Faculty of Business Administration - University of New Brunswick

The Faculty of Business Administration's detailed application to enter the AACSB accreditation process was approved at the meeting of the agency's Pre-Accreditation Committee in Minneapolis on 16 September.

The Faculty accordingly has entered the first formal phase of the process, which must be completed within two years with the submission and approval of an Accreditation Plan. A mentor will be assigned, who will assist the Faculty with the accreditation process and who will provide advice about how to close gaps between the Faculty's existing operations and the conditions necessary to meet the agency's 21 standards. The Faculty will be soliciting input from relevant stakeholders as the accreditation process advances.

Founded in 1916, AACSB International is a not-for-profit organization consisting of more than 900 educational organizations and corporations. Its mission is excellence in management education in colleges and universities. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, AACSB is the premier accreditation agency for business education and represents the top 10 percent of business schools worldwide. As of April, 2006, 527 member institutions hold AACSB business accreditation, of which 168 have additional specialized accreditation for their accounting programs. Eighty-five accredited institutions are outside of the United States.

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This August over 48 registrants from five continents descended upon Fredericton to attend the 11th annual International Workshop on Telework, with the theme of this year’s conference being “E-Networks in an Increasingly Volatile World.”

Over 70 people were involved with the conference both presenting or reviewing papers, and many Faculty of Business Administration members were involved. The conference’s General Chair, Proceedings Editor were members of the faculty with the local organizing committee being composed almost entirely of faculty, staff, and graduate students.

In addition to the high level of attendance, the conference website has received about 100,000 hits and is fifth out of 88,200 sites on Google’s search engine.

The conference brought together people from all disciplines as people from business, education, engineering, computer science, and medicine gathered to discuss the societal and technological implications of people gathering electronically in order to carry out everything from customer service to diagnosis of patients.

The event was considered a successful one as researchers promised future collaboration with one another and Fredericton was highlighted as a place for both innovation and entrepreneurship.

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