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(Albuquerque, NM) UNM's Anderson School of Management is accepting nominations for the 20th annual Hall of Fame awards ceremony and dinner.
The Anderson Hall of Fame honors alumni whose distinguished careers serve as a
model to the next generation of business leaders. Anderson also recognizes outstanding
young alumni who have distinguished themselves in the short time since graduating from the
Anderson School, are under the age of 40, and are the kind of individuals who may be future
Hall of Fame inductees.
Prospective alumni candidates must have demonstrated a commitment to continuing education and community service matched by their commitment to professional success.
Nomination Criteria
Professional Success: Status in organization, level of responsibility, entrepreneurial
success (if applicable), demonstrated impact on organizational growth, success resulting
from professional activities.
Contribution to the Community: Public service, involvement and leadership in community
activities, involvement and leadership in professional organizations.
Involvement/Support for Continuing Education (including Anderson/UNM): Ongoing personal
& professional development, support continuing education for themselves and their
community, participate/support to lifelong learning opportunities for others.
To nominate an Anderson alumnus send their name, title, Anderson affiliation and address to:
Anderson School of Management Development Office
1 University of New Mexico
MSC05 3090
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Nominations are also accepted via email at Armijo@mgt.unm.edu.
The deadline for nominations is September 23, 2008. The Anderson Hall of Fame ceremony and dinner will take place on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at the UNM Student Union Building.
(Albuquerque, NM) UNM Anderson School of Management Accounting Professor Dr. Joni Young
will receive the 2008 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the New Mexico Society
of Certified Public Accountants (NMSCPA).
Dr. Young, Chair of the Anderson Accounting Department, was selected by the NMSCPA for her outstanding accomplishments in the classroom that enhance the reputation of the CPA profession. She has been a faculty member at Anderson since 1992 and is admired by both faculty and students for her intermediate accounting classes.
NMSCPA President John Carey says recognizing CPAs who have distinguished themselves in their field is one of the most rewarding events sponsored by the society.
Dr. Young says she is pleased to accept the award. "I've been lucky to have had the opportunity to work with great students and colleagues at UNM."
Dr. Young will be honored at the NMSCPA Pride in the Profession luncheon on Wednesday, November 12 at the Albuquerque Embassy Suites and will also be featured in the society's September newsletter.
(Albuquerque, NM) There are more options than ever before for students wanting to get a graduate business degree from UNM's Anderson School of Management. The UNM Anderson School is joining some of the nation's top schools such as Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and MIT in accepting the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) test as part of its admission process.
Beginning with the spring 2009 semester all students looking to get an MBA, Executive MBA or Master of Accounting from Anderson can take the GRE test. In previous semesters prospective Anderson graduate students were required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). This change gives students a choice they didn't have before - Anderson will now accept both the GMAT and the GRE.
The new admission policy gives all students interested in applying to graduate school the opportunity to consider Anderson in their higher education aspirations. The GRE is the same test used by most of UNM's other graduate programs, while the GMAT is only used by students considering business school.
Dr. Michelle Arthur, Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management, says the change is a win-win situation for both students and the school.
"Accepting the GRE offers students more flexibility when choosing a graduate program. It also allows Anderson to increase our accessibility to potential students and create innovative dual degree programs."
To help students prepare for the GRE test, Anderson will offer specialized prep courses starting on September 6, 2008. The six week program will focus on core math and verbal skills required for students to reach Anderson standards in taking the GRE. More information can be found at http://mba.unm.edu/ and the deadline to register is September 6. The best consideration date for students applying for admission to the spring semester is November 1.
And to make the application process as easy as possible, prospective MBA students will now be able to apply to Anderson online. The new, secure online web application is located at https://online.mgt.unm.edu/mba.
Interim Dean Amy Wohlert noted that, "We at UNM-Anderson are dedicated to maintaining quality and value while removing unnecessary barriers. We think that accepting the GRE and creating an easy online application will help us to welcome an increasingly talented and diverse graduate student body."
This is the first time Anderson has offered an online application which was developed with the intention of reaching a broader pool of potential applicants.
(Albuquerque, NM) Anderson Interim Dean Dr. Amy Wohlert has been named among the most outstanding and influential women in the business community by the New Mexico Business Weekly.
On Wednesday, July 23, at the 2008 Women Who Mean Business Awards Breakfast Wohlert was among 10 women who received honorable mention as one of the most influential and hard-working women in New Mexico. The Anderson School was well-represented at the event. Anderson Foundation Board Chair Carol Cochran, Anderson Foundation Board Advancement Committee Chair Sheri Milone and Anderson National Advisory Board Member and Anderson Hall of Fame recipient Ann Rhoades were inducted into the 2008 Hall of Fame for Women Who Mean Business.
Since arriving at the University of New Mexico in 2000, Dr. Amy Wohlert has held many impressive positions at the state's largest university. However, it is in her most recent position of interim dean that she is making a tremendous difference in the lives of business students at the Anderson School of Management. In addition to successfully guiding the students and faculty at the Anderson School, she also plays a pivotal role in merging the business school with the business community by serving on and working with the more than 50 members of the National Advisory Board and the Anderson Foundation Board comprised of local and national business leaders.
Prior to being appointed to serve at Anderson Dr. Wohlert was the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the Dean of Graduate Studies at UNM. She has also served as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs: Curriculum and Instruction and the Chair of the Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences.
Sign up for one of the financial market simulations to be held at the Anderson Financial Center throughout the summer.
Participants can earn anywhere from $10 to $100 for less than 90 minutes of their time, depending on their skills.
Email emmanuel@unm.edu today to express your interest. Morning and afternoon sessions are available.
(Albuquerque, NM) The Anderson School of Management is pleased to announce eight new members to its Board of Directors.
Joining the Foundation Board are: Elizabeth "Betsy" Carlson, Western Assurance, John Chavez, President, New Mexico Angels, Victor A. Garcia, Vice President of the Learning and Performance Solutions Group, Citi New Mexico, Ned A. Godshall, co-founder and CEO of Altela Inc., Richard Kilmer, Vice President and Creative Director of Kilmer & Kilmer, Kenneth Sapon, President of Champion Agency, Inc., and John R. Shelton, Principal, MarketSpace Financial, Inc. Wayne Brown, Office Managing Partner, Moss Adams LLP, will be an advisory board member, serving as a volunteer, non-voting member of the board.
The Anderson School Foundation Board is comprised of area business leaders who provide direction and support to the Anderson School of Management. In addition to serving in an advisory capacity to the Dean, the Board sponsors the annual Hall of Fame awards and generates resources for Anderson's nationally recognized programs in business education. The new slate of directors is effective July 1, 2008
ABOUT THE BOARD MEMBERS
Elizabeth "Betsy" Carlson, Western Assurance. Betsy is the Manager of the Small Business Unit, Manager of Excess and Surplus Lines accounts and the in house Instructor for Commercial Lines Agents and Service Representatives. She has a CIC, RPLU, and ASLI designations; and has 20 years of experience in business insurance. She is a past President of Independent Agents Association of New Mexico.
John Chavez, President, New Mexico Angels. New Mexico Angels is a business service organization that funds New Mexico start-up companies. John is also the President and Owner of Tafoya and Brainerd Partners LLC, a nationwide business development consulting firm, and the Director of State Government Solutions at Financial Management Systems, a Chicago based financial services firm. He received his MBA, BA in Economics and a BBA in Finance from New Mexico State University.
Victor A. Garcia, Citi New Mexico. Victor is the Vice President of the Learning and Performance Solutions Group in Albuquerque. He has also served as VP in Operations Manager and Human Resources since joining Citi in 2001. He received his BBA from UNM in 1992. Victor current volunteers with the New Mexico Call Center Alliance, United Way and supports Citi's global volunteer efforts.
Ned A. Godshall, co-founder and CEO of Altela Inc. At Altela Ned formed a founding team, hired technical and management teams, negotiated seed-round financing with venture capital firms, and instituted accounting, legal, and human resources infrastructures. Ned is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and led four high-tech start-up companies in Albuquerque since 1995. He has an MBA from Anderson and was recently inducted into the school's Hall of Fame.
Richard Kilmer, Vice President and Creative Director of Kilmer & Kilmer, Inc., a branding consultancy. Richard's branding expertise has benefited a full spectrum of industries including healthcare, retail, service and technology. His 20-year-old Albuquerque firm specializes in developing smart brand plans and powerful creative designs to connect consumers with products and services. The extensive rebranding program Kilmer & Kilmer developed for Lovelace Health System was recently recognized as one of the top five rebranding programs in the world by Rebrand 100 Global Awards.
Kenneth Sapon, President of Champion Agency Inc., an Estate and Business Planning Company. In 1984, Ken joined the family owned business that started operations in New Mexico in 1975. From the beginning of his career at Champion Agency, Ken was committed to the success of the industry. He received his Life Underwriting Training Council Fellowship in 1991 and shortly thereafter began teaching Advanced Life Insurance concepts and Disability Insurance Courses. He graduated from UNM's College of Pharmacy in 1981.
John R. Shelton, Principal, MarketSpace Financial, Inc. John currently serves on the Board of Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute. He is the past Chairman of the local Salvation Army advisory board and the past President and Treasurer of Coronado Toastmasters Club. John came to Albuquerque in 1977 to play baseball at UNM and fell in love with the "Land of Enchantment." He received his degree from UNM in 1982.
Wayne Brown, Moss Adams, LLP, Advisory Board Member. Wayne guides and directs his firm's growth while assuring the continuity of its reputation for the highest of professional standards. He has served on a variety of committees for the New Mexico State Society of CPAs, including its Board of Directors. Brown is a strong believer in community service and active involvement in key professional organizations.
(Albuquerque, NM) Students in the Anderson School of Management's Professional Masters of Business Administration Program (PMBA), launched in 2006 at the Intel facility in Rio Rancho, will graduate in December 2008. For the past two years Intel has been a key factor in the success of this program by offering classroom space to the PMBA students. At the completion of this program the Anderson School, in conjunction with UNM West, will begin serving a broader segment of the West Side population by offering graduate management education courses in a more flexible format.
Anderson and UNM West will continue to offer core graduate level classes each semester on the West Side. Each class will meet one night per week from 5:30 - 8:15 p.m. Upon completing the MBA admission requirements, students may begin the program in any semester and will pay the same tuition as students attending MBA classes on main campus.
Two thirds of the MBA program - the 11 core classes - will now be offered at UNM West located at 2600 The American Road, Suite 250 in Rio Rancho. Students will select and complete fifteen credit hours from one of the 11 MBA concentrations offered on main campus. The program is directed toward students who need the flexibility of controlling their own schedule and setting their own pace of graduate education. Students may take as few as one class per semester or may accelerate their program by taking classes both on the West Side and on main campus.
This new flexible format of graduate management education shows the commitment by the University of New Mexico and the Anderson School of Management to serving students on the fast-growing West Side.
Students interested in an MBA can find more information on the Anderson School website at http://mba.mgt.unm.edu/.
Accounting Professor Michele Chwastiak will be the keynote speaker for the upcoming Nebraskans for Peace (NFP) Conference. Chwastiak's address will focus on the cost of the war in Iraq. NFP is the oldest statewide Peace & Justice organization in the county with about one-thousand members across the state of Nebraska. The November conference will celebrate the 40th anniversary of NFP and past conference speakers have been highly regarded professionals and activists. For more information go to www.nebraskansforpeace.org.
(Albuquerque, NM) The Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico is honoring former US Ambassador to Spain and Andorra Edward L. Romero by sponsoring a scholarship in his name for graduate students at the Anderson School of Management.
The $15,000 scholarship is intended to encourage Anderson students to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors and prepare them for leadership in the development of new businesses in New Mexico.
Interim Anderson Dean Amy Wohlert says the Center's support of the Romero Scholarship is invaluable "affording Anderson a special opportunity to support small business and future New Mexico entrepreneurs."
Graduate students who are enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours at Anderson are eligible to apply for funds. The award will be distributed as two annual amounts of $7500. Scholarship recipients must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.0 and submit an annual report describing their progress in gaining entrepreneurial expertise. Priority will be given to use of the scholarship as part of a recruitment package to attract talented New Mexican students to graduate study at the Anderson School.
"The Center for Regional Studies, UNM, is pleased to join the Anderson School of Management in sponsoring a graduate fellowship/scholarship in honor of Edward L. Romero, a native New Mexican," said director Dr. Tobias Duran. "Part of the mission of CRS is to connect UNM and its resources to the broader community in New Mexico; thereby enhancing the lives of New Mexicans. The Edward L. Romero graduate scholarship will promote that effort."
Scholarship recipients will be selected based on the student's demonstrated commitment to small business and entrepreneurship in New Mexico. In addition to completing Anderson's standard application for scholarships, published by the Anderson School of Management, applicants will be required to submit a statement of purpose detailing their past experience and future plans in entrepreneurship. Application deadlines will correspond to the "best consideration" dates published by The Robert O. Anderson School of Management, but interested applicants to Anderson's graduate programs are encouraged to include the scholarship application with their admission application.
The Center for Regional Studies at UNM is located in Zimmerman Library. Its mission is to create new knowledge sources about New Mexico and the USA-Mexico Borderlands region. To initiate and encourage research and inquiry into historical and contemporary questions/issues/problems -- land, water, education, race, health --- among other questions, concerning the people of New Mexico. To promote dissemination of work completed under the auspices of CRS. To foster collaborative projects linking New Mexicans to an international context -- Mexico, the Americas, Spain. To contribute to the comprehensive opportunities offered at UNM -- teaching, learning, research, service -- with a focus on Southwest studies. To gather, preserve, and make accessible archival materials pertinent to key topics about New Mexico, the Americas, and Spain. To award graduate fellowships consistent with CRS mission and research agenda. To offer support (financial, logistical) to individual, collaborative, organized research and creative activities based on cooperatively established criteria. To award grants to faculty conducting research based on CRS mission. For more information go to http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/crs.php.
UNM anchors regional bid
April 28, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - The FBI announced today that the state of New Mexico, in conjunction with the UNM Police Department, UNM Information Technology Services Department (ITS), and the NSA-certified UNM Anderson School of Management's Center for Information Assurance Research and Education, CIARE, has been awarded the nation's 15th Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL).
The NM RCFL will be a full-service digital forensics laboratory and training center devoted entirely to the examination of digital evidence in support of local, state, and federal criminal investigations. The NM RCFL will be the second RCFL that is located on and is closely affiliated with a university campus (the first being the Kentucky RCFL which began operations in the Fall 2006 on the University of Louisville's Shelby campus.)
"The cooperative and comprehensive proposal submitted to the RCFL National Program committee by UNM in partnership with CIARE, the national labs, and local, regional and state law enforcement is indicative of the new era here at the University of New Mexico," said Dr. Barney Maccabe, UNM interim CIO. "President Schmidly's vision of "student success through collaboration" and "excellence through relevance" is manifested in these types of shared endeavors that will not only provide students with practical experience in an area of growing demand but also exemplify New Mexico's leadership in the region, the nation and the world."
The NM RCFL will be a one stop, full service forensics laboratory and training center devoted entirely to the examination of digital evidence in support of criminal investigations such as -
RCFL Structure
RCFL Examiners combine the talents and experience of federal, state, and local
law enforcement agencies. Normally, an RCFL consists of approximately 15 people:
12 of the staff members are Examiners and 3 staff members support the RCFL. The
RCFL's duties may include -
What is Digital Forensics?
Digital forensics is the application of science and engineering to the recovery of
digital evidence in a legally acceptable method. Examiners use digital investigation
and analysis techniques to determine potential legal evidence by applying
their skills on a variety of software programs, different operating systems and
various computer hard drives, and specific technologies such as personal digital
assistants, cell phones, or video cameras. Examiners are also capable of locating
deleted, encrypted or damaged file information that may serve as evidence in a
criminal investigation.
What Opportunities will there be for students?
It is expected that the NM RCFL will follow suit with the other 14 RCFLs across
the US and offer internships or student cooperative programs. It is envisioned
that the UNM Anderson School of Management's Center for Information Assurance
Research and Education, CIARE, will work closely with the yet-to-be-named NM RCFL
local governing board to develop such programs to give students the opportunity to
hone their digital forensic skills in the burgeoning digital forensics
area and to work in a cutting edge digital evidence laboratory supporting state,
local, and federal investigations.
Additional information about the FBL's RCFL initiative can be found at http://www.rcfl.gov.
FBI Press Release: http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel08/rcfl042808.htm
UNM Contacts:
Chief Kathy Guimond
University of New Mexico Chief of Police
(505) 277-2241
http://police.unm.edu/chief.htm
Arthur B. (Barney) Maccabe, Ph.D.
UNM Interim Chief Information Officer
maccabe@unm.edu
505 277-8125
Photo and Bio: http://cio.unm.edu/about/
Alessandro Seazzu, Director
UNM Anderson School of Management
Center for Information Assurance Research and Education (CIARE)
alex@mgt.unm.edu
(505) 277-8451
CIARE website: http://ia.mgt.unm.edu/
With gas prices expected to reach $4 a gallon this summer students from the Anderson School of Management (ASM) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are developing an advertising campaign aimed at tackling the ever-present "pain at the pump." UNM is one of 11 universities chosen to participate in a unique educational program, sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). This program is designed to give undergraduate marketing students the opportunity to develop a national and local marketing campaign for public transportation.
This partnership is an industry-education program, known as Green Means Go: The American Public Transportation Association Campus Challenge. The focus of this project is to inform and educate their peers, 18-25 year olds, about mass transit and encourage them to use it. "What makes this program so exceptional is that it is run entirely by students, for students" says John Benavidez, marketing professor at UNM.
The 37 students enrolled in Professor Benavidez's class formed an advertising agency: Anderson Advertising Marketing Promotions (AAMP). The students will receive a $1,000 budget to create, validate, and deliver a comprehensive integrated marketing communications campaign. The program culminates in a formal, marketing and public relations agency-style presentation that will be presented to APTA and Albuquerque's local mass transit providers (ABQ Ride and New Mexico Rail Runner Express). The strategies developed must also be capable of influencing the target market across the nation.
All 11 universities participating in the program will be competing in the Scholastic Achievement Awards. The top three universities will be invited to Washington, DC, where they will present their campaign to APTA representatives at the national level. Teams from the University of New Mexico have placed either first or second in similar marketing challenges with companies such as Cadillac and Subaru over the past four years.
CNM and the Anderson School of Management formalized a 2+2 agreement between the schools.
This agreement allows students completing the Associate of Arts Degree in Pre-Management at
Central New Mexico Community College to apply those credits and courses directly toward the
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Degree at the University of New Mexico.
Donation will complete the creation of the Student Center at the Anderson Student and Financial Services Center
Local real estate developer Steven P. Jackson wanted to remember and honor his father,
Paul R. Jackson, in a way that would recognize all he had done for his community in
Albuquerque throughout the years. The elder Jackson, who passed away in 1982, was a
respected local insurance businessman, former board member at Citizen's Bank and
influential leader in Albuquerque who believed in giving back to his community through
education. Today, he would be proud to know that his son is following in his footsteps
with the announcement of a generous donation to the University of New Mexico's Anderson
School of Management.
"I lost my father when I was very young," said Steven. "He did a lot for me and this is something I really wanted to do for him."
The generous donation is the centerpiece gift toward funding the $1.64 million Anderson Student Center and Financial Services Center. The recently completed project provides Anderson students a "home" where they can study and socialize together and attend a broad range of events.
The younger Jackson chose the Anderson School in part because the donation will allow UNM to memorialize his father by naming the new Anderson Student Center in his honor. Plans call for a dedication ceremony to officially name the center the Paul R. Jackson Student Center in late-January.
"This expression of faith in our students and their future gives encouragement to all of us at Anderson," said interim Anderson Dean Amy Wohlert. "We are very, very grateful to Mr. Jackson for providing the right help, at the right time to make an immediate difference in the success of Anderson's mission."
"We had always wanted to do something like this," said Alistair Preston, professor of Accounting at Anderson and a long-time friend of Steven's dating back 30 years when they met and went to school together in England. "The timing finally came together on this idea which we had talked about for a long time. It really is an indication that the Anderson Schools are worth investing in. One of the points of the gift is to stimulate the community to give back to the university."
The donation, which was recently finalized, will also assist the school in providing students with greater access to services, more engagement and collaboration between students and faculty, and in leveraging new and additional donors to help support the mission of the Anderson School of Management.
The center, which is touted as a destination rather than a stopping point for students, also provides a venue for community events and outreach, including lectures, dinners and receptions, recruitment activities, informal interaction between faculty and students, a meeting place for student clubs and organizations, a gathering place for study groups and information distribution.
Steven Jackson grew up in Albuquerque, and is a graduate of the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently works with Argus Development.
(Albuquerque, NM) This past semester, five students at the Anderson School of Management developed a program to educate and raise awareness on how to safeguard information at the University of New Mexico. They also plan to provide the program to Albuquerque and New Mexico businesses and institutions.
The five graduate students, all involved in the Security Education Training and Awareness (SETA) project, created a comprehensive online content and delivery system to assist employers, managers, and supervisors in educating, training, and assessing their staff in the proper handling of information. The project provides information regarding best practices in protecting computer systems, common threats from social engineering, and technology used in protecting commercial transactions. The students' project was sponsored by UNM's Center for Information Assurance Research and Education (CIARE). The SETA modules will be available for download later this month from the center's website at http://ia.unm.edu.
CIARE was established in 2006 by the University of New Mexico to advance the regional application, management, and knowledge of information assurance (IA) and information security (InfoSec) through educational programs, business practice development, and scholarly research. Its mission is also to assist with the emerging Information Assurance and Information Security needs of the local and regional constituents and the university community. UNM received the designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the NSA and DHS last spring and was a unique selection with its multidisciplinary approach between technology and management.
The students will present their project to the CIARE's directors and the University Chief Information Officer Barney Maccabe on Thursday, December 13 at 10:30 a.m. at the Anderson School.
CIO Maccabe has already expressed interest in implementing the student's project for the entire university. The CIO is charged with strategic leadership for the integration of Information Technology (IT) related functions across the UNM campus. Once accepted, the information would be easily accessible to all UNM staff, faculty and students via the website and eventually there are plans to make it available to other Albuquerque businesses and government institutions with slight modifications to fit their needs.
Congratulations to John Benavidez and his marketing students. The Albuquerque Trubue recently published an article about their recent Subaru marketing project.
Click here to view the article in its entirety.
(Albuquerque, NM) UNM's Anderson School of Management has demonstrated significant
leadership in integrating social and environmental issues into its MBA program,
according to the just released Aspen Institute's 2007-2008 edition of Beyond Grey
Pinstripes, a biennial survey and ranking of business schools. The Anderson School
ranked 18th on the list of the Global Top 100 Schools.
"UNM's Anderson School of Management has held its 18th place ranking for the second time, a great testament to our faculty and curriculum," said Anderson Interim Dean Dr. Amy Wohlert. "This ranking places us among the most prominent programs in the world, many of which have far greater resources than we do."
The survey found in general that social and environmental issues have continued to grow in importance in the business school curriculum. The Anderson School has been a leader in this trend by featuring a required course in its curriculum for the MBA and other programs focusing on social responsibility and ethical behavior since the 1970s. In recent years, 90 percent of the other required courses in the core curriculum have incorporated topics, projects, and cases that highlight social and environmental issues.
Incidentally, more than 20 elective courses now include coverage of social and environmental topics.
In addition to being recognized by the rankings, the Anderson School of Management will be featured prominently on the www.BeyondGreyPinstripes.org website, and in the Aspen Institute's upcoming "Alternative Guide to MBA Programs."
Along with its 18th place overall ranking, Anderson came in fourth among the Global Top 100 Schools for student exposure, a measure calculated by an analysis of enrollment numbers, credit ratios, and the reported percentage of course time dedicated to relevant issues, indicates the level of exposure students receive to social, environmental, and/or ethical issues within their courses. Anderson also ranked sixth in the Top Ten List recognizing Small Schools with fewer than 100 full-time MBA students enrolled in 2006-2007.
The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education, a program of The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, compiled Beyond Grey Pinstripes, its biennial research survey and alternative ranking of business schools, looking at how well social and environmental issues are incorporated into the training of future business leaders.
Invitations to participate in the 2007 survey were sent out to 600+ internationally accredited business schools with in-person, full-time MBA programs. Over forty thousand pages of data were collected from 111 schools this year--71 institutions located in the U.S. and 40 international schools, representing 18 countries.
The Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico is dedicated to excellence in professional management education. At the Anderson School, faculty, staff, and students are committed to shaping the intellect and character of the next generation of business leaders, advancing the knowledge and practice of management, promoting economic development, and building a vibrant intellectual community that serves the highest and best interests of all our stakeholders.
Efforts Spearheaded by Anderson School of Management
(Albuquerque, NM) Led by the Anderson School of Management, the University of New Mexico has been named as one of 12 new institutions designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The efforts for designation, five academic years beginning in 2007, were spearheaded by Anderson Professors Alessandro Seazzu, Stephen Burd, Christopher Conway and retired professor William Bullers.
Presentations were made recently to the new and re-designated Centers during the annual conference of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education held at Boston University, Boston Mass. The designations and re-designations for 2007 result in a total of 86 Centers across 34 states and the District of Columbia.
The CAEIAE program is designed and intended to reduce vulnerabilities in the national information infrastructure by promoting higher education in information assurance and producing a growing number of professionals with information assurance expertise in various disciplines.
"We've spent an extensive amount of time getting the coursework certified and gaining designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education," said Seazzu. "The process was similar to applying for grants. It's not an easy process. Much of it was thoroughly reviewing their information and criteria and digesting it. You have to meet the minimum level in each category of the criteria."
The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence Program, which was formed in April 2004 in response to Priority III of the President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace of 2003, directs the Federal Government to foster training and education programs to support the Nation's cybersecurity needs, and to increase the efficiency of existing Federal cybersecurity programs.
UNM was a unique selection with a crossover between the technology and management. There are only three business schools in the nation involved with this program.
As a CAEIAE, UNM students can apply for scholarships and grants through the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program and the Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service Program.
Additionally, universities designated as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education are eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through both the Federal and Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Programs.
"In theory, this designation gives us the opportunity to build a national program with the right resources," said Seazzu. "There are plenty of opportunities to become unique in what we do. One of the interesting parts of the process was to establish partnerships in the state. We partnered with New Mexico Highlands to get a good influx of students from around the state."
Some of the goals of the program include supporting the development of Information Assurance/InfoSec leaders through a balance of teaching, scholarship and partnerships with government, public and private entities; promote IA/InfoSec awareness in the regional K-12 educational community through outreach activities; support scholarships and capacity-building grant applications at UNM; to develop and deliver IA curriculum for UNM and partner minority-serving educational institutions; and to enhance the transfer of IA knowledge and practice in academic environments through pedagogical research.
For more information about the CAEIAE program at UNM visit: http://ia.unm.edu or the MBA program with a concentration in Information Assurance visit: http://mbaia.mgt.unm.edu/.
Anderson's undergraduate marketing students took 1st place in the Subaru Collegiate Challenge following their presentation this morning to Subaru executives in New Jersey.
According to Dr. Catherine Roster, "[t]he Subaru executives who served as judges for the challenge said later that a main factor that led to [Anderson] winning the competition was the fact that our students did a superior job of quantifying the impact of results they attained after planning and executing a consistent integrated marketing plan."
"This victory adds to the previous successes [Anderson's] MBA teams have had in the Cadillac challenges. It also demonstrates that Anderson marketing students, both undergrad and grad, can design, execute, and present results to top marketing executives in a fashion that is superior to their competition, which includes some of the best schools in the nation."
Furthermore, this is the fourth consecutive school year a team from Anderson has advanced to the final round in one of these programs.