TECHNOLOGY
Wireless network in main buildings: Yes
School's investment in technology over the past three years: $1,460,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
The school:
-installed two electronic whiteboards with projectors
-added a Capital Markets Trading Room (24 workstations, teacher's desk with full classroom multimedia capabilities, Trans-Lux wallboards and LED-Jet displays, purchase of three software packages to be run from that room only)
-did a wide-scale computer refresh for all faculty, staff, and lab machines
-will add a wireless network in late fall/early winter 2002
-upgraded all networking closets to get 100mbps connections to the desktop
-did a partial swap-out of chalkboards to whiteboards in all classrooms
-updated multimedia in all 10 classrooms to include color control pads, 2000-lumen projectors, new document cameras, and VCRs
-added a multimedia classroom in Charlotte
-increased the seating to make a classroom larger in Charlotte
-purchased a total of 10 servers
-developed school Intranet to streamline mailings and automate past reservation-based processes
-added one IT staff employee (for a total of 6)
-purchased three Polycom speakerphones for student checkout
-provided 12 laptop docking stations and support for Babcock Incubator clients
-upgraded eight out of 13 servers to Windows 2000 architecture
-replaced nine high-capacity printers
-migrated from proprietary Admissions package to SRN
-purchased two high-end graphics workstations for digitizing video and dubbing media
CAREER SERVICES
Do part-time MBA students have access to the career-development office? Yes
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At what point?
After the first year
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| Estimated percentage of part-time students that change careers during their studies | 40% |
If a full-time program is offered, are part-time MBAs permitted to interview on campus, alongside full-time students, for summer internships? No
If a full-time program is offered, are part-time MBAs permitted to interview on campus, next to full-time students, for full-time jobs? Yes
Part-time students included in resume drops before recruiters visit campus? Yes
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
B-school offers placement services for MBA alumni? Yes
Alumni networking Web site:
http://www.mba.wfu.edu
Current part-time MBAs given access to alumni database? Yes
The B-school has awarded 4,714 MBA degrees since its founding, 853 of which were part-time MBA students. It has 4,675 living MBA alumni, and 5 MBA club(s)in 1 country, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
During the past 12 months, 19% of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $200, and a mean gift of U.S. $716. As of Jan. 2002 the B-school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million, and the B-school's total endowment is $38,447,350 (U.S.)
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Patricia Divine
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