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, ongoing access to peers with similar experiences.

Affinity Groups enjoy a valuable set of organizational and individual benefits including:

• 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 communication channels within the AACSB network and through AACSB Exchange.
• Face-to-face meetings scheduled at AACSB conferences throughout the year.

Participation in Affinity Groups is exclusively limited to AACSB members. To join a group, email membership@aacsb.edu.

Frequently Asked Questions

Current AACSB Affinity Groups

Worldwide

Associate Deans: associate deans, or assistant deans with faculty appointments, from AACSB-accredited institutions and member institutions with approved accreditation eligibility applications

DocNet Affinity Group: 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

Development Professionals: professionals whose primary responsibilities involve business school fundraising

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)

Marketing and Communications Council: administrators responsible for public relations, media, marketing, communications, and allied activities

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 Affinity Group: representatives from schools with typically 35 or fewer full-time faculty members

Technology Leaders Affinity Group: 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

Europe

European Affinity Group: representatives from AACSB-accredited and member institutions with approved eligibility applications that are from the European Union and Switzerland

North America

American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU): deans representing business schools at public colleges and universities that are concurrently members of AASCU

Southeastern Conference: deans representing business schools that are part of the Southeastern Conference (12 large universities located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee