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School of Business and Economics

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About Us

The School of Business and Economics at Indiana University South Bend is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). We are a comprehensive regional campus of Indiana University , located in metropolitan South Bend . We offer a variety of Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's degrees in Business and other subjects on our campus.Our graduating students in the undergraduate and MBA programs in spring 2005 scored in the top 10 percent of those who participated in ETS Business Field tests across the country. Our current advertising features our students’ strong performance. For more information about our campus, please see the 'About IU South Bend' web page.

Leadership: (Please Note: all offices are located in the Administration Building)



Dean Robert H. Ducoffe
Email: rducoffe@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4228
Office:  204J
Associate Dean

Asghar Sabbaghi
Email: sabbaghi@iusb.edu

Phone: (574) 520-4387
Office:  208H
Director of MBA PN Saksena
Email: psaksena@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4456
Office:  204B
Director of MSA PN Saksena
Email: psaksena@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4456
Office:  204B
Director of MS-MIT Ganesh Vaidyanathan
Email: gvaidyan@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4453
Office:  216B
Director of Administrative &
Student Services
Patricia Agbetsiafa
Email: pagbetsi@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4323
Office:  216H
Academic Advisor Cathy Coleman
Email: ccoleman@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4211
Office:  216G
Area Chairs:
Accounting Peter Aghimien
Email: paghimie@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4476
Office:  204F
Decision Sciences

Asghar Sabbaghi
Email: sabbaghi@iusb.edu

Phone: (574) 520-4387
Office:  208H
Economics Douglas Agbetsiafa
Email: dagbetsi@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4208
Office:  204G
Finance Jamshid Mehran
Email: jmehran@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4216
Office:  204E
Management Mark Fox
Email: mfox1@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4363
Office:  204H
Marketing/Business Law Monle Lee
Email: mlee@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4145
Office:  204D
Center Directors:
Director, CTS Center for Experiential Education Ganesh Vaidyanathan
Email: gvaidyan@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4453
Office:  216B
Director, Center for Economic Education & the Bureau of Business and Economic Research Grant Black
Email: gcblack@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-5541
Office:  203E
Director, Instructor for Applied Community Research Leda Hall
Email: lhall@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4453
Office:  208A
Support Staff:
Dean's Secretary Karla Forsythe
Email: kamforsy@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4346
Office:  204K
Associate Dean's Secretary   Phone: (574) 520-4487
Office:  208G
Graduate Programs Secretary Christine Chaney
Email: cchaney@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4138
Office:  203C
Student Records Specialist Barbara J. Williams
Email: bajwilli@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4450
Office:  216J
Secretary/Student Services Specialist Cathy McCray
Email: camccray@iusb.edu
Phone: (574) 520-4133
Office:  220