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headlines SHORT TAKES named H. Joseph Wen as the new dean of the Col- lege of Business Administration and Public Policy. Pre- viously, Wen was dean of the School of Business at Emporia State University in Kansas. n After four years as Indiana Univer- sity Foundation president, Eugene R. Tempel will be returning to IU's Center on Philanthropy in Bloomington as a senior fel- low to play a major role in the university's effort to establish a new School of Philanthropy. Succeeding Tempel as head of the foundation will be Dan- iel C. Smith, who has been dean of the IU Kelley School of Business for more than eight years. Smith will begin his new role on October 1, but he will serve as dean until an interim dean is appointed. STEPPING DOWN n Robert Mittelstaedt has announced that he will retire next year as dean of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in Tempe. He joined ASU in 2004, after spending more than 30 years in various lead- ership positions at the Whar- ton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 16 NEW PROGRAMS n In the fall of 2013, the Mer- rick School of Business at the University of Baltimore in Mary- land will launch the Ratcliffe Fellows Program as its new model for entrepreneurship education. Juniors and seniors will gain practical experience as they work with "gazelles," or rapidly growing new ventures. Participants also will be expect- ed to start their own for-profit businesses before completing the program, which will be funded by a US$550,000 gift from the Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation. n The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has estab- lished a new Wharton/Penn Risk and Insurance Program to disseminate interdisciplin- ary research on risk and insur- ance. The program has been created in conjunction with the university's law school and its Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. n The University of Miami School of Business Administra- tion in Florida has established a new accelerated MBA program with a concentration in real estate. The 18-month program combines the expertise of the School of Business and the School of Architecture. n A new Global Business Initiative at Georgetown Univer- sity's McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C., will integrate global issues through all levels of educa- tion. As part of the initiative, the school will expand the Global Business Experience, a required international consult- ing experience. Students also will study how regional and cultural factors affect topics such as supply chain manage- ment or social innovation, and students who study similar topics in different countries will present joint papers. September/October 2012 BizEd n This fall, the College of Busi- ness and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-White- water will offer a new internation- al business major that requires students to take 16 credits of a foreign language and complete a study abroad experience. n This fall, UCLA Anderson School of Management is offering a second version of its Fully Employed MBA pro- gram (FEMBA). In FEMBA Flex, a portion of the course- work is delivered online via lectures, collaborative group work, and Web-based learn- ing tools; on-campus classes are scheduled for weekends. n The Steven L. New- man Real Estate Institute of Baruch College in New York City has launched an online certificate program that will teach participants how to maxi- mize energy efficiency in enter- prises that range from small businesses to commercial real estate portfolios. n Melbourne Business School in Australia has intro- duced a new 12-month full- time MBA program that focus- es on integrated learning to provide a holistic view of real- world business. The program will adopt an Action Learning framework for students to apply coursework in real-world scenarios and allow students to tailor their electives. n This fall, Simon Fraser Univer- sity's Beedie School of Busi- ness, with locations in Burnaby and Surrey, British Columbia, is launching an EMBA in aborigi- nal business and leadership. The new EMBA is aimed at providing senior-level manage- ment education for aboriginal managers and entrepreneurs, as well as organizations that collaborate with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities.