The University of Alabama announced plans to offer an executive MBA degree in Huntsville starting in July 2008.

The degree will be offered through a cooperative agreement with the University of Alabama in Huntsville on the Huntsville campus, the school said Monday.

Courses will be taught primarily by faculty from the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the Culverhouse College of Commerce and the degree will be given by UA.

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University of Phoenix to Offer Next-Generation MBA

As the Midwest emerges from the dark, cold days of winter, now is the time of year when many employees are looking to switch jobs. In fact, according to a nationwide online survey of working adults by University of Phoenix, more than two-thirds (67 percent) are looking for a job on some level. As the number of people searching for jobs grows, employers are increasingly looking for candidates with advanced degrees.

In response to feedback from some of Americas top corporations, University of Phoenix is launching a new MBA program throughout the Midwest, which applies proven teaching and learning methodologies to help working professionals solve real-world business problems.

Next-Generation MBA focuses on significant management, growth opportunity and leadership challenges based on business scenarios validated by Fortune 1000 companies. Several simulations are woven into the curriculum to support the learning necessary to solve the problems embedded in the scenarios. They allow students to make real-time decisions, just as they would in the workplace.

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Benedictine College Offers Comprehensive Executive Education Course

Benedictine College is now offering an intensive business leadership development course entitled Planning with Vision; Executing with Precision. The 4-day seminar, with dates available in May, July, and August, is geared to benefit senior level managers with experience in one or two functional areas, middle level managers with high potential, and small business owners. The course includes subjects such as finance, marketing and production management and it will be led by Dr. Joseph L. Brickner, a member of the Executive MBA faculty at Benedictine College and former Assistant Treasurer at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (now known as AT&T).

The course is designed to allow participants to discover how disparate business functions must work together. Brickner uses a computer business simulation program (Capstone Business Strategy Simulation) that bridges the gap between theoretical class work and the real world. The simulation allows his students to run a business using the tools required in the real world while not encountering the risks.

The Capstone Business Simulation makes learning fun while the student gets to test management theories in a surprisingly real life simulation, said Jeff Caudle, Vice President of Bank of Atchison and a former student. Seeing how the cumulative effects of multiple decisions result in positive, or negative, bottom line outcomes is invaluable.

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IIM-B submits Singapore proposal

A 4,700 sq ft of space on Singapores Mei Chin Road, classes held only in the evenings between 7 and 10 pm and just one faculty at any given time on campus.

Thats pretty much what Brand IIMs maiden global venture — IIM-Bs Singapore campus — proposes to have. While legal hurdles are being cleared for the overseas campus, IIM-B has submitted a detailed proposal to the HRD ministry on the Singapore initiative.

To begin with IIMB-S, as it will be called, will offer two programmes — a two-year part-time MBA and executive education for senior and middle-level executives. The part-time MBA will involve 12 to 15 modules, with classes held during evenings between 7 pm and 10 pm.

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