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Bonus Workshop: Exploring DataDirect
AACSB's DataDirect is a benefit for schools that helps with
accreditation, planning, and external relations. This 3 hour workshop is
designed to help AACSB members get the most out of this valuable service.
Presentation
- Jessica Brown, manager, Knowledge
Services, AACSB International
- Dan LeClair, vice president and
chief knowledge officer, AACSB International
Plenary I:
Creative Leadership: The need for positive turbulence in Business Schools
Patterns in higher education are susceptible to regularity with stable
curriculum, tenured faculty, and slow to change physical space. Given this
state, encourage creativity and innovation through positive turbulence, a
source of renewal feeding strategies for looking to the periphery of
current thinking and at the intersections of traditional ideas.
Presentation
- Stanley Gryskiewicz,
senior fellow, Creativity and Innovation, Center for Creative
Leadership
Plenary
III:
Business Education: Defining futures and seizing opportunities
This session
provides a brief historical framework of business education, including the
roots of the challenges and criticisms often posed today. These include
issues of relevancy, impact and value of business schools. It suggests
needed attributes of good business school programs- what stakeholders have a
right to expect. The session then visions new business education models, and
the need for accountability and impact. Technology and a seamless, flat
world provide unique opportunities for business schools of the future.
Presentation
- Robert S.
Sullivan, dean, Rady School of Management, University of California,
San Diego
Luncheon and
Plenary IV:
Trends and Issues Facing B-Schools
AACSB’s
Chief Knowledge Officer will bring together valuable data and essential
information from AACSB and other sources to discuss the major trends
impacting business schools and their leaders. The session’s data and
far-reaching perspectives will help with your institution’s planning
efforts.
Presentation
- Dan LeClair,
vice
president and chief knowledge officer, AACSB International
Associate Deans Conference
Positive
Turbulence: Tactics that suggest renewal through strategic innovation
The listing of various tactics for looking to the periphery of
current thinking and a demonstration of the positive turbulence of
interdisciplinary found at the intersection of traditional thinking.
The listing of various tactics for looking to the periphery of
current thinking and a demonstration of the positive turbulence of
interdisciplinary found at the intersection of traditional thinking.
Presentation
- Stanley Gryskiewicz,
senior fellow, Creativity and Innovation, Center for Creative
Leadership
De-Mystifying Learning Assessment:
Continuous improvement in Student Learning
This session will emphasize continuous learning improvement practice
grounded in learning assessment theory through models of business process
design. The interactive presentation will take participants step by step
through the learning assessment process by providing guidelines whereby
business educators can prepare strategically based curricula,
develop appropriate activities that support effective student learning
and formally assure learning outcomes. Participants will gain an
understanding of how this process helps faculty and program directors
complete learning assessment improvement cycles for college, program,
and course levels.
Presentation
- Kristie Seawright, planning and
assessment associate, Marriot School of Management, Brigham young
University
- Larry Seawright,
assistant to the director, Evaluation, Center for Instructional Design,
Brigham Young University
Strategies for Recruiting and Developing AQ
Faculty
Faced with diminished
supply and expanding demand for AQ faculty, business schools must employ
creative and effective strategies for locating, recruiting, hiring,
retaining and developing AQ faculty. The session will explore
successful tactics that improve the likelihood of finding, screening,
wooing, negotiating with and hiring AQ faculty. More importantly, this
session will examine processes that are necessary to keep the AQ faculty
you hired: developing and mentoring faculty, setting performance
expectations; unambiguous and useful evaluations; and the role of offer
letters in tenure evaluation.
Presentation
- Ajay Menon,
dean, College of
Business, Colorado State University – Fort Collins
- Edward J. Schoen,
dean, Rohrer College of
Business, Rowan University
Globalization of B-Schools:
How'd they do that?
There has been a rapid
proliferation of business schools offering programs in foreign markets.
This is due to many reasons, including improved technology, ease of travel,
and rapidly developing markets throughout the world. This panel discussion
steps out of the single country mindset and offers proven strategies used by
b-schools that have already entered markets abroad, discusses the pros and
cons of globalization, and suggests some proven approaches used to globalize
b-schools. The audience will listen to short individual presentations about
select programs followed by an open panel discussion.
Presentation
- Berne
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- Chan
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- Shao
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Michel Berne,
associate dean, INT School of Management
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Alan
K.K. Chan, head and professor, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist
University
-
Alan
T. Shao,
associate dean for international programs, The Belk College of Business, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
AACSB Bridge Program
The session will
discuss the AACSB perspective on the critical role of professionally
qualified faculty in the future of business schools, the opportunities
and challenges inherent in their increased deployment on your faculty,
and the important role of AACSB’s Bridge Program Seminar initiative in
addressing this issue.
Presentation
Strategies for Faculty Resource
Management
Ours are
human capital organizations. Our budgets are predominantly people and
our success rests largely on capabilities residing within individuals
and groups. Our ability to build successful organizational capabilities
depends on acquiring, developing and maintaining appropriately high
quality human resources, organizing these resources to create
organizational capabilities that succeed in a changing competitive
environment. In short, our primary challenge is that of talent
management. In this session we will draw from the experiences of those
assembled to share perspectives and approaches for successfully
marshalling faculty resources to build high quality organizational
capabilities.
Presentation
- Stephen L. Mangum, senior
associate dean for Academic Programs, Max M. Fisher College of Business,
The Ohio State University
- William P.
Curington,
senior associate dean, Academic Programs & Research, Sam
M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas University of
Arkansas
A
Zero-Based Approach to Curriculum Review and Development
The directive was to
throw it all out and start again with a clean slate. Throw out what?
The answer: The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith College of Business
core curriculum. An interdisciplinary committee of faculty used the
zero-based approach to review and develop an undergraduate core
curriculum based on the college's mission. In this session,
participants will learn about the zero-based process and the challenges
of building a curriculum based on outcomes absent predetermined
courses. The participants will also learn how the committee members
overcame these challenges and designed a new, integrated undergraduate
core curriculum.
Presentation
-
Georgia M. Hale,
associate dean, College of Business, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
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Margaret M. Tanner,
associate professor of Accounting, College of Business, University of
Arkansas at Fort Smith
Peace Through Commerce
The presentation will
briefly describe the fundamental "Trade Causes Peace" argument, and then
detail a specific pilot program for MBA students involving travel to
Northern Ireland and the development of business plans for commercial and
social entrepreneurs in the recovering communities in and around Belfast.
Presentation
Handout
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John Graham,
co-director of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, and Professor,
Marketing, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California,
Irvine
Data Management Conference
Effective
Data Management and Reporting: The MBA Pathfinder® Model
Glenda Lucas
from the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC) will conduct a
session on MBA Pathfinder® data warehouse with an emphasis on standards
and their approach to auditing the data to help insure its integrity.
Presenters will discuss what GMAC has learned to be the common mistakes
schools make in reporting the data, and how to use this information to
better manage your schools data for rankings.
Presentation
Utilizing Technology to
Enhance the Assurance of Learning Process
Many educational institutions are struggling
with the format and process for collecting, recording and reporting
assurance of learning data. As the process evolves more and more faculty
are getting involved. This is creating a large quantity of material that
is causing a glut of paperwork for many faculty and administrators.
UW-Whitewater and The Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State
University are implementing a standardized, electronic assurance of
learning format and process. The implementation of an electronic
assurance of learning (AoL) process ensures consistent reporting and
improved documentation. The AoL process allows administrators to define
their programs, identify program goals and objectives. All faculty
teaching a particular course can then view the goals and objectives
supported by the course.
Presentation
-
Linda Malgeri,
director of Assurance of Learning, Coles College of Business, Kennesaw
State University
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Robert Schramm,
director
Online Education and Technology, College of Business and Economics, University of
Wisconsin - Whitewater
Data
Theft: Lessons learned from the eye of the storm
Data theft has been
termed a pandemic in the U.S., and colleges account for roughly 30% of
computer security breaches reported in the media. Thefts or mishandling
of data have exposed the sensitive personal information of thousands of
university prospects, students, alumni, employees and donors. Do you
understand the critical points of data management that could leave your
institution exposed? Is your business school prepared to handle the
public furor created by a large-scale breach? A unique perspective from
survivors of one of the most prominent data thefts of 2006 will help you
stay one step ahead of the storm.
Presentation
director of computer
services, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
David
Wenger,
director of communications, marketing and public affairs, McCombs School
of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Accreditation Knowledge Management System
University of
Illinois at Chicago has developed a Knowledge Management System (KMS)
which is being used to manage the documentation for their upcoming North
Central Association (NCA) accreditation. It can also be used to manage
the documentation for AACSB and other accreditation. KMS provides a
structured and secured method to input accreditation documents into a
knowledgebase.
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