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Published: February 25, 2014
UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Approach to Diversity Recruiting in MBA Admissions
The recruitment of African-American students and other traditionally underrepresented minorities is a challenge facing admissions directors at leading MBA programs, according to a recent post on the UCLA Anderson School of Management Blog.
“This is an issue facing all of the best programs,” says Alex Lawrence, Anderson assistant dean of admissions. “All of the admissions directors talk about it; it’s reality.” The relatively low admission numbers of black students in Anderson’s full-time school is a problem that stems from the fact that there are only a limited number of candidates that qualify for the top schools, he says.
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Published: November 14, 2013
UCLA Anderson School of Management Hosts Innovation Conference in China
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management has teamed up with UC Irvine’s Long U.S.-China Institute for Business and Law and a China-based venture capital firm to host a two-day conference in Shanghai on innovation and the emerging Chinese entrepreneurial market, the Anderson School announced.
Business leaders from around the globe have convened for Innovation China 2013, which is taking place today and tomorrow at the Shanghai Expo Center. Together, these global business leaders will examine China’s advances in areas ranging from IT and consumer goods to clean technology and advanced material – and the influence these advances are having or stand to have on the global economy.
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Published: September 23, 2013
Career Services Director Q&A: Regina Regazzi of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management
In its new director of the Parker Career Management Center, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management has found someone with unique insight into the school’s alumni base, as well as extensive recruiting and career consulting experience. Regina Regazzi graduated from Anderson herself with an MBA in 1997. After a stint at Bank of America in leasing she decided to switch gears to executive recruiting, turning to the Parker CMC for help in her own job search. She landed a job at an executive search firm and ultimately went on to launch her own firm, Artume LLC, in 2008.
All the while, she remained actively involved with Anderson as an alumna, serving in several roles of the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network and winning the 2005 Outstanding Alumni Service Award. She was ultimately elected president of the Alumni Board of Directors in 2009, responsible for representing the school’s 37,000 alumni.
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Published: August 8, 2013
UCLA Anderson School of Management Hosts Summer Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders
UCLA Anderson School of Management last month hosted 50 top students from historically black and Hispanic-serving colleges and universities as part of a program designed to expose prospective future business school students to the principles of business development, entrepreneurship and management. The University of California Summer Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders (UC SIEML) program rotates across six UC business schools, and participating students attend classes, workshops and networking events for two consecutive summers.
Beyond the benefits provided to the students, the program also helps participating business schools connect with undergraduates before they graduate and head off in other directions. . “Take a look of other graduate degree programs,” says Linda Baldwin, Anderson assistant dean of diversity and 2013 UC SIEML director. “They have a pipeline from their undergraduate departments,” she said. “With the MBA program, there’s typically a break. The students get scattered.”
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UCLA Anderson School of Management to Become Financially Self-Supporting
Beginning with the 2014-15 academic year, the UCLA Anderson School of Management will no longer rely on state funding but will instead be completely self-supporting, the school reported last week. University of California President Mark Yudof approved the school’s proposed status change for its full-time MBA program on June 24th, ending a three-year review process.
The decision is expected to make it easier for the school to fund-raise with its alumni and philanthropic donors, to make tuition fees more predictable and to give the school greater flexibility in faculty assignments, according to UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian, who has led the campaign to win self-supporting status for the school.
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MBA Admissions Staff Monitor for Plagiarism in Application Essays
Following the disclosure earlier this year by UCLA Anderson School of Management that it rejected 52 applicants to its MBA program under suspicion of plagiarism, more business schools are turning to paid services that can detect when prospective applicants try to pass off pre-canned work as part of their own application essays, a Financial Times article reports this week.
At UCLA Anderson, detecting plagiarism among applicants was an unanticipated result of going digital with its application process. Anderson’s admissions staff this year began reviewing all applications using iPads. “Once we went digital, all kinds of possibilities opened up, including the option to run admissions essays through Turnitin,” Andrew Ainslie, Anderson’s senior associate dean, told the FT.
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