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JULY | AUGUST 2015 BizEd 69 sions will be conducted at both the Weatherhead School and on the Cleveland Clinic campus. Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C., and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) have announced a partnership through the school's Business, Society, and Public Policy Initiative. In addition to collaborating on projects and conferences, the two organizations will work to establish a set of business principles and practices designed to make federal agencies more e¡cient. Much of their work will be done in preparation for a new presidential administration in 2017. Starbucks Corporation and Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe announced that the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, first intro- duced in June 2014, will now offer 100 percent tuition coverage for every eligible U.S. Starbucks employee. When they first announced the plan last year, full tuition coverage was previously available only to juniors and seniors. (See "Star- bucks Orders Up Education" in BizEd's November/ December 2014 issue, page 65.) However, now all eligible part-time or full-time employees can ap- ply for a bachelor's degree through ASU's online degree programs. NEW FACILITIES SKEMA Business School has opened a new campus in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC). The Brazilian campus adds to the school's locations in the U.S., China, and France. In September 2015, the first 100 students from SKEMA's master's in management program will begin their classes in Brazil. FDC will provide SKEMA's students with customized content for their courses related to various aspects of Brazilian business. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, a private aca- demic and research institute in Japan, announced the opening of its Osaka-Ibaraki campus in April. The new campus, which will be home to approxi- mately 6,000 students, will include the Graduate School of Business Administration, the Graduate School of Management, among others. In May, ESSEC Business School in France held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the new facility for its ESSEC Asia-Pacific campus in Singapore. The building features 6,500 square feet spanning five floors. It includes nine lecture rooms, ten breakout rooms, a library, an auditorium, and a lab, as well as study areas, o¡ces, and residential suites for visiting faculty. IS YOUR SCHOOL KEEPING PACE WITH ONLINE PROGRAM GROWTH? For more information, visit www.aacsb.edu/seminars BRING YOUR SCHOOL UP TO DATE WITH THESE SEMINARS. ACCREDITATION IS CONSTANTLY EVOLVING. Assessment Seminar March 5–6, 2016 | Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Assurance of Learning Seminar August 24–25, 2015 | Brisbane, Australia October 10–11, 2015 | Xi'an, China Applied Assurance of Learning Seminar August 26, 2015 | Brisbane, Australia Business Accreditation Seminar August 12–13, 2015 | Lima, Peru August 18–19, 2015 | Brisbane, Australia October 8–9, 2015 | Xi'an, China October 19–20, 2015 | Tampa, Florida, USA Continuous Improvement Review Seminar August 21, 2015 | Brisbane, Australia September 19, 2015 | Chicago, Illinois, USA January 30, 2016 | Miami, Florida, USA Enhancing and Measuring Impact Forum August 20, 2015 | Brisbane, Australia October 21–22, 2015 | Tampa, Florida, USA