Murray State University Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business

10/22/2026

Our Recruitment Coordinator, Kelsey Johnson, was invited to a college fair at Trigg County High School. It was a great opportunity to meet future Racers in our local area! Thanks for inviting us!

10/19/2026

Congratulations to Accounting student, Maddie McCormic, on winning Homecoming Queen this weekend! We are so proud to have you represent Beta Alpha Psi Honor Society on court and to have you in the BCOB!

10/17/2026

Happy Homecoming Racers! Jambalaya will be ready at 1:15 PM today at Tent City! Come one, come all!

10/16/2026

Our Recruitment Coordinator, Kelsey Johnson, had the opportunity to visit MSU alum, Ashley Fritsche’s, business class at Calloway County High School to discuss opportunities they would have in the AJB College of Business this week. Kelsey is a 2007 Calloway County HS graduate and studied Marketing at MSU, so it’s a full circle moment to recruit future Racers to business!

10/15/2026

The Murray State Speech & Debate Union absolutely dominated the competition at the season opener hosted by the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, KY September 18-20. Seven students brought home eighteen awards. As a school, Murray State ranked 1st in debate sweepstakes, 2nd in individual event sweepstakes and 2nd in overall combined sweepstakes (between speech and debate). We are so proud of their hard work and dedication year after year.

As a school, Murray State ranked First in overall debate performance, bringing home the CHAMPION award for debate sweepstakes.

Open IPDA division:
Champion Speaker - Coleton Boyd
4th Place Speaker - Hailey Meshew
5th Place Speaker - Essabella Voss

Novice IPDA division:
Champion Speaker - Landon Ashcraft
3rd Place Speaker - Chelsi Patel

In addition to their outstanding debate performance, our competitors also dominated the speech portion of the competition. Landon Ashcraft was the ONLY novice at the entire tournament to break to finals in extemporaneous speaking. Here are their final standings:

Impromptu:
Top Novice in Impromptu Speaking - Landon Ashcraft
2nd Place in Impromptu Speaking - Coleton Boyd
4th Place in Impromptu Speaking - Essabella Voss
5th Place in Impromptu Speaking - Hailey Meshew

Extemporaneous Speaking:
Top Novice in Extemporaneous Speaking - Landon Ashcraft
3rd Place in Extemporaneous Speaking - Coleton Boyd
4th Place in Extemporaneous Speaking - Landon Ashcraft
5th Place in Extemporaneous Speaking - Essabella Voss

10/13/2026

Congratulations to two of our BCOB students on being chosen for Homecoming Court this year! We wish you good luck this weekend!

Maddie McCormick is a Senior from Henderson, KY, majoring in Accounting.

Carson Todd is a Junior from Poplar Bluff, MO, majoring in Accounting.

10/01/2026

We’d love to see all of our alum come “home” and join the Dean, Dr. Keller, for a bowl of his delicious jambalaya! You don’t want to miss it.

09/29/2026

The Career and Grad School Fair is underway! Go see our Assistant Dean, Dr. Smith, to learn more about our graduate programs! She’ll be in the Curris Center from 2-5.

09/29/2026

WKMS has an amazing Radio 101 program, allowing students to fully curate and produce their own programs! What an amazing thing right here on campus!

This week, we wanna highlight the amazing work our Radio 101 hosts are up to!
Tonight, you can check out Organized Noise at 9 P.M., hosted by Isaac Gallimore!

Did you know WKMS even has a Radio 101 program? Murray State University students fully curate and produce hour-long music programs that we air ever weeknight on our WKMS Music all-music stream! Keep an eye out all week while we highlight the shows running this semester!