Discussion of BBA Program at a faculty meeting

For any of you who were around Wyly 2740 at 12noon Friday, you would have had the distinct pleasure of seeing about 75 of our faculty members gathered for a Ross Faculty Meeting. It was our first one of the year, and we certainly had good attendance for it. It’s generally pretty hard to get that many of our faculty members to come to our meeting. And it was good to see so many familiar faces after the summer.

In any case, the exciting thing about this meeting (from my perspective, anyway) is the amount of time that Dean Dolan and Associate Dean Anderson spent talking about BBAs. You have to realize that this faculty meeting time is very valuable time. There are only eight faculty meetings during the year, so to spend it on the BBA Program is exciting. What they talked about, and what faculty members asked a lot of questions about, was the quality of the incoming classes. Rightly, they are pleased to hear about the high quality of these students and our plans for doing all that we can to ensure that it does nothing but increase.

At next month’s meeting I will address the faculty about the funds that the Jones Center has at its disposal for funding the creation of senior capstone electives and leadership development for BBAs. It’s another opportunity for drawing senior faculty members to the BBA Program. Once I get them interested, I have generally found that the quality of the students keeps them coming back.