Degree Completion Programs
Business Degree Completion
Ask Your Advisor
Welcome to Southern Oregon University. My name is Joan McBee, and I am the advisor for the Business Degree Completion Program online and in Medford. I have been an Assistant Professor in the School of Business since 1997 teaching general business, marketing, and management courses. You will not only have me as your advisor, but you’ll probably have me as an instructor as well. I am also serving as the Director of the RCC/SOU Higher Education Center for SOU.
Before coming to SOU, I taught for five years at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay. I have also spent two years teaching in the business department at Rogue Community College. Prior to teaching, I sold mutual funds and real estate investments, financed commercial loans, and worked as a title officer for an escrow company.
My education includes a BS degree (1984) and an MBA degree (1991) in Business Administration from Southern Oregon State College. I earned my Doctorate in Business Administration from Argosy University in Orange, California in 2007. My dissertation examined factors that lead to persistence of the nontraditional student.
I currently live in Shady Cove with my husband and the last one of our seven children. Our hobbies include running, fishing, and collecting antique fishing lures.
