Smeal College Dean Elected To AACSB Board Of Directors
Smeal College Dean Elected To AACSB Board Of Directors
Judy Olian, Dean of Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration, was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the International Association for Management Education (AACSB).
She was elected to a three-year term and will assume her new role on July 1, 2001. Olian currently serves on the AACSB's Business Accreditation Committee. In July 2000, Olian was named Dean of Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration, and she is leading Smeal College's campaign to shape business practice for tomorrow's converging economies.
The AACSB is a not-for-profit corporation of educational institutions, corporations and other organizations devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and management. Organized in 1916, AACSB is the premier accrediting agency for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting.
The AACSB membership consists of over 650 U.S. educational institutions, over 160 educational institutions outside the U.S. and approximately 50 business, government and nonprofit organizations. AACSB U.S. educational institutions annually award over 85 percent of all the degrees awarded in business and management education. The AACSB accredited schools annually award over 55 percent of all the degrees awarded in business and management education.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
