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Spotlight Up to the Challenge Daniels College of Business University of Denver Denver, Colorado On its 125-acre campus just 15 minutes from downtown Denver, the Daniels College of Business has evolved to create a business curricu- lum heavily rooted in ethics- and values-based leadership and corporate social responsibility. Established in 1908 as the School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance, and accredited by AACSB in 1923, the school was renamed in 1994 after Denver cable television pioneer Bill Daniels. Today, it serves a student body of 243 full-time and 124 part-time students. Its curriculum includes not only The Daniels College of Business A business student competing in Daniels' annual Race & Case, a business ethics case competi- tion and skiing race. Dean Karen Newman Management; the Reiman ethics-based courses, but also leader- ship retreats, workshops, and com- munity service and community- building activities through G.I.V.E. (Graduates Involved in Volunteer Efforts). For example, Daniels grad- uate students participate in the school's Outdoor Leadership Experience, a three-day mountain retreat that immerses students in activities such as orienteering, rope courses, outdoor sports, and team- building meetings. In addition, stu- dents from business schools across the U.S. come to Daniels to partici- pate in the schools's annual "Race & Case," where students prepare solu- tions to an ethical business dilemma and then compete in a skiing race. Students also can study in one of Daniels' four schools, including its School of Accountancy; its School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism 64 BizEd MAY/JUNE 2005 School of Finance; and the Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management. The school offers students ten business degree options and more than 25 specializations, which range from data warehousing and business intel- ligence, to international policy analy- sis, to values-based leadership, to innovation and entrepreneurship. The school is currently undergo- ing a leadership transition. James Griesemer, who served as its dean from 1994 to 2004, recently stepped down to assume a faculty position, handing the reins to interim dean Glyn Hanbery. Its permanent dean, Karen Newman, formerly dean of University of Richmond's Robins School of Business in Virginia, takes over in May. Newman sees hiring top faculty as one of her most important priorities. Newman recognizes that finding quality faculty is a special challenge facing many business school deans, especially in the midst of a doctoral shortage. Her strategy, she says, involves searching out established faculty rather than attempting to hire new doctoral gradu- ates, who are often a hot commodity on the faculty job market. "What Daniels is facing is true for many schools—when hiring new Ph.D.s, we're at a disadvantage rela- tive to Research I schools. Therefore, we're better served by hiring people who may have worked at a Research I school and decided that's not what they want," says Newman. "We plan to search primarily among faculty who have been working for three to ten years, who know what they want and don't want, and who have demonstrated proficiency in teaching and research." In the last five years, the school has undergone a transformation, which involved a new $24 million facility that opened in 1999. Newman wants to continue the school's current trajectory, expand- ing its status as a nationally recog- nized institution. "Daniels College has been around a long time, but only recently has its reputation come onto the national scene," says Newman. "We must keep accel- erating that momentum through high-quality hires, students, and programming." s z