Challenge - Spring/Summer 2012 - Tiffin University

School of Business
TU Partners with
Lima Central Catholic
High School
Tiffin University and Lima Central
Catholic High School will begin a College
on Campus program (a partnership
where students can earn both high
school and college credit without leaving
their school) beginning in the fall.
The program is similar to Tiffin
University’s existing partnerships
with Tiffin Calvert High School, Tiffin
Columbian High School, Mohawk High
School, Buckeye Central High School,
and Clyde High School.
High school options with colleges
are growing more and more popular
with students, and for good reason—it
allows high school students the unique
opportunity to understand the college
experience with no cost to the student
or their family.
Unlike other post-secondary
programs that require students to
travel and attend classes on the college
campus, the innovative partnerships
with Tiffin University have the
advantage of keeping students at
their own high school where they can
remain active in the life of their school
while earning both high school and
college-level credit. It is also safer for
the student as they are not required to
travel to the Tiffin campus during the
school day.
Schumacher Appointed
to Board of ECBE
Dean of Tiffin University’s School of
Business Dr. Lillian Schumacher was
appointed to the European Council for
Business Education (ECBE) Board of
Directors.
In 2005,
TU was the
first U.S.
institution
of higher
education to
receive accreditation
from this
Dr. Lillian Schumacher
European
agency. In
2010, the ECBE re-accredited Tiffin
University’s (TU) School of Business
for a five-year period, the maximum
amount of time the ECBE offers its
accreditation. TU’s School of Business
is also accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Business Schools and
Programs (ACBSP).
More information about the ECBE
is available at www.ecbe.eu/.
A Global Mindset
A workshop at Tiffin University exemplified
the University’s continuing dedication
to global education.
Dr.
Mansour
Javidan,
Garvin Distinguished
Professor
and Director
of the
Thunderbird
Dr. Mansour Javidan
Najai Global
Mindset Institute
in Phoenix, Arizona, conducted
a workshop for TU professors interested
in becoming certified to administer,
interpret, and debrief the Global
Mindset Inventory (GMI) that Javidan
developed as part of his work for the
Institute. Eight TU professors and two
professors from Indiana Tech participated
in the day-long training session
that included an analysis of their own
GMI’s prior to the workshop.
“GMI is the ability to influence
people who are different from you,”
says Javidan. “It is a person’s attitude
toward diversity of thought and action.”
THE GMI emerged as a means to
measure a person’s intellectual, social,
and psychological capital in this regard.
Javidan praised Tiffin University’s
increased commitment to its own
globalization process by remarking on
the number of international students
on the Tiffin campus as well as the
reach of TU’s MBA program in Eastern
Europe and Asia.
New Major in Global
Leadership
TU will offer a new Global Leadership
major beginning fall semester.
The purpose of the Bachelor of
Business Administration Global Leadership
Honors major is to offer students
a unique, honors-based program in
one of the critical management arenas
of the 21st Century. The program will
have a business base with an interdisciplinary
core curriculum and a required
minor program to insure that students
have both leadership and discipline
skill sets sought by employers and
graduate schools.
The Global Leadership Honors
major is seen by the School of Business
as its first program to
distinguish Tiffin
University from
the offerings
of most
other business
programs. The
emphasis on
CampusScene
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