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JULY | AUGUST 2015 BizEd 67 helped start a four-year professional development program and an executive mentoring program for undergraduate students aimed at improving stu- dent retention and graduation rates. He previously served as dean at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Patrick G. Maggitti has been named the first provost of Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the Helen and William O'Toole Dean of the Villanova School of Business. GRANTS AND DONATIONS The University of California San Diego recently announced that the Rady Family Foundation has made a US$100 million commitment to help recruit and retain faculty and fund strategic priorities at the university's Rady School of Management. In 2004, Evelyn and Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation helped establish the Rady School of Management with a $30 million lead gift. They also contributed $5 million toward the expansion of the business school's campus, among other significant gifts. Ernest Rady currently serves as the executive chairman of the board of directors and chief investment o¡cer at American Assets Investment Management LLC. The Albert Lepage Foundation has committed US$12.5 million to the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, to establish a new entrepreneurship center. The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will oversee the Freeman School's course- work, academic research, and student programing in this area; it also will focus on community outreach by New Board Appointments AACSB International has announced four appointments to its international board of directors for 2015-2016. Serving three-year terms will be Michael Arena, the chief talent and development o•cer at General Motors Corporation; Erika James, dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; and Francois Ortalo-Magné, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. Serving a one-year term will be John A. Elliott at the School of Business at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. IS YOUR SCHOOL KEEPING PACE WITH ONLINE PROGRAM GROWTH? For more information, visit www.aacsb.edu/conferences ANNUAL ACCREDITATION CONFERENCE September 20–22, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA One of AACSB's largest conferences, the Annual Accreditation Conference, is designed for schools of all sizes to address topics like research impact, faculty models, financial strategies, and more. Whether your school is just beginning to explore accreditation or is involved with an ongoing continuous improvement review, this event offers invaluable insights into quality improvement in the b-school.