellent preparation for graduate studies. The Entrepreneurship minor offers student opportunities to meet business leaders of national prominence.
At the University of Tennessee Southern, we are a community of learners that focuses on making honest/ethical decisions while creating sustainable value for a dynamic, international, competitive marketplace. The free enterprise market system is emphasized and studied along with its functioning within domestic and international stakeholders’ environments. Courses challenge students to integrate problem solving, strategic decision making, technology, ethics, communication skills, and a global perspective for successful managerial roles. Students will learn to create and sustain organizational value by managing businesses in a strategic manner while building stakeholder relationships founded upon trust and long-term value.
A variety of teaching methods are used including: traditional in-class, case study, online research, discussion, service learning, group study, reports, and others. In addition, students may avail themselves of the internship program. Students may gain valuable work experience under the supervision of professional managers and the UT Southern business faculty.
The Business program offers several majors that allow students to focus course studies in a specific area of business. Students interested in a program within the School of Business should consult the appropriate program director/coordinator as listed below:
MBA: Lorie Jones, Director
Accounting: David Austill, Program Coordinator
Management & Internships: Pat Ford, Program Coordinator
MIS: Nan Wakefield, Program Coordinator
Sport Management: Gene Smith, Program Coordinator
The Business Division also sponsors the Sigma Beta Delta honor society for business majors.
In the pages that follow, the requirements for each degree are described along with the recommended curriculum for completing each program.