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18 campuses in India Ahmedabad . Bangalore . Bhubaneshwar Chandigarh . Chennai . Dehradun . Goa . Gurgaon Hyderabad . Indore . Jaipur . Kochi . Lucknow Kolkata . Mangalore . Mumbai . Noida . Pune n Thunderbird, the School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, is launching a redesigned Executive MBA program format this fall. The new program, which will be short- ened from 21 months to 16 months, will combine weekend classes in Phoenix with four weeklong mod- ules delivered in the U.S., Europe, and China. OTHER NEWS n Thunderbird recently announced that it would change the name of its business school as part of its Thunderbird 2010 strategic plan. Previously known as Thunderbird, the Garvin School of Management, the school will now be named the Thunderbird School of Global Management. The Garvin name will now be used for a newly established position, the Garvin Distinguished Professor of Global Management Research. n Last fall, Temple University broke ground on its new facility, Alter Hall, the future home for The Fox School of Business and Management. The $79 million hall was designed by Michael Graves and his Philadelphia partner, Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann. The new seven- story building will contain over 200,000 square feet. The $8 million technology budget will help equip the school with smart classroom design, one of the longest stock tickers in the United States, and a trading room/business simulation center. The hall is named for Dennis Alter, the chairman and chief execu- tive officer of Advanta Corp., and his wife, Gisela, who donated $15 mil- lion to the school. It is expected to be open in September 2008. n Western Carolina University in Cullo- whee, North Carolina, will create a new Center for Entrepre- neurship and Innovation to spur new ideas for business ventures in the region. In addition, to better reflect its increasing role in providing technical assistance to regional business and industry, the school has renamed its Center for Integrated Technologies as the Cen- ter for Rapid Product Realization. n The Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in College Station has become the new home for two aca- demic journals and a new entrepre- neurship journal. Management department head R. Duane Ireland has been named editor elect of the Academy of Management Journal, while management professor Lor- raine Eden will become editor-in- chief of the Journal of International Business Studies. Distinguished pro- fessor Michael A. Hitt is serving as founding co-editor of a new journal called the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. n University of Richmond's Robins School of Business in Virginia has been admitted to membership in the Latin American Council of Man- agement Schools (CLADEA). The international organization facilitates the study and teaching of business in Latin America and is composed of more than 100 universities and busi- nesses worldwide. Only ten other U.S. colleges and universities are members of CLADEA. n z BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2007 17