School of Business Welcomes New Faculty
Brooks Poole is returning home to his alma mater to become an accounting professor at Mississippi College.
A Carthage native who turns 30 in October, Poole goes to work in late August as a faculty member in the MC School of Business. It will give him the opportunity to be a colleague with former MC business professors like Sandra Parks and Gerald Lee.
"I'm very excited - it is something I always wanted to do," Poole said Monday. "It is like a dream come true."
A 1998 graduate of Leake Academy, Poole attended MC from 1998 through 2002 where he received his bachelor's degree in business administration with an accounting emphasis. He graduated with a perfect 4.0 average from MC.
Poole received a master's in taxation from the University of Mississippi and doctorate in accounting from Ole Miss, both with a perfect average. He's taught accounting classes at Ole Miss in Oxford since 2004.
His teaching interest is in financial accounting, international accounting and taxation. During his undergraduate days at MC, Poole studied abroad in London for a semester. As an MC undergraduate, he received the Hamp King Scholarship in 2002 from the Mississippi Society of CPAs.
Baptist-affiliated MC "was a great experience - the best thing was the teachers," Poole said. "It's a great environment."
Also joining the MC School of Business faculty this fall is Retha Ann Price, who will teach marketing on the Clinton campus. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from Mississippi State University. She obtained her doctorate in business administration from MSU in May 1989 with a perfect 4.0 average.
Price has worked as an assistant professor of marketing at Belmont University in Nashville and the University of West Georgia and was an instructor at MC from 1999 to 2000. A Madison resident, Price is a Sunday School teacher at Ridgecrest Baptist Church.
Another new hire at the School of Business is Sandra Spears, who will work as an administrative assistant to School of Business Dean Marcelo Eduardo and Katrina Pace, the school's development director.
Spears previously worked on the staff of MC's Accelerated Degree Program in Nelson Hall. A University of Mississippi graduate, Spears was a human resources specialist for more than 30 years with the U.S. Postal Service in Jackson.
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