SBI alum dubbed “Emerging Scholar”

Laquita Blockson’s star is rising in the academic world. The proud FAMU School of Business and Industry alumnae has been named a 2009 “Emerging Scholar” by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Currently an assistant professor of ethics and entrepreneurship at the College of Charleston’s School of Business and Economics, Blockson’s research focuses on “the marriage of business and social responsibility.”

From Diverse Issues:

[Blockson is] making her mark through the academy, thanks to the business professors at Florida A&M University, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Fascinated by numbers as a little girl, she loved tax season since the first time she filled out her 1040 as a teenager and wanted to be a certified public accountant. But through her FAMU professors, she saw other possibilities.

“It was great to have so many minority professors. I thought, wow, I can see myself in their shoes,” Blockson says. FAMU professors told her, “Yes, definitely become a professor! But, once you graduate [from FAMU], get some real world experience first. Then come back [to doctoral study],” Blockson recalls.

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Blockson is also featured on the Great Black Speakers Bureau's website.