The Marriott School of Management recently honored the winners of the 2014 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected exclusively by students.
This year’s winners include Erika Nash, a marketing senior from Salt Lake City, as the Outstanding Undergraduate Student; Tahna Black, a first-year MISM student from St. George, Utah, as the Outstanding Graduate Student; Greg Anderson, professor of information systems, as the Student Choice Award winner; and the Brigham Young University Association for Information Systems as the Outstanding Student Organization.
“The recipients of the Bateman Awards are the best and brightest service-minded people we have in the school,” says Marriott School Dean Lee Perry. “This year we are celebrating 25 years as the Marriott School by encouraging students, faculty and alumni to serve others, so this is a special time to receive this award.”
Two students are presented annually with the Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards for serving within the Marriott School and the community. Nash received the Undergraduate Student Award for her work with numerous clubs and organizations, including the Women in Business club, Business Strategy club, Management Consulting club, MBA Academy and Marketing Association. Nash is also serving as BYU’s student body executive vice president. Black was honored for her leadership and involvement in the school. She is a co-president of the AIS club, a member of the Marriott School Student Council and works as a teacher’s assistant for the IS junior core program.
The Student Choice Award honors a member of the faculty, staff or administration who demonstrates exceptional efforts to enhance students’ experiences. Anderson, who teaches upper-level information systems classes, received the Outstanding Faculty Award for his example of charity, hard work and professionalism. He earned a doctorate in technology management from Indiana State University in 2010 and has been teaching at BYU since 2012.
Created in 2011, the Student Organization Award recognizes a successful student club or organization. The Association for Information Systems garnered the award by providing club members with numerous recruitment opportunities through activities, information sessions and professional development. It also contributed to the Marriott School’s 25,000 hours of service goal by teaching local seventh and eighth-graders how to code.
The Bateman Awards were created in 2002 in honor of Merrill J. Bateman, who served as president of BYU from 1996 to 2003 and as dean of the BYU School of Management from 1975 to 1979. He has held several prominent positions in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including serving as a member of the Presidency of the Seventy and president of the Provo Utah Temple from 2007 to 2010.
During the keynote address at the award ceremony, Jim Quigley, former CEO of Deloitte and member of the Marriott School’s National Advisory Council, spoke to the students in attendance about making the most of the opportunities that come their way.
“I challenge you to go with confidence,” Quigley said. “I want to persuade you that you have a beautiful launch pad for your career. The world is yours. Go and enjoy the journey.”
The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally recognized programs in accounting, business management, public management, information systems, and entrepreneurship. The school’s mission is to prepare men and women of faith, character and professional ability for positions of leadership throughout the world. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School’s graduate and undergraduate programs.
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Writer: Spencer Wright