Improving the quality of education at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is the goal of the differential tuition proposal, which will take effect in the fall 2008 semester. The plan involves a $610 increase for juniors and seniors in the business school each semester in addition to their university tuition.
Though there is no way to predict economic pitfalls and therefore eliminate them, preparation can prevent added panic and anxiety. With courses focused on the changes and history of financial markets, Mays faculty makes it their goal to prepare students, so that when future economic crises arise, the next generation of business leaders is ready for the challenge.
There is a severe shortage of minority representation among U.S. business school faculty. Research indicates that this in turn leads to fewer minority students choosing to pursue business studies at all levels of education. And as a result, corporate America continues to be dominated by a bland racial majority.
As the spring semester rolls on, stressful thoughts of entering the “real world” and finding a job begin to take a toll on the student population. In the tradition of the “Aggie Network,” there is a new resource available to these harried scholar-job seekers: the ultimate job search website, created by an A&M graduate, of course.
National headlines like these have got Americans concerned, but the researchers at the Texas Real Estate Center say not to worry: the Texas real estate market is doing just fine.
“Some of the crazy things happening other places in the country, like California, just aren’t happening here,” says James Gaines, research economist for the center. In fact, after reviewing statistical models and projections, Gaines says Texas should be preparing for an economic explosion, not a recession.
Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is joining a consortium led by Syracuse University in a new program designed to assist veterans with disabilities. Called Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EVB), this program will offer training in small business start-up and management to service men and women injured in the line of duty since 2001.
What do Chicago-style pizza, a nine-iron, and a prison inmate have in common?
No, this isn’t the opening of a joke. All of these are elements in the education of Business Honors students at Mays Business School. This highly selective group (only 30% of applicants are accepted each year) is getting out of the classroom and into the real world for hands-on educational experiences that they aren’t likely to forget.
You’re traveling across country by train, when suddenly there’s a horrific screech. The train lurches and jerks violently before crashing into something and flipping off the tracks. The lights go out and you can hear the moans and cries of the wounded passengers around you. You try to help, but you hit your head during the accident and are too dizzy to stand.
“Don’t worry, I’m here to help,” you hear a nearby voice say. And who is your rescuer? A paramedic? A search and rescue worker? No, it’s an MBA, trained at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School.
“What we hope to achieve is simply put: expanding minds, expanding networks,” says Richard Scruggs, director of the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Mays Business School. Expanding minds and expanding networks is the tag line of Envision‘08, the first conference for entrepreneurs hosted by the CNVE. Envision‘08 (short for “entrepreneurial vision”) will be held April 23-25 at the Marriott RiverCenter in San Antonio, Texas.
It was a gala affair as 200 guests gathered in The Zone Club at Kyle Field on September 6th to applaud the achievements the 2007 Outstanding Alumni Award recipients, Charles L. Korbell, Jr. ’71, David R. Norcom ’73, and Willie T. Langston II ’81.
