Faculty
The faculty of the Business Administration Department represent a wide range of professional backgrounds, from significant academic experience to distinguished business careers. We bring these experiences with us into our classrooms, and take advantage of the vibrant Sioux Falls business community for seminars, workshops, guest lecturers, and site visits.
We continually monitor our academic programs and adopt new learning technologies, case studies, and course content as the business environment changes. We never stop asking, “How can we approach education in new ways?” We emphasize small class sizes and serve as academic and career advisors to our students. Many students and professors form lifetime friendships and continue to share their business experiences long after graduation.
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Dr. Bolen is from South Dakota but after a few years as a high school teacher, he embarked for North Dakota to be a bank loan officer. He returned to South Dakota to work in several advanced business positions while obtaining his MBA. His work at Augustana has included teaching a variety of courses, finishing his Ph.D., starting a medical market research business, being involved in several not-for-profits and teaching graduate courses for the University of Minnesota-Marshall. |
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office: 135 Madsen |
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Dr. Buell specializes in accounting and business ethics. He received his undergraduate degree from SDSU, his master’s degree from USD and completed his DBA at Nova Southeastern University. His dissertation explored "The Relationship of Ethics Education on the Moral Development of Accounting Students.” Prior to joining the Augustana faculty, he taught a variety of accounting courses for Buena Vista University and spent several years working as a Certified Public Accountant. |
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office 140 Madsen |
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Dr. Entwistle received her Ph.D. from the University of South Dakota. She teaches courses in Management Information Systems, Systems Analysis, and Computer Programming. The primary focus of her research is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Dr. Entwistle shares a joint appointment between the departments of business administration and computer science. |
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office: 115 Madsen |
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Professor Gardner is a native of Sioux Falls. She received both her B.S. in Business Administration and M.B.A. from the University of South Dakota. Her career began as a banker with Norwest Bank in Sioux Falls. During her career at Norwest, Shelly was an operations officer, a manager of two successful branch facilities and a Vice President in commercial real estate.The life experiences encompassed in her twenty-year career add to the course material that she conveys to students in the classroom. |
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Professor Harris, an Augustana alumnus, received his J.D. from the University of South Dakota School of Law, where he was active on the Moot Court Board. His courses include Business Law, Human Resource Management and Negotiations. Prior to coming to Augustana, he practiced law in both the public and private sector with focus on representing small business entities, municipalities and lobbying. He has argued several cases before the South Dakota Supreme Court. |
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office: 123 Madsen |
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Professor Hybertson joined the Augustana faculty in 2010. Professor Hybertson earned both her undergraduate (BBA-Accounting) and her Masters (Professional Accountancy) from the University of South Dakota. a South Dakota native, Laura brings several years of experience as a Senior Tax Associate to the classroom; further professional practice included audits of employee retirement plans and non-profits. |
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office: 114 Madsen |
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Professor Keltgen is an assistant professor, specializing in marketing. She received both her undergraduate and master's degrees from SDSU. Prior to joining the faculty at Augustana College, she worked in government, journalism and market research. Assistant Professor Keltgen served as director of research, press secretary and lobbyist for two South Dakota attorneys general, and worked at the Argus Leader in various reporting and editing positions. |
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Dr. Oppegard joined the Augustana faculty in the Fall of 1988. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where her dissertation was nominated for the Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. A native of North Dakota, she was on the faculty of Jamestown College prior to accepting appointment to the Augustana faculty. She currently serves in an appointed position on the Audit Committee for the City of Sioux Falls. |
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Dr. Sougstad is a native of Sioux Falls who spent seven years with the IBM Corporation working in client sales and marketing, and later at IBM Research's Business Informatics group. His research on the valuation and risk management of technology-enabled services has appeared in the Journal of Management Information Systems and The International Journal of Services Science. |
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Dr. Robert Wright, who joined the Augustana faculty in the fall of 2009 as the inaugural Nef Family Chair of Political Economy, will help instruct on business, economics, history, and government for the College.
Faculty Emeriti
Ken Bauge (1958-1995)
Les Carson (1958-1997)
Paul Eggers (1958-1974)
Richard "Dick" English (1974-2009)
Doug Nelson (1991-2006)
Elliot Thorson (1958-1997)