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(12/10/02 4:43am)
As December graduation nears for about 1,500 students, they would be wise to heed the advice of Nick Scheele, chairman and chief operating officer at Ford Motor, Inc.\nScheele, the keynote speaker at the Nov. 22 dedication of the new Kelley Graduate and Executive building, said college graduates are expected to do more than ever before in the business world.\n"Getting a job is not easy. Today, people out of college are getting more responsibility, and due to flattened organization, people have the ability to have more of an impact early on," he said. "We put people where they can sink or swim. This is not a rest home or a country club. People will get responsibility."\nScheele was born in Essex, England and was CEO of Ford Europe before moving into his current position. Though now at the top of Ford, Scheele seeks to help those coming out of college and wanting to climb the ladder of success in the business world. He is on the advisory board of several colleges and universities and has been involved in a number of key initiatives to raise the profile of training and education. He also believes teaching ethics should be central to any business school's curriculum.\n"This is important to every single person in this country because ultimately each and every person will at some stage in their life, be it as a pension, be it as a college fund, be it whatever, they will need to rely on the integrity of financial markets," Scheele said. "That is why ethics is so critical."\nDan Dalton, the dean of the business school, is very grateful for Scheele's message and speech at the dedication ceremony.\n"The timing of his message could not have been better. I have received many compliments about his speech and it was very well received by all within the business school," Dalton said. "It's one thing to have a member of faculty to adress ethics to our students, but to have a person of his stature and experience adress it; is very, very important."\nIn all he addressed, there was nothing Scheele emphasized more than ethics.\nHigh ethical standards need to be brought into curriculum, he said. Companies cannot have greed, Scheele pointed out as he referred to the recent trend in corporate wrongdoings as an example of infectious greed in the business world.\n"The public has lost trust in the business world," Scheele said. "Our company, however, has no tolerance for failure. It's either black or it's white. It's up or it's down," he said. "To have the public lose faith is really a dagger blow to business and if not put behind us, the value of American business to the economy could deteriorate."\nScheele also expressed several opinions on how business needs to be run. He thinks that government does not need to interfere in business and people need to self regulate. He said that universities need to be teaching courage, creativity, and leadership in its business programs. He also said that schools need to seek out and teach new business models. \nFord's college sponsorship program helps 31 schools, including IU. Ford hires and promotes IU graduates and the company currently employs 125 IU graduates, Scheele said.\n"He has been a very good friend to us for many years," Dalton said. "He has helped create internships and permanent job opportunities for our students and has been a factor in the very generous giving in money for scholarships and fellowships by Ford."\nOnce hired at Ford the opportunities are limitless, Scheele said.\n"We are so broad-based. People can join Ford and essentially work in any field they want. We are also an international, global company," he said. "We are headquartered in Michigan, but operate across the globe."\nFord looks for many things in a new employee, including leadership, ethics, and business skills, Scheele said. But he specifically mentioned he wants people who are passionate about business and that the most important skill one can have is communication.
(11/21/02 4:55am)
IU first began to offer its business curriculum in 1902, when classes were offered under the economics degree with a concentration in commerce and finance. \nOne-hundred years later, what began as a couple commerce courses is now one of the country's premier and most successful business schools. With alumni like U.S. senator Evan Bayh and NBA franchise owner Mark Cuban, the business school is continuously recognized in national business publications and college rankings. However, it took a lot of innovation and evolution for the school and its programs to reach the prestigious stature it holds today.\nIU established what would become the business school in 1920. Programs mainly consisted of finance, accounting and commerce, and most of the faculty were actually professors in the economics department. \nJoseph M. Waldman, a professor at the school and the author of a new book about the history of business education at IU, said the first actual evolvement came in 1950.\n"The school did some research and found that classes needed to be less description and memorization and more into the behavioral aspects and quantitative skills of business along with case methods," he said. "This was a huge shift in business education that continues to be present today."\nJames Wimbush, IU associate dean of the faculties at the business school, has noticed other evolvements.\n"We are a premier business program that continues to be very innovative," he said. "Ten years ago we introduced integrated core classes, and five years ago we introduced focus academics that focused on a particular industry of business. And the students coming out of it know more than students from other schools going into their industries."\nToday, the school has approximately 4,600 full-time students receiving their undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees. It is the strength of all three of these programs that separates IU's business school from the others around the country, said Bradley Wheeler, the IU associate dean of teaching and learning technologies.\n"Very, very, few schools have highly recognized undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs," he said. "Usually, other schools are good only at one."\nWheeler formerly taught at the University of Maryland. In retrospect, Wheeler said he realizes how great the business school is here.\n"There is a very collegial environment here," he said. "At Maryland and at a lot of other schools, it is a challenge to cross department lines, while here everyone works together and it is very easy to work with and cross those lines between departments."\nThe business school is named the Kelley School of Business because of a $23 million contribution to the business scholarship program in 1997 by philanthropist E.W. Kelley, a 1939 graduate of the school. \nOther programs that have been innovative and a major factor in the success of the school have been the executive programs, business information technology being turned into a major and online M.B.A. and masters degrees offered through a program called Kelley Direct. \nThe executive programs, which the school has been a leader in for over 40 years, bring companies and students together in the education process. This program and many others in the graduate department will be improved by the new $34 million Graduate and Executive Education Center being dedicated tomorrow.\nWheeler said the future of the Kelley School of Business looks promising. \n"There's no doubt, in the future, the courses will have increased technology," he said. "There will also be more interdisciplinary programs, relating different fields and allowing students to be educated across different programs." \nThe business curriculum, now having been taught for 100 years, is one of the oldest in the country. \nWheeler said the Kelley School effectively prepares its graduates for the real world.\n"When our graduates are going out into the world and going head-to-head against graduates of Ivy League schools and other top programs, they usually tend to succeed," he said.
(11/12/02 4:26am)
IU is sponsoring an early childhood inclusion conference Nov. 13 and 14 in Carmel, Ind., a suburb of Indianapolis. \nAlice Cross, event coordinator and research associate of the Indiana Institute on Disability Communication, has been planning the event since January of this year.\n"(The primary focus is) for people to gain knowledge of strategies for young children with disabilities in including them in community settings and making them full participants in activities with other children," Cross said.\nShe emphasized the conference will be very beneficial for not only those teachers who attend, but also the children they teach.\n"It is so important that young children with disabilities have the opportunity to play, interact and learn with their peers," she said. \nA child can be considered disabled under a wide array of needs and disabilities including learning disabilities, speech and language.\nAccording to a report by the American Youth Policy Forum and Center on Education Policy, 11 percent of America's schoolchildren have disabilities, which is approximately 6.5 million. In 1970, only 20 percent of children with disabilities were educated in a regular school rather than state institutions or separate care facilities; today it is 96 percent.\nTwo people who have committed many years of service to these children are the keynote speakers for the conference -- Sue Swenson, the executive director of The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation in Washington D.C. and Robin McWilliam, division chief of child development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Both have been recognized nationally for their work as leaders in disability advocacy and research on early intervention and integrated therapy. \nMcWilliam will be speaking about methods for serving young children with disabilities and their families. He has created a model for intervention that is currently used in four states (Texas, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico) and growing rapidly in popularity -- he said he hopes this conference will be a step in that direction for Indiana. McWilliam has worked in this field for over 20 years starting at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. \nHe said when his daughter was young, she had several disabilities, which was a never ending process for McWilliam. His daughter is now 22-years-old and has been a beneficiary of his methods, and she still remains a motivation for him to improve things for young, disabled children. "(What motivates me is) first the fact that many ineffective things are being done in serving young children and improvement is needed and secondly, training and teaching young professionals new and effective ways," McWilliam said.\nStudents, administrators, parents, therapists and service providers will all be attending the conference, although it is primarily intended for teachers and those in the educational field. One such teacher is IU's Sam Odom. Odom is a professor of education at IU, and will make a presentation on the inclusion of young children in preschool programs. \n"My goal is to show ways children with disabilities can develop peers and achieve development goals," Odom said.\nOther topics to be explored at the conference are understanding autism spectrum disorders, sensory processing in the natural environment, and among other things, updates on research here at IU. While it is too late for anyone to attend who has not already registered, those that did, will surely be in for an experience they will remember. \n"This will really shake their cage and really make them think about what they're doing," McWilliam said. "It will challenge people's current assumptions and hopefully make them desire to seek more information"
(11/05/02 4:43am)
In case you didn't notice, red's out.\nA bright crimson, contrasted by cream-colored IU letters, has replaced IU athletics' old red and white logo. Every team has new uniforms and stores around the country are re-stocking their apparel to accommodate fans who want the latest gear.\nThe change was made to make IU products more marketable and to "instill pride, by giving all the sports teams one consistent look," said Jeff Fanter, director of media relations for the athletics department.\nThe University hired Michael-Osborne Design out of San Francisco to recreate the University's logo. It cost $136,100 to do the job.\nThe logo's designer, Paul Kagiwada, said he wanted a cleaner look.\n"We were not looking to make a drastic change, but to simplify the logo while at the same time, create a new standard for other logos to be measured up against," Kagiwada said.\nIU has licensing agreements with more than 500 companies, and through arrangements with them, receives 8 percent of the wholesale price of an item with the logo, producing about $800,000 a year for the athletics department.\nChanging the logo was not cheap, but Fanter said it will save money in the long run.\n"In our new contract with Nike, we will actually save about $300,000 to $400,000 a year," he said.\nThe athletics department declined to give specifics of its contract with Nike contract because it has not been completed, Fanter said.\nKelley School Associate Dean for Academics Bruce Jaffee said he believes the new contract with Nike is worth roughly $500,000 more than last year.\nThe response among the athletes to the new look has been positive, Fanter said. But the true popularity of the logo won't be determined until later in the year when sales and revenue figures are available.\nThe money from selling the apparel will go to the athletics department's budget.\n"The athletics department does not receive funding from the university; we have to support ourselves, so any revenue this change will bring will go into the athletic department's fund," Fanter said. \nThe IU athletics committee was instrumental in helping the athletics department decide on the new look. The athletics committee gave athletics director Michael McNeely input on the new logo and was a part of the focus groups that worked with the design firm from San Francisco.\nAlthough the new look will bring uniformity to all IU athletics teams, the department also made the move from a business standpoint, Jaffee said.\n"Oh, absolutely," Jaffee said. "While it was still an effort to attain unity, it was also an effort to sell more stuff and get more corporate support."\nSelling the new attire will help Southern Indiana, Fanter said.\n"(The new logo will) have a positive affect on the local economy," Fanter said.\nBut these are not the only things the athletics department had in mind.\n"The ultimate goal from a financial point of view is increased attendance," Jaffee said. "I think this is the right thing. (The logo is) a change that follows the traditions and gives some consistency"