We are pleased to announce that on April 9, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) fully reaccredited the Lundquist College of Business through 2017. With only 649 institutions out of 12,600 holding the recognition, this puts us in the top 5 percent of business schools worldwide--no mean feat in itself.
We are one of only 177 business schools that are accredited in both business and accounting. This elite status is due in no small part to our exceptional Department of Accounting.
We're pleased to announce some changes to our website's navigation that will make it easier for newcomers and frequent visitors alike to get where they need to go. The handy new pop-down menu available from every page on the site is the most obvious change. Just one click on the grey bar at the top of the page reveals a comprehensive list of links to each of the website's main areas. Meanwhile, the website sections devoted to the Oregon MBA and the college's centers now sport secondary navigation bars with shortcuts to their specific resources.
Family businesses--and the specific challenges faced by a younger generation transitioning into leadership roles--were the topics of a Business Leadership Forum presented by the Lundquist College this October. The second in a series of quarterly events hosted by Dean Kees de Kluyver--and aimed at an audience of local business leaders--the forum's feature speaker was Mark T. Green, an internationally known family business consultant.
Launched last year as part of the UO's diversity initiative, the Building Business Leaders project welcomes its second group of incoming students. Catch up with the first cohort in this video. Competing in the elite Venture Labs Investment Competition (formerly Moot Corp.), UO start-up teams won honors in their respective tracks: Sonas for Best Written Plan and Best Presentation, and VisiRay for Best Written Plan.
Let's break it down by numbers: 67 pledges, $37,534 donated (15 percent of UO total), $560.21 average gift. Those figures represent the contributions by Lundquist College of Business faculty and staff to the annual Oregon Charitable Fund Drive. More than half of the college's employees participated, giving part of their paychecks to charities throughout the state. Each year, the Oregon Charitable Fund Drive asks state employees to give to their choice of more than 800 local non-profits. Oh, and for the record, total UO pledges were $248,065.00-$120,000 more than OSU and PSU combined.
