Patricia Navarro-Velez was a beloved member of the UNLV Accounting family and an active member of the Accounting and Information Systems professional and academic communities.

Originally from Ponce, Puerto Rico, Pat attended the University of Puerto Rico before earning her Master's degree in Accounting Information Systems at Bowling Green State University. She had a rewarding career as a Certified Information Systems Auditor for PwC, one of the largest public accounting firms in the world, before choosing to pursue her passion for teaching and helping others by returning to the classroom as a professor.

Pat completed her PhD at the University of Central Florida, launching a timely and promising stream of research focused on cybersecurity disclosures and assurance, internal controls, and data analytics. She joined the UNLV family in 2019 and immediately made a positive impact in the lives of students and her colleagues with her positive attitude, infectious smile, and her genuine kindness and concern for everyone around her.

Pat's is an incredible success story: a proud Puertorriqueña who rose to the pinnacle of a demanding career, but her greatest achievements were her family and her personal relationships. Pat and her husband, David, are proud parents of four wonderful children, and she was blessed to be surrounded with love by her parents, three sisters, a brother, and many nieces, nephews, and friends who she loved like family.

Dr. Jerry Cha-Jan Chang was a full professor in the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology. A longtime educator of management information systems, Chang spent more than 20 years of his academic career teaching a generation of UNLV Lee Business School students.

Chang had a long and varied career, and was a lifelong learner. From the early 1980s to the early 2000s, he earned five degrees. After earning a bachelor’s degree in oceanography at the National Taiwan Ocean University in 1981, he switched gears to computer science, and ended up going on to earn a master’s degree from Central Michigan University in 1986. He earned an MBA at Texas A&M University in 1987 as well as a master’s degree (1995) and Ph.D. (2001) in management information systems from the University of Pittsburgh.

Before coming to UNLV, Chang was a part-time instructor and graduate/research assistant at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh; a teaching assistant for the School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University; and a part-time instructor at Fu-Jen University in Taiwan.

Chang joined UNLV as professor of management information systems in 2001. At UNLV, he taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate-level courses, including database design and implementation, data communications, and database management.

He was an expert in all things information systems (IS), including the performance, culture, and management of IS. As a researcher, he was also interested in the use and impact of information technology, human-computer interaction, organizational learning and software piracy.