Spears School of Business faculty member to receive Outreach Faculty Excellence award
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the award, which was created to recognize
and honor the contributions made by faculty as part of the outreach mission of OSU.
Chakraborty has had many great accomplishments while teaching at OSU. On a national
level, he received the Bronze Award for Excellence in Teaching through Distance Learning
from the United State Distance Learning Association in April 2009 in St. Louis. On
a regional level, in October he was chosen for the 2011 Excellence in Teaching and
Faculty Service award from the University Professional Continuing Education Association
(UPCEA) for the central region. Chakraborty has also received various awards from
the Spears School and OSU for his commitment to his research, teaching and outreach
efforts.
Chakraborty has participated in outreach since 1991. He said he sincerely enjoys
teaching and interacting with professionals via outreach activities. One of his favorite
outreach activities is a course he teaches called “Strategic Digital Business Management,”
which is offered in an executive MBA program with Zayed University in the United Arab
Emirates.
“The course is an eye opener to strategic decision making in the digital world,”
one Zayed University student said. “The course was excellent and informative.”
Chakraborty’s commitment and service to his students are outstanding. He consistently
receives high ratings on his evaluations from his students in his outreach courses.
“I only wish that every dollar I had ever invested in education had yielded such
high returns in terms of what I learned,” said one of his students from last semester.
When it comes to creativity in course content, Chakraborty develops the curriculum
and teaches courses on database marketing, data mining, advanced data mining, business
analytics and strategic digital business management. These courses cannot rely on
textbooks due to the course content and the constant changes in technology, so Chakraborty
said he consistently reviews and redesigns the courses to keep the content relevant.
“Dr. C continues to be the best professor I have experienced in either my undergraduate
or graduate studies,” said one of Chakraborty’s distance learning students. “He expects
a lot but he also teaches a lot, so his expectations are warranted. It’s also amazing
how much he helps students try to find work after they graduate. OSU is extremely
fortunate to have him.”