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School of Management in Texas. The books, which form part of the school's internal audit collection, cover topics such as business ethics, corporate efficiency, fraud detection, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The donation was made possible by the Internal Auditing Academic Advancement Fund. n The international business degree program at Bryant University in Smith- field, Rhode Island, has accepted the invitation to become a full member of the Consortium for Undergradu- ate International Business Educa- tion. CUIBE aims to promote and enhance international business teaching through research, publica- tions, and seminars. n The Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, has become the 14th school to join the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a national not-for- profit American organization for diversity and inclusion that is based in St. Louis, Missouri. The Con- sortium recruits African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans for graduate business education and awards over $11 million in full-tuition, merit-based MBA fellowships annually. n A new faculty chair at the University of California, Berkeley, will be dedi- cated to leading-edge research and teaching on equity and inclusion in society. The chair will form part of a campuswide initiative launched by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau. The Rob- ert D. Haas Chan- cellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion, which is being established in part through a gift from the Levi Strauss Foundation, honors Haas, who recently stepped down as CEO and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. n The Kiebach Center for Interna- tional Business Studies in the Whit- man School of Management at Syracuse University in New York has launched the Africa Business Program. It will connect New York businesses, as well as students and faculty from the Whitman School, with businesses and markets in sub-Saharan Africa. CORRECTION In the article "All Eyes on Africa," which appeared in BizEd's May/ June issue, Brent Chrite was mistak- enly identified as the associate dean and director of the MBA program at Arizona State University. He is actu- ally the associate dean and director of the MBA program at the Uni- versity of Arizona's Eller College of Management in Tucson. In the same story, The Gordon Institute of Busi- ness Science should have been identi- fied as the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa, rather than Cape Town. n z BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2008 15

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