Our organization has embarked upon a series of strategic initiatives, which, over the past two years, have been shaped by you through our annual meetings, regional meetings, and your feedback. Perhaps the most significant part of serving you has been the realization that we are truly a diverse organization. Some of you find yourselves in a highly competitive marketplace for students, recruiting globally and watching carefully the current media ratings that directly impact the number of applications you receive. And there are many of you who serve as dean, advisor, key faculty member, administrative assistant, and fundraiser. From those extremes, some of you worry about competition from state-supported institutions, competitive salaries to recruit new faculty, and managing constituents that have competing agenda.
Public institutions wrestle with funding and competing political agenda.
Yet, there are common themes. The pace of change challenges all of us in business education. A constant dilemma is how we deal with the dynamic business model of e-commerce, supply chain management, and information technology. We know we need to be adaptable and quick. We lament that, often, our institutions do not understand.