Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business

Located in the adjacent tower, Chandler L. Burns Hall, the AAC provides high-quality, student-oriented academic advising services. The professional staff help business students prioritize and select classes to achieve intellectual and personal development while pursuing their educational goals. All pre-business students are assigned to professional staff advisors.

The Melvin and Dollie Younts Trading Room is a state-of-the-art classroom where students are schooled on stocks and other financial trading. The labs technology includes 24 Bloomberg terminals on which students can analyze real-time financial market data and place trades. The stock ticker is visible inside the lab and to passerbys on Walter T. Cox Boulevard.

The Garrison Sales lab is the nucleus of the college’s Sales Innovation Program (SIP), which helps students understand the technique for effective, efficient and honorable professional sales in the services, technical and medical field. The Sales Innovation Program (SIP) was founded in 2019 as a flagship program within the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business through an Academic Cornerstone donation by Dan and Nancy Garrison. The program focuses on being a nationally renowned resource for sales education, sales research and valuable academic partnerships.

Our sales education coursework is tailored to develop students' business acumen, selling frameworks and presentation ability in order to equip them for influential roles in sales or related positions. For students interested in a sales certification, SIP offers a sales certificate where students partake in real-world challenges, foundational role-play exercises and leadership opportunities.

The Erwin Center for Brand Communications partners with industry professionals to teach students creative methods and strategies for building brands and reaching customers through emerging technologies and insightful real-world strategies. It is the perfect environment for the program’s classroom and experiential learning approaches to preparing the next generation of brand leaders.

The office of Career and Global Engagement exists to cultivate and engage students within the college to become effective leaders, successful graduates and globally competitive professionals. It provides principal resources for undergraduates in the areas of career prep, employment opportunities, mentoring and international program participation.

Army ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) offers opportunities to develop the confidence, self-esteem, motivation and leadership skills you’ll need regardless of your career plans. Cadets are prepared with tools, training and experiences that will help them succeed in any competitive environment and some will become officers in the Army after they graduate.

The Department of Aerospace Studies in the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business is home to Detachment 770. This Air Force ROTC (AFROTC) educational/training program is mainly housed in Tillman Hall, across the road from the College of Business. The goal of DET 770 is to prepare students to become officers in the United States Air Force with a possible opportunity for entry into the emerging United States Space Force.