Today I had the privilege of meeting again with Tom Jones, the first BBA Program Office Director and the man who gave $10 million to the Ross School which now fund the Jones Center for BBA Education. I had the distinct pleasure of working with him a couple of years ago when he was the outgoing director and I was learning the position from him. I only get to see him intermittently now since he is working up north so I look forward to seeing him around the office.
This was such a great meeting because of all the great things that have happened with the BBA Program over the last year. Let’s review for a minute:
- Admissions: we admitted three separate great classes of students
- Curriculum: we are about half way through the process of implementing the new 3-year curriculum ordering
- Outreach programs: we have implemented significant outreach programs for high performing high schools in the Detroit area
- Mastery Project: we started up this program for at-risk students that was quite successful at preparing students for Ross who probably would not have been able to make it without this support
- Orientation: we just had a fairly successful orientation that informed over 700 students of many of the exciting programs that we have around Ross
- Workshops for BBAs: in the last year we put on workshops about law school, getting an MBA, getting a PhD, personal finances, business etiquette, speed reading, stress management, business presentations, living in NYC, living in Chicago, and venture capital & private equity.
- Student advising: we have three student advisors who have done a great job of reaching out to and connecting with students
- Washington Campus: this new program for BBAs educated students for a week in Washington, DC.
- Study abroad: we have planned two programs for up to 70 total students in Germany and Beijing
Given the above list of accomplishments by my staff, wouldn’t you think that it would be a good meeting?
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