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mission,vision & objectives

Our mission is to contribute to the intellectual growth and development of individuals to enhance their competence in business and management.

Mission
Our mission is to contribute to the intellectual and personal growth and development of individuals to enhance their competence in business and management. We achieve our mission through teaching, intellectual contributions, and service activities. Our primary focus is on undergraduate teaching. We offer high-quality undergraduate programs to students primarily from Minnesota. Additionally, we offer part-time evening and weekend MBA programs to practitioners in selected regions in Minnesota. Our secondary focus is on intellectual contributions. We place primary emphasis on discipline-based intellectual contributions, but also value contributions to teaching and practice. We also provide community, professional, and institutional service and outreach with an emphasis on community service and outreach and the interface of these activities with teaching and intellectual contributions.

Vision
Our vision is to be recognized as a School with a first-rate faculty that provides rigorous, demanding undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management, as well as quality intellectual contributions and outreach programs. We will achieve this vision by having our faculty, students and staff demonstrate mutual respect for one another and by providing educational opportunities for a diverse student body. Our graduates will promote the School and give back to the School.

Objectives
The goal of the School is to prepare students to assume responsible positions in business and other organizations. These objectives focus on core skills that are critical to success in one’s career, and on knowledge and skills that provide an understanding of the process of management. The School’s programs are designed to:

• Develop and enhance the following core skills:
  • Communication
  • Quantitative
  • Information Technology
  • Collaborative work and,
  • Decision making
• Develop an understanding of how the following management-specific areas are relevant to and impact organizations:
  • The core areas of business,
  • Economic principles and policies
  • Laws and ethics
  • Diversity
  • Technology
  • Environmental Sustainability, and
  • Global trend

The intellectual and outreach activities of the School are conducted to:

• Encourage and provide opportunities for faculty to make peer-reviewed and other intellectual contributions that serve students, peers, and the public ,
• Connect students, staff, and faculty with external constituents to stimulate the creation, dissemination, and application of business and economics knowledge and information ,
• Provide programs that improve the practice of business and economic development in the region while offering outreach and experiential-based learning opportunities, and
• Share the expertise of the School with organizations in the immediate and extended regions.

Finally, in the spirit of continuous quality improvement and in order to keep the School and its programs and course offerings as current and relevant as possible, the School stands ready to examine changes in programs (additions or deletions) and the development of new programs when opportunities arise from whatever source.