It makes my spirits soar to hear what the students think after returning from the trips and the course, she said. It s a marvelous experience. These funds also provide for a real money portfolio in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Business Law, which is the focus of a Portfolio Theory course and a Futures Seminar course. Southeast is one of few schools nationwide that have student managed portfolios. Students in the Portfolio Theory course get hands-on experience in the selection and management of investments by being responsible for managing a real money stock and bank funds portfolio.
Students also learn about bond, options and futures markets.
In the Futures Seminar students learn about agricultural and financial futures market fundamentals and strategies used for risk reduction and speculative investments. Course activities also focus on the historical origins of futures trading, hedging and futures markets activity, speculating and the futures markets, technical and fundamental price forecasting, and contract specifications. In addition to Mrs. Allen s support of these business courses, she provided a six-figure gift to the Foundation in 1988 to establish the Margaret Woods Allen Endowed Chair in Nursing at the University. The fund is being used to bring distinguished nurse-scholars to Southeast. Mrs. Allen was a registered nurse and each year the Department of Nursing honors her support of the nursing profession by hosting the Margaret Woods Allen Special Speaker Day, said Dr. A. Louise Hart, chair of Southeast s Department of Nursing.