NEWS RELEASE
PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
PO Box 567, Buies Creek, NC 27506
Tel: (910) 893-1224 w Fax: (910) 893-1922
Witherspoon Named Professor of the Year
|
Jimmy Witherspoon, left, accepts
the Professor of the
Year Award from Jeff Lail, president of the Student
Government Association. Witherspoon is chairman of
the Department of Finance and Accounting in the
Lundy-Fetterman School of Business.
photo by Bennett
Scarborough |
For the second time in six years, James E.
Witherspoon, associate professor of financial planning and
accounting in the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, has been
chosen Professor of the Year by the Campbell University Student
Government Association (SGA). Characteristically modest, Witherspoon
said he is unworthy of the honor.
“While I do not deserve this award, I am very blessed to
have the chance to teach our students. Each of them means the world to
me,” he said. “The best thing that ever happened to me was being given
the opportunity to teach at Campbell University. It is a pleasure to
teach the bright, eager, well-grounded, highly motivated students
Campbell University consistently attracts.”
Witherspoon graduated from Campbell in 1980 with a
degree in business administration and trust management. He went on to
receive a law degree from Wake Forest University in 1983, and currently
serves as chairman of the Department of Financial Planning and
Accounting, the director of the undergraduate Trust and Investment
Management program, and the director of the new Master of Trust and
Investment Management program.
Witherspoon first received the SGA Professor of the Year
award in 1998. He was also named Outstanding Professor of the Year by
the senior class of 1987. In addition, Witherspoon was given the Dean’s
Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Business in 2003, and
was honored with a scholarship, funded by former students and friends
from the banking industry, in 2004.
Active in community affairs, Witherspoon serves as
secretary of the board of directors of the Trust Education Foundation,
Inc.; director for the Southeastern Trust School; and director of the
Kenelm Foundation-Campbell University Tax Update and the Trust Advisors
Forum. A native of Wadesboro, NC, he resides in Buies Creek.
Founded in 1887, Campbell University is North Carolina’s
second largest private institution of higher education and the second
largest Baptist university in the world. Located in Buies Creek, NC,
just east of the center of the state, Campbell combines academic
excellence and Christian commitment.
Bulletin 0124 |
