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Headlines SHORT TAKES Business and Economics in China to jointly deliver a Global Consortium MBA program. The two-year, full- time program, which launches in 2008, will simultaneously draw stu- dents from the United States, China, and India. ■ Thunderbird School of Global Manage- ment of Glendale, Arizona, has announced several new partner- ships and programs in Asia. The school is teaming with Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan, to offer a dual degree program that will allow students to earn an MBA from Soo chow and a Master of Global Management from Thunderbird. Thunderbird also is launching a program that allows its MBA candidates to study for a trimester at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. ■ Beginning this fall, graduate stu- dents from China and Europe will be able to earn MBAs from the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Bryan School of Business and Economics has signed new agree- ments with the European Business School in Paris and the Shanghai Shenwei Management Consulting Company China in collaboration with the Management and Econo- my Center at Shanghai University. GIFTS AND DONATIONS ■ The Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has been the beneficiary of two recent gifts. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 14 BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2007 has announced its continued sup- port of the university's Campaign For Love and Honor with a $1.1 million commitment that will estab- lish a new endowed chair position for a faculty member in accountan- cy. The commitment will be matched by $400,000 from a lead- ership gift pledged in 2005 by Rich- ard T. and Joyce B. Farmer and the Farmer Family Foundation. A $2 million gift from Jim and Amy Mill- er Chapman will provide new capital funds for a new building for the Farmer School. The new 200,000- square-foot building is currently under construction and scheduled for occupancy in 2009. ■ The University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management has received $50 million from the Province of Ontario as part of the province's 2007 budget. The funding will enable the school to con- struct a building that will host its newly established Centre for Jurisdictional Advantage and Prosperity and provide space to expand the school's graduate programs by half. An additional $10 million in government funding has also been allocated to the project, while a further $60 million will be raised from private donations to match the total govern- ment funding. The Centre for Jurisdictional Advantage and Prosperity will study how jurisdictions become magnets for companies to start up and grow and for individuals to live and work. ■ Charles M. Harper, retired chair- man and chief executive of ConAgra Foods, has given the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business one of the largest cash gifts in its his- tory. In recognition of the gift, the business school building on the uni- versity's Hyde Park campus has been named the Charles M. Harper Cen- ter. Harper has requested that the amount of his gift not be disclosed. ■ The College of Busi- ness at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff has received a $25 million "transformational" gift from William A. Franke. Franke is managing part- ner of Indigo Partners and former CEO of America West Airlines and other Arizona-based companies. The gift, the largest in the university's history, will be used for scholarships, faculty development, and program development in what will become known as the W.A. Franke College of Business. Franke is especially interested in recruiting and retaining underrepresented and first-genera- tion students in the business college. ■ The University of Ottawa's School of Management in Ontario has received a pledge of $25 million from Ian Telfer, alumnus of the school and chairman of Goldcorp Inc. The gift is the largest in the history of the university. In his honor, the school will be renamed the Telfer School of Management. Most of the money will be invested in endowments that support programs, students, faculty, and other school priorities. Later this year, the Telfer School of Management will move into the new state-of-the-art Desmarais Build- ing, named for the generosity of the Desmarais family.