2008 Woodie Awards
Business school receives $1.5 mil gift
Money designated to establish position for new chair
Eric Elizondo
Issue date: 10/30/07 Section: Other News
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The business school is currently looking to fill this position, according to Bahman Mirshab, dean of the Cameron School of Business.
Some of the responsibilities of the hired chair will include: teaching, administrative and academic oversight of the Department of Management and Marketing, assisting the dean in faculty-hiring and evaluation and curriculum development.
"The person will essentially assume the leadership role for the Department of Management and Marketing," Mirshab said.
In addition, candidates are expected to support the mission of the University in accordance with "Ex Corde Ecclesiae."
Mirshab said that the Cameron Foundation has provided tremendous assistance to the business school over the years and that an initial gift from the Cameron family helped to establish the business school.
"They have always been there for us and have contributed to the Cameron school, which is why the school is named after them," Mirshab said.
Mirshab said that the position will help the school enormously in its attempt to achieve accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The AACSB is the highest accreditation agency for business schools.
The Cameron School of Business submitted its accreditation plan to an AACSB Pre-Accreditation Committee last spring and had it approved in September. Now the business school must seek approval from an Initial Accreditation Committee, which will meet and review the accreditation plan in early December, according the Mirshab.
Once the plan is approved by the committee, Mirshab said that the business school will officially start a process which will lead to AACSB accreditation by the 2010-2011 school year.
"Once the Initial Accreditation Committee approves, then we will officially enter into the accreditation phase of the plan," Mirshab said. "And we will spend this academic year and next academic year to implement the plan."
Mirshab said that during the 2009-2010 academic year, the business school will prepare its self-evaluation report, which will set the stage for accreditation by the next academic year. In doing so, Mirshab said that the business school will become one of less than 8 percent of business schools world-wide that are accredited by the AACSB.