{"id":7941,"date":"2026-04-24T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:29:50","slug":"elementor-7941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/2026\/elementor-7941\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementor #7941"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Celebrating a Legacy of Excellence:
Faculty Retirements<\/span><\/span><\/h2>

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As the 2025-26 academic year\u00a0comes to an end, we would like to take a moment to recognize and celebrate\u00a0the\u00a0staff and\u00a0faculty members who are retiring this year.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In the Business System and Analytics (BSAN) department, four faculty members are retiring. Shahram Amiri, PhD, celebrating 30 years at Stetson, Fred Augustine, PhD, celebrating 40 years at Stetson, Madhu Rao, PhD, celebrating 12 years at Stetson and Betty Thorne, PhD, celebrating 46 years at Stetson.<\/span><\/p>

In the Marketing department, Carolyn Nicholson, PhD, \u00a0celebrating 25 years at Stetson and Michelle DeMoss, PhD, celebrating 35 years. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Finally, Jennifer Foo, PhD, from the Finance department is retiring after serving Stetson for 35 years and Brenda McWhorter, staff member, retired earlier in the semester after serving the Stetson School of Business Administration for 12 years. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

With\u00a0235\u00a0years of combined academic experience, they have dedicated their careers, shared their knowledge, and made lasting contributions that have shaped countless generations of students and colleagues.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

We are deeply grateful for their years of service and the impact\u00a0they\u2019ve made\u00a0on our academic community. Their legacy will live on.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

We wish them all the best in this exciting next chapter\u00a0of life!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrating a Legacy of Excellence: Faculty Retirements As the 2025-26 academic year\u00a0comes to an end, we would like to take a moment to recognize and celebrate\u00a0the\u00a0staff and\u00a0faculty members who are retiring this year.\u00a0\u00a0 In the Business System and Analytics (BSAN) department, four faculty members are retiring. Shahram Amiri, PhD, celebrating 30 years at Stetson, Fred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"hp_square_small":false,"hp_landscape_small":false,"hp_landscape_large":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"twentytwenty-fullscreen":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"lottone@stetson.edu","author_link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/author\/lottonestetson-edu\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Celebrating a Legacy of Excellence: Faculty Retirements As the 2025-26 academic year\u00a0comes to an end, we would like to take a moment to recognize and celebrate\u00a0the\u00a0staff and\u00a0faculty members who are retiring this year.\u00a0\u00a0 In the Business System and Analytics (BSAN) department, four faculty members are retiring. Shahram Amiri, PhD, celebrating 30 years at Stetson, Fred…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/sobanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}