August 30, 2013
FOCUS
Volume 4, Issue 34
SBE Faculty Participate in Development Seminar
Pg. 1
A Message from Dr. Jessica Bailey
Pg. 1
SBE Welcomes Dr. Qingxin He to Faculty
Pg. 2
Student Activities Center Grand Opening
Pg. 3
SBE Faculty Participate in Development Seminar in India
(such as Lady Shri Ram College for
A diverse group of 13 faculty
Women and Jamia Millia Islamia),
including 3 from the School of Business
and Economics (Gopalan, Madjd-Sadjadi
 business organizations (WIPRO),
and Mathiyalakan) completed a 12-day
 cultural activities (Bharatanatyam
faculty development
dance recital),
seminar of India that
 health clinics and
started on July 31 at New
villages in rural settings
Delhi and ended on August
(Bandhwari village
12 in Chennai. All faculty
project),
members are currently
 various places of
participating in the
worship (Muslim,
National Endowment for
Christian, Sikh and Hindu
the Humanities (NEH)
Dr. Gopalan at Taj Mahal
faiths), and
project: Integrating India
 places of historical
into the Liberal Arts
and archeological interest (Taj
Curriculum.
Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Havelis
The aim of this project is to enhance
in Rajasthan, etc.)
the cross-cultural and global competence
Dr. Madjd-Sadjadi commented,
of students at Winston-Salem State
“It
is
fascinating
to see a country where
University
the
modern
vs.
traditional
and wealth vs.
(WSSU) by
poverty
is
juxtaposed.
I
think
that every
incorporating
student
and
faculty
member
needs
to get
knowledge
out
of
the
United
States
to
see
what
life is
about India
truly like around the world. India is a
across the
study in contrasts. In some ways, it is
curriculum
Entrance to an Indian Palace
more advanced than the United States
and through
and yet it also has true challenges dealing
co-curricular activities. The faculty
with problems that we do not have. The
members are engaged in a three-year
simple need for
project to study a variety of themes and
clean drinking
issues about India to gain insights about
water, for
Indian history, culture and society, as well
example, is not
as issues of curriculum development and
met through
globalization.
their water
This seminar provided in-depth
systems and
knowledge and cultural experience of
instead one
Palace Courtyard
India so that WSSU faculty can
must use
incorporate academic and cultural
bottled water to drink and brush
content on India into existing courses or
teeth. At the same time, the level of
develop new courses with Indian content.
service, craftsmanship, and care that is
Seminar participants visited:
given far exceeds that to which we are
 various educational institutions
accustomed in this country.”
Where in the World/Upcoming Events
Pg. 2
A Message from Dean Jessica Bailey
WSSU is off to a rousing start at the
beginning of fall 2013. People are remarking
that the campus has never appeared more
vibrant and diverse than it is this semester.
Students fill the RJ Reynolds
Center from morning to night
studying, working in teams,
reading, and making their
electronic connections.
The School of Business
and Economics is blessed to
have classes that are
Dr. Jessica Bailey
overflowing with students
who are matriculating
towards degrees in business; these degrees
will help them secure careers in business
that will be both lucrative and fulfilling. This
semester, the faculty members of the SBE
are focusing on sharpening their skills as
advisors for the business majors, as well as
freshmen and sophomores. We realize that
advising goes far beyond just enrolling
students in classes. It entails having
discussions with students to discern their
interests, career aspirations, and special gifts
and challenges. Only then, can a faculty
member advise a student on the ideal path to
success for them to pursue.
Though advising can be time consuming,
that does not deter the SBE faculty from
investing in getting to know our students
and being willing to mentor them whenever
it is needed. We understand that, often, the
difference between success and failure in a
student’s academic career is having someone
to talk to who really cares. This is the kind
of attention that we seek to give to the
students of the SBE.
Jessica Bailey
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FOCUS News
SBE Welcomes New Professor—Dr. Qingxin He
Dr. Qingxin He (pronounced ChingSheen Huh), recently arrived in WinstonSalem following the 2013 completion of
her Ph.D in Economics from North
Carolina State University. Her
dissertation, “Three Essays on Market
Structure: An Analysis of Price
Discrimination and Marketable
Byproducts,” looks at the US-China
international flight market and the
variance in pricing structure between
those offered to the general public and
deeply discounted pricing which is only
available to
travel agents. In
the second part
of her work, she
evaluates a
unique case of
the marketability
Dr. He at Niagara Falls
of byproducts
that produce positive external benefits.
While pursuing her Ph.D, she developed
specific research interests in empirical
industrial organization, environmental
and energy economics, applied
microeconomics and policy economics.
upbringing. As a result, she travelled
frequently to the homes of aunts and
uncles. There she gained a bit of a
traveler’s spirit at a very young age,
seeing many of the provinces in eastern
and northern China where they lived.
The end result was a lifelong comfort
with packing and going and getting to
know new places and people.
Dr. He is very happy to be young
enough to have missed the terrible
cultural revolution that concluded with
the rational reforms of Chairman Deng
(Xiaoping Deng) that moved the entire
country toward a much more logical
economic development. In the mid1980’s, the Chinese people began to get
wealthier and wealthier while the
children enjoyed substantial attention
from both family and society under the
one child per family policy. Both the
material and social benefit was much
greater than those afforded previous
generations and the public began to
worry about the new “Spoiled
Generation,” as they were once called. As
the country grew and saw significant
Dr. He was born in the capital city of development, its people also realized its
Xian, in Shaanxi Province in the heart of
problems. During this period, there was
China not far from the Yellow River and
a disparity between the socialist
moved to Tai’an in the Shandong
governmental/educational systems and
Province at age five. Tai’an is best known the emergence of the new market
for Mount Tai, the most famous sacred
economy. As time passed, the housing
mountain of China with exceptional
prices and cost of living skyrocketed,
historic, cultural, aesthetic and scientific making some yearn for the days when
value1.
jobs were assigned and guaranteed
under nepotism.
Her maternal grandmother was
Russian, moving to China as a young girl
Dr. He commented that her
and her maternal grandfather was of the generation in China is very hopeful and
Han people, the majority of Chinese. Her that their parents’ occupation frequently
paternal grandfather was Manchu, who
influences that of their children. In her
were the people who controlled the last
case, family members worked in banks
Chinese dynasty (the Qing Dynasty) and and she was expected to pursue a similar
her paternal grandmother was
career path. This was fine with her since
Mongolian. Interestingly, in the Qing
she found that her love for balance was
Dynasty, it was tradition for Manchu
well suited to an appreciation for
people to marry Mongolians to keep the economics.
race pure.
At NC State, Dr. He got to know the
Prior to her 6th birthday, Dr. He’s
world in a more balanced fashion. She
parents worked in different cities and
also met her classmate, and now
did need help from relatives for Qingxin’s husband, Jonathan Lee who is also an
economist, now working at East
Carolina University as an Assistant
Professor.
Dr. He is an accomplished (yet
somewhat unpracticed) violinist,
having studied the instrument since
age seven. She was ranked at a 9 out
of 10 level of performance in junior
high school and has a passion for all
kinds of music, particularly classical.
She also loves doing yoga and was
featured at NC State in yoga
promotional materials in the gym.
1Source:
UNESCO World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/437
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