The administrative assistant provides executive support for the deans of the College of Business and Economics and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences; supports the colleges'' daily operations; serves as the colleges'' primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders; and provides administrative support to the academic programs within the colleges (CBE: Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Management, Marketing, Project Management, Leadership and Business Administration; CHSS: Philosophy, Religious Studies, History, Modern Languages, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science and Criminal Justice) and their public-facing activities. The university has additional graduate centers in Asheville, N.C., and Columbia, S.C. Situated in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lenoir- Rhyne is less than an hour's drive from Charlotte, and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of about 365,000.