Chair, Department of Business, Accounting, and Mathematics; Visiting Associate Professor of Business
Huntingdon Means Business
In the world of business, your success depends upon your ability to think in new and different ways, adapt to change, understand the global marketplace, and work and communicate with others. Your Huntingdon education will prepare you for success in every way, through resume-worthy experiences and real-world studies.
Why Huntingdon?
Students listen for career advice from an accounting professional.
Accounting, business, and economics courses, combined with Huntingdon’s core curriculum, emphasize the skills you need to lead and to serve others: critical thinking, writing, speaking, decision-making, teamwork, organization, and reasoning. Huntingdon College’s Business and Accounting programs offer a number of advantages that put graduates ahead of those from other colleges, including:
A focus on leadership skills and business ethics.
Excellent internships that often lead to permanent employment upon graduation.
International business component in every class, preparing graduates for success in a global economy.
Lecture series that bring community business leaders and accounting experts to campus.
Curriculum touches upon all aspects of business, including quantitative skills, technology, economics, management, organizational behavior and communications, human resources (training and selecting employees), strategic planning and management, problem-solving.
Flexibility to accommodate a second major.
CCV “Meet the Firms”The Hobbs Honors Program, the Business Club, the Accounting Club, Sigma Beta Delta business honorary, and other student organizations add depth to your studies and build your connections both inside and outside the classroom.
Huntingdon’s Center for Career and Vocation’s annual Meet the Firms event brings accounting firms to campus to talk with and actively recruit Huntingdon Accounting majors, and the annual Business Networking Luncheon connects students with Huntingdon alumni who are business professionals.
Our location in Alabama’s capital city provides access to a variety of professional settings for internships, part-time jobs, and career placement.
The Center for Career and Vocation works with students from freshman year through post-graduation on resume preparation; internship, externship, and part-time and full-time job placement; interviewing skills; aptitude testing and career discernment; and making connections with alumni and professionals in students’ fields of interest.
Facilities
The James W. Wilson Center on the College’s main campus houses business and accounting classes and includes facilities for small group meetings, interactive media, guest speakers, and business presentations.
Chair, Department of Business, Accounting, and Mathematics; Visiting Associate Professor of Business
Alumni
Five Huntingdon alumni accountants were among those recruiting new accountants to their firms during a recent Meet the Firms event. Pictured from left are Cody Causey ’10, Alabama Department of Revenue; Evelyn Pope ’90, Alabama Department of Revenue; Kayla Strickland Ohliger ’19, Alabama Department of Revenue; Makaila Wingo ’18, Jackson Thornton; and Will Thrash ’17, Carr Riggs & Ingram.
Huntingdon alumni in business and accounting are succeeding as CPAs, private and public accountants, and in advertising, banking, communications, consulting, entrepreneurship, government, law, management, politics, non-profit organizations, private industry, public policy, public service, retail, and sales. Because Huntingdon is a liberal arts college, our emphasis is on preparing you broadly to enter any career field you choose.
