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10 May/June 2014 BizEd headlines JOR DAN ADAMS/G LOW I MAG ES headlines AACSB INTERNATIONAL has launched the Business Practices Council to encourage collabora- tion between universities and busi- nesses. The group's mission is to identify and shrink the gaps that exist between what business gradu- ates know and what employers need; it will also support business school innovation, engagement, and impact, the pillars of AACSB's 2013 accreditation standards. The council was launched by the AACSB board of directors as a way to incorporate business perspectives into AACSB's strategy. It is chaired by Mike Thomas, executive vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, and includes ten business and four academic members. Organizations represented on the council include General Motors, The Coca-Cola Company, Deloitte LLP, The Con- ference Board, KPMG LLP, The Society for Human Resource Man- agement, Boehringer Ingelheim, State Street Global Exchange, and DBM Peru. The Business Practices Council began its work by collecting busi- ness engagement examples from accredited schools to share among the AACSB community. Members of the group also addressed partici- pants at the AACSB Deans Confer- ence in February. In addition, many of the practitioners in the group have participated in accreditation peer review visits to deepen their understanding of AACSB's process. In the coming year, the council will work on a variety of projects aimed at strengthening collaboration between business and academe. THE MEMBERSHIP of AACSB International has elected William H. Glick as vice chair-chair elect of the board of directors for the 2014–2015 year. Glick is dean and H. Joe Nelson III Professor of Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in Houston, Texas. At the same time, six board members were elected for three-year terms that begin July 1: María de Lourdes Dieck Assad, dean of EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico; Linda U. Hadley, dean of the Turner College of Business at Columbus State University in Georgia; Susan J. Hart, executive dean of Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, U.K.; Karyl B. Leggio, dean of the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore; Michael J. Page, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Bent- ley University in Waltham, Massachusetts; and Sue J. Mattison, dean of the Col- lege of Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Green Bay. The Partnership Of Business and Academe New Board Members For AACSB