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headlines "Our proposal is a response to the urgent need to find solutions to campuswide finan- cial challenges," says Judy Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson. Under the Anderson proposal, about US$8.8 million in state support that otherwise would flow to UCLA Anderson would instead be available to the campus for use in sup- porting other programs. The business school would replace state funding with gifts and donations. UCLA Anderson officials believe the proposal will allow them to allocate teaching resources more effectively and pro- vide greater flexibility in program design. Five of Anderson's six master's degree programs are already self-supporting, but the school still has a state-supported doctoral program and a state-supported undergraduate accounting minor. Changes at Anderson THE ANDERSON SCHOOL of Management at the Uni- versity of California in Los Angeles has taken a critical step in converting its state-supported MBA program to a self-supported one. The university's legislative assem- bly has approved a proposal to implement the change, but as of press time, it still needed approval from the University of California's Academic Senate and UC president Mark Yudof. Critics have raised concerns about the switch to self-funding, worrying that it will lead to higher tuition costs and fewer places within the school for native Californian students. To address concerns, UCLA chancellor Gene Block and Academic Senate chair Andrew Leuchter have convened a task force to guide the development and assessment of potential self-supporting degree programs. But they point out that the administration and the Academic Senate must operate within new funding realities. "The state's disinvestment in higher education is very unfortunate," Leuchter says. "We are therefore forced to consider new financial models to support our programs." Identifying Women for Corporate Boards THE FORTÉ FOUNDATION has announced a new initiative to increase the number of women on corporate boards in the U.S. The foundation, which is based in Austin, Texas, directs women toward leadership roles in business. The U.S. initiative follows Forté Foun- dation's collaboration with its five Euro- pean business school members and the European Commission, which recently 12 September/October 2012 BizEd published a repository of 7,000 vetted and board-ready women. Forté plans to release a separate list of U.S.-based women candi- dates at the end of this year. To compile the list, Forté will ask its 33 U.S. MBA partner schools to supply names of at least five candidates. In addition, Forté will consider self-nominations from its member- ship database of 60,000 professional women and partner with other organizations. BULL'S EYE/GLOW IMAGES