School of Business and Management Staff (from left) Dr. Michael Williams, dean; Camilla K. Lewis, assistant dean; Dr. James Phillips, associate dean; Alicia Malone, assistant dean; and Susan Fischer, administrative assistant
Dr. Michael Williams, dean
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Dean's Diary
Change provides us with the opportunity to be the architects or victims of our own future.
– Daryl Conner, "Managing at the Speed of Change"
The School of Business and Management has changed.
Over the past three years, we have reimagined the school, enabling us to reconceive and reconstruct the School's vision, mission and architecture.
Central to this change has been stakeholder engagement in the form of student feedback, mentor input, alumni collaboration and external partnerships. As a result, I am pleased to introduce the inaugural edition of the School of Business and Management's newsletter and Dean's Diary.
A key component of the Dean's Diary is eliciting your feedback. The critical insights you provide can inform and, in turn, advance the School's mission of delivering practitioner-oriented, competency-based business education within a distance learning environment that is learner-centered and prepares ethically responsible and globally engaged business professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders.
As dean, it is a rare and wonderful challenge to lead the School's transformation. However, as in most change initiatives, the strength that fuels change resides in, and emanates from, an intentional "partnership-of-change" forged among its staff and stakeholders.
Therefore, I invite you to partner with me in this initiative. Together, as we change the School, we too are changed. We are all stakeholders in change, and as a result, create a legacy that is both ours and the School's. Together, let's be architects of the School's future, working collaboratively to ensure our future of preparing "ethically responsible and globally engaged business professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders."
The future is ours to create. Let's continue creating the School's future today.
- Dr. Michael Williams, Dean, School of Business and Management
If you are a School of Business and Management student or mentor, it's likely that you already participate in vibrant Discussion Board exchanges in your online courses. We invite you to apply the same thoughtfulness and insight about our programs and processes. Email us today to share your views. We look forward to hearing from you.
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