Professor Honored at University Conference

PROVO, Utah – Aug 28, 2015 – Colby Wright, assistant finance professor at the Marriott School of Management, received a Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship at Brigham Young University’s annual University Conference on August 24.

The fellowship recognizes the sacrifice and efforts by the university’s support services in providing a transfer of positions and budget to enhance teaching and learning. Wright, a member of the Marriott School faculty since 2012, was one of six recipients.

“Colby knows the materials well, loves his students and is a great communicator,” says Andrew Holmes, finance department chair. “He puts all of that together in a high quality way that his students and peers recognize.”

Wright currently serves as the associate chair in the Department of Finance. In the past year alone he has also been named Outstanding Faculty Member by Marriott School students and received the Marriott School’s Teaching Excellence Award. Wright earned his PhD in finance with a support area in econometrics from Florida State University in 2007 and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 2001 from BYU.

“I genuinely consider myself to be the least of the BYU faculty,” Wright says. “Receiving this teaching fellowship was unexpected and very humbling. It is an honor and a joy to rub shoulders with the faculty, staff, administrators and students at BYU – they make this the most rewarding job I could imagine.”

The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally recognized programs in accounting, business management, public management, information systems, and entrepreneurship. The school’s mission is to prepare men and women of faith, character and professional ability for positions of leadership throughout the world. Approximately 3,300 students are enrolled in the Marriott School’s graduate and undergraduate programs.