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The mission of the School of Business is to impart undergraduate business education, to synthesize theory and practice in the classroom, seek first hand exposure to best business practices and improve faculty performance as educators through research. Our mission objectives include:

• Providing quality, student-centered business education.
• Engaging in relevant faculty and student research that produces basic and applied knowledge relevant to business enterprise.
• Producing curriculum, research and outreach efforts that inform globalization, sustainability, ethics and entrepreneurship.
• Optimally integrating technology into teaching, learning and school operations.
• Engaging our diverse stakeholders to improve the effectiveness of our programs and to better serve our community.
• Seeking first hand exposure to best business practices.
• Improving our performance as educators through research.

We will be increasingly recognized by our stakeholders for preparing our graduates with systematic self-reflection and development skills as the foundation for life-long learning and professional effectiveness.

Advisory Board Members

We recognize the following stakeholders as significant partners in our success:

• Business enterprises, state/local/national government and nonprofit organizations.
• Junior Colleges and high schools.
• Alumni, friends, parents and donors.
• Administration.

Reflecting our mission priorities and key stakeholder contributions to our mission, our shared values and beliefs describe performance imperatives that address three critical relationships:

Our Relationships to Students

• Nurturing the success of a challenged student while fully challenging the exceptional student through an interactive culture of learning.
• Providing students with a clear set of ethical and professional behavior expectations.
• Being exemplars of these ethical and professional expectations in the work world.
• Providing a curriculum that exposes students to meaningful real-world applications.
• Assuring that students are beneficiaries of our scholarship.
• Imparting the imperative for life-long learning through experiential, student-initiated and unstructured learning that is central to professional advancement.
• Engaging in assurance of learning and outcomes assessment methodologies to demonstrate to students their growing mastery of the professional content of our curriculum and facilitate achievement of our learning aims through continuous improvement.Ìý

Our Relationships as Colleagues

• Maintaining the importance for continuous faculty development (including the importance of scholarship and research for teaching effectiveness) and institutional support that enhances such development.Ìý
• Continually fostering colleagueship characterized by mutual respect, behavior consistent with our stated expectations for ethical and professional conduct as faculty and administrators, and mutual assistance in professional development.
• Making meaningful contributions to committees and task groups charged with the continuous quality improvement of our school.

Our Relationships with External Partners

• Forging partnerships that enable us as business educators to maintain our scholarship and understanding of leading-edge organizational practice.
• Working with alumni, students and business partners to advance our stated educational aims and faculty professional development goals including significant exposure to real-world applications for both students and faculty.Ìý
• Advancing our communities through partnerships that employ our professional skills.