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The MBA That Delivers The part-time MBA landscape is fundamentally changing—location and duration, cost and content. mg classes in students' sophomore years. The goal is to introduce students to the international world of business earlier in their educations and pre- pare them for the integrated busi- ness courses of the MBA program. n A new joint Certificate in Innova- tion Management Program has been launched as collaboration between the Clark School of Engineering and the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College Park. The five-module series pairs faculty from business and engineering and is aimed at entrepreneurs, small- business owners, and executives in corporate venturing. n In January, the Graduate School of Management at the University of Dallas in Texas is introducing a new, mission-driven curriculum for its Dallas MBA program. The new curriculum has five components: courses on business fundamentals; training and assessment in leadership skills; core courses on value creation; OTHER NEWS n The Wharton School of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has established a new scholarship to ben- efit one Marine Corps officer annu- ally, enabling the individual to attend a Wharton Executive Education course. The scholarship was created to honor Captain Robert M. Secher, who was killed in Iraq in 2006. Secher helped the Wharton School design its Quantico Leadership Ven- ture, a leadership development work- shop that builds upon the pro- grams and facili- ties of the U.S. Marine Corps for developing leadership at its Officer Candidate School in Quan- tico, Virginia. LEADS THE FIELD in creating innovative solutions for part-time students: BABSON ® Fast Track MBA Portland, OR campus • Nationally ranked MBA taught in 24 months Wellesley, MA campus • Collaborative, team-based learning environment • Unique combination of Web-based and classroom learning Evening MBA Wellesley, MA campus • Nationally ranked MBA taught in 36 months • Team-taught "cluster courses" encourage learning from multiple perspectives • Career Contexts help students design their electives with a career focus The MBA That Delivers® www.babson.edu/mba Ranked #1 in entrepreneurship by U.S.News & World Report and Financial Times. Ranked Top 10 Best Opportunity for Women by The Princeton Review. core courses that integrate value creation with strategy, social respon- sibility, and decision making; and industry-specific electives. n A new initiative dedicated to advancing multicultural women in the corporate workforce has been founded by Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. ASCENT is a national nonprofit organization that develops skills and talent through research, executive education, net- working opportunities, and corpo- rate sponsorships. n The College of Management at North Carolina State University in Raleigh has named its Jenkins Graduate School of Management in honor of Benjamin P. Jenkins III, vice chairman and president of the General Bank at Wachovia Cor- poration. The new Jenkins Gradu- ate School includes the MBA and master of accounting programs, as well as the Graduate Economics Program, which is offered jointly by the College of Management and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. n z BizEd JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008 15