Teri Grimmer is an Executive in Residence at UP’s Pamplin School of Business Administration. She is a Certified Public Accountant, holding active licenses in California, Oregon and Montana, as well as a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Professor Grimmer has taught at UP since 2010, teaching undergraduate courses including: financial accounting, managerial accounting, intermediate accounting I, II, and audit, as well as principles of accounting at the graduate level.

She has had various financial positions for the past 14 years, working as a financial consultant specializing in the health care industry. She has served as a member of the United Way allocations committee and currently is a member of the Oregon Society of CPA’s, the American Institute of CPA’s and the American Accounting Association. Teri earned her B.A in Business Administration and M.S. in Accountancy from the University of Montana (Missoula).

Teri is loved by her students - we wanted to highlight a testimonial:

"Professor Grimmer managed to bring enthusiasm and entertainment to a discipline that can be overwhelmingly dull.  Not only did she actually kindle interest in examining financial statements, but she even inspired some of my letters to congress.  She is tremendous." ~Liz Milan, MBA candidate 2016-18

The Governor’s Office and the State of Oregon will bring together industry professionals, public agencies, diversity practitioners and small businesses on March 23rd in Salem, OR for their annual “Governor’s Marketplace Conference”.

The Pamplin School of Business is excited to have been invited and will exhibit onsite while connecting with these groups who have made it a priority to create equity in public contracting, procurement, and access for small business to thrive in Oregon. To learn more about this event, please contact our Graduate outreach team at - BUS-GRAD@up.edu

The University of Portland's Chiles Center served as host for First Avenue's Career & Job fair held this past Friday, March 3rd. The Pamplin School of Business was happy to exhibit onsite alongside UP's Graduate School, PACE program and the School of Nursing. 

Kudos to UP's Career Services Department for organizing the event that included over 100+ businesses, firms and organizations looking to recruit the best new hires and potential graduate students. Attendees were interested in learning more about UP graduate programs and staff on hand had a great time provding guidance to prospective students. For more photos from the event, visit Pamplin School of Business' >">Facebook page here >>

Our "Westside Campus" located in Bethany Village continues to serve as a partnership incubator within the community. The Pamplin School of Business has recently partnered with Intel on their "Team Effectiveness" trainings that included multiple sessions at max capacity.

Partnerships with various groups continue, including: the Portland Management Institute, Vision Action Network, LifeWorks NW and Social Venture Partners. 

To learn more about our upcoming events at the Westside campus, or new partner opportunties, please contact our Graduate outreach team at - BUS-GRAD@up.edu

The Prospanica Leadership Summit taking place March 9-11th in Dallas, TX will bring together leaders from across the U.S from various chapters, offering learning, networking, team building and development for management to transform and improve their business.  

The Pamplin School of Business will be represented by Director of Recruitment and Corporate Partnerships, Lilia Grundy. She will have the opportunity to engage with top diverse talent from around the nation. 

To learn more about this event, please contact our Graduate outreach team at - BUS-GRAD@up.edu

Highlights
Thanks to great input from cohorts, new action items to be instituted include:

• Highlighting the program monthly in the Grad Gazette
• Instituting a Nonprofit center that will feature content dedicated to the nonprofit sector
• Students and faculty to generate content for the new Nonprofit center through shared updates via new blog dedicated to the nonprofit center

Pamplin School of Business 
Dr. Robin Anderson, Dean

All three of our advisory boards have instituted shared common goals which allows our efforts to work in sync and align more fluidly. We have implemented the following objectives this year:

1) Create a Path for 100% "global accumen" 2) Position the Pamplin School of Business to lead the relevant market in post baccalaureate offerings 3) Enable Pamplin School of Business creation and delivery of best in class curriculum 4) Increase number of student development opportunities in relevant markets and 5) Develop well functioning and impactful regional boards. Thanks to our chapter chairs for leading this great effort.  ~Dean Anderson

Portland Chapter
DJ Widmer, Chair

The Portland chapter continues to tackle each of the advisory board's goals - notably surrounding the building of an active team. We currently have two new candidates on deck that will be reviewing to join our Board. We will meet this week to discuss. More to come on that front shortly. 

San Francisco Chapter
Brian Dexheimer, Chair

In the past few months we have welcomed several new board members to our team with great backgrounds, skill sets and experiences that will add breadth and depth to the current team, All have senior positions at leading Bay area companies with a global presence. They are: Mai Tran Green (Marketing '05, Salesforce.com), Ben Goodyear (Accounting '04, Visa), Pinky Chandan (MBA '10, Oracle), Christian Piuma (Finance '05, Elation Health). 

In addition, team reports through January indicate we are making great progress in adding quality insight and actions to the important goal areas of focus in 2017, including building a global acumen criteria for the UP Business undergrad degree, developing specific, market driven, post graduate education options for a growing potential market and continuing to enhance and grow our student development options here in the Bay area.

Seattle Chapter
Quinn Finnegan, Chair

The Seattle Board recently added new member Brian Mara ('03) and advisor/member Tom Martin ('79) and are rounding out discussions with two other leaders of the business community. 

Daimler Trucks North America is currently hiring  for various positions such as planning and marketing analysts as well as a Spring/Summer intern. For more information on opportunities based in Portland, OR, please visit the DTNA job listing  >">here>>

Stanley Black & Decker is currently hiring for the following:  Finance Intern (44396BR) Supply Chain Management Intern (44394BR) and Marketing Intern (43431BR). For more details on each opening, please visit the direct link accordingly and note its corresponding requisition number.