Affinity Groups
Looking for a way to immediately connect with the management educators that share your specific interests and challenges? AACSB Affinity Groups facilitate networking and communicating among and within specific member segments—giving you direct, continuous access to peers with similar experiences.
Affinity groups provide members with:
- Networking, communications, and relationship-building with colleagues and peer institutions
- Program development and meeting support from AACSB staff
- Customized data/information collection opportunities and reports
- Dedicated communities and discussion forums
- Face-to-face meetings scheduled at AACSB events throughout the year
Current Affinity Groups
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
Deans representing business schools at public colleges and universities that are concurrently members of AASCU.
Asia Pacific
Representatives from AACSB-accredited and member institutions that are located in Asia and the Oceania.
Associate Deans
Associate deans or assistant deans with faculty appointments from AACSB-accredited institutions and member institutions with approved accreditation eligibility applications.
Development Professionals
Professionals whose primary responsibilities involve business school fundraising.
DocNet
Doctoral program administrators and faculty coordinators.
Entrepreneurship Programs
Representatives from institutions that offer majors, minors, or concentrations in entrepreneurship, or have a dedicated entrepreneurship center, faculty-endowed position in entrepreneurship or sequence(s) of entrepreneurship courses within programs.
European
Representatives from AACSB-accredited and member institutions with approved eligibility applications that are from the European Union and Switzerland.
Marketing and Communications Council
Administrators responsible for public relations, media, marketing, communications, and allied activities.
MBA for Working Professionals
Representatives from AACSB-accredited member institutions with working professional MBA program enrollment of significant size (generally, 35% + of total MBA enrollment).
Metropolitan Business Schools
Representatives from member institutions located in or near the urban center of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with a population of at least 250,000.
New Deans Learning Community
Academic deans serving their initial three years as a full-time dean.
Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)
Institutions that have adopted the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).
Small Schools Network
Representatives from schools with typically 35 or less full-time faculty members.
Technology in Business Schools Roundtable
Technology administrators at business schools.
Women Administrators in Management Education
Women administrators, including deans, associate deans, assistant deans, program directors, center directors, and academic department chairs.
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