Two small labs, one for students and another for faculty, have also been installed on the fourth floor of Smiddy. The setup of the labs should foster collaboration and extracurricular projects, as well as experimentation with multimedia and other technology. The new configurations place the School of Business squarely in the center of the corporate computing environment. Their mission was to lay the groundwork for establishing an exchange program for Ithaca College students, and they made substantial progress. They also explored with the academic leaders of the institutions the possibility of faculty exchanges and research collaborations, and they received enthusiastic support for such a venture.
Work is under way to bring some of the proposals to fruition.
Next May the faculty of management at Comenius and the faculty of agricultural economics and business at Godollo will host Ithaca students enrolled in the Central European Business and Culture course. In addition, Kelly published two book reviews in the August 1997 issue of the Academy of Management Executive. The first was on Robert Kanigel's The One Best Way, and the second was on Arie de Geus's The Living Company. Schlesinger uses Microsoft's PowerPoint program to present his financial accounting lecture material and integrates financial information directly from the Web.