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NAVIGATING A DIVERSE BUSINESS LANDSCAPE CASE STUDY 5: NEW YORK, NEW YORK For thousands of corporations that call Manhattan home, paying $100 per square foot per year for office space isn't unreasonable. It's the price you pay for the company you keep. The dynamic Manhattan commercial real estate market is also the perfect business laboratory for students in the Integrated Real Estate at Lehigh (ire@l) program. Learn about their field work and why this cross-disciplinary undergraduate pro- gram is charting new territory in and out of the classroom at www.lehigh.edu/integration. OTHER NEWS n Peace Corps volunteers returning from two-year terms of service are eligible for a new annual scholarship to be offered by Northeastern Univer- sity's College of Business Administration in Bos- ton, Massachusetts. Applicants to the fully funded scholarship will be evaluated on their work expe- rience, particularly with the Peace Corps; demonstrated lead- ership ability; and potential academic and personal qualities. n Columbia Business School will join forces with Columbia University Press to launch Columbia Business School Publishing. The imprint will appear on books, cases, periodicals, and other works in the areas of finance, economics, and business scholarship. The imprint made its debut in October with the publica- tion of Strategic Intuition: The Cre- ative Spark in Human Achievement by William Duggan, associate pro- fessor of management at Columbia Business School. n The information systems manage- ment program at the Quinnipiac Uni- versity School of Business in Ham- den, Connecticut, has received five-year accreditation from the Computer Accreditation Commission of ABET, formerly known as the Accrediting Board for Engineering Technologies. DEATHS n Wilma Stricklin, a pioneer for women teaching in business schools, died this summer at the age of 81. Stricklin—who earned her under- graduate and MBA degrees at California State at San Jose and her Ph.D. from the University of South- ern California in Los Angeles— taught for a time at each of her alma maters, as well as Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Starting in the mid-'70s, she worked at North- ern Illinois University in DeKalb, first joining the school's College of Business as a faculty member and chair of the department of manage- ment. She also headed up a com- mittee formed in 1978 to bring the university into compliance with Title IX, and she spearheaded the task force that brought about the cre- ation of a resource center specifically directed toward women. Northern Arizona University has a scholarship set up in Stricklin's name; at NIU, an annual award given to someone who enhances the campus climate for women was renamed several years ago in Stricklin's honor. n Michael J. Barclay, a longtime mem- ber of the finance faculty at the Uni- versity of Rochester's Simon Gradu- ate School of Business in New York, died in a seaplane crash this summer. He was 50. He had received 11 Simon School MBA Superior Teach- ing Awards; in 1994, BusinessWeek named him one of the top business professors in the U.S. n z BizEd NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 17