A new AACSB report this summer provides guidance to faculty and administrators for improving the effectiveness and inclusiveness of business school education in an increasingly diverse world. The recommendations for bringing about improvements in the classroom address issues such as the overall school climate, the need for faculty and staff development, and the existing structures and resources available for such an effort.

The report addresses three separate, relatively distinct, goals:

• Increasing the knowledge, skills, and competence of faculty and administrators so that they can work effectively with demographically and culturally diverse populations;
• Providing strategies for increasing positive interaction and cooperation among demographically and culturally diverse groups so they can work together more effectively both in school and later, on the job; and,
• Offering strategies for making business schools more inclusive by creating more effective educational environments for women, minorities and international students.

The report is the result of the work of a task force commissioned by AACSB's Board of Directors to increase the effectiveness and inclusiveness of business school education, given increasing demographic and cultural diversity of students, faculty, employers and others. The group was chaired by Nancy DiTomaso, professor at the Graduate School of Management of Rutgers University, and included Daria Kirby, assistant professor of business administration, Katz Graduate School, University of Pittsburgh; Frances Milliken, professor, Stern School of Business, New York University; and Harry Triandis, professor, department of psychology and Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

AACSB members will receive a complimentary copy of the report in June. Additional copies will be available for $25 each, $30 overseas airmail. To order, contact AACSB.