College of Business realizing its vision
If you missed the Business Section in Sunday’s Blade, go track down the Business Section from Sunday’s Blade.
In a story that spans more than a full page, writer Gary Pakulski does a great job summarizing the excitement that has been building since the new Savage & Associates Complex for Business Learning & Engagement complex began to take shape this summer.
The pictures in the Blade are equally impressive, showing it’s not just the building’s name that will take your breath away. But the reason the name is so long is because it describes an important and complex purpose.
From the Blade:
“It’s cutting edge in terms of learning,” said Thomas Gutteridge, who, with local business leaders, began planning for the facility shortly after arriving as business school dean in 2003.
It’s a short quote, but the sentiment is one that describes the University’s efforts to engage with the community. And the success of that sentiment is having a dramatic effect on the region. By working with the Toledo business community in the beginning planning phases, Dr. Gutteridge has built strong relationships with those organizations that are looking to hire graduates with business expertise.
By asking organizations, “what are you looking for in employees,” the college is better able to prepare its students for what is expected of them and the result is students are getting a better return on their investment in higher education.
The new Savage & Associates Complex is the physical location where a great deal of sophisticated teaching and learning will take place. But it is also symbolic of an attitude UT is working to develop toward its responsibility to the region, one that the College of Business Administration has played a leadership role in developing.
Now, seriously, go track down the Business Section of Sunday’s Blade. I swear you’ll hear theme music from “Rudy” playing as you read it.
Jon Strunk is UT’s media relations manager, a graduate of UT’s College of Arts and Sciences, a student in its College of Business Administration and a man constantly wary of his cell phone ringing. With the media having only so much space and so much time to tell a story, Jon has reserved this space on the World Wide Web to highlight, analyze, complain, lobby, beg, apologize and comment on media coverage of UT, higher education and, from time to time, his half-hearted quest to replace his ’96 Mercury Sable.