School's investment in technology over the past three years: $396,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
Technological improvements from the three previous years include (1) expansion of streaming instruction to include the majority of core courses in GSM's executive programs. Streaming instruction includes broadcasting TA sessions, faculty-delivered tutorials and live conference coverage to students' homes and offices via high-speed Internet connections. This live service is augmented by a video library of archived content. The School began routine internet-based delivery of TA sessions for students that could not attend classroom sessions in executive programs (2) installed permanent computers in all GSM classrooms (3) added substantial capability to its home-grown content management system, Catalyst. Notifications of all changes in syllabi are automatically emailed to all students. (4) launched a new school Intranet (5) installed a Storage Area Network with a terabyte of disk space which is shared by all of the School's servers. (6) installed wireless electronic mail (Blackberry) (7) completed covering the entire school with wireless networks (8) upgraded the network infrastructure to gigabit Ethernet (9) installed a dedicated ITM server that will provide classroom access to top tier business applications, including Great Plains Dynamics accounting software, Oracle Sales Analyzer, MapInfo, and SAP/R3 CRM software.
CAREER SERVICES
Do part-time MBA students have access to the career-development office? Yes
At what point?
At any time
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 part-time MBA alumni? Yes
Current part-time MBAs given access to alumni database? Yes
The B-school has awarded 4,797 executive MBA degrees, and 4,797 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 4,287 living MBA alumni, and 1 MBA clubs in 1 country, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
During the past 12 months, 43% of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $100, and a mean gift of U.S. $208. The school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million between Jan. 2001 and Oct. 2003, and the B-school endowment is U.S. $5,130,100
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Francine Matijak
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