Dean's Message 

Welcome to the College of Business!

The academic year started strong, with a fifth straight year of enrollment growth in the college! COB enrollment has grown 33% since 2022. Along with it, we have hired new faculty and staff, and started new initiatives to continue our pursuit of the vision to be the destination business college in the Southwest and Borderlands

This semester, we hired our first recruitment specialist specifically for the COB. The COB recruitment specialist will be working closely with high schools, coordinating recruiting events, and bringing the word about the COB and its programs to potential students across the region. We are also in the process of hiring a Director for the Center for Student Professional Development (CSPD), as that center expands it programming and continues to prepare our students for the professional working world.

This past year we began the Executive-in-Residence program. Each semester, we bring a seasoned professional from industry to Las Cruces to teach classes, engage with outside companies, and advise students on the world they are preparing to enter.

The Bloomberg Financial Lab (mentioned in last year’s update) is now up and running, already being used in various classes to sharpen student skills with cutting-edge data and analytics to enrich the education of our students. This past summer we ran our second Accounting Career Awareness Program (ACAP), a five-day in-residence program for high school juniors and seniors, with a 32% growth in program enrollment.

As always, please stop by and see us when you are in Las Cruces. GO AGGIES! 

Bryan Ashenbaum