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By: Samantha Wright Allen<\/em><\/p>\n

Isaac Otchere can trace his path to Carleton back to his years as a high school student in Ghana. In geography class, he learned about two far-off commonwealth countries: Canada and Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt fascinated me,\u201d said Otchere, adding he was drawn to images of prairies and kangaroos. \u201cIt was at that time that I made it a point that I would go to Canada or Australia if I had the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did both. Always scholastic, Otchere first travelled to Ottawa and completed two Master\u2019s degrees at Carleton. Next, he accepted full funding and a plane ticket to complete a PhD in Hobart, Australia \u2013 with his wife and a three-month-old baby in tow.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t that easy supporting a family on a graduate scholarship while studying full-time,\u201d said Otchere. He took a teaching stint at Melbourne University and the University of New Brunswick before coming back to make his home at Carleton\u2019s Sprott School of Business.<\/p>\n

But wherever he\u2019s been, Otchere has succeeded both in academics and instruction, racking up awards at every institution. His latest ones are the 2012 Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award and the 2014 Graduate Mentoring Award, his seventh award at Carleton. Others include a Capital Educators\u2019 Award, Teaching Achievement Award, Research Achievement Award and two Student Teaching Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you do it? That\u2019s a very popular question,\u201d said Otchere with a laugh. He publishes up to two articles a year and has at least three on the go now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess what keeps me going is the desire to work hard and achieve something,\u201d he said, adding he likes to discover ideas that have not yet been examined. \u201cI have a very inquisitive mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this constant drive to keep things new that carries into his classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t keep up with what is going on in your environment you become stale and you will not be able to excite your students,\u201d said Otchere, who designs his courses to relate theory with practice. \u201cYou see investors are doing exactly what you\u2019re talking about. They can see the relevance of what you are teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students respond to his teaching style, giving him excellent evaluations \u2013 only one of the factors that garnered him the 2012 teaching award. He also created a new course on mergers and acquisitions to fill what he saw as an educational need.<\/p>\n

But Otchere said the real reward is hearing from old students still using the skills he taught. One called Otchere from Cambridge University to say he was well ahead in some of his classes there. The other students in the class asked him how he knew so much already.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told them that he took a course with me at Carleton University,\u201d said Otchere with a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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