NIU College of Business names new dean
4/29/16 The Northern Illinois University College of Business has named Balaji Rajagopalan as its next dean.
Rajagopalan, who currently serves as the head of the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend, will assume his new role at NIU on July 1. He also holds the Toudy Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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5/10/16 Prospective business school students are applying to a narrower range of masters course specialisations, suggesting an increased focus on specific career paths, according to new figures from the global admissions body.
A worldwide survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council found that 23 per cent of those seeking a place on masters courses last year applied only to those specialising in subjects, such as finance or accountancy. This compared with 15 per cent in 2009.
Seventy one per cent of respondents cited a single industry of interest for postgraduate employment compared with 58 per cent a year earlier, and 61 per cent said they were focused on a specific job function after graduation compared with 46 per cent a year earlier.
Students considering a full-time MBA place were the least likely in the GMAC survey to consider studying for other masters qualifications.
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5/6/16 Educators have studied the processes of reading and writing, and the development of skills in each area, but never how one influences the other. In a groundbreaking study in the May issue of the International Journal of Business Administration, University of Florida associate professor Yellowlees Douglas and graduate student Samantha Miller discovered strong correlations between the complexity of graduate students’ reading and their writing.
“You’d think someone would have studied these effects in adults long ago,” Douglas said, “but we were astonished to discover no one had.”
The study used tools that measure syntactic complexity and the Lexile framework to assess lexical sophistication, based on how commonly specific words crop up in over 100 million publications. Douglas and Miller surveyed UF’s MBA students on their regular reading materials, the number of hours they spent reading per week and the frequency with which they read fiction. Douglas and Miller then captured a paragraph from participants’ cover letters, an assignment every MBA student completes for a required course.
“We chose the same paragraph from the same assignment — the second paragraph from a job application letter,” Miller said, “to ensure students were writing for similar audiences and with the same goals for the assignment.” Then the pair ran samples from a single news story across all the sources students read through the same two programs that they used to study participants’ writing.
Read more via: http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/05/what-you-read-affects-your-writing–so-choose-carefully.php
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