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The Scotiabank Group today announced a $1.9 million donation to the Richard Ivey School of Business to fund scholarships for MBA and undergraduate business students. The Scotiabank Leadership Awards will create an endowment that offers two scholarships to exemplary students on anannual basis.
The Scotiabank Leadership Awards will serve as key recruiting tools, enabling Richard Ivey School of Business to continue to grow and strengthen a curriculum that is already among the best in the world, said Sylvia Chrominska, Executive Vice-President, Human Resources and Public, Corporate and Government Affairs, Scotiabank. At Scotiabank, we are particularly interested in investing in educational institutions that help students acquire the skills, tools and information they need to become leaders in a global economy.
The Scotiabank Group and Richard Ivey School of Business have a
longstanding relationship that involves philanthropy, student recruitment and
Executive education. Sylvia Chrominska graduated from Ivey and joined the Bank
in 1979 as a Credit Analyst, working her way up to the Bank’s senior executive
ranks.
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John C. Whitehead, retired from the Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs & Co., believes that good management is important, non-profit enterprises, such as for companies.
Thus, last week, he gave his alma mater, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, a $ 10 million gift to the John C. Whitehead.
Charles M. Harper, retired chairman and chief executive of ConAgra Foods, has given the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business one of the largest cash gifts in its history, the University announced today.
In recognition of the gift, the business school building on the Universitys campus in Chicagos Hyde Park neighborhood has been named the Charles M. Harper Center.
Harper, who received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1950, requested that the amount of his gift not be disclosed.
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A Illinois Math and Science Academy graduate has given a $100,000 gift to the IMSA Fund for Advancement of Education.
The gift will support the Stephanie Pace Marshall Endowment to Ignite Innovation.
Mike McCool, a 1991 IMSA graduate, said giving to the endowment was an easy decision because it had it all.
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JHU Launches New Schools of Business and Education
Johns Hopkins University trustees in response to a $50 million gift for business education voted Dec. 4 to establish both an innovative new business school to produce leaders with broad interdisciplinary preparation and an education school dedicated to the most pressing needs of the nations public schools.
The Carey Business School and the School of Education will both begin operations Jan. 1 building new and distinctive programs on the foundation created by the universitys School of Professional Studies in Business and Education which will cease to exist.
The Carey Business School will be launched with
Nike Founder Donates $105 million to GSB
The University announced in August that Phil Knight, MBA 62 and founder and chairman of Nike Inc., will donate $105 million to Stanfords Graduate School of Business (GSB).
Knights gift is thought to be the single largest gift ever given to a business school.
Phil Knight has once again shown the depth of his commitment to Stanfords future, said President John Hennessy. The enormous generosity of this gift will enable the Graduate School of Business to create a truly unique environment for its graduate programs and enrich Stanfords efforts to encourage multidisciplinary teaching and
Fortune Small Business magazine reports that both the undergraduate and MBA programs offered by Indiana Universitys Kelley School of Business are among the top programs nationally for aspiring entrepreneurs.
While Fortune Small Business did not rank the programs, Kelley was one of two schools that were singled out in presentations of the top four MBA and top five undergraduate programs in the magazines September issue. The report also is featured at CNNMoney.com.
The magazine based its findings on interviews with hundreds of entrepreneurs, professors, students, alumni, university administrators and venture capitalists.
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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
Northcentral University Announces New Tuition Rates for Online Undergraduate Degree Students to Make Online Education Programs More Convenient and Cost Effective
Prescott, Arizona (PRWEB) June 2, 2007 -- Northcentral University (www.NCU.edu), a leader in 100% online education programs today announced lower, highly affordable tuition rates that make the cost of quality online undergraduate degrees affordable for students seeking to earn a bachelors degree. The University offers bachelors degrees in business and technology management, education, and psychology and accepts transfer credits from accredited colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Effective July 1, 2007, tuition for all 100% online
Developer Arrillaga gives Stanford $100M
A prominent Silicon Valley real estate developer has given $100 million to Stanford University. John Arrillaga, a longtime benefactor of the school, played basketball there nearly 50 years ago.
In the past, Arrillaga made a $22 million gift for the Arrillaga Family Sports Center, which now contains administrative offices, rooms for coaches, sports medicine, and conferences.
In addition, an alumni center, for which he donated $37 million, is named for his late wife Fran.
According to reports, the latest gift will be used for various programs within the university, and no decision has been made yet
A National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate edged out a fellow schoolmate and a Wharton undergraduate to snag top honours at the MAS-ESS essay writing competition.
Melvin Koh beat Leong Chee Kian (NUS) and See Kok Heng (Wharton) for the $5,000 cash prize.
The 24-year-old Economics major has won the prize for the second year running.
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