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In this issue: State of The Citadel School of Business Administration By W. Earl Walker, Ph.D. Networking With Other Citadel Business Alumni By Andy McCleaf Helen Harloe, Director of The Citadel Executive Institute - "Excellence in Leadership and Organizational Solutions." By Mandy Coleman The AACSB Accreditation Process - An Interesting Story about a Not-So-Interesting Topic By Marna Stilley Upcoming Citadel Business Alumni Events By Citadel Business Network
State of The Citadel School of Business Administration By W. Earl Walker, Ph.D.
Greetings from The Citadel and Charleston! Much has happened in the Business School in the last year. The highlights are new initiatives in the MBA Program, The Citadel Business Hall of Fame, continued growth and ongoing refinement of the Mentors Association, an outstanding series of Leadership Forum events, and growth in our staff. Our MBA Program now has a dual degree partnership with the College of Pharmacy at MUSC. Pharmacy students can enroll at each School, take pharmacy courses in the day at MUSC and then go to The Citadel in the evening and in the summer to earn their MBA. They can complete both degrees in four years. We are about ready to sign a similar dual degree arrangement with the College of Medicine in which students can complete their MD and MBA in five years. We are at work on still a third Program with the School of Nursing at MUSC that we expect to be in place in the fall of 2005. The School had the first ever Citadel Business Hall of Fame in April 2004 and presented the Leader of Principle Award to Walter Brashier, Bill Krause, and Andy Warlick. Our next The Citadel Business Hall of Fame is on April 14, 2005. This black tie event will honor two other outstanding leaders, Martha Rivers Ingram and Bill Sansom. We also expect one or two others to receive an award that evening. During the evening we initiate our leading business students in the School honorary Beta Gamma Sigma. The Mentors Association continues to grow and prosper. We now have over 70 outstanding mentors from diverse backgrounds, all of whom have had executive experience. In addition, there are nearly 105 students involved in the program. Mentors seek to help their mentees develop a broad vision for a lifelong career of service as leaders of principle, a purpose consistent with the Business School mission of educating and developing leaders of principle to serve a global community. We continue to refine the Association; a team of mentors is at work now to refine it with a number of improvements. Thanks to the fine work of Alex McMillan and his Leadership Forum Committee, the School had four wonderful Leadership Forum events this fall. We have had the following speakers: David Oliver COO of EADS North American (EADS is the company that produces the airbus) on challenges in the aerospace industry; Elizabeth and Maybank Hagood on the challenges of dual career couples; Bob McCoy, former COO of Wachovia on bank mergers; and John Huey, Time Inc.'s Editorial Director, on Corporate leadership. The Forum is open to all in the community. All MBA students in class the evening of the lecture are asked to attend. Finally, we have added some highly effective new staff members. Marna Stilley is our MBA Administrator. She serves as a counselor for our MBA students and seeks to market the Program in the community. Jeannie Mehrtens is now our budget and events coordinator. Jeannie is in her element in terms of event coordination in that she has run a catering business. She is also making steady progress in getting new budget control procedures in place. Finally, we hired Connie Anthony to be our Mentors Association and Speakers Bureau Coordinator. Connie has had extensive experience as a manager. And this list of developments in The Citadel School of Business Administration just breaks the surface. We have a number of other exciting developments that space does not permit me to describe in detail. Call me for more details. Thank you for your continued interest and support for The Citadel School of Business Administration. We in the School wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
E-Mail: earl.walker@citadel.edu
Networking With Other Citadel Business Alumni By Andy McCleaf The original mission of the Citadel Business Network was to serve the needs of Citadel graduates and the College's many stakeholders interested in business and organizational issues. Specifically, the primary goal of your Business Alumni Newsletter is "to promote communication and networking among Citadel graduates and students and other stakeholders who share a passion for The Citadel and the School of Business Administration." So far, I hope you have found these Citadel Alumni Newsletters both interesting and informing. We have introduced you to a number of accomplished alumni, faculty, and stakeholders. And the stories behind these people are both fascinating and inspiring. But these successful individuals are not alone. The Citadel boasts numerous talented, experienced, and successful alumni. You probably know many. Wouldn't it be great if we all could learn and benefit from their stories too? Think for a second of the wealth of Citadel Business Alumni out there. Each one has his or her own unique learning curve. From military officers, to CEO's, to business owners, each alumni has gone through the trial and error process allowing them to achieve the results and success they have today. Would you like to hear more of their stories? The Citadel Business Network is trying to do just that, by creating a network for all Citadel Business Alumni. The network will be able to promote communication and networking among any of the alumni that read and enlist in the network. How could you use this network? The Citadel Business Alumni network could be used for any number of ways. Consider:
The Citadel Business Alumni Network begins with a sampling of your background. After our editors assemble the useful information, you will be able to scan individuals for background, location, last name, professional level and much more through an MS Access database. For instance, you could find an alumni who is lawyer in Florida or an engineer in the Utilities industry, and so forth. With everyone's information you could have a vital professional resource, benefiting from other talented alumni and their experiences, or simply have a way to locate lost acquaintances. To be involved in the Citadel Business Alumni, click on the survey link below and fill out all pertinent information. If you are uncomfortable with offering certain personal information, such as a home phone number or email, simply do not fill in that information and move on to the next question. Certainly, for the network to be effective, at least one preferred method of contact information should be offered. After the CBN editors compile the information we will send out a newsletter offering the next steps. And, hopefully, the Citadel Business Alumni Network can evolve and improve with more use. Click here to post your name to the list of Citadel Business Alumni. Click here to view the current list of Citadel Business Alumni. If you have any comments or questions, please contact me at: cbn@citadel.edu. I am interested in some good feedback. Do you have an interesting networking story and like to extend it to other Citadel Alums? Contact me at the above address and tell me your tale. Maybe we could offer it in upcoming editions of the CBN. Your newsletter is becoming more interactive and beneficial. And soon, we can all benefit from the trials and successes of other gifted alumni, like you.
Upcoming Citadel Business Alumni Events By Citadel Business Network The Citadel School of Business Administration is continuing to present the Leadership Forum in the spring semester. The Leadership Forum focuses on leadership and ethics in business and organizational life. This spring's roster of participants is quite impressive and draws from diverse professional experiences. The spring semester's roster is presented below. Sessions begin at 5:45 p.m. in the Duckett Auditorium. The public is cordially invited to attend.
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By Mandy Coleman
Helen has been surrounded by the military all her life. Her father, once a fighter pilot, graduated from The Citadel in 1942. Following in his footsteps, her brother went on to graduate from The Citadel in 1976. Helen grew up on military installations all over the world including Japan, where she took several correspondence courses before she returned to the US to attend classes at Stratford College in Virginia. Not long after she began school in Virginia she decided to attend University of South Carolina. Helen took summer school classes at The Citadel while obtaining her degree in English with a minor in Psychology from USC. Part of Helen's leadership foundation began when she acquired an entry level position at Blue Cross Blue Shield in Columbia. She was initially hired as an administrative assistant and was then quickly promoted to trainer. Helen moved from Columbia to Galveston, TX where she began developing an inaugural national training program for BCBS. The distance-based program included exercise modules that involved programmed instruction of reading and listening to develop skills. Helen created the program from its inception and continuously worked on this project for five years with BCBS. This program allowed her to develop and nurture her creative leadership skills. At the age of 32 Helen began graduate school at the University of Charlotte where she earned a scholarship to study Organizational Industrial Psychology. The program was centered on a science-based approach to people at work. The program included people from every end of the spectrum, including hiring, training, development, job descriptions, leadership development, and even ergonomics. Helen knew she had found her niche in the organizational and leadership development aspect of the program. She was enthralled with the program and did so well she was one of a few select students chosen to observe at The Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC. The Center is internationally recognized for their work in understanding and expanding the leadership capabilities from all sectors of the workforce. Helen went on to accept a position here in Charleston at SCANA. The roll she took on at SCANA combined both her leadership and ethics interests when she was able to teach a leadership development program for all levels of employment. It was here that she was able to test employees on what they considered the most important characteristic in a leader; over and over again the top two were character and integrity. This provided tremendous insight into what were important skills to develop in becoming a leader. From SCANA, Helen went on to work at J.K. Harris. At the time, the core management team at the company consisted only of 5-6 people and with her help it grew into a national firm with over $100 million in revenues. At J. K. Harris Helen wore many hats from training, human resources, leadership development, quality management and assurance. It was about a year ago when, while listening to the radio, Helen heard a man from West Point speaking on the topic of leadership and ethics. She called him and expressed her interest in the subject, did some research and found The Citadel would once again have a place in her life, this time as a career. Helen has not been here long but is already busy meeting with faculty, staff, advisory board members, center board members, and business owners trying to get a sense of what The Institute can offer to the community and regional businesses. For now Helen says, "The Institute's primary market will be small businesses that just don't have the budget to hire expensive consultants from out of town. We may just be the best bargain around for those businesses or organizations who want a quality service and best practice information for a reasonable price." The Institute will initially offer three Certificate Series programs:
Helen brings tremendous energy to The Citadel, with her education and experience she is definitely working on what she knows best. The old saying, "You'll never work a day in your life if you love what you do," emerged from people like Helen. She is looking forward to working with students and faculty while developing the program into one that will provide the insight to awaken the leader within all of us. Anyone interested in contacting Helen about The Citadel Executive Institute and what it can offer should call (843) 953-5056 or email Helen at Helen.Harloe@citadel.edu.
The AACSB Accreditation Process - An Interesting Story about a Not-So-Interesting Topic By Marna Stilley Reading about any kind of accreditation process is most likely not on your fun-things-to-do list. Our story, however, is worthy of your consideration because it demonstrates the impact the Citadel School of Business Administration (CSBA) had on the international accreditation process as a whole. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) is the premier accrediting agency for business schools worldwide, and accreditation represents the highest standard of achievement. During the 80s and early 90s accreditation involved the adoption of standard ideas and practices regarding curriculum, faculty credentials, student qualifications and other resources. The standard was principally modeled on business programs at larger schools and universities and did not allow for diversity or uniqueness in any area. At that time we were a Department, not a School, of Business Administration; this distinction is important when you consider that in 1996 there were 276 accredited Colleges or Schools of Business Administration in North America, but not one accredited Department of Business Administration. Nonetheless, we felt very strongly that we offered a quality program worthy of accreditation. We also understood that we faced some challenges. So in 1993, we hired a team of 3 consultants, all former business-school deans and AACSB presidents, to evaluate our department and provide feedback on our chances of achieving accreditation. The results were both disappointing and rewarding. Under the then current AACSB guidelines our chances of accreditation were slim without significant change to our programs. The consultants found our program, although unique, one of quality and distinction and their advice was: "Don't change your unique mission just to try to become accredited!" About a year later, the AACSB created a task force to revise the accreditation process. Coincidentally, or maybe not, the Chair and two other members of that task force were our consultants! After two years of discussion and revision, the results were released; the new standards were largely based upon a school's mission and its ability to achieve that mission with quality. Fitting into the mold was not as important as creating your own mold - relevant, unique, and significant. In 1996, The Citadel's business program was one of the first to achieve accreditation under the new standards. Moreover, we became the very first (and subsequently only one of two) accredited Departments of Business Administration in North America. Accreditation brings the CSBA respect from its peers, students, national and international firms that recruit our graduates, faculty prospects, and our community. We fully expect to achieve re-accreditation in 2010. For more information about AACSB, please visit www.aacsb.edu. Marna Stilley is the Citadel's MBA Administrator. For further details in the Citadel's Business School, accreditation, or academic programs contact Marna at StilleyM1@citadel.edu.
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