John Elliott, PhD
Dean, Zicklin School of Business
Dear Zicklin Community,
Six months ago we issued the inaugural edition of the Zicklin School of Business Dean’s Newsletter. At that time, I invited your reactions and suggestions. The airwaves have been silent. Optimist that I am, I interpret that to be a sign that the newsletter was great, incredibly well executed and very useful. This second edition follows the pattern of the first. We provide quick summary information on multiple issues that we hope you find interesting and give you the opportunity to “click through” to more extensive coverage of the topic.
Our faculty meetings communicate information on important topics and I refer faculty and staff members alike to the minutes of those meetings if you were unable to attend. Included are numerous references to new faculty and staff hires and other staffing changes, to enrollments for fall 2008, and to ongoing plans for the curriculum at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
We continue to invest in the web; this serves as the key portal of information for people inquiring into programs at Baruch College. It captures much of what is going on currently. I encourage all members of the campus community to visit the Baruch and Zicklin homepages regularly as a way to stay current with school events. When I recently viewed the Baruch homepage it provided access to U.S.News & World Report and Princeton Review rankings released this summer, to the announcement of Baruch’s Graduate Entrepreneurship Program ranking among the top 25 in the nation, to the latest joint Baruch/FEI (Financial Executives International) CFO survey and Baruch’s recently announced status as one of the top five in New York Area fundraising for higher education.
The Zicklin homepage celebrates our MBA team’s recent victory in the national Executive Leadership Council Business Case Competition, the new MS degrees in Financial Statement Analysis and Real Estate, a report on small business global involvement created by our Weissman Center for International Business in collaboration with the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, and a special recognition for the Weissman Center by the U.S. Department of Commerce.The semester began with great orientation activity for new students (see story in this newsletter). We have already begun the process of open houses and other recruiting activity for the spring and fall of 2009. Thank you one and all for the extraordinary commitment to our mission, to our students and to each other. I look forward to another great year.
Best regards,