Faculty Profiles

Dr. Jana Roberta Minifie

Professor — Department of Management

MCOY 520

phone: (512) 245-2571

jm13@txstate.edu

Director, Service-Learning Excellence Program, Fall 2015-2022
Director, FIAP/I-Corps: Innovation Accelerator Program, Fall 2018 - Present

•Entrepreneurship
•Business Plan Development
•Business Plan Implementation
•Small Business Marketing

• Small Business
* Health Care E-Marketing
•Teaching Effectiveness
•Entrepreneurship

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

West, V., & Minifie, J. (1997). Who Should Pay for Healthcare? - The Fortune 500 on Health Care. Marketing Health Services, 17(3), 4–11.
Luo, X., Gong, H., Tao, J., Wang, F., & Minifie, J. R. (2022). Improving Data Quality of Automated Pavement Condition Data Collection: Summary of State of the Practices of Transportation Agencies and Views of Professionals. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements, 148(3).
Luo, X., Gong, H., Tao, J., Wang, F., Minifie, J. R., & Qiu, X. (2022). Improving Data Quality of Automated Pavement Condition Data Collection: Summary of State of the Practices of Transportation Agencies and Views of Professionals. Journal of Transportation Engineeirng Part B: Pavements, 148(3).
Minifie, J. R., & Park, H. (2021). CH 54: Service-Learning Volunteerism Reboot: A Case Study of a Funded Community-Engaged Scholarship. In Preparing Students for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Higher Education (pp. 1010–1034). USA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3877-0.ch054
Irvin, J. A., Minifie, J. R., Runsewe, D. O., & Thompson, W. G. (2021). Best Practices of Small Business Development Centers with Host Institutions. Small Business Institute Journal, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.53703/001c.28167

Award / Honor Recipient: Barshop Excellence Professor In Entrepreneurship, McCoy Foundation. January 2016 - December 2018
Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper, SBDC Track, Small Business Institute. February 2018
Award / Honor Recipient: President's Excellence in Service, McCoy College of Business. August 27, 2015
Award / Honor Recipient: Best Practice SBDC Award Presentation, Small Business Institute. February 13, 2015
Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. March 24, 2014

Hwang, Sangchul Scott (Principal), Gurav, Ranjit (Co-Principal), Minifie, Jana Roberta (Co-Principal). Biologically Active Pervious Structure for Stormwater Management, NSF, Federal, $50000. (Submitted: October 2023, Funded: February 2024 - January 2025). Grant.
Wang, Feng (Principal), Luo, Xiaohua (Co-Principal), Minifie, Jana Roberta (Co-Principal), Gong, Haitao (Supporting), Tao, Jueqiang (Supporting). StarImage: cost-effectiveness improved automated pavement condition survey system, NSF, Federal, $50000. (Submitted: August 27, 2020, Funded: January 2021 - March 2023). Grant.
Minifie, Jana Roberta (Principal), Zhao, Jeffrey Yefeng (Co-Principal). Women's Entrepreneurship Boot Camps, Texas Workforce Commission, State, $55306. (Funded: July 2019 - December 31, 2020). Grant.
Minifie, Jana Roberta (Co-Principal), Mandal, Sujata (Principal), Sen, Keya (Co-Principal). Development and application of innovative ecofriendly water purifier, Federal, $50000. (Submitted: May 30, 2024, Funded: October 2024 - October 2025). Grant.
Minifie, Jana Roberta, Taylor, Nicole (Principal). Interactive Technology for Social Media Use Awareness and Intervention, NSF, Federal, $50000. (Submitted: October 25, 2021, Funded: January 2022 - January 2023). Grant.

Organizer

Women's Entrepreneurship Week

September 2017-December 2020

Faculty Advisor

National Societyy of Leadership and Success

2020-Present

Undergraduate Advisor

National Society of Leadership and Success

December 2020-Present

Graduate Advisor

MSEC

August 2020-Present

VP Research & Publications

Small Business Institute

February 2020-Present