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Published: February 26, 2014
$10 Million Alumni Gift to Further Transformation of CMU’s Tepper School of Business
An acclaimed venture capitalist and alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Tepper School of Business, together with his wife, has given $10 million to further efforts already underway to enhance the school’s undergraduate and graduate programs in business, the school announced today.
James R. Swartz, a 1966 graduate from the business school, is a noted entrepreneur and venture capitalist and founding partner of Palo Alto‒based Accel Partners. The gift, which he made with his wife, Susan, follows a $67 million gift in November from the charitable foundation of David A. Tepper to create a major new academic hub at the center of CMU’s campus called the Tepper Quadrangle.
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Published: November 17, 2013
$67 Million Alumni Gift to Fund New Home for Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business
Continuing a tradition of giving back to his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) alumnus and hedge fund billionaire David A. Tepper has given the school an additional $67 million, which will fund the construction of a new 295,000-square-foot home for the business school. Over the past decade, Tepper has given a total of $125 million to the university, including a $55 million gift in 2004, for which the business school was named in his honor.
In addition to funding the new business school building, Tepper’s most recent gift will create the “David A. Tepper Quadrangle,” a new academic hub intended to strengthen collaboration among CMU’s schools and colleges, the university announced. The first expansion of the university’s north campus, the 4.5-acre Tepper Quadrangle will include a new university welcome center, larger and better classrooms, meeting and collaboration spaces and a fitness center and café.
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Published: October 2, 2013
Clear Admit Career Services Director Q&A: Stephen Rakas of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University
Stephen Rakas has been in career services with the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon for the past 10 years and in his current role as executive director of the Career Opportunities Center (COC) since 2011. His previous experience includes four years in career services with the University of Pittsburgh and an additional decade of experience in general management and sales in industries ranging from healthcare to high-end retail.
“I discovered earlier in my career that serving as a conduit between the academic and business environments was a strong match with my skills and interests,” he told us. “I’m passionate about higher education, and the opportunity to help students transition their academic achievements into the world of work is very rewarding.”
Check out the interview below, in which he describes the comprehensive Base Camp Orientation all Tepper students undergo before classes even begin, explains why all the members of the COC team devote time both to counseling students and to maintaining relationships with employers and more.
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Published: April 28, 2013
Tepper School of Business FlexMBA Online Offering Draws Interest from Prospective Applicants Nationwide
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Tepper School of Business will debut a new online MBA offering next fall, and prospective applicants from across the United States – as well as Europe and Asia – have shown interest and/or submitted applications, the school reports.
FlexMBA – a new online MBA offering that will offer the same curriculum, faculty and access to services to online students that they would receive on campus as part of the traditional MBA program – differs from the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) model by creating small class sections of roughly 20 students and maximizing interaction between students and faculty, Tepper notes. Students will take part in weekly live online classes with Tepper professors and attend approximately five “access weekends” each year in which all FlexMBA students will travel to a CMU campus for intense classwork and professional development programs.
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Published: March 31, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University Establishes New Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Tepper School of Business and School of Computer Science will partner to establish a new, joint Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) in an effort to help transform university research and projects into commercial enterprises, the university announced last month.
The new CIE will combine Tepper’s Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship and the School of Computer Science’s Project Olympus, continuing the successful programs of each while also growing an extensive network of alumni entrepreneurs.
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