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Rutgers Business School Announces New Full-Time M.B.A. Curriculum Offering Greater Choice, Depth of Study The faculty of Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) has approved a new curriculum for its full-time M.B.A. program. The new curriculum, which will be implemented this fall, addresses the career development needs of students as well as the expectations of employers, and leverages the intellectual authority of the faculty. RBS is currently accepting applications for enrollment in the fall 2007 semester of its M.B.A. program. Says Rosa Oppenheim, Acting Dean of RBS, Weve designed this new curriculum with input from our students, alumni and corporate

Subra Suresh, an IIT Chennai alumnus, has been appointed dean of the prestigious engineering school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Suresh will succeed Institute Professor Thomas Magnanti as the next dean of the School of Engineering July 23. An MIT announcement Thursday noted that its School of Engineering has long held a unique national and international position of pre-eminence in both education and research. More : mangalorean.com

UNC names associate dean of MBA program The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday appointed David Hofmann as the next associate dean for the MBA program at the universitys Kenan-Flagler Business School. Morgan, currently a professor of organizational behavior and strategy at the UNC school, will replace Valarie Zeithaml effective July 1. Zeithaml served as senior associate dean for academic affairs and marketing area chair at Kenan-Flagler before serving as the head of the MBA program for four years. More : triangle.bizjournals.com

Ale College Dean Peter Salovey has announced the appointments of the Dean of Student Affairs, Assistant Dean and Director of the Native American Cultural Center, and Deans of Branford, Calhoun and Morse residential colleges. The deans of the residential colleges were appointed in consultation with the masters of those colleges. W. Marichal Gentry has been named Dean of Student Affairs and Associate Dean of Yale College. Coming to us after eight years of positions of increasing responsibility at Middlebury College, Marichal brings to Yale an exemplary record of commitment to the highest standards in student affairs administration, Salovey said More :

Kolkata, February 9 (PTI) The Dean of Westminster Abbey, United Kingdom, Dr. Wesley Carr Wednesday paid tribute to Mother Teresa in the house of the mother in this eastern Indian metropolis and interaction with children orphans the Children's Home, through the Missionaries of Charity. The dean, on a four-day Tour in the city, was accompanied by his wife Natalie Carriles during his visit to a half-hour at home mother, the headquarters of the World MoC. He later with the children at the Children's Home "and also visited the Victoria Memorial. "The Dean of Westminster and his wife had a brief interaction with children.

LBS representatives recently participated in an online chat about diversity, admissions, work experience expectations, and other issues London Business School offers one of the top MBA programs in Europe. If you're thinking of going to graduate school outside of the U.S., it might be at the top of your list of possibilities. Recently potential applicants signed on to a live chat event with David Simpson (DavidLBS), acting associate dean for the full-time MBA program at LBS, and LBS student Manish Gajria (ManishLBS). The session was moderated by BusinessWeek reporter Francesca Di Meglio (FrancescaBW). Here is an edited transcript of the

Last month the media provided extensive coverage of a report that 34 first-year MBA students at Duke University were being expelled or otherwise punished for collaborating on a take-home exam. Some have questioned whether the faculty involved in administering this exam took adequate precautions to discourage such collaboration while the attitude of others has been what would you expect from students in a high-profile, competitive MBA program. A few people have even suggested that what these students did is no big deal. Whatever your view, research suggests that business students are more willing to engage in academic dishonesty than other

Texas B-Club Back on Campus With such a strong focus on career development and classwork, its sometimes hard to forget that undergraduate business majors are simply that—17- to 22-year-old college students. But that doesnt mean theyre immune to having a little fun and even getting carried away sometimes. A University of Texas at Austin McCombs School club is familiar with that desire. After a semester-long suspension for blurring the lines between professional and social activities, the Undergraduate Business Council will begin operating again on campus in January. The group is the governing body for McCombs students. It was acting more like

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is losing one of its star professors. It has confirmed the departure of the dean of its business school, Prof Christopher Earley, less than two years into his three-year term. He is not taking up his third-year option and is leaving to assume the position of dean at the University of Connecticuts Business School in January next year. More : channelnewsasia.com

AHMEDABAD: Vivek Bhandari was appointed Monday, the new director of the Institute of Rural Management (Anand) (IRMA). Bhandari replaces Neelima Khetan, who was appointed, the current President, as Director of the Institute, said an official statement. Prior to her arrival at IRMA, it was extraordinary and professor of history and South Asia the most recent studies in the school of social sciences at Hampshire College in Amherst, USA, "adds the statement.

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