Written by: Kristen Keesee Published by: Newswise MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The $3 million gift from Thomas R. Watjen (MBA ’81) and Nanette Watjen, matched with an additional $1.5 million from the UVA Bicentennial Scholarship Fund, will create the $4.5 million Edward A. Watjen Bicentennial Scholarship Fund. This new fund will be incorporated with an existing military … [Read more...]
How Online MBA Grads Rate Their Experience
Written by: John Byrne Published by: Forbes MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: We just completed the most exhaustive study of online MBA student satisfaction ever made. This year alone, a record 1,583 online graduates responded. In the past three years, more than 3,100 online MBA graduates have completed Poets&Quants student satisfaction surveys. All in all, graduates … [Read more...]
North Carolina A&T State University Names Its College of Business and Economics
Written by: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Published by: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro has announced that will name its College of Business and Economics after Willie A. Deese. This is the first time that a person has been used in a college’s name … [Read more...]
Miami Business School receives a new name to honor philanthropists
Written by: Robert Jones Jr. Published by: University of Miami MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The University of Miami is naming its business school in honor of Patti and Allan Herbert for their transformative $100 million in lifetime giving to the University. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
Virginia Announces Gift for First-Generation Students
Written by: Elin Johnson Published by: Inside Higher Ed MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The University of Virginia will receive a $100 million gift to benefit first-generation college students. Graduate fellowships for first-generation students pursuing a full-time M.B.A. will be established through the Jefferson Scholars Foundation in partnership with the Darden School … [Read more...]
NYU Stern offers Lifelong Learning for TRIUMers
Written by: TRIUM Global EMBA Published by: TRIUM Global EMBA MBA News Digest Comment: TRIUM is a joint EMBA program offered by HEC Paris, the NYU Stern School of Business, and the London School of Economics. Extracted Content: Lifelong learning alumni resources include: two tuition-free executive education short courses per year; online certificate programs; option to audit a limited … [Read more...]