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BOSTON COLLEGE'S CARROLL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT RECEIVES $477,000 GRANT FROM GE FUND FOR INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM PROGRAM
CHESTNUT HILL, MA (2-11-98) -- Boston College's Carroll School of Management has been awarded a $477,000 grant from the GE Fund "Learning Excellence" program to develop an innovative curriculum plan promoting interdisciplinary approaches to the solution of corporate business problems.
The three-year grant, which is the largest GE Fund gift ever received by Boston College, will support the establishment of multiple pilot courses and programs designed to bring together CSOM faculty members from various disciplines, along with professional corporate managers, to examine and formulate new avenues to planning and implementing successful business strategies.
"As one of the first and certainly one of the largest such endeavors, this will unite faculty and managers in a continuing experiment to improve education," said CSOM Dean John J. Neuhauser. "We expect great things and we intend these developments to have a lasting impact in the classroom," Neuhauser added.
The pilot program, which will be offered to CSOM Honors Program students, will include elective courses that will place undergraduates in direct contact with various department heads of major local corporations and give them a first-hand view of how today's business leaders solve corporate challenges with a multi-disciplinary approach.
"Today, management schools are realizing the trend that business isn't done by function anymore," said CSOM Assoc. Prof. Gregory M. Trompeter , the principal investigator of the grant. "We are now seeing corporate professionals working interactively to plan, coordinate and control their activities."
A guest speakers' program, involving managers from major national and regional corporations will also be part of the project, and a third phase will involve interdisciplinary case writing and teaching by teams of CSOM faculty members and professional corporate managers.
Stephen B. Tucker, program manager for higher education programs for the GE Fund, said that fund administrators reviewed numerous curriculum proposals, but chose the Boston College application on the basis of "innovation, the strength of the institution, and (Boston College's) willingness to assess and verify the program's ability to improve student learning."
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