| If you no longer wish to receive our emails, you may unsubscribe here |
 |
Business Networks | August, 2007 | Volume 5, Issue 8
New study takes a fresh look at the value of education. In business and academic circles, few would dispute that education offers added value to individuals and to the communities where they live and work. But how do you put a price on that value?
Numerous published studies address how—and how much—education contributes to income. Indeed, vast theoretical and empirical research at both the micro and macro levels zeroes in on the notion of investment in education to build human capital. Now, two colleagues in the College of Business’s Department of Finance have taken a fresh look at this equation in an article titled “Building Human Capital through Education,” published recently in the Journal of Legal Economics. Read more. Blog this.
College of Business Administration earns spot in Best 290 Business Schools: 2008 Edition of The Princeton Review.
“We are very pleased to add the College of Business Administration to this year’s book and to recommend it to our readers and users of our web site as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an MBA,” said Robert Franek, vice president of The Princeton Review, a New York-based education services company and publisher of Princeton Review guides. Read more. Blog this. Graduate programs expand schedules and locations to meet demand.
The popularity of programs in the College of Business Administration has prompted the business school to devise more opportunities to accommodate student interest. Among new delivery options for programs in the Chapman Graduate School: the Master of Accounting (MACC) and the Master of Science in Finance (MSF). Read more. Blog this. College student Jacob Dobbs travels with a purpose.
When Jacob Dobbs goes to far-flung places, a frequent occurrence, he does so not as a tourist but as someone who wants to learn and serve. The third-year International Business Honors (IB Honors) major and new president of the College of Business Administration’s International Business Honor Society (IBHS)—which has a strong focus on international community service—has a long history of civic engagement. Currently, he works and teaches in Beijing, part of a summer program that combines a twenty-hour-per-week job with teaching English fifteen hours weekly at a local school. He won an award from the Asian Studies Department at Florida International University to help him with his expenses in a program recommended by one of his Chinese professors. Read more. Blog this. EPE courses help employee advance—and add greater value to her company.
A combination of natural gifts, support from key people at Preferred Care Partners Corporation, and courses offered through Executive and Professional Education (EPE) in the College of Business Administration, have enabled Judy Delgado (BS ’92) to move up in her company and to contribute to it more effectively.
It began with an email from the college announcing the EPE course titled Extraordinary Administrative Support. Delgado, formerly an administrative assistant in the member services department, had recently been promoted to training and development coordinator in the human resources (HR) department. There, she reported to Peter Setzer, vice president of operations and a member of the college’s Executive MBA (EMBA) Advisory Board, and to Cynthia Fernández, director of HR, and a member of the college’s Master of Science in Human Resource Management (MSHRM) Advisory Board. They thought the EPE course would benefit Delgado in her new position. They were right. Read more. Blog this.
New graduate student organization GROWs sense of social responsibility.
A collective goal motivated Master of International Business (MIB) students in the College of Business Administration’s Chapman Graduate School: to apply their skills in both a business and social context to help communities nearby and around the world. Their passion and commitment fueled the launch of Graduates Reaching Out Worldwide, or GROW. Read more. Blog this.
Alumna succeeds in international business.
Many of our students aspire to work for a multinational corporation or in international business, and quite a number of them have succeeded in doing so. Among them is Andrea Padilla (BBA ’99), regional director of Corporate Public Relations and Executive Communication for Hewlett-Packard (HP) Latin América. Read more. Blog this. The Real Estate Alumni Affinity Council appoints 2007-2008 board.
The Business Alumni Chapter’s Real Estate Alumni Affinity Council (REAAC) is a sub-group of the Business Alumni Chapter at Florida International University led by alumni of the College of Business Administration. Alumni of other university colleges/schools and/or community members (“friends”) interested in real estate also may join REAAC. Read more. South Florida CEO Speaker Series to resume in September.
Join the Business Alumni Chapter, in partnership with SouthFloridaCEO magazine, for the South Florida CEO Speaker Series on September 5, 2007. Angel Medina Jr. (BBA ’92), president, Miami-Dade County, Regions Bank, will be the featured speaker. The event will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Regions Bank in Coral Gables. RSVP today.
Alumni Notes
Have you been promoted or changed jobs? Update your information.
|
|
|
Those who consult The Princeton Review’s Best 290 Business Schools: 2008 Edition will find 23 newcomers this year, one of them the Chapman Graduate School of Business in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University. 
|
|