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July 2, 2008
College news
WAUKESHA, WIS — After 162 years, Carroll College has changed its name. It now goes by the name Carroll University. The change took effect July 1. The school’s board of trustees made the decision May 12, after months of discussion. During the process, more than 26,000 people associated with the school were asked their opinion. “We are changing our name, quite simply, to reflect truth in advertising,” said William G. Laatsch, a 1960 Carroll graduate and chairman of the Carroll board of trustees. “Based on our wide array of academic programs, we are already classified as a university by national organizations. We also believe the name Carroll University will help us recruit non-traditional, graduate, distance-learning and international students.” The institution that became Carroll College was started in 1839 as Prairieville Academy and incorporated as Carroll College on Jan. 31, 1846, two years before Wisconsin became a state. Carroll has more than 3,300 full- and part-time students and more than 60 areas of study. It offers four undergraduate degrees and four graduate degrees, including a clinical doctorate in physical therapy.
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CHARLOTTE, NC — Queens University of Charlotte is adding a master’s degree in organizational development to the McColl School of Business, which will offer the only master of science degree of its kind in North Carolina. Will Sparks, director of the program, told the Charlotte Business Journal that the course is tailored to professionals with about five years experience. Not only would it provide further education in human-resources management, Sparks says, but the degree also would lay the groundwork for outside consulting. Organizational development is used to solve low performance, low productivity, low morale, lack of innovation and conflicting personalities in the workplace, Sparks said, according to the Business Journal. The program also will offer courses in organizational resiliency, which focuses on overcoming dramatic surprises. The 36-credit degree will have classes in the evenings and some weekends. Admissions are open for both the fall semester in September and the spring semester in January. Part of the program also offers a 15-hour coaching certificate in organizational development. The school estimates it will take two to four years to complete the course. The program is accepting applications for the fall semester.
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EASTON, PA — Lafayette College has announced that a search is underway for eight new faculty members in the first phase of the school’s plan to grow the size of the faculty by 35 members — nearly 20 percent — over the next five years without increasing the size of the student body. The initiative is “a key element in our strategic plan to strengthen Lafayette’s academic core and its human capital,” said President Daniel H. Weiss. “It reflects our exceptional commitment to student-centered learning. Strong interaction between students and faculty is the heart of Lafayette’s academic program.” Among new positions the college hopes to fill call for a cultural anthropologist, developmental biologist, economist, and a Middle East historian.
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TULSA, OK — The University of Tulsa has renamed its business college as the Collins College of Business to honor the vision and leadership of Tulsa businessman Fulton Collins, who has chaired the TU Board of Trustees since 1997. TU President Steadman Upham made the surprise announcement during the university’s spring 2008 commencement ceremony on May 10. Collins received an honorary Doctorate of Business degree during the event, where it was announced Collins was the first person to receive a diploma from the newly renamed business college. During Collins’ term as chairman, TU has doubled its endowment, doubled the value of its land and buildings, doubled its externally sponsored research funding and more than doubled applications for undergraduate admission. In that time, TU has built 1.2 million square feet of facilities, has secured permanent endowment funding for 34 faculty positions, and has increased annual student scholarship support by more than $12 million. |
